What our guests say about us

Thanks once again for a FANTASTIC trip! We are sorry to be back home and wish we were still on safari. Oh well, we will know try to carry the "hakuna matata" way of life to our crazy world over here.

We had dinner with 8 friends last night who peppered us with questions about the trip. They and others are all looking forward to the slide show in a few weeks.

Anyway it WAS the trip of a lifetime and we want to give you our highest thanks for making it so. We are already dreaming of a return!

All the best,
Nelson & Jude (Mama Tembo) (14.2.05)

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We were very happy with the services we had through Tanzania Adventure. They are very punctual and the organisation is perfect. The guides are also very interesting and are at your entire disposal. The hotels proposed and that we choose on Zanzibar were excellent (Dhow Palace in Stonetown and Chwaka Bay on the east coast) and the food is very good.

We had a camping safari on the mainland and the camp sites and tents are very nice. The staff is also very friendly and always ready to help and at your disposal.

We very much recommend this agency and we are sure you will not be disapointed. We were enchanted by our trip.

Hope you have a nice time in that wonderful country ; we also hope we can make it back there one day and will once again book through Tanzania Adventure.

Best regards
Anne and Jean-Manuel Soumaré (15.2.2005)

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Hi
We are pleased to recommend 'Tanzania Adventure' (Ronny Bender) as a travel company.

We found the company on the internet and found Ronny easy to deal with as he was flexible and altered a package to allow us to do the safari, then go to Pemba Island diving through Swahili divers at the Mission. He responded quickly to emails and confirmed pricing, airfares and the diving leg efficiently and effectively. The attached map summarises our trip.

We camped through the parks and had the best guide in Peter who had been a game warden and really knew the animals and about the parks. Our cook was George who did a great job setting up the camp and cooking. We met other people on the trip who had been with bigger companies but who had not seen the many lions, cheetahs and other animals we saw and were amazed that we had seen leopard up close as they had not. Ask Peter how he hurt his knee and he will chat for hours about his many experiences in the bush.

We flew from Serrenghetti to Zanzibar and Pemba and all our flights were on time and very well done. Ronny has a good relationship with loval people and the feel of our trip was nice as we toured villages at Mosquito town by Lake Manyra and ate lunch in the house of a local member of Ronny's company in Zanzibar.

The diving at Pemba was great and we enjoyed our stay at the Mission which is well run and friendly. We stayed at the Dhow Palace hotel n Zanzibar which is a very nice hotel and a pleasant end to our trip.

We are from New Zealand and have travelled a lot and this trip was one of the best. It is not easy running a busines in Tanzania as it is very poor but Ronny is doing it very well as are the Swahili diving team. The trip exceeded our expectations as we thought that we would have the odd hassle but there were none - just great photo opportunities, nice people, good weather 29 degree sea and good visibility with fantastic drift diving on huge walls and drop offs.

We hope you decide to use Ronny and his team as they are the real deal.

Ken and Viv Eastwood (15.2.05)

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I's been a while now since we got back from our great holliday i Tanzania. It's always a million things to be done when the holiday is over so I
have'nt had the chance to get back to you until now.

First of all we would like to thank you and everybody at Tanzania Adventure for a great holiday. We have so many good memories from this holiday which
we will remember for a long time. Afrika is really an interesting continent, so different from our northern climate.

We are very impressed by the way you run the company. There is absolutely nothing that we would have liked done in any other way. We felt very well
taken care of at all times, with friendly people meeting us on time at all locations. Espesially we would like to send our best regards to our safari
driver Charles. We could'nt hav asked for a better driver. Impressive animal-finding skills and patience.

We have some video and pictures that we would like to send to you and to our driver Charles. Whats the best way to do that?

Guri-Lise andTormod (21.2.2005)

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Dear Ronny, Gibson, William, Alifa, Amos and friends,

Thank you for the unforgettable and wonderful Tanzania trip! Everyone
enjoyed it very very much!

Amos, we saw you waving when our airplane took of in Serengeti - did you see
us waiving as well?

Regards to you all from freezing Switzerland!!!

Ariane & Co. (27.2.05)

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we came back from Tanzania just 4 weeks ago. We must say, that Tanzania Adventure had organized and managed our quite specific safari excellently and very flexibly to all our different wishes. We were very content with this reliable agency. All the best for your safari!

Peter Hegenscheidt (24.2.2005)

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i just wanted to thank you and gibson for an outstanding safari. we
had a wonderful time. laizer was an excellent guide and teacher.
isaac's cooking was also wonderful -- you should try to hire him on
full time!

thanks for promptly answering all my pesky emails and providing us
with exactly the kind of safari we were looking for. we shall
recommend your company to everyone who asks.

if we return to tanzania, we will definitely be in touch (maybe we ill
go to zanzibar next time!)

thanks again,
Y ousuf (6.5.05)

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Dear Ronny

A final email to say thank you to you for helping to ensure that we had such an enjoyable holiday. Jan and I really did appreciate all the efforts you and your colleagues went to. Wilson was a brilliant guide and went to considerable trouble to ensure that we saw a wide range of animals and birds - he is very knowledgeable, and an excellent driver.

