HK
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Active and vibrant
The safari tour is too expensive and the animals in the nature reserve are not that exciting. The road is dirty and too many people on the way are selling stuff in a forceful way.
CA
65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Good 12 Day Tour Around Namibia
I initially signed up for this tour because it was for an extended period, took in many of the highlights around Namibia and because I was traveling alone. Many of the landscapes we encountered were absolutely amazing and I will remember them for a long time! The only locations that I wish we had time for were the Fish River Canyon and Luderitz, but this would have extended the tour significantly. Myxo is new in the travel tour industry and to Namibia itself. Myxo was a good travel companion, was helpful, accommodating and had a good sense of humor. The tour vehicle was a newish Toyota Fortuner SUV. It was comfortable to ride in, had air conditioning, was kept reasonably clean and did not have any major breakdowns during the tour. There were many changes in accommodations from the initial proposal until the actual implementation, which I found to be disappointing. Three of the accommodations (6 nights out of 11) were unacceptable to me and Myxo agreed to upgrade the room or accomodation location at my request. In the end, all accommodations were good to very good. On the last night Myxo upgraded the accommodation to a Lodge rather than a Safari Camp, without my request, which I was thankful for. Breakfasts and dinners were good but lunches were hit and miss. For long trips through remote areas where services were not available, lunches should have been pre-ordered. This was provided towards the end of the tour at my request. Overall I believe that Myxo has gained a lot of valuable experience in organizing tours through Namibia as a result of this tour and I wish him great success in the future.
CA
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Epic summit experience, very low budget tour
+ price
+ trek team of porters, chef and guide
+ food
+ prompt email communication with office
+ day 2+3 great hiking, epic summit sunrise experience
- transportation from Nairobi to the mountain and back is public transport (no mentioning before)
- first day wasted with transport and gathering food+equipment, only started hiking at 3:30pm, 2 hour paved road hike to Moses camp
- tent was dirty, old, zipper not working
- mattresses dirty, one day unacceptable
- rest day should be skipped, no relaxing possible in raining season, facilities dirty and low budget
- last accommodation at Bandas unacceptable, unsafe tenting with wildlife at tent, washroom unusable
- last day useless, several hours on 4x4 road with constant discussion when to call for transport at our costs for the entire team. Need to be clarified before. Costs up to 80 USD for vehicle.
Overall fair price, but also very low budget. Day 1 and 5 need to be discussed and agreed on before payment. With reasonable fitness only 2 days and 1 night at Shipton Camp needed. Fantastic summit experience, great chef, porters and guide. Communication with guide was limited, we always had to ask for info.
CL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
All good, but evening safari was a scam
The tour itself is very good. Hoppy (our guide) was very experienced and could spot animals really well. He also geve us a lot of information about the animals and respond every single question we asked. Accomodations and food were also good.
The really bad part of this tour is the evening safari. The guide was very unexperienced and just cared about driving, keeping his eyes on the road all the time, and talking a lot and veeeery slow. The few animals we saw were spotted by the tourists, not the guide. In addition, the torches were supposed to be operated by the tourists, but we had no instructions about it.
Definitely the worst safari I have ever had in Africa. WildSafaris sould change the operator for this safari, as it is very unprofesional that they put unexperienced and non-motivated guides.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Great destinations, a lot of waiting with little communication
The tour got us where we wanted to go, there were several times where we were asked to wait, tour guide disappeared for long periods of time without providing us information as to what we could do in this time (for example explore) accommodation had been changed and we only discovered this upon arrival at the accommodation. Despite booking a triple share tour this had not been prepared at each location. The vehicle itself left a fair bit to be desired and let us down. There were frustrations which we discussed with the tour guide as they arose. We seen what we set out to see so for that we are grateful. However I don’t believe we really got value for money given the time wasted and missed opportunities as a result. I wouldn’t be opposed to booking with Karumuna again however I would require clearer confirmation on what we should expect.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Kasanka National Park
We camped at Kasanka for three nights. Although the bat experience was amazing, the admin side from Wasa was awful. They had tripled booked our campsite, the prices were different from what we were quoted when we arrived. The transport for the bat viewing were also an issue. However, the campsite was beautiful, the ablutions were clean and the scenery and bats were amazing. We did have a brilliant guide too - Simon.
We did the David Livingstone Memorial and was so so worth it! A great educational experience, clean and neat and perfect for a picnic! It’s about 7kms from Kasanka on tar and then an additional 25kms on a dirt road that is absolutely perfect!
CH
65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Lake Manyara National Park by Frank
We have seen just one elefant and a few other animals. Bird watching was better. Scenery at the lake side nice. Djungle forest beautiful.
CL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Review about Kruger National Park by María Paz Venegas
We saw less animals comparing to Tanzania Parks, we have been in november and are too many bushes, the animals hide better.
FR
Disappointing
Very dry landscape, very little wildlife. Some lions, leopards and wild dogs. Almost no herbivores. I do not recommend reserving at the end of the dry season for this reason.
CA
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Lake Nakuru National Park by Netty and Danny Heighton
The park is smaller and don't see animals closer and didn't see thousands of flamingos