Crater Explorer Tours And Safaris
- Located In:
- Size:
- 1-5 employees (Founded in 2017)
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $185 to $550 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Ronald | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful Safari!
We had an amazing safari! Pick up, hotel and other transport were really well organized. Emanuel makes sure everything will be alright.
Our guide John was amazing, he spotted all animals from really far. And the food was also fantastic. The chef made us three times a day delicious meals!
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Email Jon | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing
Very nice safari and the staff was incredible, thank you!
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Email Sebastian | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent
We did the 4 days Safari Tour including Tarangire, Serengeti and Ngorongoro. Excellent guide, good hotels and nice fellow passengers
Email Brianne | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Incredible experience!
The safari we went on was amazing! The communication was very good by all of the staff involved, the timing of everything was on time and reliable. We felt safe and well taken care of. The safari itself was AMAZING, we saw so many animals we never thought we would have. Highly recommend!
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Email Poriyya | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing
We did a 3 days at the Safari. Emmanuel was very helpful from start to finish. He had take care for a transfer picked us up at the airport and drove us to our hotel in Arusha. We had a tour guid and a cook with us all the camping. Don’t miss this, it’s an amazing, absolutely recommend.
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Email Didi | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Recommend!
Emanuel is very responsive, kind, and goes out of his way to help you. He helped me get an international plug before leaving since mine wasn't working.
Safari itself was great! Saw lots of animals and the camping was basic but adequate and clean.
Email Ana | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great
We did a 4 days Safari. We really enjoy it..
John was our guide and there’s no words to explain how nice he was with us.
We stayed in marera lodge hotel for 2 nights that is really good and one night in the serengeti luxury tent lodge, inside of the park, it’s an amazing experience, totally recommend. We felt really safe..
We saw so many animals..
Its a lifetime experience that we recommend to everybody!!
Email Grace | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great
I had a wonderful time on the safari. There were so many companies to choose from. I read some reviews and chose crater explorer. It did not disappoint. I did the 4/3 night safari starting with tangerine, Serengeti and ngorongo and the crater ( excuse my misspelling) i met wonderful people in my group aswell. We spotted the big 5 during the trip aswell! Make sure to bring towels and warm clothes for the night !
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Email Tomas | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Very supportive in planning and great teams in the field!
I've done the 7 day Lemosho route to Kilimanjaro with Crater Explorer, it was everything and more that I hoped for!
Emanuel quickly answered all my questions during the planning and provided a fantastic team for the trip. The guide (Maulidi), cook and porters were extremely helpful and great company throughout our tour. Highly recommended :)
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Email Rafal | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Fantastic value for money - very reliable company, very helpful and responsive company owner. 10/10
Fantastic experience. We've booked 6 days 5 nights join-in camping safari: Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro. Everything went as planned. Owner of the company, Emanuel, was very responsive to all our emails and questions prior to booking, also kept in touch just before our arrival to Tanzania to check if everything is ok. Emanuel also picked us from the airport and checked in a hotel we had included in our booking (also - we've received a free upgrade to a much better hotel than the one we were supposed to stay originally!). After safari Emanuel met up with us again to ask about our experience and then drove us to the airport morning of the next day, again by himself. We can definitely recommend Emanuel and his company as reliable and caring.
As for the safari experience itself – I’m not going to go into details of what we saw, because it’s too amazing to describe! Enough to say we’ve seen almost 50 different species of mammals, reptiles and big birds, not even trying to count smaller and less known species of birds as it was probably over a hundred. We slept first two nights in a village close to Manyara lake (fenced area with tents and a bathroom). We were just two in the car for these first two days (Tarangire and Lake Manyara), then 4 other people joined us for Serengeti and Ngorongoro with a bigger car and a different guide. Both guides had an impressive knowledge of all the animals and were really good at tracking them. They were able to get us very close to the animals, yet they still were able to maintain respect for the animals wellbeing and avoided disturbing them even once. Camping areas in Serengeti and Ngorongoro are the best sleepovers we have ever had - this is milion times better than any hotel me - and you, whoever is reading this - had ever stayed in. You can't get any closer to the nature - do not book any lodged safaris, camping is absolutely essential to get fully immersed in Serengeti and Ngorongoro experience.
One more word of praise to our guide in Serengeti – one of the other groups car broke down in the middle of nowhere. Sure, our guide could have said it’s not his problem – but instead, he towed them over away from group of lions and closer to service sites, saving other group of tourists some stress and time. Really glad to see the guides helping each other!
If you are worried about the food during safari - don't be! Our chef was amazing. The quality of food he was able to do in very limiting condition of field kitchen is really impressive - both meat and vegetarian dishes. The amount of food was usually sufficient for whole day (if you know you like to eat more - bring some energy bars or snacks for a time you're on a game drive).
Would we change anything in this trip? Probably not. Maybe just one tiny detail now: we had a great time on our day in Lake Manyara, really fun time, but if I were to go again I would trade Lake Manyara for another day in magical Serengeti or Ngorongoro. But that doesn't change a fact it was still a 10 out of 10 experience.