20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Incredible
Our 4 day safari with Rasta was perfect. He was so knowledgable about all the animals and all the parks we visited. His sense of humour immediately made him approachable and easy to get along with. We would recommend him and Suricata to anyone!
BE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Friendly & welcoming
We really had an incredible safari experience thanks to Paul!
Throughout the whole trip we could feel his love, passion and respect for the animals and the nature. For each encountered animal, he would share interesting facts.
Moreover, being three girls, we also felt very safe around him.
We really appreciated that he went above and beyond to find the animals we had on our wishlist. In fact, we managed to get a close look at all of the them!
Thanks to his patience, dedication and professionalism, he made our safari trip unforgettable!
IN
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Impeccable
Highly recommended. Put us up in luxurious tents , had knowledgeable drivers and helped us re-book a hotel which we needed to after a missed connecting flight.
Had a wonderful time at Masai Mara and Amboseli.
NL
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Strongly recommend
We did the 3 day safari to Selous NP. Our guide picked us up at our hotel in Dar es Salaam. After a 3,5 hour drive we arrived at our camp. In the evening we had a river cruise and watched the sunset. The next day we had a game drive. The guide was very experienced and we saw lions, giraffe, elephants, leopard and we were lucky to see hyena’s eating a giraffe. The last day we had a bush walk with a very entertainig bush man. In general we would recommend this company highly.
ES
65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Good
It was a very good safari .........................................
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Trip of a lifetime!
David was our tour guide for about a day and a half. He was very experienced, and fortunately for the day, we saw lions, hippos, a leopard, a cheetah, all within the span of three hours! He even brought a Maasai guide at one point to help us track animals. Overall it was an incredible trip, especially for the short time that we had, and I would highly recommend him again!
Lewis was also able to put together an incredible itinerary for us which involved traveling from Narok to doing the safari, to the overnight camp, to the bush flight back home, a detour at the Carnivore restaurant, and dropoff at the International Airport for our flight home. Thank you so much!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Incredible experience for our first safari in Afrika
Our first safari experience in Kenya with Balu Travel was absolutely incredible!
A special thank you to our amazing guides and drivers, Jonathan and Jackson, who made the experience so memorable. Jonathan was incredibly insightful about the Maasai people and the wildlife, while Jackson had the sharpest eye for spotting animals in the bush and always knew the best viewing spots. We had so much fun with them and genuinely enjoyed their company throughout the safari.
Sopa Lodge was the perfect place to stay, beautiful, peaceful and in an incredible setting overlooking Mount Kilimanjaro. The accommodation was fantastic, with very friendly staff and the fascinating added touch of a house built by Hemingway, now turned into a bar overlooking the savanna. The hospitality from the Maasai staff was particularly special; everyone was so welcoming, helpful and kind.
We were lucky enough to see an amazing variety of wildlife, including zebras, giraffes, elephants, warthogs, hyenas, hippos and even a beautiful family of lions resting in the bush.
Overall, it was an unforgettable first safari and such a fun, safe and well-organised experience. If I were to book another safari, I would absolutely choose Balu Travel again, and I’ll definitely be recommending them to friends back home who are looking for an amazing Kenyan adventure! 🇰🇪🦁
IT
Wonderful big 5 experience!!!
An excellent safari experience in the Masai Mara. Raimond was a fantastic driver—professional, experienced, attentive, knowledgeable, and always helpful.
Both the afternoon game drive and the one the following day were highly successful; we saw the "Big Five" while maintaining a respectful and cautious approach toward the environment.
AXIS Agency proved to be professional, reliable, and well-organized. Highly recommended for a Masai Mara safari.
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Exceed expectations
We had an amazing safari experience with Mamnana Adventures. Our guide Mr Gido and the entire team were so kind and friendly. We got chance to see the great migration and we celebrated our honeymoon and birthday while on safari with them. Asante sana Noah, Gido na Winne for this amazing Safari
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Incredible Team and a wonderful Experience in South Africa and Zimbabwe!!
