The Matoke Tours Team
Matoke Tours
- Located In:
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Netherlands
- Size:
- 20-50 employees (Founded in 2002)
- Member Of:
- ATTA, AUTO, SGR, UTB & UCF
- Tour Types:
- Custom mid-range & luxury tours that can start every day
- Destinations:
- Price Range:
- $300 to $750 per person per day (USD, excl. int'l flights)
Reviews
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Email Bianca | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Very enthusiastic team, well organised
The team, guide & drivers, are very enthusiastic, helpfull and very good in their job. They help you with all your questions and do their utmost to fulfill your wishes. They drove safe and were superb in the safari's, which were excellent, we even went 2x a day, making the most out of it! Service is great, they also organised for our lost luggage to be sent up to Jinja, where we stayed at the time it was found. I can recommend them to organise your trip to Uganda !
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Email David F. | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Custom Safari Trip to Tanzania to view game and Uganda to view primates.
Matoke Tours exceeded all of our expectations from initial booking to after tour debriefing. Our service representative responded promptly to all of our questions, concerns and other communications. The accommodations they provided for us were exactly what we wanted, mid range in price but comfortable and more important, interesting. We mainly stayed in tent camps near the animals we wanted to see. All in all Matoke arranged a great tour for us.
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Email Danny Selik | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Matoke Tour
Deciding to use Matoke Tours was by far the best decision in my safari vacation. Anatole was our driver and guide during the 7-day tour through Murchison Falls, Queen Elizabeth, and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Always with a smile on his face and a deep concern for our comfort and positive experience, Anatole represented Matoke with excellence.
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Email Veerle | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A well organised, breathtaking trip
We had an amazing time on the trip. It was a nice combination of sightseeing and activities. Our driver/guide was very friendly and we had great conversations with him. He also give us tips for the next safari we were going to have, which was good. Because of him, we had something to do on our free day the second trip.
The accommodations were beautiful and the food and service were amazing. It was a little expensive though (we're students). Some cheaper accommodations would have been fine too, if that would have made the costs less. But mostly, we were very happy and content with the accommodations we stayed at.
All in all, we were very happy and content that we chose Matoke Tours for our trip. And we probably would do it again.
A good Matoke Safari Tour experience
It was within one (1) month from our arrival date, that we were able to arrange our Queen Elizabeth National Park Safari tour. An example of good service.
With a polite, knowledgeable chauffeur/ guide with lots of patience it has been a wonderful experience.
The selected lodge accommodation with full breakfast, lunch and dinner provisions was good!!!
It was unfortunate, that our lunch on our return trip was not up to standard. No comparison with our lunch break on the way to the park. To conclude this brief description of our experience with Matoke Tours, we honestly can say, that it has been a good experience.
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Email Eric & Margot | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Incredible and fantastic Uganda & Tanzania journey with amazing wildlife and beautiful people
Matoke made our 30-year wedding anniversary trip in Uganda and Tanzania a once in a lifetime experience; overwhelming nature and wildlife, great lodges and resorts, beautiful and friendly people with a beutiful resort on the island of Zanzibar to enjoy a relaxing week afterwards. Don't forget to take a balloon-trip in Queen Elizabeth National Park; unforgettable.
Great indeed!
Email Belinda and Helen | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Heartwarming glimpse of Ugandan life lead by a professional team
From start to finish Makote tours were extremely professional in their approach with quick and efficient communications. The tour was mind blowing ,way above our expectations. A large part of this was due to our excellent guide / driver Anatoli. I have never met someone so passionate about his country. His scope of knowledge was vast and we learnt so much from him everyday ( including his love of a good goat stew). He really made the tour so special and we feel privalaged that we were lucky enough to spend almost 2 weeks in his company, what a great person.
Thanks must also go to Lionel and his team back at the office who handled every aspect of the tour so well.
I would not hesitate to recommend this company who wishes to see the real Uganda.
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Email Al Friedman | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
I sincerely doubt you could find a better tour company than Matoke.
This review is long overdue, and for that I apologize. I’ll skip to the conclusion first and then fill in some details: Matoke Tours is wonderful!
My wife and I cannot recommend Matoke more highly. In cooperation with Tanzania’s Easy Travel company, Matoke Tours took us on a 24-day private safari (mid-range accommodations) in Tanzania in October, 2015. We went through eight national parks/wildlife/conservation areas: Selous, Mikumi, Ruaha, Saadani, Arusha, Tarangire, Ngorongoro and Serengeti.
When making arrangements to book the tour, we had told Matoke that we were amateur birders. To our delight, they made sure to provide us with guides (two of them; one for the southern and one for the northern parks) who were themselves accomplished birders— and not all guides are. They study terrestrial flora and fauna in college, but not birds.
Both of our guides, Herman Kiriama and Hubert Ngoty, were fabulous! Hawk-eyed, they spot wildlife at amazing distances, even in tall grasses or shrubbery. Both are well-educated professionals, very personable and a pleasure to be with.
Herman and Hubert were always attentive to our needs, our comfort and our safety. Importantly, both always obeyed the speed limits on roadways, whereas many vehicles operated by other tour companies sped past us. In Tanzania roads are populated by other vehicles (including large trucks), bicycles, motorbikes (often overloaded), mini-taxis— and lots of pedestrians. We appreciated our Matoke guides’ expert driving skills and constant attention to safety on the roads.
Herman and Hubert were very knowledgeable not only about flora, fauna and terrain, but also about the peoples and cultures of Tanzania. (There are 123 tribes in Tanzania— living in harmony!) Our guides already had cordial relationships with the staff of the places we slept at, so they were able to make sure that those folks took good care of us. Hubert even made sure to arrange for one park ranger in particular to give us a 2-hour guided tour in Arusha NP, because he felt that ranger was the best explainer— and he was right! That park ranger was super-knowledgable and wonderfully good-natured.
I could go on, but you should get the point by now. If you’re going to Tanzania (and you should; the people are wonderful and the terrain and wildlife are magnificent), I honestly don't think you can do better than Matoke Tours.
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Email Giacomo | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The unforgettable Ugandan experience!
Our tour in Uganda with Matoke Tours was far above our expectations, which were already very high! I cannot describe how amazing every single experience was, so I am just going to say that we were 100% satisfied from the tour in general. Our guide was not only extremely friendly and polite, but he also proved to be very competent and experienced. With him we felt safe at all times, both on safaris and on the roads. We really felt him trying hard to make our experience unique and he definitely managed to achieve his goal!
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Email Anita & Christian | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Adventurous & memorable trip
We booked a 6 day tour with Matoke Tours in December 2015 and Jacob was our tour guide. He has great knowledge about the places, the roads and the wildlife. We threw a lot of questions at him and he addressed them all promptly and with competence. He was very friendly and did his best to give us a good view of all the beautiful animals and landscapes. Our tour was well organized (thanks Lionel!), we stayed at well chosen places and had a great time in Uganda - we highly recommend Matoke Tours!