28 Jul 2025
We went at the start of July 2025 on a 5 night safari trip as a couple. Everything went smoothly and the people involved were fantastic all the way through (along with all the animals).
A lot of credit to Linah, who liaised via WhatsApp ahead of the trip and with responding to the queries we had. This approach made the whole organisation much simpler and once we arrived at Kilimanjaro airport everything was taken care of. She also helped with organising a separate taxi we needed on the final day.
David our guide & driver for the first five days was brilliant. He brought lot of charisma and was really professional with the facts he could bring. He clearly got on very well with other operators via the radio (really important for knowing where animals have been) and a lot of credit to this for enabling us to see so many animals, especially lions, leopards and cheetahs. This is really vital when you start to appreciate how large these landscapes can be.
I was really impressed by his motivation to make it the best experience for us through persevering to find animals and then his own experience really helped too (e.g. knowing that the leopard, which had gone into hiding due to the number of vehicles, would reappear if we left first thing the next morning to revisit the tree which had its prey - first vehicle there and probably the best memory of the trip). Also a really friendly guy with great music taste for those long rides.
Michael was our guide & driver for the last day and he was similarly professional and able to really give detail on a lot of the species we saw at Lake Manyara park. Credit to him also for finding us a leopard there and close encounters with elephants! He was similarly easy going and a very good driver to have.
The car you drive in is spacious and I can’t lie it is great having a cooler - very fun to have a beer while watching lions go right by.
All the places we stayed were lovely, with the food much better than we’d expected (lots of well spiced options). The accommodation, Land of Nature, in the Seregenti was our favourite as you could hear the lions roar at night, but all of them had very good rooms and really accommodating staff. All with good clean beds, ventilation and really nice bathrooms.
All in all can’t recommend this operator highly enough. The trip we’ll remember forever and a large credit goes to the organisation of the company and experience of the drivers.