SE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
An extraordinary lovely experience with Mufasa Tours and Travels
We have only good things to say about Mufasa Tours!
They was always on time and regardless they have to wait for us all the time they always met us up with a big smile!
They was also very well organised and whatever we was asking about (and we was asking a lot) they had all the time good answers based on engagements in a very friendly manner!
They took us to stay in a very beautiful and luxury lodge/camp which we highly appreciated.
Since this was my and my partners first trip together, we will never forget!
With love to Mufasa Tours and travels!
Bo&Fiona
RO
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing
It was a fabulous experience with Enchanting Tanzania Safaris!I traveled with my family-my husband and my son with his wife and his two wonderful daughters-4 and 2 years old!We decided to visit amazing Tanzania during Covid times and we could not make a better decision!
I decided for Enchanting Tanzania Safaris and it was a perfect decision!Their service,care of customers(especially for kids!) and willingness to give us the best safari was excellent!
Our lovely guide-Fredy was perfect!The accomodations was beyound our expectations We saw a lot of animals,includig Big5!
It was absolutely the trip of a lifetime and we would not hesitate to book with then again in the furure,if we return!
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Kalahari breeze are excellent tour operators and agents, our itinerary was well organized.
Kalahari breeze are excellent tour operators and agents, our itinerary to the Okavango Delta was perfectly organised. Very friendly and helpful staff, it was a truly epic trip and are pleased to have seen the big 5. I highly recommend you use their services.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Trip Ended Up a Massive Success Despite Covid Delaying It Nearly 3 Years
"After some initial issues around Covid rules the CEO, Colin made contact with us and very kindly allowed us to change our trip , as it turned out a number of times, due to the changing world that we were living in at the time. When we eventually went on our trip to Amakhala in March 2022 (nearly 3 years after our initial booking) the trip was a massive success. We stayed in Leeuwenbosch and loved it. All the staff and our guide were exceptional. Although the weather could have been kinder we saw everything that we wanted and our guide ,Ouboet could not have done any more and was always so cheerful and helpful. I would definitely recommend East Cape Tours and Cearl in particular who was incredibly understanding and patient with our regular changes (Thanks Cearl). It was also really nice to meet Colin in PE and chat properly.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Truly Exceptional
We booked with Rose early 2019 for our October 2020 holiday. Obviously Covid-19 happened and Rose kept in close contact the whole time. Every month we discussed the situation and every month we decided to proceed with travel for this year but with looking at perhaps having to postpone at the last minute. I am so happy to say we made it and have just got back from a truly amazing experience. If you are in doubt of whether or not you should travel at the moment, I would say definitely go. There are specialist Insurance Companies that will cover you to travel against Government advice and we felt safer travelling through Africa than at our local supermarket. Given that you more or less have the place to yourselves, why would you not. Go on, get out there……………
JP
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
he is awesome. Much knowledge and fun being with him
It is pretty good experience especially our tour operator Anbros(I don't know the spell). He has much knowledge about everything of safari. If I come to safari again, I will definitely ask him to do the tour operator
35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Excellent and professional services
Best tour guide,well organized services, good vehicles and best in time keeping.
US
65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Two Amazing and Remarkable Safari Trips to East Africa with Africa Safari Classics!
I am nearly a year late in writing this review, but VERY Happy to do so! 2020 has been a very rough year for the safari travel business in Africa, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, international flights to Kenya have recently resumed and I hope my comments and observations here can help to generate renewed interest among potential safari-goers, as the industry slowly begins to recover.
We made our first safari adventure to Kenya back in November 2016, and booked our trip through Maurice Nzwii with Africa Safari Classics. We chose one of their 9-day itineraries ("Wildlife in Style"), which took us through 5 national parks and game reserves. It was an outstanding adventure, and we came home to Oregon (USA) determined to make a return trip as soon as possible. We came across some amazing airfares to Africa in the summer of 2019 (less than $650 RT from Seattle to Nairobi), and we booked our 2nd trip with Africa Safari Classics for November of last year. Once again, Maurice came through for us in remarkable ways, and gave us the single BEST travel adventure of our lives (followed closely by our first trip to Kenya in 2016)!
In planning a second trip to East Africa, we knew that we wanted to see more and stay longer. So, we extended this trip to two full weeks, and expanded our travels into Tanzania as well as spending our final three days relaxing at two beach resorts in Watamu (just north of Mombasa). We made a point of revisiting two of the parks we particularly enjoyed on our 2016 trip (Maasai Mara and Amboseli), both of which are true gems in the Kenyan National Park and Game Reserve system! We spent four days venturing in to Tanzania to visit the Serengeti National Park as well as the Ngorngoro Crater. We also made a point of visiting a couple new parks in SE Kenya (a private wildlife sanctuary in the Taita Hills and Tsavo East NP) as we made our way to the beach region along the shores of the Indian Ocean.
