CH
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Reliable and uncomplicated.
I spent 4 very nice days. The group I joined and the driver Tony were the best company. If you don’t want to travel alone, I can highly recommend to do a safari by joining a group.
BR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Excelent experience mainly for the staffs
Hello Mafie
Poa!!
The safari was great! Sam and Dickson were both AMAZING!
Sam is really experience tour guide and was always trying to help and fix the inconvenientes.
Dickson is a great human being and the best cooker and always wanting to make the best for us.
The tour was great and we saw many many animals and a cheeta attacking (twice) and I again give the credit to the experience of Sam!
The only thing is to guarantee all the alignments - such as private tent, private rooms before you go!
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
10 day Kenya trip was excellent with Apodiformes Adventures
My family of 4 went with Apodiformes adventures to Kenya on a 10-day trip. Silas(owner) was the person I communicated with; most importantly, he responded within less than ten minutes of my text every time. He was top on communication and answered every question about each park and stay. Silas worked with me on days and lodges where I wanted to stay. He provided a ten-day plan with Toyota Land Cruiser that covered Nairobi, Samburu, Ol Pejeta, Naivasha, Masai Mara, and luxury accommodation at each place. Most importantly, Silas helped talk and pick up my luggage from NBO airport when my luggage was delayed for three days. He picked up and assigned a driver to drop the luggage from NBO to Ol Pejeta (4hr drive) on the 4th day of our stay after the luggage was delayed. My family is grateful for Silas's help with luggage handling at the airport.
Maxwell was our guide for the Nairobi day trip and he took us to the places we requested. The best part is Maxwell took us to Cultiva Farm for an excellent lunch. We started the next day with Big Tom as our guide, who treated us as a family and took great care of my family. For the remaining nine days, Tom checked with us how the day went by and tried to help my family see all animals at each park. Based on my experience spending time with Tom, he knew a lot of other drivers at each lodge where we stayed and communicated at each park to spot animals. We saw all the Big Five across the different parks, the three varieties of Giraffes and other types of animals. Tom spotted the birds and named them so my kids could know. While driving across the ¬different lodges where we stayed, he helped us explain the cultures and things about Kenya. Tom was an excellent spotter of the wild animals and took good care while driving in the park and between lodges. Overall we are thrilled (5 Stars) with our 10-day trip to Kenya from Apodiformes Adventures and its owner Silas for the service and support before and after the trip. We will come back to Kenya in the future and book with Silas@Apodiformes adventures. I highly recommend going with Silas@Apodiformes Adventures and Tom as your guide for any of your trips to Kenya.
US
65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Knowledgeable about all the animals and history of the area. Our second time using Issaya great guid
Issaya knows how to find the animals and knows all about them. Last trip we found 8 lions together and 4 of them were sleeping in the trees. He knows the history of the area and can answer all your questions. I would not hesitate using him again when we come back. This was our second tour with Issaya.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Incredible safari
We booked our safari with unscripted safaris through lewis who was always online to respond to my numerous questions and was flexible to accommodate our ever changing travel dates. Our guide Nelson was educative and familiar with all the parks we went to, he would help us bargain as well for items we shopped for. We basically saw almost all the animals I had imagined of seeing. We really appreciate and recommend this company
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Superb, individually curated safari in Uganda!
Moses has just provided an amazing week of experiences for my two teenagers and myself! From the first moment I contacted owner Edward, and worked with his staff, especially Joan, I have been impressed! Any experience you want in Uganda, Rwanda & beyond, can be curated by this amazing team!
Super communication, great vehicles and overall great knowledge of Eastern Africa!
Personal recommendations and word of mouth are the golden ticket when planning a trip! Thanks to friend Colin Bell of Natural Selection lodges in Southern Africa, and his “hands down” recommendation of Primate Safari, we just had the most amazing 7 days!
MY
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Always amazing, reliable and have clients best interest at heart
It’s our 4th time on safari with Rose and we were amazed and surprised at how detailed and seamless our trip is.
If you want someone reliable, trustworthy and have your best interest at heart, Rose is the one for you. We had a scare when our flight out from Lusaka (which we booked ourselves) were messed up when the airline retimed our flight, which affected our connecting flight. We were so stressed and sent an SOS to Rose in the middle of the night and she and her team help us sort it out and all worked out well in the end. Rose just said: go enjoy your morning game drive and it will sorted by the time you are back to camp. True to her words, everything works out and we managed to see an epic sight during game drive - a hyena trying to take on an elephant! We thought we have to cancel our morning drive to sort out the flight mess but Rose just took care of it for us!
