Amazing trip with an amazing guide and an amazing company.
We loved David. He was a great fit for our group. His sense of humor, knowledge, experience was amazing. We were very impressed by his ability to read our mood and adjust on the fly to provide the best experience possible. A couple of afternoons we were dragging, David noticed and adjusted by picking up the pace and eventually getting us back to the lodge a little earlier than we had planned in the day before. I loved how he made real efforts to show us specific things we wanted to see. Sometimes it was obvious he was making effort (like driving North to see the great migration) but other times it wasn’t so obvious (which was great). For instance, Melissa wanted to see water monitors so any time we cross a creek David would stop to look; but there was another time we took a short side-trip to an area that on a sunny day probably had a good deal of monitors; however it wasn’t a sunny day and David likely knew we wouldn’t see anything but he made the effort all the same. To me, it showed that he understood what we wanted and tried his best to make it happen for us.
“The entire trip was superbly planned, down to the tiniest details. In the planning stages, Casey was very receptive to what we were looking to do and was very straightforward about the pros and cons of each aspect of the trip. Once it was booked, he was very helpful with helping us plan and figure out what to expect when we got there. All of his recommendations and bits of advice were spot on. In particular, they went above and beyond when we had a problem during the trip. My wife had a reaction to one of the medications she was taking and we needed to seek out a doctor. Casey, our guide Maningo, and the rest of the A2T crew were on top of it, calling us in the middle of Ngorongoro Crater to make sure we got what we needed. Casey and Maningo got a local American doctor on the phone to consult, and we managed to fix the problem pretty quickly. Everybody was wonderful in a moment where we were feeling a bit nervous about what to do.”