NO
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
3 Days in Ruaha National Park and two days in Iringa – with teenager girls
We (mother with twin-daughters at 16 years), had a wonderful Safari-tour with Kitonga Tours. I started the preparations 4 months before the trip, and had close mail-correspondence with Paul from the Kitonga-office for several months. It was very important for me that we got the “perfect” tour, and I had many questions regarding the tour-plan, timing, transportation, pricing etc, which Paul always answered fast and patiently. So, I felt very confident and safe to use Kitonga as our tour-agency.
Before going to Iringa/Ruaha we spend some days in the North of Tanzania, so we had arranged with Kitonga to pick us up in Kondoa. We were picked up here in a very nice and comfortable transfer car, so the 9 hour drive to Iringa was just nice and relaxing, with wonderful view of local life and nature along the road. We were served cold drinks along the whole way, could charge our phones in the car, wi-fi was available most of the time, and the driver was driving safely. We slept at “Iringa Sunset Hotel”, a very nice place with great view from the terrasse-restaurant, very nice rooms, and extremely friendly staff. The only thing to comment on was the weather: In the end of June it was quite cold here.
Early next morning we started the beautiful drive (3 hours) to Ruaha National Park, and by noon we started the game-drive in the park. The wildlife in Ruaha is fascinating. In three days we saw a LOT of animals. The park is famous for the large number of elephants, and there are also very many giraffes, impalas, water bucks, baboons, etc. We also saw several lions, jackals, buffalo’s, and even wild dogs, and some animals we never had heard about before. Paul and the driver were good at spotting the animals, and explaining about them.
The Park is very big, and therefore we were sometimes driving for a while without spotting any animals, but the landscape in the park is really amazing – not at least all the huge and old Baobab trees. There are also many beautiful palm trees, funny sausage trees, and a lot more. But the main reason to visit Ruaha is the quite atmosphere, and the less amount of other tourists. Here you do not drive in a long row of cars, there will often pass hours without seeing another Safari-car, and you therefor get a feeling of an authentic safari-experience. The bandas where we were sleeping inside the park were simple but charming, with animals grassing outside during the night.
Kitonga Tours did a great job in arranging and realizing our Safari-tour – making our dream come true.
BE
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Wonderfull experience thanks to Wildlife sun safaris
We went on a 8 days safari together with our 2 children of 6 and 8.
On the first morning we were picked up at the hotel in Nairobi.
There the consultant James explained the journey and introduced us to the driver Toya. Both very nice and experienced guys!
From there we went to Masaai Mara, Nakuru, Amboseli, Tsavo East and Tsavo West. At the end our driver dropped us off in Diani beach. Toya was very friendly and had a lot of knowledge about the wildlife and where to find them. We saw 3 leopards!
Every location and accommodation was of excellent choice and very affortable.
We had the best time thanks to this organisation and can recommend them to everybody!
IT
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Personalized and kind
We have done a 6 days personalised tour in Tarangire, Serengheti and Ngorongoro with African Pangolin Safaris.
All the two guides are very well prepared, we could see all animals, included the big 5!
They were very kind, caring and helpful.
We had a really nice, personalised and unique experience in Tanzania with Mohamed and Vikto!
NZ
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Great Adventure
Victoria was the most efficient person running a tour company I have come across. She contacted me via whatapp to find out where I was as I had been delayed in arriving in Uganda. Victoria then helped to get my Ugandan visa processed quickly so I was able to arrive and start on my safari even though I was much delayed. Also my luggage ended up in Kigali and Victoria helped get it to me in my accomodation up country.
I would have not hesitation to use Nsavi again, which I am already planning to in the near future.
My driver Jasper was excellent too and was great at sorting out any vehicle issues. I will request him again next time.
IL
20-35 years of age
Fun and knowledgeable
Great tour company. If you take the township tours, people in the comunity do receive funds from them.
I did the Johannesburg tour - Apartheid Museum + Soweto Township
The tour guide was very knowleadgeable and made the day interesting. I learned a lot about South Africa's history of opression and colonialism.
I def recommend taking this tour if you are in Johannesburg
IT
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Custome made safari tour in Tarangire National Park, Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Nationa
The tour was amazing and the guides very professionals and kinds.
They wait us at the international airport of Dar es Salaam and they bring us to Arusha, where begin the safari game drive in the most beautiful National Park of Tanzania.
At the end they leave us to Arusha airport
CA
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent service, prompt and efficient
MoAfrika tours were wonderful to deal with, very courteous, prompt and helpful. They helped us organize our tours and gave us a good price on them. The lodges, tour guides and conveyances were excellent and comfortable and the guides for every tour were very good and knowledgeable
NZ
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Highly recommend. Professional, helpful and accessible.
A once in a lifetime trip for us creating lasting memories. The camps and hotels were excellent, the staff friendly and helpful and the food excellent. We were very well looked after. The animal life was abundant and we were able to view the great 5 within a few days. All of the safaris exceeded our expectations.
Some of the internal flights and hotels are linked and we did experience a couple of airline representatives that were not helpful and lacked good communication skills. At one point we were unable to find our representative at Entebbe airport. She was at the wrong part of the airport. We were taken through to departures with instructions to stay put and that she would not be lone. We waited approx. 3 hours past our scheduled departure time. Airport staff were unable to help as it was a charted flight. It turned out she was waiting for a couple of more passengers. However the pilots were sitting in the aircraft and were also unaware and had been sitting on the aircraft for 3 hours waiting for us. We had a long overnight flight from the Serengeti to Johannesburg and then had to wait another 2 hours to be flown to our camp as the airline was waiting further passengers to fill the plane. our itinerary stated our flight time and the airline were not helpful in accommodating us. Were were eventually put on a hot plane and waited a further 45 mins till the pilot arrived. We felt they were trying to maximize their seating and felt it was not conducive to a good holiday.
We still had a great time during our two and a half weeks in Africa and would recommend this excellent company but feel the situations we found ourselves in should be addressed.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Thw tour operator was professional, smooth and responsible throughout the tour.
I highly recommend African Hagyko Safaris for their professional services and pocket friendly charges.
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Professional and Respectful
The tour operator Mansoor was very professional right from the beginning. He walked me the entire reservation, provided me with answers to my questions promptly and he made sure we got exactly what we were looking for despite making our reservations last minute. Our tour guide aka driver Mr Superman was the best. He was very professional, respectful and knowledgeable of animals. He went above and beyond and made every efforts to drive us all day to ensure we see all animals especially the BIG 4. I will highly recommend this company and huge THANK YOU TO YOU MANSOOR AND MR MICHAEL.