We felt so loved and well taken care of by Rose and her team. There will be more safaris for us and we will always stick with Rose! She’s one in a million! Thanks for planning an amazing vacation for us! Love you guys!
CA
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Very professional and excellent service from the team. Definitely recommend it
I was generally satisfied with the services i received right from the planning stage to the end of the trip. We had the BEST driver ever and if you ever book a trip with them, please ask for James! :)
Geofrey was very helpful and was quick to reply to every of my message. Even at times late at night - since i was working full-time and planning the trip from abroad. Will definately book a trip with them again and i highly recommend this operator.
Had the BEST experience at the Mara - sleeping in tents, our host David was so good, and the safaris were adventurous!Voi Safari Lodge and Masada (Naivasha) were also good. Wished we had booked Lake Nakuru too but there is always another time.
Thank You Geofrey, and the entire Team!
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Holiday of a lifetime
Wow, wow, wow if the only way to describe our holiday. I will admit we were advised by many people not to book through a non-UK company - even our usual travel agent received a message from his Kenyan agent advising us to go with a known company. O|h we are so glad we didnt. Right from the start we received emails from John who helped us tailor make our own private safari adapted from APS 12 day Classical Safari. He helped us with our visa application and answered all our questions - of which there were many - within 2 hours. 48 hrs before we left we received an email telling us the name of the driver collecting us from the airport & how we would recognise him. The first morning John himself came to meet us & introduced us to our fantastic driver/guide Lawrence and went through the entire itinerary with us.
Lawrence was absolutely amazing and spotted lions, a leopard, elephants & cape buffalo on our very first drive - not to mention the hippos, giraffes, zebras etc, etc. We had to wait 3 days before we saw the rhinos!!!! Having Lawrence for the entire trip was fantastic, we learnt so much from him, not only about the animals but Kenyan culture and particularly his tribe. Lawrence ate most of his meals with us, which we really enjoyed as he was so much fun and informative. When we were on the drives if there was a bird he didnt' know he immediately looked it up in either his much used book or on his phone and if we asked him anything about an animal he also looked that up for us to give us even more information, although his knowledge was unbelievable. The advantage of it being just the 2 of us is we could change the itinerary on a daily basis - morning drives instead of evening or vice versa - and opted to have 2 half day drives rather than 1 full day - Lawrence was so good at assessing our needs and ensuring we got the very best out of the days - bearing in mind we are both in our 70's so not as agile as some.
The lodges we stayed at were very diverse but all were comfortable and clean , with an excellent choice of food - all but 3 meals were buffet style. Yes the roads on the safaris left a lot to be desired - but hey what do you expect on a safari, we are on unmade roads looking for animals in their environment not ours.
Some of the journeys between the parks were up to 8 hours - however the scenery was so varied the time just passed fast. The jeep itself wasnt the newest but I would be surprised if even the most up-to-date one would lessen the bumps, but again it was reliable, gave us absolutely amazing views and allowed us to get close up to the animals, so what is there to complain about?
The only glitches over the whole 15 days was one hotel where the room was more like a prison cell - this was sorted within 15 minutes with John being contacted & resulting in us being transferred to a neighbouring hotel and on arrival in Nairobi the hotel had a booking but with different names, however another quick call - and this was 11.00pm - by the taxi driver to John and it was sorted.
We paid our deposit on booking and the balance on arrival - again we were warned in the UK that this was dicey and what happened if there was no-one to meet us on arrival. Unfortunately we took American dollars some of which were issued before 2007 & therefore not accepted in Kenya. "No problem we will sort it when you re back" When we returned to Nairobi John didnt have his card reader with him, so believe it or not, we didnt pay him until we returned to the UK when I sent him a bank transfer.
To say we were warned about using a Kenyan company rather than a local UK company I have never met the owner of our usual tour company, never had email replies within 2 hours, never had hotels/rooms sorted in 10 minutes and NEVER EVER paid for a holiday on my return. Additionally I then received an email from John asking if we had returned home safely and hoping we had enjoyed the holiday.!!!
Thank you again John and Lawrence you promised us the holiday of a lifetime and you certainly gave us that - even with the bumpy roads and Lawrence not finding me my penguin!!!!!!!!!!
HU
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
She (woman) was proactive and extremely flexible, which we greatly appreciated.
Excellent organisation, flexibility, good value for money.