We are now back in the United Kingdom (just in time for the end of Live 8 and cloudy weather). Its always nice to be home but I am more sorry than usual that this holiday is over.

I also wanted to say again that I was very grateful for all the trouble you went to sort out the problems we had with the flight, and particularly to get us some extra time in Zanzibar which did make a lot of difference - it was also very generous of you to offer us the Spice trip. None of us could have done anything about us missing the orginal flight - Wilson made sure we were there on time for the plane & tried very hard to get us on it.

I hope you have a good season and are not to exhausted by it. I will probably see Gemma over the next few days and will pass on your best wishes,

Kind regards

Margaret Lally, UK (3.7.05)

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Dear Ronny and Gibson,

We are back in Paris after having spent 14 wonderful days in Tanzania. I would like to thank you both for your great services and helpfulness.

I take this opportunity to commend the work of your staff, especially Laizer who was an incredibly experienced guide, truly knowledgeable about the wildlife. He deserves the highest comments on his exemplary work.

Best regards and thank you again.

(Ronny, if this e-mail does not automatically reach Gibson, kindly transfer it to him. Thanks.)

Irena Caquet, France (15.7.05)

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zuerst das Wichtigste, die Giraffe ist sicher und heil hier bei uns in
Hamburg angekommen. Dafür ein riesiges Dankeschön, dafür das ihr sie so
klasse verpackt habt !!

Aber auch für den ganzen Urlaub, die Umsetzung, eure guides und den ganzen
Service. Uns hat der Urlaub super gefallen und wir haben es echt genossen
mit euren Leuten unterwegs zu sein, die Flexibilität am Anfang gar nicht zu
erwähnen.

Also vielen vielen Dank für die unvergesslichen Wochen und ich werde ab
jetzt wissen was ich zu empfehlen habe falls ich mal wieder höre das jemand
auf Safari will !!!!

Euch weiterhin alles Gute und mögen viele Leute aus Hamburg den Weg finden mit euch eine Safari zu machen !!!

Gruß auch an Gibson, Laizer und George aus einem ziemlich nebligen Hamburg!!!

Rolf (Barbara, Birte und Andreas), Germany (8.8.05)

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Wadugu Gibson na Ronny

Habari za siku nyingi?

We will be sending you a proper written "thank you" in due course, but thought
we ought to just make contact now we've come back to earth, just so you don't
think we don't love you! Sorry that we didn't email sooner but we've been busy
selling our flats and buying a house.

Anyway, it was particularly lovely to meet you both during our trip, and we
want to say "asante elfu sana" for the holiday of a life-time. Alex (Nairobi), Peter
(Tanzania) and Alex (Zanzibar) were all a huge credit to your company.

Having an experienced game warden to ourselves was an amazing experience, and thank you especially for responding so sensitively to our concerns about the bumps and dust - through Peter's careful driving and a new air-conditioned vehicle it was "hakuna matata". Also, being shown round stone town by someone born there added huge value.

It's also probably worth mentioning that, not really knowing what to expect,
the
lodges were beyond our wildest expectations too!

Anyway, I will shortly be updating our wedding website with a journal and photos of the honeymoon. I will send you a link as soon as its ready. It will
represent a detailed and shining on-line review!

We had an awesome experience, and cannot recommend your company highly enough to anyone considering the honeymoon package. It was perfect!

Simon* & Claire, UK (2.9.05)

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I have fairly recently returned from my honeymoon organised by Tanzania Adventure and wanted to write briefly to thank you for your efforts in organising such a fantastic trip.

As you can imagine there is some anxiety associated with placing the success of your honeymoon with an organisation on the internet, based in another country that you know little about but you and the team put us at ease and were on hand always to answer all the small questions we had.

The level of support we received from meeting us at each point of our trip, to the high quality of the accommodation was above our expectation and we were really pleased with the flexibility that having such a personal service offered us.

Manaseh, our driver, was a fantastic guy and very knowledgeable about all the animals we saw and our hosts at the Hakuna Majiwe hotel were also extremely pleasant. As I work for an organisation that sends members of the public on trip around the globe (including Tanzania) I would be happy to recommend your organisation to others in future and have already done so.

It was a shame we didn’t get to meet, but I would like to thank you personally Ronny for ensuring our trip was exactly as we wanted it.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Tom and Vicky Burstow, UK (27.9.05)

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We are back in New Zealand and it is hard to get back to reality (work) after such a fabulous trip.

Thanks for arranging everything, we were really impressed how well everything was organised with the meeting and greeting at the airports, accommodation, etc. We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Tanzania, it stands out as being our best holiday yet!

Please pass on our greetings onto Everest our safari driver, we enjoyed his company on safari and he was amazing at spotting the wildlife! Also to Alex, in Zanzibar, he was good company and a great tour guide. And also to Gibson, who made us feel very welcome when we arrived in Arusha.

We all have very fond memories of our trip. And by the way your website is great!