TWIGA TOURS AND SAFARIS

Twiga Tours and Safaris

 

The Premier Safari Operator in East Africa!

Established in 1980, Twiga Tours begins its 31st year as a luxury Inbound Safari Operator in East Africa. We have deliberately confined ourselves to this region of Africa as this is the land of our birth and we want to focus all our love and attention on our guests’ experiences in our homeland rather than pretend to be experts of 53 countries of Africa. We know East Africa best as both Rajab and Minaz Manji, were born here, have lived here ever since and travelled extensively within East Africa.

On a lighter note, most people fondly associate Twiga Tours as Rajab and Minaz and vice versa as both have played an active role and, continue to do so, from its’ humble beginnings to becoming a leading Inbound Safari Operator in East Africa. We are even more proud to be referred to as a ‘small boutique’ Safari Operator as this description aptly reflects our style – to provide the Manji family’s personal care and African hospitality to every one of our guests. That was a vision 30 yrs ago and continues to remain to the present day!

 

To ‘pop’ open a bottle of champagne with a huge smile at the airport, celebrate a special occasion such as birthday or wedding anniversary, enjoy a surprise ‘out of Africa’ picnic in the African bush and enjoy dinner with the Manji’s in their family home on the outskirts of Nairobi has been our tradition and we are flattered that many companies try to emulate our personal warmth and hospitality.

We are not a mass market Company but a small efficiently run family Company who care deeply about delivering the personal warmth, experience and African hospitality of the Manji family.

Our Reputation

Our track record speaks for itself – 31 years of experience and well over 100,000 guests cannot be wrong! They have heaped accolade upon accolade on our hospitality and seamless service that we offer from arrival to departure and we have no hesitation in sharing these with you.

 

And, whilst many Tour Companies would have us believe that the offices and vehicles that they subcontract their business to are “their own Offices and Vehicles” Twiga Tours, on the contrary, owns a network of Offices in Nairobi, Mombasa and Arusha fully staffed by the Twiga Tours Team of experts and backed by an extensive fleet of custom designed state-of-the-art 4X4 safari vehicles fully maintained by us.

The obvious advantage is that our guests are accorded the same level of personal hospitable service everywhere in East Africa with the added advantage that they do not have to change vehicles at the border when driving from one East African country to another nor would you have to say goodbye to the Safari Director and Guide-Driver who have been your travelling companions and joyful company in your first country of travel and who you will have grown fond of but, instead, with Twiga Tours will continue with them throughout your entire safari.

 

 

The Manji Foundation

The family's patriarch, Manji, was fondly known as 'Prabtani' roughly translated to mean 'giver of water' - as he offered water 'free' from his well including any assistance needed to establish such a well on one own's land. The only condition was that the owner of any such well would not sell his water but, instead, offer it to others free of any cost.

This traditional value has been cherished and embedded in every member of the family since the Manji patriarch first set foot in Africa at the turn of the 20th Century in 1902.

Today, Community Service is synonymous not only with the Manji Family but is a tradition with the entire Twiga Team. Every member of the team is encouraged to partake in this tradition so that we can make this world a better place for the less fortunate.

 

 

We have involved ourselves in assisting abandoned HIV positive babies through the New Life Home in Nairobi; help 'Street Girls' to a better life "OFF" the streets by providing financial, educational and employment opportunities; provide transport to the 'terminally ill' so that they can visit the Nairobi Hospice to meet and celebrate this day with other people so that the day's fun, food and activities will add 'LIFE TO THEIR DAYS'; provided relief food rations to those affected by the severe drought in Kimana, an area on the foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro; provide a healthy balanced meal and full educational support to various primary schools in areas where such facilities are lacking, for example, Talek in Masai Mara and Mathare, an underprivileged area in Nairobi.

Our Custom Designed Safari Vehicles

We guarantee you a 4X4 custom designed state-of-the-art safari vehicle and, above all, give you a choice on whether you would like to travel in a 4X4 safari minivan or the extended 4X4 Land Cruiser / Rover.

 

 

Most Tour Companies will provide a 2X2 safari minivan on the pretext that a 4X4 vehicle is unnecessary during the hot dry season. However, East Africa is in the tropics and a short burst of shower is not uncommon and is usually welcome to cool down the temperature and settle the African dust. This then poses a serious challenge to an average 2x2 vehicle to manouver the difficult muddy conditions and thus a 4X4 safari vehicle is a must for game tracking.

Twiga vehicles are additionally equipped with a cooler chest stocked withample ice cold bottled water, a binocular, safari field guides and two-way HF long range Radio Communications system interlinked to all our three offices for easy communication.