NL
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Beautiful trip around Uganda with very good, safe and experienced driver/guide
Safari tour was excellent along all highlights of Uganda. Though the Landcruiser was a bit old, it was foremost a spacious and strong car. Our guide/driver was very good and knew everything. Service was good, accomodations were not always to our expectatief, but generally good.
NG
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A reliable, well-organised, good-value safari company
KSA organised a two week safari holiday for a group of 4 adults in August 2016. We agreed an interesting visit programme in advance with modifications made to meet our budget. The safari coordinator responded quickly to emails and questions. Every detail of the arrangements was expertly handled. In particular we were very pleased that at every stage the drivers were there to collect us at precisely the time on the schedule. We were very happy with all the lodges and hotels where we stayed. The KSA drivers acted as guides at each safari location. Our safari in the Maasai Mara was particularly good with the driver demonstrating a detailed knowledge of the park and the animals. The experience at the Mara was amazing. We would highly recommend a visit to the Maasai Mara and we were also impressed by East Tsavo which, whilst another park, was completely different and was home to numerous herds of elephants which we had not seen at the Mara. The lodges chosen in both locations were excellent. The locations and accommodation did not disappoint. We did however find some of the distances travelled very arduous. Our only feedback to KSA following our visit was that realistic times should have been quoted for each section of travel. Due to the poor condition of many roads, the quantity of traffic and restrictions on the speed the mini-buses are allowed to travel at, it meant that we spent much more time on the road than expected. We may have altered our itinerary had these times been provided.
NL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
reliable, good service, good car
Before our trip we'd very nice contact with Moses; he gave me all the answers we needed. He was very patient.
On day one our first car was broke but in a few hours they brought us a new car wich drove us everywhere.
No flat tires!
The car was good for 2 adults ond 1 child and all the campinggear.
The campinggear was basic but enough.
IT
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
It was an amazing travel
We took a travel with our friends (two families) in Tarangire, Serengeti National Park and Ngorngoro with the Savannah Explorers. It was an amazing travel, deeply into the nature, very well organized.
Lodges and tendeed camps were clean, comfortable and the guys who followed us were very kind and polite.
We visited the parks by two out-road vehicles followed by prepared and availables guides. We have seen a lot of groups of animals migrating along the Mara river; it was an amazing experience such as have seen a leopard hunting and bringing its prey over a tree. It was an unforgettable scene.
We spent few days in the Ngorngoro Village Lodge situated on the namesake crater; there were an amazing view from there and it was so wonderful that it built in my mind fliyng feelings. We didn't waste a lot of time cause every movement along the path was perfectly scheduled. I can say that, even if it was my fourth safari in Africa, this trip was organaized very well and everything it has been beyond my expectations.
Have a wonderful travel in Tanzania to everybody!
DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A very interesting trip with nice and competent guide and cook. In total very good value for money.
We were several month before the planned trip in contact with the owner Jalala Ndosse. He served us with all necessary information and answered very fast to all our questions.
The tour itself was a good mixture of watching animals in the National Parks (Arusha, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro, Tarangire) and visiting original tribes at Lake Eyasi including sunraise safari and bushman hunting. Gabriel was a very good guide to us so that we could watch many animals and were very close to them. And Mike not just cooked good tasting meals but was always spending good spirit to the team.
All together it was very good value for money
IE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great Safari experience
The Safari tours went out each day early in the morning and returned in the afternoons at about 4 pm. We were very lucky to have an excellent driver/guide and to experience close quarters with giraffes, hyenas, wild dogs, lions, elephants, and unusually cheetahs. We also saw leopards, rhinos, hippos and crocodiles from a distance, so binoculars came in very useful. I would not hesitate in recommending our tour operator and in particular the guide we had. Though accommodation was not originally what was booked, the replacement was of a very high quality. A little more travelling was involved as we were outside the park, but this did not prevent us enjoying the Kruger National Park.
In summary after some delay in getting an itinerary and a change to where we would stay we finally had a full plan which went very smoothly and provided a great experience. Other details: - the Outlook lodge in Johannesburg was comfortable and provided a very good breakfast and evening meal. Transfers worked great and flying seemed worthwhile.
SK
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
dream come true
For us- doing the safari was a dream come true. We saw pretty much everything we ever wanted. Of course- the communication, the car or the accommodation could have been better, but well- we chose the budget option. For those considering Karibu Safaris- go for it but choose the mid-range option, it is worth it.
FR
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Safari
It was a very Nice expérience, we have changed our departure, and Charle has organised the changement faster.
And congratulations to our drivers for the team spirit and their kindness.
Defenitly a very good moment.
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
good lodging
We had a 11-day safaris. Booking was easy. Easy to communicate with the company owner Noah over email. Good lodging arrangement. In Masai Mara, there was a 3-hour drive one way to the river from the hotel, but the hotel was good. The hotel at Ngorongoro provided a spectacular view that's one of the very best we have ever had in our trips around the world. We made a scheduling mistake and as a result we had to book, through the company, one extra day at Masai Mara at a different hotel. It was an expensive booking and the quality of the lodging that day was SO BAD that it got me sick and was not able to do much the next day. The lesson: don't change schedule in the middle of it.
I have mixed reviews on our guides. Our first guide, Geoffrey, was an experienced guide and an excellent driver. Boy, he knows how to drive on the rough roads! He was assertive, a little hard to negotiate - we were totally inexperienced with Safari so we basically took what he offered, and he indeed, most time, tried his best in searching for things for us to see. In Samburu, at one point he was driving like crazy in order to get us to the spot to see a lion. It was a beautiful seeing. Another day he was trying really hard in searching for cheetahs in Masai Mara - although it was not successful in the end we were happy with his effort. His English was good and we had many good conversations. He was a caring and responsible guy - insisting that we call him back after he handed us to our next guide to assure him we were okay all the way. We did and had a good good-bye conversation. That's professional.
Our next guide, Hans, was less qualified to be a good guide. He was inexperienced as a safari driver and he messed up with some documentation things - as a result, we basically wasted our only day at Serengeti. Serengeti has been always a dream land for us. It was a disappointment. I am not sure whether this had anything to do with the location of the hotel. Hans was basically driving us back and forth on the only road near the hotel area. The Serengeti hotel itself, for the lodging quality, was very good. We had our best dinner of the whole trip there. During our Serengeti trip, we met a guide of another safari company, who was with a couple of guests who obviously were of hard-to-please type and who spoke very little English, and we talked with both the guide and his guests. He was such a wonderful guide (enthusiastic about and in doing his job, super friendly, easy to talk and very accommodating) that made us feel that we should have done a better job in researching and getting good guides for our safari.
Our third guide, Nicolas, was okay until at the end at the airport, when, perhaps due to inexperience and a long, tiring drive, he dropped us off in the middle of somewhere in the area and let us find the departure terminal ourselves. We were not thrilled about that, especially after we gave him good tips for the drive. We had to ask several people for directions in a long walk to the terminal. On Safari, though, he was mostly patient, willing to oblige our requests on the way. He took us up to the Observation Hill in Amboseli. We appreciate that.
Overall, that's a wonderful and unforgettable trip to East Africa.
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris