Amazing experience
We'd recommend doing a Safari with EastCo. We had a wonderful experience. Everything went very smoothly and Simon and the team were very accomodative. Up-Front communciations via email was sometimes challenging, but eventually all worked out just fine. Our guide was experienced, laid back, humble and a very nice guy who accommodated our queries whenever possible. The accommodations were really nice, the vehicle solid, we saw almost all animals we had wished to see and the food was good, too. The Safari met our expectations and we received a very good service. Thanks again to the team!
IN
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
It was planned meticulously and executed with precise perfection without any hitches
Services was excellent, Safari lodges provided was superb with on-time room service. Specially safari tour was the moment to remember with guides having splendid knowledge about the terrain and game parks.
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
6 days Kilimanjaro (Machame route) and 5 days safari
We did the 6 day Kilimanjaro (Machame route) and the 5 day safari tour (Lake Manyara ,Serengeti, Ngorongoro crater).
Price was under $2500 per person for all the basics and no hidden changes for parks. It covered everything except of course tips. We did spent around $450 for tips average for safari, Kilimanjaro, taxis and hotel. Price is good since you get both Kilimanjaro and Safari. And you get not much more for paying a lot more $$$ from the big commercial agencies like Zara and Ahsante or ect... All in all you get same lunch food from all tour companies, same service(now it depends how professional and nice is the crew. Ours were very nice people) but pricing varies a lot between companies. So choosing reasonable pricing with good tour package works best in all cases. Indeed the matter of professionalism and maintenance and availability of gear is the most important aspect when choosing between similar price offers. So after careful research World Tours and Safaris was our choice. Would we recommend them? Yes.
When doing our research it was also very important for us the people that will be our crew are treated and paid fair by their employer.
About Kilimanjaro trip (8/10):
I did succeed climbing Kilimanjaro all the way to Uhuru peak thanks to my crew and my preparedness. Please make sure you bring your prescripted diamox and ibuprofen pills from your home country. It is very important to have them with you no matter what anybody says, no matter you think or read in Internet that you need them or not, because in the end you may need them with high probability. That was our case too.
Food at the Kilimanjaro hike was very good. It is not fine dining but it is more than delicious for the conditions. My favorite was the cucumber soup we had one evening.
Kilimanjaro guides did excellent job. Their number one priority was to get us to the summit and that says enough how much they are reliable.
All the crew was friendly and willing to help if needed. I can absolutely confirm these guys work so hard you have no idea. And I've asked about their ages. They are around 24-35 years old. We were 3 people with 14 people crew. I sincerely thank the porters, cook and guides for all hard work and making our difficult mission in Tanzania fun, easy and possible.
How worth is to pay for mobile toilet? We didn't pay for that and we did not need one. What was available as public restrooms was pretty decent compared to what we've expected. I saw several mobile toilets and by what I saw will tell some of them were more "abused" than the public ones. But if you are a pretentious princess or old lady that has hard time squatting go for it!
About the safari (10/10), Jeep condition(10/10):
The guide and cook we had in this trip did fantastic job. Jeep was in pristine maintained condition. Sometimes the path was so rough we were surprised the jeep was doing so well and never broke and moving fast when we had to go from point A to point B.
Guide did everything possible for us to see the big five (and we did see all the big five animals). My highlight was interesting fight between a young male lion just killed a buffalo and pack of hyenas. Guide has radio (a must for all good safari guides) station which is important for him to get us to the interesting events happening during the game rides. They call them game rides because it is hit or miss regarding what you will see during these rides. I've asked our guide how much experience he has in business. He said 15 years as I can remember.
Cook really poured from his heart into making good dinner, lunch and breakfast. We had some Swahili traditional dishes and food was delicious!
The last day at the Ngorongoro crater camp there was raining cats and dogs and these guys were all wet outside putting all the luggage back in the jeep. We got dry in the jeep as our luggage was dry too. Kudos to these guys!
From our crews I did not hear any whining about tips and insisting when to give them. Of course we had short talk the last days because that is something that has to be arranged properly and we wanted to be arranged properly. These guys are professionals and they did not try to make us feel like ATMs. As expected we also wanted to be good clients and we were prepared to tip them accordingly too before our trip to Tanzania!
Thank you Richard for putting this trip together and providing us with excellent crew.
