20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent from start to summit
Almighty kilimanjaro were excellent! Cannot fault them at all! They were thorough in making sure everyone had appropriate kit for the trek and the guides and porters could not do enough to support us on our summit attempt which the whole group succeeded with. I went as a solo traveller and felt totally at ease for the whole trip, before, during and after. A once in a life time experience made by Almighty Kilimanjaro!!
CA
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Safari and Zanzibar Island trip
We had an amazing trip planned by Samson. He planned according to what we were exactly looking for. He went exrtra mile by planning a surprise birthday song at the resort we stayed, with cake and drinks for my husband's birthday. Our guide Logan was wonderful too with so much knowledge about the animals. Overall it was the best trip!
HU
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Grassrootz Adventures was excellent, the trip provided me with an amazing experience!
First of all the itinerary was tailor made as I had very limited time. Sander van Zanten, the founder of the company was very helpful in putting together the programme to really meet my needs and priorities, he was very responsive and straightforward which i found very helpful. This honesty and felxibility was the main reason I chose to travel with Grassrootz.
Once on the ground I had an excellent guide, Moses Kabubi, who was extremely helpful throughout and ensured I used our time to the maximum. He was very helpful in arranging local birdwatching tours, which for example were arranged locally and in esnuring everything ran according to clockwork. He is also very knowledgeable about the wildlife we saw and about the country and its communities, everything we did was done with respecting wildlife and local communities. I feel the overall value for money was very good too, we stayed in good, but not luxury lodges that were environment conscious. I had amazing experiences that were rich and varied, spending time in close contact with gorillas and chimpanzees was unforgettable, but the fantastic wildlife in the different national parks in addition to the ever changing landscape and smiling people made for a wonderful journey.
IT
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
well organized and available to accommodate the guest's requests trying to personalize the holiday.
the safari experience was exciting.
Our guide Elemes was fantastic, always punctual and always available, he always satisfied our requests and always tried to make us experience the safari in the best possible way.
We returned to Italy happy with our holiday in Tanzania and convinced that we were lucky to have had the guide Elemes.
Thanks for everything
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Interesting and informative tour of Soweto, Hector Pieterson & Apartheid Museum
My partner and I would highly recommend this tour if you want to cover a lot of South African history in one day. Our tour guide "Sello" was very informative and friendly and was more than happy to answer all our questions. It was an eye opening and humbling experience to visit Soweto which included a look into their daily lives.
Throughout the tour we did not feel obliged to purchase items from stall holders or sellers, inclduing during our lunch stop.
IL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A crazy and unforgettable experience
I really liked the trips in the jeep with Tom, our guide - driver, who was very kind, always in a good mood and with a sense of humor and always knows how to answer any question related to nature and the behavior of the animals.
Every day we left early in the morning in order to see as much of nature as possible before the sun went down, and the accommodations we arrived at each evening were of a very high standard with excellent service and very good food.
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IT
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The most complete and exciting tour of Uganda
My wife and I chose Uganda for our honeymoon and Tubale Safaris was able to organize a 9-day trip beyond our expectations.
Annette was very responsive and available from the beginning to organize the various stages.
Isaac, our guide, accompanied us around Uganda always with a smile ... a very knowledgeable and friendly guy. He suggested some small variations to the original tour and we did not regret it ... we will definitely recommend friends and family to travel with him in the future.
Thanks Isaac and thanks to Tubale Safaris!
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Couldn’t have dreamt of more!
We were already in Arusha, Tanzania visiting relatives to babysit and found ourselves with free time. After doing a lot of research we settled on Suricata and so contacted them on Watsapp. Their manager joined us for coffee to find out what we wanted to get out of the experience (basically whatever they recommended based on their expertise, the time we had and our budget). We settled on 1 day in the Tarengeri (spectacular) staying in the Boma Lodge (well worth it!), the Serengeti (equally spectacular but in a totally different way), camping and then Ngorogongo crater (ditto) again, camping. Loved the camping experience, to include being surrounded by zebras!
Baraka was our guide and I couldn’t rate him highly enough - he made our trip out of this world. No idea how he managed to find his way around and find more than we could have wished for including Elephants, giraffes, hippos, lions (and cubs), cheetahs (and cubs), even the elusive leopard and black rhino (saw 3!), buffalo, gazelles, hyena, jackal, ostrich, secretary bird etc etc etc Lucas the chef joined us to create something special each day. The lunch picnics were a real treat too. Still can’t believe it! So sad to have it end, thank you Suricata, Lucas and most of all Baraka for keeping us safe and looking after us so well from start to finish! Asante sana a thousand times!
CN
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing trip to Masa Mara
Amazing trip to Masa Mara… we have seen the migration and enjoy the wonderful trip , super good service…
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Professional,friendly and overall confidence inspiring.
Suricata’s team proved to be both friendly professional and competent. Finding ourselves with the time go on a Safari at the last minute in country they reacted quickly.
Ally the tour manager met us at our convenience and immediately inspired confidence giving us time and the information needed to chose the right safari for us and a day trip too.
We chose a 4 day private trip to cover Taringere, Serengeti and Ngorogoro , 2 days camping and a first night at their lake Manyara lodge.
Ally kept in touch prior to the tour and we were picked up promptly from our hotel by our guide Baraka who proved to be a great companion.With 6 years experience behind hiim , this showed with his competent driving and knowledge of wildlife, spotting what we could never have found.
The hotel proved to be very luxurious but fun with amazing entertainment from a local acrobatic troupe and an energetic post dinner sing song from the staff - great !
The camping obviously more down to earth but an experience to sleep with the sounds of the wild night. Zebra wandering through the site and giraffe and buffalo on the margins. Tents were prepared and meals cooked for us on site including the preparation of a hot lunch every day ! Lucas cooked for us and I don’t know how he managed to get so much done behind the scenes. A lot of hard work goes on that you don’t see to keep things right.
We had not planned to be on Safari this year but events conspired to give us the chance so no real pre-conceptions. To be honest the magnificence and variety of the parks alone would be enough but the abundance and variety of wildlife takes it to another level.
We saw the big five but that didn’t really matter it was the variety and complexity of encounters and plain amazing how close you could be.
Highlights for me were watching the reaction of a cheetah as it spotted a lion in the vicinity of itself and cub. It decided to lay low as the pack remained intent on the warthog they were tracking and in the end failed to catch in the final chase. Later Barak somehow spotted a black rhino in the long distance and we were able to see it trot along meeting couple of big male elephants as if out for a jaunt,amazing.
So overall a trip we’ll never forget, we will come back for more and will recommend Suricata to friends and family.