ES
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A BLAST!
WE HAD A BLAST! Amazing 4 days tour. EVERYTHING fantastic, our guide Vincent and Vendura our Stomach enginer (chef haha) were amazing.
Compared with the other companies we were all always getting closer to the animals, and was the whole time trying to catch all the big fives (for sure we have seen them all!!) Amd the food.. OMG.. pancakes for brakfast, fruit, coffee , peanut butter, bread, jam.. the lunches and dinners.. all made for him the same day, even the bread!!! When you camp the pop up all the kitchen and its such an amazi g experiences. The campsites, amazing sunrises and sunsets...
No more words, definetely the best company BY FAR. Thank you all for these amazing days❤️❤️
(We are 2 and shared the Jeep with a family of 4, so we were 6 in total + guide + chef)
US
65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Across the Wild Safaris and Fina are wonderful!
We did a second safari with Across the Wild in August 2022 on our first post-COVID trip to Kenya. We had an absolutely marvelous time. Fina was absolutely wonderful in attending to every detail in planning our safari experience and assuring that it was perfect. We stayed at Serena lodges, which were ideal. Our guide, Dedan, was superb, and all in all, we had one of our best safari experiences that we have ever had. We explored different parts of the Masai Mara than we had previously and had wonderful observations of all of the animals, including a river crossing by wildebeests and zebras (patience and keen observation by Dedan really paid off!) We are already planning our next safari adventure with Across the Wild when we hope to return next year.
DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Reliable, well organized and taking our wishes into account
We (family with two adult children) made a private camping safari with AAA Express Adventure. It was our first time in africa and our first safari: It was a great experience!
The communication with Jalala, the owner of the company, was very good and he considered all our wishes (not only game drives, also walking and canoing; also some cultural insights). We made a 7-day safari, starting with the Arusha NP including a walking safari with an armed ranger and also a canoing tour at the momella lake. We stayed inside the Arusha NP at the public campsite, in the middle of the jungle, all alone, no other campers were here! An incomparable feeling! At the third day we visited Lake Manyara NP, the next day Norongoro Crater and afterwards we made a walk at the crater rim with an ranger. After this we drove to Lake Eyasi and visited the Hadzabe tribe (we went hunting with them ) and also a traditional blacksmith, also very impressive. The next day we visited Tarangire NP and stayed the night at the public campsite inside the park and after a last game drive we went back to Arusha.
Our driver, Peter, was very pleasant and showed us a lot of animals. Sanga cooked delicious meals. Everything was very good.
Overall it was no problem to start the tour not in Arusha, because we spent the nights before in a camp about 1,5 h outside Arusha, also they brought us after the safari to the next station we've booked (a little bit outside of Arusha). And Jalala organized the bus tickets for us to travel to Tanga.
The price was absolutely reasonable.
Thanks a lot to Jalala, Peter and Sanga!
NO
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Excellent service and amazing locations in Tanzania
Thanx to Covid19 our trip was delayed by a couple of years, but it was well worth the wait. First of all, the service we got when we started planning our trip was so good. We had a home visit from Tanzania Explorer (Sondre) that was so positive and informative. Et was an easy choice to pick them as our safari organizer. The places they picked out for us to visit were all amazing. Hondo Hondo at Udzungwa forrest was great, with baboons running around the camp site. The walk up to the waterfall, with swimming, was very interresting and hot. Bring a fresh t-shirt for the trip back down :-) The highpoint of the trip was without a doubt Ruaha and the Ruaha River Lodge. We had hippos, crocodiles and lions just outside our cabin/tent. Out in the park we saw giraffes, zebra, lions, crocodiles, buffalo, leopard and more. We had a fantastic driver/guide that made sure we got to see all the animals on our bucketlist. We will never forget our days on safari.
After the safari we spent a week at Zanzibar. Tanzania Explorer helped us arrange deep sea fishing one very early morning. We got a very nice White Snapper and we got to see whales, dolfins and a beautiful ocean sunrise. Our last days in Zanzibar was spent in Stone Town, at the coolest hotel ever! Emerson Spice. It is impossible to describe the hotel, so just google it. The architecture, colors, service… just perfect.
We highly recommend Tanzania Explorer. They made our vacation a trip to remember for ever. Thank you.
IT
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing 7 days safari trip
We spent 7 days and 6 nights visiting Tarangire, Serengeti, Ngorongoro e Lake Maniara. We can say just one world: AMAZING. Our guide was Andrew. He is a very experienced guide and a good driver, he is very polite and super nice: We think he is the best guide you can find! Finding animals can depend on weather, period of the year, moment of the day and luck, of course, but if an animal is around, for sure he will find it! Our chef was Sule: he is a really good chef, ready to satisfy our needs and preferences. And maybe you won't believe it, but he even bakes fresh bread every day! Also Bartho, the owner of the company, was really honest and serious and everything gone as by agreeements. We had read many 5/5 reviews for Serengeti Wakanda before our tour began and we can't do anything different now that we lived this wonderful experience. We really recommend this company and this special trip! Thank you very much!
Sara & the Bestyteam
FR
Awesome!
The safari was excellent, really really good, everything, game drives, hotels, food, chef, driver and guide awesome
ES
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A very attentive, caring and responsible tour operator who made our safari experience wonderful.
Fantastic experience. Very well organised from the first moment to the end of the safari trip. Anthony answered all our doubts and questions very quickly and clearly. Our guide during the 5 days was kind, nice, caring and friendly. He made us feel very comfortable and we learned a lot from his stories.
The accommodation was amazing. The staff in all the camps and lodges where we slept was very nice and helpful. The food was delicious!
Thank you very much, Anthony and Cross to Africa Safari. We'd like to repeat it as soon as possible again.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing and knowledgeable
It was a never to forget experience that I would recommend to anyone. Great value for money and excellent service.
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Uncommunicative, was very good, no longer will I use them
I have used this company 5 times, the first 3 times were wonderful. Liselle Ratth was our agent and she was fabulous. During and after covid, our booked trip for 2021 was handled by Brett Thomson. He did not communicate in a timely manner, which made us very nervous. However, the trip in September 2021 went very well. We had another trip planned for June/July of 2022 and it did NOT go well. Email questions took days, if not weeks for an answer. Sometimes we never did get an answer. The first lodge on our trip went very well, during our stay there we received an email from the next lodge in Zimbabwe telling us that our stay was cancelled due to none payment by Brett. Needless to say we were in shock. Luckily the owner and manager of Nottens Bush Camp (Sabi Sands) took us under their wing and helped us. The catch was that we had to wire the payment directly to the camp, as they would not deal with Brett. This put us out another $7600 US dollars, which we had already paid. Brett assured me that he would be refunded this amount via our credit card. This did NOT go as planned and took over 8 weeks to receive refunds, which were not the same amount as we wired to the camp due to exchange rates. This is so unacceptable, he did not pay and we were out extra money. I can only image if the guests did not have an extra $7600 cash to pay the camp...would we have been out of luck? I do not recommend using this company...
IT
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
We have really enjoyed this Safari Experience.
Amazing. Thanks to our guide’s experience we have seen many animals. The food was really good and tasteful every time (they also manage food allergies)