50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Responsive, Accurate, Pro-active and super helpful
I have been dealing with Sandra from Traipsing, and couldn't recommend her more highly. As I said in the heading, she has been respnsive, accurate, pro-active and super helpful. We organised a 3 days Kruger experience with her, which we have unfortunately had to post-pone due to COVID-19 impacts. But she has been outstanding - firstly in terms of being very responsive in giving us options that were all the right pitch and "on brief" in terms of the type of booking we were seeking, and then in sorting out the booking we chose with detail and clarity at every step. And the when the impacts of COVID-19 really started to bite and we were contemplating a deferral, she beat us to the puch, reaching out to see what we were thinking and what we wished to do. Terrific. I recommend Sandra from Traipsing without hesitation.
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
At 62 years old one of my top two vacations of all time. Simply wonderful
Everything was excellent with great transportation, two different type camps both unique, wonderful customer service from staffs & Guides were outstanding as saw all Big Five in first 1.5 days of 5 day, 4 night trip. Ute gave us every type of information we could use & was a phone call or text away with anything I had questions on. Got home just before Virus hit the world so may never have been able to do this again. A trip of a lifetime with my only son.
Thanks Ute, You Rock.
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65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Benson Maina provided a knowledgeable and fun experience.
Better experience than I had expected. Benson was a good driver, transported our luggage, good at finding the animals, overnight lodging and meals were great.
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Awesome trip to Kenya
We had an absolute great safari experience in Kenya. Kennedy was our driver and he did a great job. His wealth of knowledge and love of Kenya and the animals. We fall in love with the country, and we will come back soon! I can't recommend Sino Africa Safari highly enough.
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Best day of my life, at peace in nature
Hello! I’m an American woman and was on business in Dar es Salaam when I met Rodger from Maredori Travel And Tours. I decided to do 2 days 1 night in Mikumi, with a drive back to Dar es Salaam. I absolutely cannot recommend this tour enough. I cared first and foremost about safety, and truly felt taken care of and extremely safe the full length of the tour. Rodger packed water, food, and filled the safari car with gas and off we went! The accommodations in the park were very clean, private, and in fact also breathtaking as I’d wake up to baboons and Impala outside of my window. Rodger, the guide, knew everything about the animals and ecology of the land, I felt like I was in a National Geographic movie! We saw elephants, zebra, tons of lions and cubs, warthogs, giraffes, hippos, and much more. The sunsets in Mikumi are absolutely stunning as well, I’ve never seen skies that colorful and open. Rodger let me stop for plenty of pictures from the safari car and he even took photos of me with the animals in the background. I highly recommend this tour, seriously it is a weekend I’ll never forget. 10 out of 10!!!
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Seven Wonders Safari gave us an Amazing experience. Thank you Evelyn and George!
We had a seventeen day safari with Seven Wonders. Words can't describe just how wonderful the experience was or how great Seven Wonders Safaris was. Evelyn and George met us in Rowanda and Nicolas took us to our Gorilla trek. We were there for five days with one day of Gorilla trekking. We did get to see the Gorilla's in the wild and it was an amazing experience. The tourism for the Gorilla's is providing the funding that is helping to preserve their habitat and protect them. We also did a walking tour in Kigali that was very good. We were in Rowanda for 5 days and flew to Arusha for another 12 days driving with George. He was AMAZING. One of the kindest men you will ever meet. His Love, Knowledge and Passion for the animals and joy at being able to share them with his guests was evident in his every action. His ability to spot animals at great distances while navigating rough roads was uncanny. He has some sort of Spidy sense! He wanted to take us off the beaten paths and give us a more authentic experience.
We went back and forth with Evelyn early on to customize our trip and accommodations. She was wonderful to work with and delivered an incredible experience. We wanted a local, smaller, Tanzanian based safari company and feel so lucky that we entrusted this once in a life time experience with Seven Wonders Safari's!
Advice;
We upgraded a few hotels and were very happy with our accommodations but I would discuss having hotels close to the game drives or even tented camps closer to the game drives.
Make sure the company does not have mileage limits. Seven Wonders does not but some companies limit how many miles their guides can drive. This can mean that you may not get out away from the crowds.
Bring more cash for tipping. Small bills, lots of 5's. You can easily go through $1,000 a week in tips. And if you get George as your guide you will want to tip him as much as you can......
Thank You Evelyn and George, from the bottom of our hearts. If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Nice park with zebras and impalas and safari walking.
Lake Mburo Park was our first park that we had visited in Uganda during our 10 days tour package. So, we were little excited and had high expectations. And, yes we were not disappointed!. Many zebra's and impalas dancing around our Jeep, and was kind breathtakking. We also have a morning walk safari before leaving to Bwindi, which was even more interesting because of the opportunity to move between the animals. To watch them eat and smell African odours while the sun is rising and colors are changing every minute, that was very special moment of day. I would like to visit here again and with same tour guides.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Extraordinarily Beautiful Ngorongoro
Africa is already a unique place in its own but when you entered to Tanzania, it become even more better. Ngorongoro is the upmost. Its far from imagination, a wildlife with inside a extinct volcano crater, maybe with 20 or 30 km diameter, with all the diversity and animals living in perfect harmony. lions, zebras, hippopotamus, elephants, baboons, wild beasts, rhinos, hyena, flamingos, etc., etc.. The weather is unique as well, altitude atmosphere. The hotel our company arranged were located in the edge of the crater and that have an awesome view to the park. Overall its all good hotels, good food and accommodations made by Arlanda Tours four our safari trip. It will now remain lifetime experience!! Ngorongoro Extraordinarily Beautiful!!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great Gorilla tracking with Freka!
We had booked our gorilla tracking a few months in advance, so to secure the tracking permits as they have limited person entry at a time. We used to go with a good company Freka African Holidays. The company was professional from the beginning to end, as emailing us all the necessary information, while payment and lot of moments.
As we reach at meeting point, a driver came to pick us up from their side and it took about 2 hours to get to Bwindi. There was a traditional African dance performance and then we were briefed on what to expect. Before we go trekking, we split off into different small groups, each having a guide and 2 rangers. They came in handy as there are lots of thorny plants and stinging nettles.
At the beginning of the trek you can hire porters because they were a huge help not only with carrying your bag, but helping you to not fall in the jungle as well.
We began the trek with a steep incline before heading into the jungle. The trackers set out early in the morning so that you don't have to trek too long to find the gorillas. We spotted our first gorilla within an hour, sometimes it can take up to 6 hours or even 11 our guide told us... And sometimes you don't even get to see them and then to fulfil the desire, some of people use to arrange to get helicoptered which cost around 300usd.
It was such an amazing experience to see the gorillas up close! They are so adorable, as gorilla got quite so close to me twice and I was frightened but then our guide told me not to be afraid of them. All in all, it was a fantastic experience.
Afterwards we had a good lunch at Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge, and having a perfect accommodation. I highly recommend this tour company !!!
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20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A fantastic day to Jinja and Nile River
To see the beauty of Beautiful source of Nile River and to have an amazing experience of wildlife of various variety of bird, we moved with East African Jungle Safaris for a 4 day tour. At a very first sight we just saw the amazing source of this great river. After that we got into a boat- and got a chance to be so close to the vast variety of birds, as well as others. The boat driver was also very respectful to the wildlife and so he go as slow as I liked. Here also can do some more to explore or fun like guided forest walk, bird watching or tree hugging. Overall it was a great experience at Jinja. Thanks to this company for this amazing pleasure.