65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Jartan Laizer exceeded my expectations for a superb nature & cultural safari experience! Top notch!!
Jartan Laizer, our tour guide/operator, and his driver team, went far above and beyond in giving us a full adventure filled with amazing memories of Serengeti and Tanzania wildlife, tribal cultures, and a variety of natural landscapes. Jartan was a wealth of knowledge of the area, its history, nature, and peoples. He took a a keen interest in what each person in our party of 16 were interested in experiencing congratulations and learning, and he and his team excelled in delivering for our group. He was a great story teller, shared his own personal life experiences, spent evening time getting to know us better, and always focused on safety and time efficiency in giving us a full experience. Our eleven day safari included amazing food, exceptional platform tent lodging within different areas on the Serengeti and surrounding natural areas, and needed transportation to/from airports. If you are wanting an unforgettable and personalized safari experience, be it in Tanzania or Kenya, without question I give Jartan my highest recommendation for he is amazing and truly delivered for us. I will be recommending his guide/operator services to any of my family, friends, or colleagues that wish an amazingly special Tanzania and/or Kenya experience.
65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Fabulous 6-Day Tour in Uganda
We just returned from ten days in beautiful Uganda. Six of those days were spent on safari drives in Murchison Falls National Park and Kidepo National Park with a fantastic guide, William, who really made this trip enjoyable for us. We have traveled a lot and often use a private guide, and we rank William as one of the best we've had. (We also had several people, including other guides, tell us we had the best guide in the business.) He was very knowledgeable about the mammals and birds in the parks we visited, was an excellent spotter, and did an great job of adapting to our needs and interests. My husband is an avid birder, and William shares his passion and was particularly helpful in this area. William also shared a lot of fascinating information about the Ugandan culture and even took us to visit a primary school on our request. In addition, he is an excellent driver, navigating even the worst roads in northern Uganda with skill. He is unflappable and always upbeat. In our experience, a good guide can really make a trip like this special, and William definitely did that for this trip.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Raymond went above and beyond to give us the best safari experience.
We booked a 5 day Maasai Mara trip. Tabitha assisted us with our booking and was quick to respond and advise on any questions. The tour was well organised and the itinerary well structured with various fun activities. Raymond, our experienced tour guide, was very knowledgeable about the Mara and other nature reserves we went to. He knew where all the spots were to get the best pictures of the wildlife and have a great experience. He was friendly and very helpful.
ES
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Serengeti National Park by Santiago Kenet Sánchez Custodio
Best place, no doubt...
ES
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Ngorongoro Crater by Santiago Kenet Sánchez Custodio
Be careful because it's cold in there! Origin of mankind, essential to visit it, despite the fact you won't see so many species as in The Serengeti...
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Astonishing
One of the best things I've ever done! Everything was handled very professionally and the driver was very knowledgeable and helped us see the big 5. I would highly recomend and I would love to do this trip again. Thank you so much
BR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wild, welcoming and beautiful!
Tanzania has been a great surprise, wonderful scenes, wildlife, warm and welcoming people and good structure for tourists accommodation. Serengeti is definitely the best park to see wildlife in their true habitat, such a huge open space with so many possibilities of sightseeing, Ngorongoro crater is also very unique, we were happy to see a rhino and such a beautiful landscape. Tarangine was a bit smaller, but we were able to see a lot of wildlife too. After the Safari, we went to Zanzibar for some relaxing time and the beaches are paradisiac and beautiful, I will totally recommend to do both this experiences. We love Tanzania and we recommended and we plan to go back when we have kids.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing Wildlife, beautiful hotels and fantastic friendly guides
Tanzania really is the perfect place for a holiday. You can combine superb safari time with a trip to Zanzibar to enjoy snorkelling in the Indian Ocean.
Every hotel we stayed in was out of this world - and we weren't staying in the best ones. Highlights were the amazing tented camp in the Serengeti, the Marera Valley Lodge and the suberb hotels on Zanzibar - Tembo Hotel in Stone Town and the Mahali Zanzibar by the beach in Paje.
We felt happy and well looked after on every day. Our guide, Karim, from Ozon Light tours drove us round for the whole of a 5-day safari. He was amazing - knowledgable, great fun and incredibly hard working. Each area had its own unique characters and beauty, but all had loads of wildlife. We saw lions in trees and beautfiful elephants at Manyara, loads of cheetah, lion and the incredible wildebeest migration in the Serengeti, stunning views at Ngorongoro with flamingoes and a hyena kill as highlights and then more lovely elephants and baobab trees in Tarangire. The birds everywhere were also superb - particularly the Superb Starlings ;)
And don't feel worried about booking your trip with a local Tanzanian tour operator. Everything was arranged perfectly and we had great communication with the tour company while planning the trip, after we'd booked, while were there, etc. We were able to make the trip bespoke to our dates and wants, transport was there exactly when they said it would be, the hotels they recommended were all amazing and good value and it worked out a lot cheaper than if we'd booked with a UK company that just add on their own margin. Tanzania is geared around giving tourists a great holiday and it is succeeding with this in every way.
ES
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing country, wonderful people, unforgettable experience
All the things you've seen in documentaries when you're a child, is possible in Tanzania. It's absolulety great have the opportunity of watching a cheetah teaching her puppy how to hunt a gazelle, or lions for everywhere. But it's not only the incredible animals;: it's the global esence of the landscape, of the authenticity of natural wildlife. To sum up: unbelievable and extraordinary.
FI
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Two nights tented trip with 11 & 15 years old in Moremi
Getting in and out Moremi from/to Maun used lot of first and last day. In hindsight we should have booked 3 nights. On other hand we stayed overnight in Maun before and after safari, which was correct decision - we did cross Namibian border with rental car before and after.
We saw lot of animals and the guide did excellent job looking for them. He did also lessen us and tried show different things - not only drive after the big 5. The team did communicate well with us, even with kids. We got everything agreed and more.
The camp was functional and food was tasty - importantly kids liked it. I can recommend this highly - expensive, but worth every pula.