An advice about hotel accommodation between the tours. The default hotel we were provided had the basics and overall met out needs, but also was cheapest and we did not have to pay extra for something better. But in case please inform yourself, inquire and do research what hotel will meet your needs.
About Kilimanjaro:
FOUR TIPS I've learned and used to avoid the altitude sickness.Those will help you avoid and weaken the effect of altitude sickness.
TIP 1: Drink water at least 3 litters every day/hike! Drink it regularly when hiking and not at once.
TIP 2: Eat consistently! You need energy. Do not force yourself to eat too much consciously knowing that you already are full so after that you will need to vomit... for sure. Do not rush to go to bed after having a heavy meal.
TIP 3. Sleep any time you can and as much comfortable as you can! Failing resting will fail you summit the peak and I guarantee you that.
TIP 4. Keep up with your pace even it is too slow. If you feel you are the quickest bunny in the pack try to stay after the person who has slower pace than you. This will help you not to burn out. I was the quickest in my group and on purpose I was resting behind the second quickest person in my group.
If you start having headache when in camp do not lay on the ground trying to sleep, it will get worse. Just drink some water and take a small walk or at least sit. It will help.
OM
English
14 December 2015
Review - Boundless Africa Has Very Knowledgeable Drivers And Annette Responded Promptly To Our Request , Beautiful Views Of Animals And Nature And The Expectations where Exceeded Thanks Again
HR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Pleasant.
Our driver guide Mr Enoch was well informed. He was always available to answer all our questions about safari in general since this was our first safari. I would certainly recommend Boundless Africa Journeys to future travelers.
EG
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Superb
It was the best vacation. Samburu Intrepids was hi level and comfortable luxury tented camp. Perfect service and I would recommend this to upcoming visitors.
SE
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Great safari experience for a reasonable price!
We are very happy with our experience with Boundless Africa Journeys. The communication with the company was overall very good, even though their email server was down for a while before our trip. Unfortunately we were affected by the significant tax raise of 18%, event though we had already paid a significant deposit. But we realized this was a problem unrelated to the company itself.
Everything about our safari experience upon arrival was excellent! Our driver, Gregory, was very talented, friendly and with a clear focus on our experience. We spent three days in Serengeti and one day in the Ngorongoro crater with him. In Serengeti, he spotted animals where we initially saw only vegetation, and many other safari jeeps followed us closely to take advantage of his knowledge.
It was a great experience to stay at Angani Tented Camp, without fences, in the heart of Serengeti. We heard lions and hyenas roaming around the camp at night.
Overall, we had an amazing vacation that we will never forget.
35-50 years of age
it's super amazing
First of all I would like to appreciate Mighty inconvenient was a great and very amazing time I have had from this company I had such a big opportunity to visit Safari in Tanzania I had up what you need to see all the kind of animal I willing to see before I appreciate their service and truthful they have done to me I would like to come and even my friend if it will go to Tanzania to visit this company will do better service for them Mercury tourism office it is so amazing how fast they can proceed your process Safari he didn't take me so long to get there this was my first time but I also am looking forward to bring some of my friend, for my experience I would recommend everybody who want to go to Tanzania Safari please visit Mercury tourism office in Zanzibar you would enjoy it and appreciate the service
OM
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
BAJ are very good. They did a great job in putting everything together.
Annette did a great job of putting the itinerary together for us. Sam was a great and very obliging guide and we all enjoyed the whole trip very much. The only negative was some of the Lodges/Hotels were not as good as they appear on their Web site. The food in some of the Lodges/Hotels was definitely not up to the mark. Location, Room - Tents & Food/Beverages at Lake Naivasha Country Club & Samburu Intrepids Camp as per the itinerary were excellent.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Wonderful, wonderful
What a pleasure to deal with, right from the start Annette was very easy to deal with and responded to any queries promptly. Our trip through Kenya and Tanzania was excellent, the accommodation was great, our guides were superb both in their knowledge and how relaxed and welcomed they made us feel. This is only a small company but their attention to detail was magnificent. The vehicle we had in Kenya was a 4x4 poptop Toyota Hiace van and while roomy was rough on the less than adequate roads that we encountered outside the parks, these roads are a work in progress. Once inside the parks the roads were much better. All in all a great trip at a very good price.