Benson Safaris Tanzania

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Main focus: Mid-range
Established: 2006
Headquarters: Tanzania
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About Benson Safaris Tanzania
Founded in 2006, locally owned Benson Safaris Tanzania are experts in the safari industry, specialising in wildlife safaris, mountain treks and beach breaks throughout Tanzania. We customize our itineraries to suit our guests’ needs. We are flexible, organized and capable of fulfilling your requests. If you can’t see the safari you’re looking for, don’t worry! Each trip can be tailor made, just send us an email and we will quickly and easily arrange the perfect safari for you.
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"I recommend Benson Safaris "
By: kdoglol
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United States United States
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Visited: Jul. 2018 Reviewed: Jun. 06, 2020

I don’t very often feel compelled to write a review except for when I encounter extremely exceptional or extremely horrific experiences. I don’t even take the time to write a review for businesses that mildly exceed my expectations or are a mild disappointment. I am speaking on behalf of the four of us in my family (husband, wife and 2 children) when I say that Benson Safaris was beyond exceptional throughout the entire process from advising and customizing our itinerary, follow up along the way and the actual Safari experiences. I vetted about a dozen safari companies in Tanzania and took a leap of faith and booked our family of 4’s first safari with Benson because he was the most upfront with costs and provided pros and cons of each location we were thinking about experiencing with a bonus of being wildlife conservation minded. We ended up visiting the Central and North Serengeti for a few days, Tarangire NP, Lake Manyara NP, Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Eyasi to interact and experience the culture of a few tribes. Each day exceeded the previous in terms of the care and effort demonstrated by our driver and guide, and the wonderful people and sights to which we were introduced.

Part of the safari experience is sitting around a camp fire in the evening where the guests often discuss their days safari adventure. When comparing our safari experience with Benson Safaris to what others shared from other companies it was clear that Benson and his team delivered a better safari experience. Our guide was not only extremely knowledgeable about the wildlife we encountered but more importantly he had the experience and the communication network to locate the specific animals and always found the perfect vantage point to view them. The thing we lucked out on that turned out to be the key safari ingredient, was having an experienced guide with a newer truck, which Benson Safaris delivered both. In our few days of safari we saw the entire big 5 bucket list including Black Rhinos on two different occasions as well as having a front row seat to observe the Great Wildebeest Migration crossing the Mara River. We were the only ones around the camp fire that had experienced everything up close where many of the other guests merely attempted to witness these things and came back empty handed. I truly attribute the success of our safari to Benson’s guidance on creating our itinerary and his ability to hire experienced and exceptional guides.

One last thing to mention is that we traveled with younger children at the ages of 10 and 12 years old. If you have children, you know this can be a challenge. This was both of their first time traveling outside of the US and Benson and Amani (our guide) went above and beyond to make sure they were happy, engaged and comfortable. Amani, understood what animals our kids were most excited about seeing and made an effort to find them and get them close to them. Amani treated them with respect and spent time to educating them on the specific plants and animals that we were observing. Benson and Amani even remembered they had birthdays that month and made them feel special by singing happy birthday and sharing a slice of cake with them. Many companies will “accept” or “allow” kids but from my experience, very few will go out of their way to make kids feel special and treat them with the same respect as they treat adults.

This was our first trip to Tanzania and our first safari which started out being an intimidating vacation planning experience. Benson earned our trust and made this experience pleasurable. I can whole heartedly recommend Benson Safaris and I encourage you to give them a serious look when you are planning a trip to Tanzania.

Thank You Benson Safaris! We will be back!

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By: kdoglol
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Countries visited: Tanzania
Visited: Jul. 2018
Reviewed: Sep. 05, 2018

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