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4.7925 / 5 4.8 /5
4.8746 / 5 4.8115 / 5 4.6623 / 5 4.4979 / 5

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4 star 258 / 10 258
3 star 49 / 10 49
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Female avatar icon Laura Switzerland flag CH       Visited: August 2017 Reviewed: Sep 11, 2017

Email Laura  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

beautiful landscape, lovely people, great beaches

4 / 5 4 /5
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Our trip was great. We have seen so many animals like giraffe, hippo, elephant, many beautiful birds, black mamba and other snakes, kudu, impala, buffalo, baboons, crocodile and big groups of lions on both days. One group was already at the place we have expected to have lunch...
We could tell the driver whenever we would like to stop to take pictures or to enjoy the landscape.
Also the food was delicious and the accomodation was very quiet, except the bush babys we could hear at night...
When we arrived after 6hours drive from dar es salam we could relax on the boat and see first animals like hippos, lizard, crocodiles and birds. Sunset on rufiji river was great.
The walking safari was very interesting and we could learn a lot about animals and plants.
We can really recommend doing this 4 days selous safari.

Male avatar icon Francois de Bruin South Africa flag ZA       Visited: August 2017 Reviewed: Sep 11, 2017

Email Francois de Bruin  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

Nice destination with lots of wildlife and variety of parks

4 / 5 4 /5
5 / 5 3 / 5 4 / 5 4 / 5

We had a fantastic trip in Tanzania and will remember it for a life time. Travel is all about the "stories" that are created...and we have wonderful stories to tell our family and friends. We structured this trip in as if we would never be back - we wanted to see a variety of things in the time we had and not just zeroing in on one type of experience. That has now changed...we definitely want to go back to Tanzania for another adventure. The three very distinct stages of our trip (safari, beach and Stone Town) all offered unique views into Tanzanian culture, land and wildlife. The safari offered wildlife viewing that was beyond anything we expected. We saw loads of lion! Wonderful accommodation and the weather was very pleasant for that time of year and no where close to the temperatures recorded on the internet

Avatar icon Sharon Thomas South Africa flag ZA       Visited: August 2017 Reviewed: Oct 9, 2017

Email Sharon Thomas

Breathtaking

4 / 5 4 /5
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I highly recommend visiting Tanzania for an unforgettable safari experience, and to see the Big 5. The people are amazingly warm and friendly.
I booked through Kilislopes and found them to be professional and friendly. I travelled alone but felt completely looked after and safe. The guides were knowledgeable and accommodating and the accommodation they booked was perfect in terms of service, price, food and comfort.

Male avatar icon J.A. Brazil flag BR       Visited: September 2017 Reviewed: Oct 10, 2017

Email J.A.  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Awesome!!

4 / 5 4 /5
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Fantastic Trip, Crew and Food. Everything was perfect. Lot of animals.

Avatar icon Carolyn Widas Canada flag CA       Visited: October 2017 Reviewed: Nov 6, 2017

Email Carolyn Widas  |  Experience level: first safari

Tanzania is far more diverse than I expected. Wonderful people and a multitude of things to do

4 / 5 4 /5
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What a gorgeous country and people. We had a spectacular and diverse trip which we enjoyed immeasurably. 3 girls travelled most of the country and had no issues, met amazing people and had spectacular encounters. Don't moss this country and definitely don't pass up on the Serengeti balloon ride!

Avatar icon Christophe Younes France flag FR       Visited: November 2017 Reviewed: Nov 24, 2017

Email Christophe Younes

Superb "à la carte" trip

4 / 5 4 /5
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Hello,
I went alone to north East Tanzania in November 2017. I met a group of amazing US tourists there, I traveled with them to Tarangire national park, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater.
Amazing trip, with amazing people in an amazing region. I can only recommend it, just be careful of the tips you need to give on a daily basis to locals (driver, guide, cook... around $10/person/day), which can increase your budget travel quite significantly.
Before traveling, don't hesitate to ask for some pictures to the places where you will sleep, huge differences between public camp, private camp and lodges in terms of comfort.
Christophe

Male avatar icon Leandro Rosa Novo Vita Brazil flag BR       Visited: December 2017 Reviewed: Jan 6, 2018

Email Leandro Rosa Novo Vita  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Plentiful wildlife, stunning scenery but expensive destination.

4 / 5 4 /5
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I was surprised with the abundance of wildlife in Tanzania. I’ve been to Tarangire NP, Lake Manyara NP, Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti NP. The scenery is amazing. The endless plains of Serengeti are nothing but unforgettable. I went in december and it was really hot, but since I’m used to hot weather It was totally bearable for me. The drawback in my opinion is that you pay a lot of money for simple and sometimes really bad accommodation and the lunch my tour operator gave me every day was really terrible. In the last day I couldn’t eat anymore. My guide was knowledgeable but was rather shy and didn’t speak much unless provoked. Also he never sat to eat with the group what seemed to me as an antisocial behavior. So for the price paid I think The service could’ve been far much better.

Male avatar icon Tien Norway flag NO       Visited: December 2017 Reviewed: Jan 8, 2018

Email Tien  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Overall, it was a very good trip planned in a very short time.

4 / 5 4 /5
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For a weekend trip, planned in 2 days, this was a good trip. Beautiful scenery, perfect weather, managed to see 4 of the big five. Transport and accommodation as expected.

Female avatar icon Tatiana Rudakova Russia flag RU       Visited: January 2018 Reviewed: Jan 29, 2018

Email Tatiana Rudakova  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

it's fine

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We were lucky, for 1 day we saw almost all the animals that live in the park. Excellent guide Bob - the most daring of the guides, drove us to the car to the lioness almost immediately. We arrived at 9 am, at 13.00 we had lunch, and after that we continued the safari until 4pm. Lunch cost $ 5 per person. The road from Dar-es-Salam was very dangerous, a lot of wagons with cargoes, our driver many times went to a meeting and miraculously we managed to avoid a collision. This part of the safari - very spoiled the general impression. On the way back, the gasoline ran out and the driver did not have any money with him, he asked us to throw off him for gasoline $ 5. Nobody returned them, of course.

Female avatar icon Nadi Drehsen Germany flag DE       Visited: January 2018 Reviewed: Feb 3, 2018

Email Nadi Drehsen  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Amazing scenery with more wildlife animals you could wish for

4 / 5 4 /5
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Wildlife: amazing! We saw the big five and many more. Nearly every animal bit crocodiles.
Scenery : Ngorogoro Crater and surrounding area are breathtaking . Something you won’t see anywhere else in the world .
The Serengeti is very beautiful and unique itself . Tarangeri Nationalpark was nice , too.
Lake Manara was not my favourite, as you can’t really drive up to the lake , you only see it from a distance . Further up in “the jungle” we saw plenty of monkeys and elephants, which made up for it.
Weather: a little bit chilly during the night and early morning, afterwards very hot.

Accommodation- the tents were put up for us every night which was great, we just wished they would have told us to bring a pillow, they provide sleeping bags but it might be more comfortable to have your own for cleanliness reasons.
The campsite near lake manara , where we stayed the first and the last night of our 6 day trip was very nice (it’s called
Read more “Fanaka”) , the stuff was very friendly , you could even put your own drinks in their fridge, and there was hot water in the showers .
But! The campsite in the serengeti , especially the facilities where just terrible, so we didn’t have a shower for 3 days. I‘d recommend to pay the extra money and get a tented lodge .
Food was ok.
Our guide Moody was a very friendly.