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Email Fabien Steimer | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Amazing wildlife and perfect organisation
Travelling to Selous in Tanzania was an incredible trip to discover wildlife. Scenic views are very diverse and take you to a different world. On the organisation side, the trips are really smooth and qualitative (transportation, catering,...).
Guides are very helpful and ready to answer questions anytime.
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Email Kacper Partyka | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Majestic
We had a great time in Safari Tanzania with my wife. I recommend it to everyone who is still not sure and I highly recommend to choose Hello Tanzania
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Email Hugo | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great people, great country, terrible government
Generally, the people in Tanzania are very helpful, friendly but poor. Corruption level is very high (especially with police and government positions). I got the impression that Tanzanian government want to keep its population poor for their own benefit. This did not feel very comfortable. Country is very rich in natural resources and has beautiful scenery, parcs and beaches. The high corruption level is a disturbing factor however
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Email Valentine | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Magical moment
Everything was like in a dream. Special thanks to Eric our driver for 3 days who was the best one! We missed the lion during our safari day but we hope to find him next time !!
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Email Karine Lambert | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing
We had an extraordinary trip with our three children aged 13, 11 and 5! Lots of animals and breathtaking landscapes! A trip that will remain etched in our hearts forever.
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Email Xavier Branlard | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
wonderful experience
One week of Safari on the south of Tanzania. an excellent guide from Pangolin African Safari. 3 parks showed a great diversity of landscape and wildlife.
This was followed by one week in zanzibar island. Very relaxing .
Everything was perfect and eager to come back to visit other places in Tanzania
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Email Maria | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A land of smiley and welcoming people
Thank you Kitonga Tours for a fantastic Safari trip!
I am writing a review as we found that organizing a safari in Tanzania without going through an agent has been very complex.
Costs are extremely high and how to know if the company you are hiring is any good for the price?
We are a French/Danish family with two children (11 and 15 years) that went to game drive in the beautiful, large and less crowded Ruaha national park with a total of 5 nights of which 3 nights were spent inside the park in August 2022 (we stayed the 2 other nights in transit in Iringa).
We chose to travel by jeep from Dar Es Salaam to the Ruaha park and even though it is a long journey of approx. 12 hours to Iringa, we were very happy to have done it as it gave us a great possibility to see and enjoy The Tanzanian countryside.
All the details of the 6 days (5 nights) trip package were coordinated via email/sms with Paul (our guide) and everything was delivered without flaw. We met Gerald the owner of the company in Iringa, a very simpatic and smiley man before driving further via a long and bumpy dirt road to the Ruaha park entrance.
Paul (guide) and Isa (our driver and guide) were both with us the entire trip and did everything they could to accommodate our wishes and always arrived on time when we were to be picked up in the morning.
Isa was an excellent driver on road (feeling very safe including when we drove from Dar Es Salaam to Ruaha) and off road before and in the park (agile and comfortable)
Their safari jeep was in excellent condition and very comfortable to sit in and with a small refrigerator to keep the water bottles cool. We felt safe at all times.
Isa and Paul were very helpful in spotting animals - we saw all the big five (among others) except the Rhino that does not live in the park.
We ended the tour having a great and relaxed relationship with them. Both are really nice and sympathetic people.
The Ruaha park is a gem offering a large variety of colourful landscape and vegetation ( rivers, flat and dry terrain, hills , rocky area, with many plant species including many Baobab trees in certain areas, and combining dry and green areas in August ). We really appreciated there were extremely few jeeps inside the Ruaha park, so we could get an authentic feeling of being on a safari, and it was possible to drive for long distances and many hours without meeting another jeep. Be aware however that in this park you will not see dense packs of animals like buffalos, zebras, antelopes like you can see in the Serengeti park. You will find more sparced and smaller groups of animals within a larger park.
We can highly recommend a tour organised with Kitonga Tours. Kitonga Tours will also be highly capable to organise safari tours to all other national parks in Tanzania.
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Email Federica | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing experience
Awesome experience. Lots of animals in a wild and safe environment.
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Email Curtis Lane Campbell | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
BEST SAFARI CREW!
I cannot say enough about the group. There are a lot of review on safari bookings, but to the extent you read this one, this safari group is the best one out there. The driver took time to answer all our questions and take us to all the right spots. The contact person quickly responded to all our requests and took care of EVERYTHING for us, even traveling to and from places. The cook was great. Overall, I could not ask for a better experience.
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Email Christian | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great Family Safari
The people in Tanzania are so welcoming and the country still feels authentic. We visited several parks. Tarangire Was our first and was really an amazing start. Smaller, but we still saw lots of big game, including lion.
Lake Manyara was also a nice park, the accommodation around the lake was beautiful with wildlife roaming around the camp. Serengeti was truly breathtaking, so vast and so many animals. A fair number of safari trucks, but it only felt crowded a few times when we stopped for a cheater or lions.
It was cool some mornings and we noted it was cooler at altitude. But by 0900 each day it was always pleasant, not too hot either.
We also visited Zanzibar. Stone town is a great place to visit. A day or two is all you need here I’d say. We then hit the beaches which were beautiful. We were disappointed that plastic waste did wash up on the beach most days. The hotel were great about picking it up each day, but it did come in on the tides.
