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Review about Hell's Gate National Park by PeeBee
Hell's Gate is a fantastic park, but not for safari. Take a guided tour of the gorge, climb Fischer's Peak, take in the scenery. But if you want a game drive head to nearby Nakuru National Park.
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Nice, easy game drive right in the city
Nairobi National Park provides a great game drive experience, at an affordable price, without leaving Nairobi city. The park is much smaller than other, more famous East African parks, like the Maasai Mara or the Serengeti or even Nakuru National Park. It's big advantage lies in it accessibility.
There are plenty of safari companies that do tours of the park in the standard pop-top vans or Land Rovers. You can also drive into the park yourself, which plenty of people do. The roads are all dirt and can be rough and dusty in some places, but a small SUV can handle most of it without too much trouble. This is how I experienced the park on my one visit, and we didn't feel like we missed anything. If fact, we even beat the professional safari vehicles to a couple of lion sightings.
The density of animal life in the park is fantastic. On one two hour tour we saw lions, giraffe, ostriches, warthogs, baboons and other monkeys, more birds than I could identify, and more. The scenery is beautiful, but you can see the city at the periphery from most places in the park. For some, that will ruin the ambiance, but it's not so hard to block that out and enjoy this park for what it is: a beautiful, wild, and somehow also very accessible and affordable mini-safari destination right at the edge of one of Africa's greatest cities.
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great trip to Mikumi!
Great small business. Super friendly and professional. Great price and I got to see lions!
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35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Trip Of A Lifetime
My partner and I had a wonderful time with the package put together by Laurette. The communication was always timely and excellent. Laurette worked closely with us to find exactly what we wanted to do within our budget. We would highly recommend Laurette and Pembury to family and friends interested in a visit to Africa. Bravo!
65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Communications could have been better
All communication was by email, in English, but did not always address our queries, meaning that sometimes we felt a little unsure of our booking. In the end, all was fine, we made all connections and were met everywhere as arranged. Our first guide, John, was excellent. His ability to spot animals and knowledge about them was superb. The distances travelled were understandably large, but could have been better planned, particularly the first day. We would have been better advised to travel to Arusha/Kilimanjaro the day before the start of the safari, as we didn't arrive at our first lodge until well after dark. The accommodation was excellent everywhere except for Arusha, which was barely 'back-packer' standard. We should have stayed at the previous lodge a second night and just had an early drive to the airport.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful Honeymoon Trip
We went on a 9 day tour with Moriti for our honeymoon, including 1 night in Kruger, 5 nights in private reserves and the rest around the Blyde river canyon. Communication before the trip was excellent. We were fortunate to have William as our guide, he was knowledgeable and friendly, and adept at dodging the occasional pot hole on the road. All the accommodation was comfortable and the food was great. Highlights of the trip include a perfect leopard sighting in Klaserie, great food from our private chef Lindsey, and wonderful views (and not having to worry about anything)!
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65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Incredible Canoe and Safari experience on the Zambezi River
The communications for the trip was excellent. All questions were handled quickly. They were very good about creating an itinerary that filled our needs. From the moment we arrived at the airport to our departure everything went very smoothly. We had very nice B and B's with wonderful breakfast and dinners. Our canoe trip down the Zambezi river and the safari at Mana pools exceeded our expectations. Our guides were excerptional!
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35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing experience
Dunas Safari helped us first at distance on how to chose the best itinerary and accommodations. Then in Namibia with their well equipped car, attentive personnel and useful insights.
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Thanks for everything!
Generally everything was very good, in all locations:
Lodge, food, service, staff, guides, game drives etc, but sensational was the bush camp!
All the staff were extremely friendly, there were also special "guest managers" who only took care of the guests, but all the staff were very, very well cared for all guests.
Every day we received a surprise as honeymooner, champagne in the room, helicopter flight, picnic for two, special Botswana wedding dinner with theater show etc.
Also the guide "Bee" was by far the best guide during the whole holiday.
Also the guides communicate very well among themselves. We have seen very, very many animals. Luck was certainly also there but it was also the merit of the guide that we have seen in a morning 4 of the Big 5.
The 3 nights per station were very good (many stay only 2 nights, but that is really too short).
The 4 nights at the Elephants Eye were despite relaxing 1 night too much. The guides there were only average in our view. The lodge facilities were very nice and the food along with the food on the ship was the best.
Thanks again for everything!
Daniel Gamma
Switzerland
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Extraordinary...
Well...what can I say...My new wife and I were looking for honeymoon ideas and after much consideration and research we decided that a African Safari and Mauritius would be the best way to celebrate our joining but also get a good mix of adventure and relaxation. After speaking with many different companies on the phone and giving them our budget we were left a little disheartened by their response (and we didn't have a small budget either). We then came across Extraordinary Africa, and spoke to the lovely Alex. From the beginning she was brilliant - from her big bright personality that shine through even over the phone to her fine details and sticking to get promises. I knew from the moment I spoke to her we could absolutely trust her to organise our honeymoon and ensure it was a trip of a lifetime.
There were many times that we were sending emails to each other and I can honestly say that the service that Alex has shown is the best service I have experienced when trying to book a holiday. She is extremely quick at responses and nothing is ever a bother to her. Even after we had decided on an itinerary I went back to ask about another hotel and without even a blink I got a reply with full details on the other hotel with a new price and information about the area.
We were definitely not disappointed by the choices that were made on the camp in South Africa and the hotel in Mauritius. The trip was planned to perfection and I don't believe anyone else would have been able to plan it any better.
Up until the last day before traveling Alex and Extraordinary Afirca have been amazing, we were even called the day of travel to ensure we had everything and even once we got back to see how the trip was.
Without hesitation I would recommend Extraordinary Africa to anyone looking to book a trip to Africa. The knowledge that Alex has about the country is second to none.
We are already looking at doing another Safari in the near future and would definitely ask Alex and Extraordinary Africa to organise it for us.
Mitul and Tash