[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1623927211024{padding-top: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 5% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Friendly Adventure Safaris is a Tanzanian tour and travel company that specializes in organizing honeymoons, romantic getaways, student vacations and holidays, group safaris, family safaris, charity tours, big five safaris, mountaineering adventure, cultural escapade, and beach holidays. Safaris to the Masai Mara, Serengeti, Uganda, Rwanda, and Congo are also available.
With all of the fantastic safari activities and attractions in the East African area, you may combine numerous safari activities while riding in one of the top safari cars in the country.
Actually, we wouldn’t call ourselves tour companies in Tanzania if we didn’t support safaris in all of East Africa. So, in essence, we would describe ourselves as an all-around inbound destination management firm and tour operator in East Africa. Choosing many safari firms to manage different aspects of your vacation might be a pain at times, especially when it comes to coordination time during transfers. Because they already have your travel schedules, if you utilize a single travel agency, they can easily coordinate your transportation between places.
Our safari guides are not only informed, but also well-spoken, ethical, polite, and cautious.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Friendly Gorillas safaris was recommended to us by a friend. For sure, they did not disappoint. Right from the day inquiry response time to the execution time, the Anthony and... read more the team including Our guide Solomon was amazing. It made the trip really worthwhile. I Strongly recommend them 🙂
jasminerY4415ZY August 12, 2021
My friend and I have overall been disappointed by this tour company.
The main issue has been the guide /driver, a very kind man who unfortunately didn't possess... read more the necessaty dynamism and self confidence to be a guide, and who was rather extremely soft spoken and mannered. We had a hard time communicating with him and having our questions answered throughout the whole holiday.
It wouldn't have been a major issue in itself hadn't his gross time mismanagement made us miss our evening flight on the last day. We followed his advice on departure time (even waited for him in the morning!) and clearly mentioned multiple times the latest we had to be at the airport. We ended up arriving 20 mins before our flight. He didn't take any possible traffic in consideration and even wanted us to stop at the Equator when we had already been delayed by lunch.
I have of course tried to have the new tickets (300$) reimboursed by the company. We managed to reach the manager Anthony, whose Whatsapp answers had been a bit patchy throughout the week already, after 1h30 of the phone ringing out.
Despite admitting it was their fault and knowing we had to take the following flight as my friend would have otherwise missed her international connection, he came up with various excuses until it was too late and we didn't have any another choice than to pay ourselves. Also, despite initially saying he wanted to reach a compromise and somehow help, he has since stopped answering my messages (as expected).
The manager had also booked some - if not all - the accomodation at the last minute. I had asked them one month and a half in advance to book a specific place - way below the budget the package allowed, by the way - where a friend stayed, and they told us the night before our arrival in Uganda that the place was fully booked for the first night. Luckily my friend, knowing we were supposed to come, had kept a room for us, but hadn't this happened we would have missed our stay there even after specifically asking for it well in advance (and, I repeat, this place was a homestay way cheaper than the category we were supposed to have).
Last but not least, the car (whose doors didn't hold open and whose icebox didn't work) broke for two days in a row, making us us miss a whole game drive one afternoon and part of it the following day.
I add that I live in Africa and both my friend and I have already quite extensively travelled the continent. This was the first time we had such issues with a tour operator.
ludoclaudia August 21, 2022
A must for any wildlife enthusiastic. It was such an unforgetable experience. The trekking insearch for the gorillas started at the bwindi impenetrable forest consetvation meeting point with a wonderful... read more traditional welcome by the staff. All trekkers were segregated in to groups of 08 and were assigned to a see a particular family of gorillas. Trekking took us around 03hr of ascending the steep mountains to finally spot the big gentle beasts. It was such a awesome sight to have experienced.
At the meeting point, for those who require assistance in ascending and descending the mountain during the trekking and to help with their back packs, you could request to hire a local residence for a minimum cost of US20/= who will assit you throughout. Hiking sticks are avaiable free of cost. There will be 04 rangers escorting the group in to the mountains and at the end of the trekking once back at the meeting point depending on how you would want to appreciate them you could tip the head ranger. Do not forget to collect your memorabilia. An official certification of gorilla trekking.
Lake bunyonyi was where I headed to thereafter it was such a pictureque site to see. I would recommand Arcadia Cottages, as this place is at the cliff of the mountain with the view of the lake. Every cottage has the lake view and the cottages were exceptional amazing. The staff too were great.
The tour and the permits for the gorilla trekking was arranged by a company named "car rental uganda" info@carrentaluganda.com. Contact name is Mike. I had to provide the payment upfont for the 01 day permit US600/= which was paid online. Once he had your permit arranged for the day you would want to do the trekking the rest of the itinerary is based on your request. Lake bunyonyi is a must.
I would place 100% of my trust in Mike and the guide/driver who was George.
SANJEEVA J October 20, 2019
Our adventure was irresistibly great and amazing. We are happy to have chosen Friendly safaris.
The vehicle used, the booked lodges and food was amazing.
Anthony, the owner was very accommodating & communicative. Tonny was our guide for the 5 days journey- always make sure we were safe and had everything we needed before... read more beginning a new adventure-even when he was not the official guide (every primate excursion includes its own guide, such as a designated park ranger). Our most memorable excursions include chimpanzees and gorillas; we had an amazing and unforgettable time encountering these primates.
Every accommodation was comfortable with excellent service. Uganda has breathtaking landscapes and the nicest people. We had a wonderful trip and highly recommend this company!
LanRicJourneys February 24, 2022
Tony, our driver and tour guide, was absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a kind high-character person, he is very knowledgeable about Uganda and really took the time to answer... read more all of our questions. Tony took the time to go the extra mile to ensure our entire trip was special, and to show us his culture and beautiful country. Every minute, from when arrived early to pick us up to when he helped us with our luggage at the airport at the end of our trip, we felt completely taken care of by Tony. Friendly Gorilla Safaris was wonderful, from Anthony promptly responding to all of our emails and questions, to Tony making our trip great. Definitely recommend them!
The Gorilla hike was absolutely amazing and a once in a lifetime experience, I could not recommend it enough! You have to do this tour and you have to ask for Tony to make it even more wonderful.
A couple tips:
- Ensure that the hotel is close to where your permitted hike is located. I did not know that there are 5 locations where you can hike to see the Gorillas, depending on where your permit is for. Double check that the hotel you stay at is convenient to your permit hike site. Our hotel was the Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge, which was absolutely Wonderful and you can check out my review of them, and they are close to one of the hiking sites but it turned out that our permit was for another location so we had a 2 hour drive in the morning to get to our permit hiking site. It made for an especially early morning and a closer hotel to our hike would have been nice. Though the Rushaga really was wonderful.
- If there is a way to choose where you hike and what group of gorillas to see then you should 100% ask for the Nyakagezi group. That is the group we visited, and it was Amazing. The hike was only about 1.5 hour to see the family of gorillas which had 3 silverbacks and 2 babies. The rangers we were with were all lovely. They were so helpful to ensure we got amazing views and photos of the gorillas, and they answered all of our questions. We felt completely safe with them and had a wonderful time.
Once in a lifetime trip with our awesome tour guide Tony, definitely recommend it!!
Friendly Gorillas safaris was recommended to us by a friend. For sure, they did not disappoint. Right from the day inquiry response time to the execution time, the Anthony and... read more 
My friend and I have overall been disappointed by this tour company.