East Africa Cruise Trips

This trip is not for the faint- hearted. But for me, part of the appeal was very basic accommodation, sleeping in a hammock on deck and showering in cold river water. If you don't expect any luxury on the water, you'll love it. With no changing facilities on board apart from a rudimentary loo/ shower you get to know your fellow travellers very well. And great teamwork when the boat was caught in a storm, battening diwn the hatches. Explore make it clear that it isn't what most people would describe as a cruise!

The accommodation was as a described in the trip notes varying from a Radisson hotel to cute beach huts, cramped metal cabins on the ferry and hammocks close together on the deck of our private boat. If you can't cope with that then don't book this trip. We had a great group and a wonderful guide who coalesced as friends and had an amazing experience. Don't expect to see much mammalian or reptilian wildlife apart from some monkeys, dolphins and Cayman but on the motorised canoe trip on the smaller reaches of the Rio ***** and on Marajo there was copious exotic bird life. Be super careful about food hygiene on the public ferry - a few of us succumbed - but otherwise the food was good and the fruit delicious as was the piranah soup made from the piranah we caught that day.

The country and culture is fantastic. Our tour director, Irina, made our trip even more spectacular! Irina , is by far, the best tour director we ever had; and we’ve been on over 8 trips with Trafalgar and Insight. Irina is the ‘Gold Standard’. When it comes to tour directors.

Beautiful country wherever we went. Good thing is you are never in the coach for more than a couple of hours at most. Tour director Nicole was fantastic. Very accommodating and knowledgeable. Plenty of leg room on coach, which was kept very clean. Tomy is a very skilled driver.

It was fantastic! The guide, Gino D. was excellent and knowledgeable about all the areas. The hotels that we stayed at were very nice, clean and comfortable. It was the experience of a lifetime.

Enjoyed all the little gems and great experience of this trip. On this experience all the participants were of equal levels of activity and everyone got along famously. Greg our tour operator was very informative and easy to listen to. I liked the itinerary and length of stay in locations. The driver was awesome, navigating the tight and winding roads is amazing!!