20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Ngorongoro Crater by Selestinus Emanuel
The Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtakingly beautiful setting and the best place in Tanzania to see the Big Five. it is one of the most beautiful natural wildlife safari sites in the world and an exceptional place to interact with people from the Maasai tribe.
The Ngorongoro Crater and surrounding highlands together form one of Africa's most beautiful regions.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Mikumi National Park by Selestinus Emanuel
Swirls of opaque mist hide the advancing dawn. The first shafts of sun colour the fluffy grass heads rippling across the plain in a russet halo. A herd of zebras, confident in their camouflage at this predatory hour, pose like ballerinas, heads aligned and stripes merging in flowing motion.
Mikumi National Park abuts the northern border of Africa's biggest game reserve - the Selous – and is transected by the surfaced road between Dar es Salaam and Iringa. It is thus the most accessible part of a 75,000 square kilometre (47,000 square mile) tract of wilderness that stretches east almost as far as the Indian Ocean.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Lake Manyara National Park by Selestinus Emanuel
Stretching for 50km along the base of the rusty-gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”.
The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzanian safari experience.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Arusha National Park by Selestinus Emanuel
The closest national park to Arusha town – northern Tanzania’s safari capital – Arusha National Park is a multi-faceted jewel, often overlooked by safarigoers, despite offering the opportunity to explore a beguiling diversity of habitats within a few hours.
The entrance gate leads into shadowy montane forest inhabited by inquisitive blue monkeys and colourful turacos and trogons – the only place on the northern safari circuit where the acrobatic black-and-white colobus monkey is easily seen. In the midst of the forest stands the spectacular Ngurdoto Crater, whose steep, rocky cliffs enclose a wide marshy floor dotted with herds of buffalo and warthog.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Isolated, untrammelled and seldom visited park
Katavi is a true wilderness, providing the few intrepid souls who make it there with a thrilling taste of Africa as it must have been a century ago.
Tanzania's third largest national park, it lies in the remote southwest of the country, within a truncated arm of the Rift Valley that terminates in the shallow, brooding expanse of Lake Rukwa. Katavi’s most singular wildlife spectacle is provided by its hippos. Towards the end of the dry season, up to 200 individuals might flop together in any riverine pool of sufficient depth. And as more hippos gather in one place, so does male rivalry heat up – bloody territorial fights are an everyday occurrence, with the vanquished male forced to lurk hapless on the open plains until it gathers sufficient confidence to mount another challenge.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Review about South Africa by jeffa4444
Welcoming and great hospitality the South Africans know how to make your vacation one to remember.
DE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Namibia by Nicholas Olesen Photography
Namibia has so much to offer - incredible vast desert landscapes, unbeatable wildlife in Etosha National Park, as well as culture with many different tribes as well as the German colonial history.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Tanzania by Selestinus Emanuel
It doesn’t matter what time you go to Tanzania, because there will always be something to see!
Tanzania offers some unique and fantastic views and possibilities that you will find nowhere else!
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Outstanding.
I want to give Viva Safari the thumbs up. Right from the very first email, the first phone call, Viva were friendly and helpful. My time spent at Tremisana was a very heart felt and nostalgic trip down memory lane as a returning South African on holiday. Thank you to all for making this holiday so memorable . I love South Africa
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A Magical Mystery Tour Through Kenyz/Tanzania
Our safari to Kenya and Tanzania was beyond our expectations. By "magical" I mean that we often couldn't believe what we were seeing and feeling. We saw The Big Five, including a black rhino. We were 3 feet away from a cheetah, the most beautiful cat I have ever seen. The terrain, the light, the silence, the night sky, gave us an otherworldly sense.
Accommodations were perfect. The tent camps were comfortable, attractive and like something from a movie. The meals were exceptional as was the service. The Masai "guards" who escorted us through the camps were delightful. We had fine butlers, servers and guides everywhere. These people spoke (or tried to speak) English, catered to our every need, and were very knowledgeable about the area and its history. The itinerary developed by Ker & Downey was manageable and exciting. We did not feel like we missed anything. We even fed giraffes from the windows of our first-night's lodging in Nairobi. Of great importance was our feeling of safety and security. Ker & Downey and its agents made sure we got where we needed to go and took care of all the details.
Six of us shared the adventure, and all would go back again despite the long journey and malaria pills. We would also book our trip through Ker & Downey without hesitation.