AFRICAN SCENIC SAFARIS

Notre safari privé de 7 jours a été extraordinaire, grâce à l'excellente organisation fournie par African Scenic Safaris et à l'attention personnelle de notre fabuleux guide/chauffeur JACKSON. Nembris, au bureau, a travaillé avec nous par e-mail pour organiser un voyage exceptionnel, combinant 4 parcs et des nuitées dans une excellente variété d'hébergements - tous uniques et tous merveilleux. Les quatre parcs (Tarangire, Lac Manyara, Ngorongoro et Serengeti) sont très différents et nous sommes heureux d'avoir pu découvrir chacun d'entre eux. Après le safari, nous nous sommes envolés vers Zanzibar pour un séjour de deux jours dans la ville historique de Stone Town et trois jours de repos luxueux dans une station balnéaire - également organisés par Nembris. Un itinéraire exceptionnel !

Notre guide de safari, Jackson, s'est assuré que nous étions à l'aise et que nous voyions autant d'animaux et de paysages magnifiques qu'il était possible de le faire chaque jour. Il est gentil, enthousiaste, amusant et très bien informé sur ce que nous avons vu et sur la façon de trouver les animaux. Il a une carte en tête de ces "routes" alambiquées du Serengeti et, plus important encore, il semble avoir un sixième sens pour savoir où trouver ces animaux insaisissables - de près et personnellement ! Nous vous remercions, Jackson, d'avoir si bien pris soin de nous !

Nous n'hésitons pas à recommander African Scenic Safaris pour planifier et organiser le safari de votre vie !

C'était un bon endroit

Nous sommes parties entre 3 copines pour un safari d'une semaine ainsi que quelques jours à Zanzibar pour conclure ce magnifique voyage en Tanzanie.
Nous avons été éblouies par la beauté et la richesse des paysages ainsi que leur diversité entre les différents parcs (Tarangire, Ngorongoro, Serengeti et lac Manyara).

Notre guide Victor a fait en sorte que cette expérience soit inoubliable. Il connait beaucoup de choses et a rendu le voyage encore plus intéressant. Du même âge, nous avons pu discuter de la vie en générale et son ouverture d'esprit, son humour et sa répartie ont réussi à contrer les difficultés du français !

Concernant African Scenic, nous avons été satisfaites de la prise en charge de notre dossier par Vanessa, qui nous a écrit tout au long du séjour pour savoir si tout se passait bien.

Il est vrai que nous aurions peut-être aimé découvrir la vie des Tanzaniens en dehors des parcs, peut-être en visitant une ferme ou en rencontrant des locaux, l'agriculture étant l'un des principals business du pays.

Le parc du lac Manyara est un parc verdoyant avec peu d'animaux mais une flore magnifique, info que je trouverait intéressante de transmettre aux clients avant de leur proposer la visite de ce parc.

Nous gardons de beaux souvenirs de ce voyage et recommandons cette agence !

It's no surprise that when I look at all of the reviews for African Scenic Safari's, it reflects as 5-stars - look no further if you're looking for the best company to guide you to the top of Africa.

To give you some context, my fiance decided she wanted to do this challenge (climb Kilimanjaro) to raise money for a local cancer charity who supported her unbelievably through her chemotherapy and overall treatment. She wanted to make it her mission to be able to climb to the top, exactly 2 years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer....and we did it in early September this year!

We chose to do the 8-day Lemosho Route which on reflection, was a proper adventure and ultimately gave us both additional time to acclimatise. Everything from the airport pick-up at Kilimanjaro Airport (shoutout to Noah) through to our guides and porters were absolutely amazing. I must shout out to them all here:

- Mary Shayo (head guide)
- Magnus Meela (assistant guide)
- Lazaro Julius (Chef)
- Issa Yusufu
- Basilisa Massawe
- Riziki Mosha
- Ewald Meela
- Lameck Natai
- Thadei Msele
- Roberth Mshanga
- Thomas Mbogo
- Venance Massawe
- Valerian Aloyce
- Ally Said (summit porter)

Your work ethic is super impressive, your kindness was sweet and your strength was amazing... Thank you!

This was our first ever trip to Africa and its safe to say we'll definitely be coming back and visiting Tanzania again in the future as well as seeing as much of this amazing continent as we can!

If your goal is reach the "Roof of Africa", you'll be in for one of the best experiences out there with African Scenic Safari's :)

For our honeymoon we booked an 8 day safari with our driver and guide Jackson. Laura from scenic informed us really well in advance about the different options and prices. Clear and timely communication which really helped us create the best program for us very quickly. We loved the personalized website that showed an amazing overview of the safari. Big thanks to Laura for that!

When it was time, Jackson picked us up in his big safari jeep with a nice happy honeymoon sleve over the spare tires on the back. We were really happy that he was our driver and guide. His experience really showed! He knew a lot!! And when he wasn’t sure of something he would look it up to make sure we were receiving correct information. We had a busy schedule and Jackson made sure we were everywhere on time, so really good planning. He also went to the maximum to show us what the parks had to offer. We saw pretty much everything we had hoped to see. So also big thanks to Jackson for being a really fun and professional guide! He even accompanied us to the airport, stayed there until we were on the airplane to make sure our travels went smoothly. Jackson also explained a lot about Tanzania, for example general life, culture, politics etc.

We really love our stays, just like depicted in our personal safari website. Nice buffets mostly. Really comfy beds and even hot showers everywhere. The only stay we didn’t like was Osiligalai Maasai lodge (maasai village), we didn’t feel comfy (huge expectation for constant tipping) there because of the staff and we would recommend to skip this.

One thing that we would give as feedback is that the lunchboxes weren’t that great. Some hotels didn't really put a lot of effort into them. Mostly it was a thick white bread with little spread (so very dry), with pasta and some oil, boxed juice, fruit and cookie. For example 1 hotel literally had for example 1 piece of bread with almost no butter, that was a supposed sandwich.

Also just before the safari we had paid a big chunk of the safari and suddenly didn’t get any responses from the tour operator. We got a bit nervous about this situation but later learnt it was because of personal reasons. And that our tour and payment was in order.

Another thing we would have appreciated was when preparing the safari tour we didn’t realize how busy our schedule was. So our expectations didn’t meet the reality (we thought we would arrive earlier in the hotel to chill daily). Often we would arrive later and we would be so tired that we would just eat and go to sleep. We would have appreciated if this had been communicated beforehand clearer so maybe we would have prolonged our safari to make it more relaxed.