02 Aug 2022
It is a matter of anxiety and excitement anytime we plan for a vacation in an unknown place. With an early plan we contacted Mr Imran and could develop a rapport and trust with him, quickly. With his advise and help, we customized this package to suit our priorities. And Imran's quote was quite reasonable compared to the rest of the offers we received during our planning phase.
The small tips he gave us were invaluable, such as the clothing requirements, taking malaria preventives, mosquito repellents, and of the the most his advise to carry a small flash light individually with everybody proved so useful.
His team member came to Nairobi airport and dropped us in our hotel. In the evening, he personally visited us and briefed and summarized the tour and camping plan in detail and talked about our guide and driver for the next eight days. Our guide , Paul had been very friendly, professional and through out shared our excitement in spotting the wildlife activities as if he was seeing them for the first time, like us ! He kept the time and we completely trusted his networking with other drivers and guides to prioritize, optimize and rush to the active spots without fail. That proved to be very useful in ensuring we didn't miss anything exciting in the wild reserve each and every day. Paul had patience and he took us to a few curio shops enroute for the sake of it (!) before taking us to the best one, where we could buy a lot lovable animal figurines of very high craftmanship. Buffello Curio shop's collection was amazing. We wanted to take a full truck load to India!!!
We thank Imran, Paul and Thomas for the making our long awaited and always dreamt African Safari a memorable event. Imran was available over cell phone and made it a point to contact us and talked to us while we were on the tour.
We can very well say, towards the end we developed a long lasting friendship with Imran and Paul.