I cannot state this emphatically enough, but EVERY SINGLE aspect of this itinerary for our 2nd trip with ASC met or exceeded our expectations! First, I cannot find the words to convey how pleasant and satisfying it is to work with MAURICE NZWII from ASC in arranging all of our trip details. Travel costs in Africa had increased significantly between 2016 and 2019. Initial cost estimates for our two-week itinerary (excluding airfare) were nearly $6000 per person -- approaching double what we paid in 2016. However, after just a few rounds of email communications with Maurice, he was able to generate a revised and COMPLETELY satisfying alternative travel plan that was $1500 less, much more in line with what we were hoping for. Maurice is unlike ANY other travel agent I have ever worked with, and he is truly in a class of his own! He is totally dedicated to customer satisfaction, and he consistently communicates in a very friendly and timely fashion! He joined us for dinner on our first full day in Nairobi and he even met us at the Kenyatta Int'l Airport as we transferred for our return flight to Seattle. Maurice checks in with your driver EVERY DAY of your trip, just to ensure that everything is going well. You know you are in VERY GOOD HANDS when you set up a safari adventure through Maurice Nzwii! I cannot recommend him highly enough!
Let me say more about our driver as well, Boniface (a.k.a. Boni). We spent our entire 9-day trip in 2016 with Boni as our driver, and we had such a good time with him that we requested him once again for our return trip in 2019. And we got him! Boni has been a safari guide for 20 years, and he seems to know all the parks and game reserves like the back of his hand. He has remarkable vision and is able to spot all kinds of animals and sightings that the untrained eye would likely completely miss. Like his boss, Maurice, Boni is also completely dedicated to showing safari-goer's a great time! He will give you as much time as you wish to take photos or videos, or just to linger and enjoy what you are seeing. He also has a wonderful sense of humor, and every day brought multiple rounds of hearty laughter! We were SO Happy to travel with Boni once again and feel like we have become great friends! (It is worth noting that drivers cannot cross national borders, so our time in Tanzania was with another pleasant driver, Abdul. But Boni met us at the border once again for the remainder of our trip in SE Kenya.) We have become Facebook friends with both Boni and Maurice, and we continue to communicate with both of them that way, which is loads of fun!
I know this is getting to be a lengthy review, but let me also point out that we were completely satisfied with ALL the lodging accommodations that Maurice booked for us ranging from very nice hotels, to exotic tented safari camps, as well as relaxing beach resorts. They were all very nice facilities and we really enjoyed the variety! The service was consistently outstanding, the food was very tasty and satisfying (with no stomach issues at all across the entire two weeks). When Maurice brought down our travel costs by 25% from his initial estimates, we thought that might translate to staying at less appealing facilities, but that was not the case at all. We were not disappointed in the least with ANY of the 8 places we stayed at! Again, Maurice takes very good care of you!
Some final closing thoughts here. Our two trips to East Africa have been life-changing experiences for us, and have filled our hearts and minds with a treasure trove of wonderful memories! Both trips brought us to many different regions, covering large swaths of geography, and allowing us to see an impressive diversity of locales, landscapes, and local norms. It was interesting to note some of the differences between Kenya and Tanzania, something that only comes with international travel to new lands. We took both of our trips with Africa Safari Classics in the month of November, which we have found to be a very pleasant time of the year to travel. It is almost like a spring-time vacation during the light rains season, with all kinds of new greenery emerging, new water holes for the animals to enjoy, and the opportunity to see many newborn animals as well (oh, baby warthogs are SO cute!). It is outside the peak season, so there are far fewer safari-goer's. There were much heavier rains during our 2019 trip (and for the next few months in the region, we understand), but this did not create any inconveniences for us. It only added to the adventure, as we did have to contend with some low-level flooding in some regions. But Boni handled this like a real pro!! Boni did talk with us about his perceptions of the impacts from climate change in the region. Over the past 20 years, he reports seeing fewer trees from hotter, drier summers and a gradual decline in the numbers of animals as well. Our entire planet is being impacted by these changes, and it is not clear how many more years these kinds of travel adventures will even be feasible. If a safari is something you have ever dreamed of doing, we strongly encourage you to give this idea your utmost consideration!
We want to offer our full, heartfelt support to Maurice and his company, Africa Safari Classics, as they begin to bounce back from the huge impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the safari travel industry. So many people in developing countries depend on the business generated by international travelers for their basic livelihood. You would not only be giving yourself a huge gift (and a possible adventure of a lifetime), but you would also be doing immeasurable good for the people of Kenya and Tanzania by taking the step of traveling to that part of the world! We cannot recommend this idea, and this company, highly enough!
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Land Africa is truly the bees knees!
Tim at Land Africa is so easy to communicate with, he not only listens well to what his guests want to experience, he delivers with great and even pleasurably surprising results. Tim's sense of creating "family" with his guests leads to confidence in his abilities to put together the perfect trip. Not only were the guides superb in their intuitive care, they were knowledgeable about every facet of Tanzania; the culture, wild life, history, geology, anthropology, humanity, traditional arts and foods and everything of interest in which the country holds. It's amazing how much they know! Learning and Discovery was ultimate.
The vehicles were very clean and comfortable and we felt safe and secure as the skilled drivers navigated in the wilderness or crossing streams. The accommodations were beyond clean and comfortable and each location was just perfect...as they say, "location, location, location" and they had that in spades. Lodge and camp staff were so kind, attentive and extremely professional giving a personal touch to our every need or whim. I'm going back as soon as I can! Great job "brother Tim".
CH
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Exzellent and simply perfect!
We requested several quotes from different operators and ended up with Ambolele tours because the were simply the best for us. Communication, flexibility, price and the whole team were amazing