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About African Wildcats Expeditions Ltd.
Explore Beyond Boundaries
The African Wildcats Expedition offers a unique and immersive experience into the heart of Tanzania’s wilderness. With a focus on fair and sustainable tourism, this locally arranged safari is operated by Masai guides and supported by Dutch veterinarians, ensuring a responsible approach to wildlife viewing. The expedition provides an opportunity to explore Tanzania’s northern safari circuit, known for its abundant wildlife and the annual migration of millions of animals across its plains. The cultural aspect of the expedition allows travelers to step out of their vehicles and lodges to walk with the people, visit markets, and interact with local tribes like the Masai and the Hadzabe, creating unforgettable memories. For those seeking adventure, the expedition offers trekking and climbing experiences on Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru, as well as overland truck travels. The combination of wildlife, culture, and adventure makes the African Wildcats Expedition a comprehensive way to experience the beauty and diversity of Tanzania.
This is a legally registered limited company by BRELA with registration no. 98508. It is also a fully licensed Tour Operator with a TALA License No. 016489 issued by the Ministry Of Natural Resources And Tourism (MNRT). The company is also Taxpayer taxpayer-registered entity by TRA with a TIN registration number of 122454371.
Why Choose Tanzania?
Tanzania is Africa’s most popular wildlife photographic safari destination. It has a lot to offer, including its incredible diversity of wildlife, habitats, cultures, and activities. African Wildcats Expeditions offers an authentic African safari experience, allowing you to explore some of the continent’s most renowned national parks.
In Northern Tanzania, we offer the best National parks including Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara National Park, Tarangire National Park, Arusha National Park, and Mkomazi National Park. In the south, you’ll find the more remote gems like Ruaha National Park, Mikumi National Park, Udzungwa Mountain, and Nyerere National Park (formerly Selous).
African Wildcats Expeditions organizes a wide range of safaris in Tanzania, catering to all preferences and budgets. Our offerings include budget camping safaris, mid-range Tented safaris, luxury Tented Safaris, walking safaris, cultural tours, and hot-air balloon safaris, We guarantee you’ll have an unforgettable experience!
Do not forget Zanzibar Islands, with its historical site, Stone Town, Jozani National Park with Red colobus monkeys, nice beaches, Diving with Dolphins, Zanzibar spice tour and a lot more.
“Explore beyond boundaries”
About Our Faire Safaris
Do you also want to have a fair safari? African Wildcats Expedition is a project of social involvement on its own. Run by local safari guides it provides decent incomes, local work, and education for 2 Tanzanian families. It fits in the new spirit of modern Tanzania; this local start-up is here to stay! Especially the personal atmosphere improves the organization, the structure, and the quality of the safaris. Thanks to modern techniques –like the internet and email- we skip the layers between the actual safari and the customer, what a relief…
When you go on safari with us, you are sure your money gets to the people who work for it very hard. Their families and communities benefit directly from this fair income. Nothing flies away to investors abroad, or to foreign owners who pay your guide and cook just enough to stay alive.
In our modest small office in Arusha with hand-made local furniture, we can make an appointment with you. But our comfort zone is and will be the Serengeti!
Responsible Travel Involvement
Trees against erosion
Due to dry years with hardly any rainfall combined with heavy rainfall in a short period, the soil is aggressively washed away. This process is accelerated by cutting trees for charcoal and houses. The population of resident people has grown in the last decades and the fight against erosion is still young. We have to teach especially young people to replace trees when wood is harvested; soil that disappeared will not come back by itself. Planting young trees in the wet season is one solution; we can repair the soil layer in combination with water control during heavy rainfalls. Every safari will get its own donated AWE tree in the valley where John Sung’are lives.
Stop Poaching
Every day elephants and rhinos are still killed!! African Wildcat Expeditions Ltd is looking for a local person, who is personally involved in the fight against poaching. We will follow this person from time to time. When we have found this man/woman we keep you posted.