We just returned from a 3 week trip coordinated and hosted by Go Touch Down Travel in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Our experience was incredible! We started with an 8 day safari split between The Royal Morubisi Private Game Reserve, and Tshkudu Private Game Reserve both in South Africa. Both reserves were excellent from our perspective. We had incredible guides in both locations, they were knowledgable and very caring and committed to our experience while in each lodge. We loved the game drives in both reserves. We saw every animal we hoped to see, certainly all the big 5 and more! Of course this experience is not just about checking off boxes, but the magic of seeing animals in the wild, and learning about their behaviors and habitats. We loved our time in Morubisi, our guide was Yolandi, she was exceptional! She was so knowledgeable, and patient, so passionate about her work and teaching us about what we were seeing and experiencing. We loved how she taught us how she was able to track the cats, the elephants, the antelope! I didn't expect to love some of the Antelope so much! Wow, a Water Buck is an incredible animal to see and photograph. The lodges were beautiful, the service was excellent. The food throughout our trip was just amazing. We were not sure we would LOVE the food on this trip, at the end that was probably our biggest surprise, we just raved about our food experiences, and the staff who served us! At Tshkudu lodge our Guide Dan was lots of fun, and tenacious about getting us thru whatever bush obstacles were in between us and a leopard or cheetah once we found them! The Safari's were both excellent and memories that we will cherish! I would be remiss not to mention Joseph who was our guide on the road, and helping to make sure our trip was well coordinated and smooth. He is wonderful person, and gentleman, and we give him an A+. We hope that GTD will support him in continuing to further his skill, knowledge and capacity to expand his roles with the company. He is an asset who helps to ensure that customers have incredible experiences, and develop a loyalty to Go Touch Down as result of his very capable guidance and support!! Joseph, thank you for your friendship and all the help and support.
We also visited Cape town and were able to see highlights of the Cape, the coast, and the Town itself. We chose to visit wineries only one day, we enjoyed that too. Table Mountain and the tour of the cape and beaches were a highlight for us that we liked best, and we enjoyed Downtown CapeTown.
From there we traveled to Victoria Falls and Chobe River. We were so happy to end our trip there, it was a highlight for us. The Ilala Lodge was incredible, beautiful and we highly recommend it! The falls are beautiful, the guide and walk to the falls was really nice. We also did the Railroad Sunset Trip with dinner and enjoyed that very much, it is pricey but was nice to see the River from the bridge and to learn about the history of South Africa from the perspective of Exploration and Train travel. Our Chobe Safari too was incredible, Webby our guide there was again, excellent. My one disappointment was the Chobe River Cruise. I had really looked forward to that the entire trip. I am not sure what happened, my impression is a woman in the office at Bushtracks who manages you in Botswana made a change to our planned itinerary for the boat and assigned us to a different boat and guide than was originally planned. That became a fiasco that really upset me that afternoon. The guide that was supposed to get us to our boat, form a tour company called Cresta I think was aloof, and unreliable. We had a very nice lunch at at a beautiful resort on the Zambezi River, and then the guide we had been reassigned to just did not show up. We sat for about an hour waiting for him and the group. Once we did find him, he was unable to get the group together, lots of time wasted and then he drove us down the river to a location that was suboptimal from the start, sketchy. And the two guys driving a little metal pontoon of a boat where more drivers and guides. I felt like we started late, barely went up the river, and motored around in circles. While we did see lots of elephants on the water, I had really hoped to get upriver to where we had seen hippos from the safari in the morning and they just did not have time or interest to head up the river. Very disappointing. I doubt that is common, but I hope GTD will address that problem so others don't have that experience. We were really hoping that would be a highlight our last day, it was a disappointment. I will say, my driver that day to Botswana, to lunch was excellent. Had he been in charge all would have gone well, it was the woman calling the shots in the Bushtrack Office who really messed things up. He did make the most of it, he was understanding, compassionate and to the extent he could he tried to get that boat guide to be responsible and helped us to find him. He also felt very badly that things did not go well. I could tell he works very hard to make experiences exceptional and he felt badly about the afternoon, it was obvious it was out of his hands.
Zimbabwe was beautiful and we absolutely loved the people in Victoria Falls. The service was exceptional and the people, especially in the shops and kiosks were so much fun to talk to and visit with, and to buys artisanal art and souvenirs from. We left there having a great appreciation for the people, and their interest in us. I am grateful to the people who took care of us, cooked for us, guided us, and sold things to us, all were kind, caring, and just good people.
Go touch down was exceptional!! We would use them again, we highly recommend them for travel to South Africa. I should mention too that leading up to the trip Lucia and Yolande who assisted us with all planning were incredible. They answered all our questions and helped us to plan and experience a once in a lifetime adventure and trip. Thank you all, and to the staff at the lodges and in Cape Town! And the the Bushtracks guides where were exceptional. We loved the trip and will cherish the memories for a lifetime!!