Massawe Adventures

Amazing, trip of a lifetime

Myself and my family have just returned from the holiday of a lifetime on Safari in Tanzania, booked with the amazing Idda at Massawe Adventures.

Idda’s extensive knowledge and expertise made the whole booking process easy and took into account all our wants and needs including my mums request of a luxury tent in the Serengeti with at least 1 wall. Idda also sorted all our visas and Zanzibar travel insurance. She made sure all hotels were informed of any dietary requirements and allergies, upon arrival at breakfast and dinner at the hotels, the head chef would let us know what food fit our dietary requirements and also made special meals if necessary. Idda also arranged at 2 of our accommodation a surprise birthday cake for my dad’s 50th birthday.

On arrival in Tanzania we were met by our guide Temba, who stayed with us for the whole week on safari and what an amazing week we had over 6 nights. We spent one day in the Tarangire national park where we saw, zebras, elephants, giraffes and a rare leopard and then we travelled to the Ngorongro Farm House for 2 nights. The next day we went to the Ngorongoro crater where we saw baboons, Hippos, Hyenas, Flamingos and a rare Rhino. We then traveled to the Serengeti the next day which we stayed at the Kubu kubu tented lodge for 4 nights in the Serengeti, the tented lodge had amazing views of the Serengeti plain and some like ours had outdoor showers. In the Serengeti, we were treated to several sightings of lions along with their cubs, we saw another rare leopard along with 2 cheetahs. We also got to experience the spectacle which is the great migration of wilderbeest and zebras. Another highlight was leaving the Serengeti from Seronera airstrip which is just a dirt runway, on which we took a propeller plane to Zanzibar.

Our guide Temba was amazing, his extensive experience as a guide (12 years) was invaluable and I don’t believe we would’ve seen as many rare sightings without him. He was very knowledgable and very patient with us and was able to change our itinerary day to day to suit our needs. He was very helpful at positioning the jeep so we’d be able to get the best view point and he also helped us take amazing photos through the binoculars as well. Temba was very good at playing Tetris with our suitcases in the back of the jeep, we were very impressed. I couldn’t recommend Temba as a guide more he was phenomenal.

Upon arriving in Zanzibar for the second week of our Holiday we stayed one night at the Melia Zanzibar, within 12 hours we established the hotel wasn’t for us, Idda then arranged another hotel for us within 12 hours, which was amazing. We moved to the hotel Gold Zanzibar which was miles nicer and very relaxing. We stayed at Gold Zanzibar for 6 nights, the hotel had lovely food and even moved the buffet restaurant to the beach one night and pool for another night for dinner which was impressive.

Overall we had the holiday of a lifetime and can’t couldn’t recommend Idda and Massawe adventures more, I can’t wait to go back