Above & Beyond
Review of: 3-Day Gorillas trekking and Batwa Experience
Sedrick went above and beyond to accomodate our request for an itinerary alteration due to our compressed time in Uganda. He also compeltely took care of scheduling our covid 19 testing and drove us to the site on arrival.
Our driver/guide Ben was also outstanding!
**We highly recommend using a porter during gorilla trekking as their are some complex parts to the trail/terrain. This also benefits the local people by providing them work.**
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Wild Chimps and African Safari
“I did a 5 day trip with Ngoni to Murchison Falls and Kibale National Park. Sedrick the owner was great at being punctual to get back to any questions I had before the trip. This was an amazing experience seeing all the animals on the safari in Murchison and walking with wild chimps. My driver David was great and knew all the places to see different types of animals and knew how to cater to things I enjoyed. When we got a flat tire do to rough roads, David stayed calm and was able to get us back on the road pretty quickly. The lodges they put me up in were great too. The food at the lodges was very enjoyable and rooms were very nice. My favorite part of the experience was seeing wild chimps in Kibale but also the quick 2 minutes where we saw a leopard in Murchison Falls NP. Overall all for the price of the safari I would say Ngoni is very much worth it.”
Hello,
We are a couple planning to travel to Uganda in august. It’s possible to recive information about a 7 days safari? We are interested in chimps and gorilla treks and wild life.
Thanks.
Best regards.
I went for the 3-day Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Forest in October 2022 and was assigned James as a guide who was completely professional, friendly and informative the whole time. James went above and beyond throughout the 3 days and made the experience very fun and relaxing. I cannot recommend Ngoni Safaris high enough!
Hi, we love to visit Uganda , gorillas, falls and wild life… we are 2 , end of February,me and my wife, let us know …
Thanks for Travelling with Us.
We came to Uganda for our honeymoon and did an 8 day trip to Kampala, Murchison, Queen Elizabeth NP, Kibale, Bwindi and Lake Bunyonyi. Rahim’s family is from Tanzania, and I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania, so we were very excited to come to Uganda – and learn some of the languages (Luganda, Tooro, Runyankore – all with help from Stanley!!).
Before coming to Uganda, we started off by having great communication with Sedrick! He was able to answer all questions we had, and made us feel at ease knowing that we did not have to do much planning besides picking out the tour that works best for us. He came with his associate, Jolly (who is absolutely lovely!), to the airport at 3AM to pick us up and offered a full tour day for us in Kampala our first day (we were exhausted since we came from another jam-packed day before landing here so opted to relax instead). Sedrick was so willing to help us with anything we might need, it was amazing to meet him. He even went above and beyond when one of our flights was canceled the day before we were supposed to leave to help us rebook.
After our day in Kampala, we were ready at 0700 the next morning to meet our driver/tour guide extraordinaire – Stanley. We cannot say enough great things about Stanley. He is the absolute BEST and we are grateful we were fortunate to luck into having him as our driver/tour guide. He is incredibly knowledgeable, is an amazing driver, is kind, courteous, willing to have fun with us and joke around, and all around an awesome human we are glad to call our friend now. He made sure we had the sweetest pineapples, the best bananas, and always made us feel cared for. Our drives were absolutely beautiful! Somehow, the lodges knew it was our honeymoon (I’m thinking Sedrick may have something to do with that!) and every place we stayed had a special surprise for us, which was so nice.
We were very fortunate to see lions, hyenas, so so many hippos, crocs, warthogs, cobs, waterbucks, Jacksons, giraffes, elephants, zebras, chimpanzees, baboons, gorillas, rhinos, and the ever elusive leopard. We did have one game drive where all we saw were some cobs/warthogs (we kept joking the animals went on vacation to the Congo that day!) – it STILL was such a fun time being in the open jeep and soaking in the landscape. The tour guides at every place we stopped at were amazing! Stanley had told us a lot too, so it was good information reinforcement (and he made us look a bit smarter!). The community walk in Kibale is so wonderful – we met a lot of great people there (learned to make baskets, coffee, banana juice/beer/gin, and talked with the village witch doctor). The chimpanzee walk was unforgettable, as was the gorilla trek. We ended up on a medium difficulty trek, mainly because we ran into 2 jungle elephants and had to divert our path. One of our favorite times was when Stanley taught us some card games back at the lodge after dinner whilst it rained – similar to Uno! We had so many awesome adventures, and our trip was doubly amazing because we had such a great driver and new friend in Stanley. He made sure we could see everything we wanted to when places became a bit crowded (eg lions, leopards sightings) and adapted quickly to our sense of humor and adventure.
If you’re comparing different companies and hemming and hawing about price/experiences/etc. – look no further. Ngoni Safaris is absolutely the way to go!
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