MV
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Good tour with friendly assistance
Overall experience was satisfactory.
From the beginning of booking to the end of tour, Mercy, the tour agent was very supportive with providing decent information. Itinararies of the tour was slightly different/changed from the original but was pretty satisfactory reorganized. Drivers of tours both in Kenya & Tanzania were very friendly and well informative.
Some areas could be improved as below
-provide more detail such as who is coming to pick me up, where exactly take off the shuttle bus
-driver should know the name of guests / I came to pick you up (to avoid picking up wrong guests)
-upgrade chairs for camps in Tanzania / other tours had much better chairs
-lake Manyara NP must be visited before Serengeti as the original itinarariry. After Serengeti & Ngorongoro, Manyara gave less opportunities to see animals due to higher trees.
However, overall good experience & recommend to my friends.
KR
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
excellent but not good compay
very good trip, nice whether and scenery , but not good tour company, when we got there, the tour company raised the price significantly , and changed the accommodation without any prior notice
CA
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderful experience!! Just need more clear communication with the company/tour operators
Beautiful scenery, parks and accommodation. The accommodation was very beautiful and had warm showers and amazing views. We felt like royalty. We saw elephants, lions hippos, lots of birds, lots of monkeys etc. The food was delicious and you get ALOT of delicious food.
I would recommend better communication with the tour operators and the clients. Our itinerary was changed a couple of times without our knowledge and we were a little upset with this. One of the hotels was not available and they wanted to put us in a place that had bad reviews. We did get a nice place in the end but it was a little stressful. We also felt a little pressured to tip every single guide on the gorilla trek, chimp trek and multiple community walks we went on. We spent over $4500 for the tour and didn't think we would need to tip every single person we encountered. I would suggest the tour include tips if this is necessary for Ugandan customs and cultural norms. We didn't mind tipping here and there but every single hotel staff, trekkers, boat crews and cultural guides would have cost us over $1500 USD.
Overall, we had a wonderful time and Uganda is a very beautiful and friendly country.
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Lake Manyara National Park by Carolyn
Excellent sightings of elephants in their family groups, splashing and rolling in the large pools, sibling brothers fighting each other by locking their tusks with one another, walking in single file to shadier trees and always checking on the younger elephants. A Park that was green, hilly and well wooded with Acacia trees that gave plenty of shade and opportunities for elephants to scratch themselves against.
SE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A very pleasant safari experience in a beautiful landscape and with confortable lodging
As a hole our safari trip with Mwema to Meru National Park was very good. We had previously been to Maasai Mara and we really liked the diversity of the landscape in Meru. We didn't see a lot of animales but the senery was outstanding!
We found the lodging very comfortable and the food and service was good.
The only thing that we were a bit disappointed with was our driver/guide. He was at times more interested in his cell phone than in searching for animales. We where also a bit annoyed when we had to wait for him after the lunch break going back to Nairobi, not knowing where he had gone.
Obviously he had some privat matters to attend to that took some time...
AR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Very well
The hotel is very clean, comfortable, internet when there are a lot of people walking very bad, and what we found very noisy, all night long a lot of noise you could not sleep.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
I like to enjoy may life
They always communicated very well and helps more to get experience life and even it's can change your life
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Perfect!
This trip was exactly what we were looking for. Someone to take care of all the logistics and an incredibly guide to take us along the way. We still talk about this part of the trip and our guide.
CH
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Bwindi Gorilla Trekking 3 Days
We went to a Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi impenetrable forest. Our guide Chris provided us with a very good service. He picked us up (we were 3 people) in Kigali and drove us directly to the Ichumbi lodge, where we stayed the night before and after the trekking. On the way he organised and pre-ordered lunch for us in a hotel on the way (there were three menu options, one of them vegetarian) and he organised everything at the border from Rwanda to Uganda and made sure we did not have to stand in long queues. Along the way he knew the best places to take a beautiful picture, and he would tell us interesting facts about country and culture every now and then. He is a good driver and comfortable to be around. The lodge was lovely; nice location, perfect service, good food.
At the day of the trekking we were brought to a different zone of the national park than we had booked. We think this was probably because February is low season, so they put the tourists from two neighboring zones together to make a complete group. So it was a 1 hour drive in the morning to where the trekking started, but we did not mind because the sunrise was stunning, with mist hanging between the mountains. So Chris patiently stopped the car and I could take one of my favourite pictures of the trip.
We were lucky on the trekking and found the gorillas after about 1.5h. It’s an incredible experience. The rangers also make sure that everybody gets a good spot to watch the gorillas and they’ll take a pic for you if you ask.
Over all we are all very happy with the trip, and we always felt save and well looked after with Chris on our side, patiently answering any questions, looking after us and being a good “host”.
NL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Tanzania is beautiful
Our safari, organized by Magda and her colleaques was amazing and our guide, Hosea, had a lot of knowledge and has a lot of respect for people and animals. All the way top!
Unfortunately, it was one, of te by us booked, lodges do not meet the requirements and that was very unfortunate. Fortunately, we had her only at the end of our safari trip suffers from.
Magda is constructive critical eye on its staff and the accommodation that they book, so we assume that this is not going to occur. We look back on a wonderful journey!