CR
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Lovely proffeisional services with Africa Adventure vacations
Just to say thank you very much for organizing all the trips I had, I had a great time! I have to say that the service I got from you was always very professional and to western standards, which gave me a lot of confidence. The fact that you sent an invoice and the other documents with practical information and more was excellent in particular. As I mentioned on the first day over the phone, Sam is such a lovely guy. He also displayed very high standards of service and he was great company too. His driving is excellent and he really knows how to look after people.
US
65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
We enjoyed the tour very much.
The tour was well planned and we enjoyed our guides John and Augustine. We also enjoyed our tented safari camps and the the improved camps. We saw lots of animals and enjoyed our tour.
NO
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great safari, good hotel and fantastic driver
Very service minded - always ready to reply. The hotel Asilia Dunia lodge was great!
DK
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The perfect experience
We picked Cats for our safaritour with transfers from start to finish and everything went just perfect so can recommend them to all...
Joyce were soo helpfull to answer every question we had (there was a lot) very fast and talked to her many days as she made sure we were happy with the tour....
We got a schedule with dates and times that matched perfectly and she even booked the little plane from Nairobi to Ukunda for us....
We saw the Big five which our excellent and experienced driver Solomon made sure of....
FR
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing
Very good organization. Guides of great quality with great knowledge of the environment. Very attentive to travelers. Perfect.
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Great overnight trip to Nakuru
We had a great overnight trip from Nairobi to Nakuru thanks to African Sunset Safaris. Our guide was very knowledgeable and gave us lots of insights along the way up to Nakuru. The drive itself is quite long but the car is comfortable enough (and we even had a car seat for our two year old!).
Nakuru is a great place to see the flamingoes and also the rhinos - we were very privileged to see both of them from very close - as well as a surprise sighting of a leopard! There’s also lots of other wildlife. Staying in the park also meant that we were very close to the action. :)
Big thanks again to the whole team for making this happen!
US
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great 9 day trip to Uganda with a focus on primates.
My friend and I took a 9 day tour with Africa Tours Adventure to Ziwa, Murchison, Kibale, Queen Elizabeth, Bwindi, Mgahinga, and Lake Mburo starting and ending in Entebbe in January 2019 using their budget accommodation option. Nicholas was very responsive over email was great about working our requests into the itinerary. My general starting idea was to do gorilla, chimpanzee, and golden monkey tracking, and he suggested several possible itineraries.
We both really enjoyed the trip. Our guide David was great; without him, we wouldn't have spotted nearly as many animals. The vehicle was also comfortable and had a removable roof for the game drives. We have no major complaints about any of the lodges, and they were generally nicer than we anticipated for being on the budget tour. One thing we liked was staying on the north side of the river in Murchison NP so we didn't need to queue for the early ferry on the morning of our game drive.
As for the tour activities themselves, we enjoyed all of the parks we visited, with the gorillas and chimps being the highlights. We thought it was worth going to Murchison as well as QENP; there seemed to be more animals there, and this detour allowed us to see rhinos (at Ziwa) and giraffes. Our short detour to Mburo was also worth it to see zebra and impala, which we didn't see elsewhere. We did an optional night walk in Kibale NP and enjoyed it, but the company's advice about it being hard to see animals was accurate. I think the only activity we didn't really enjoy was the a community walk that we did in the afternoon after driving to Bwindi from QENP. We enjoyed the Bigodi swamp and community walk near Kibale much more.
Some overall thoughts: Murchison and Queen Elizabeth didn't seem quite as good for traditional safari wildlife viewing as the parks I've been to in Kenya and Tanzania. However, the ability to combine that with the primates and other activities like boat rides was great. My friend who'd never been to Africa before was happy with the wildlife we saw, and we did have some really impressive sightings like a leopard at QENP. My friend commented that he was glad we went to Murchison for the giraffes and Lake Mburo even if only briefly for the zebras. My friend is also a birder and was really impressed with the number of species we saw.
Also, our schedule seemed to build in a lot of time for variable road conditions. It didn't rain except the last day for us, so the roads were generally decent. But I imagine some of the drives could be a lot longer if the roads were muddy.
Overall, Africa Tours Adventure did a great job of making this a fantastic trip.
IN
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The teem is just excellent, they are all very cooperative and knowledgeable.
everything just perfect WOW is the word to express
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Affordable
We really enjoyed our safari to Masi Mara, the other people on the tour were nice traveling on you own can be pricey so it was nice to have an option to join with others. The accommodation was lovely I wasn't sure what to expect but was pleasantly surprised!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Gorilla Trek
I'll begin with the positives... I had a remarkable time with the gorillas, I trekked with the chimpanzees, I saw a number of animals in Queen Elizabeth and Uganda is one beautiful country.
I was the only person on my tour, the car was nice and comfortable, the guide Jesse was enthusiastic, and for what I did and saw the experience was great value.
But.... The communication between Michael and the rest of the Mushra team was severely lacking, the moment I'd paid my tour fees communication stopped which caused a great deal of stress from my end. During the tour it was super unorganised with many fees still owed, which almost made me miss my trek with the chimps.
Overall it is what it is. It's super cheap compared to other agency, it's rough around the edges, but it delivered for me.