13 Nov 2024
Mr. pineapple catered to us like we were very important people. The schedule included a lot in just 5 days. Always briefing day before. Nice accommodations even though we booked medium , mid lodging. I did experience “budget” on two other tours prior to this one. I would definitely avoid Budget. They are noisy, no hot water, poor food. Another thing, there was so much dishonesty in my previous tour providers in other African countries. This company is top-notch and is like a breath of fresh air. They took us places listed in the program and more!!! The tour notes about each day and what we were going to see was very, very, very detailed. Much different than the competitors in the other countries. (They just gave a real brief if anything explanation) . We saw many animals! Close up and active. Birds, everywhere. 4 of us up close with lots of gorillas and watching the gorilla babies wrestling right in front of us. One baby gorilla grabbed a tourist leg, but he got away easily. They are used to people. We didn’t have to hike for a long, long time to see Gorillas and chimps. As it turns out maybe 15 minutes at the most. There were a lot of hours of riding in a jeep over bumpy roads. It was just so much distance to cover. They call it the “African massage” . Another thing, there were only two of us signed up for this particular five day tour. They did not cancel like “on the go tours” did. Our wonderful, amazing tour guide/driver starts with letter “A”, goes my Mr Pineapple. So super nice!!! He has quite a talent for locating animals on a game drive. He did everything humanly possible to give us the best game drive experiences of my life! Plus the Gorillas and chimps are on my bucket list. Total dream experience. It was better, by far, than I ever expected.