Give Back to the Community
African Wildcats Expeditions.
African Wildcats Expedition is a project of social involvement on its own. Run by local safari guides it provides decent incomes, local work, and education for 2 Tanzanian families. It fits in the new spirit of modern Tanzania; this local start-up is here to stay and especially the personal atmosphere improves the organization, the structure, and the quality of the safaris. Due to modern techniques –like the internet and email-, we skip the layers between the actual safari and the customer, what a relief…
In our modest small office with hand-made local furniture at Nelson Mandela Road, we can make an appointment with the client anyway, but our comfort zone is and will be the Serengeti!
Matonyok Children’s Home
“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the World”
Nelson Mandela
Matonyok was founded by a Maasai named Emma Sitayo. In the early 1970s, she was the only girl in her village to receive an education. Emma knows at first hand the importance of having an education to be successful and reach one’s potential in life. During her career as a nurse working with children with special needs she regularly came across children being ‘abandoned’ either as a result of their disability or social/economic family issues. She herself could not ‘abandon’ these children in need and so kept ‘bringing them home’ – and, as a result, Matonyok Children’s Home was born. Emma continues to this day to accept referrals from the Government’s Social Work Department. The Home does not receive any financial assistance as a result of accepting these children.
Mission:
To ensure disabled orphans, street children and children from difficult circumstances enjoy a full and decent life. We believe every child should be given the opportunity to achieve a greater degree of self – reliance and social integration in a dignified manner.
Objectives:
- To identify those areas where children’s rights are violated
- To inspire and help the community to educate
- To develop each Matonyok child’s personal talents in line with their mental and physical abilities
- To prepare the children at Matonyok for an active adult life in a free society
- To set and attain development goals for the Home and its children
Matonyok has committed itself to helping children who are neglected, orphaned, sexually abused, whose parents have died as a result of HIV/Aids etc
Volunteers:
We welcome and accept volunteers from all over the world to come and work with us in serving the community and building a better life for our children. You can volunteer to teach, spend time with the children and so much more.
Our Involvement to Matonyok Children’s Home
How does African Wildcats Expeditions get in touch with Matonyok Children’s home, we first knew Matonyok children’s home and Emma through Edel and Arip, Edel she is an Ireland lady, a suppoter of Matonyok children’s home. We are enthusiastic and motivated by the way of her supports. African Wildcats Expeditions we love Children’s and we want to help them. How are we support the project, we support the project by funds and teaching material. We have also setup a day or hours on our safaris Itineraries for our clients to visit children’s home. You can bring school material, like writing books, reading books, pencils, erasers etc.
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Meet Our Team
African Wildcats Expeditions is an initiative of Jacob Loserian, John Sung’are and Steve and Astrid Somers. Jacob and John are safari guides for almost 25 years in the northern circuit of Tanzania; Steve and Astrid are veterinarians who own and run two veterinary clinics in Utrecht and Woerden (centre of the Netherlands). John and Jacob were already planning to start their own safari company for a while, when they ran into Steve and Astrid. Their enthusiasm and positive drive convinced Steve and Astrid that they could organize better safaris for an attractive rate. Profit stays with the guides, instead of leaving them depending on tips. We don’t have a big hierarchic back office; just a small office and a good structure to organize your safari. We want to be a small safari company, run by the guides, which can compete with the big companies in quality and price. The African Wildcats Expeditions Ltd gives safari business a new boost!
Jacob Loserian
director
The life story of Jacob is special; born and raised as a traditional Masai, he started working in the tanzanite-mines* for years. Working as a night guard (ascari) at a safari company he studied English and got his safari guide diploma. In the mean time he also worked as a mechanic at the same company. This man has got it all! Jacob is working hard to pay for the study of his 4 children and is hoping that the “Wildcats” will be a succes. He is a caring, friendly person and his laugh and sense of humour are contagious. His knowledge of the “bush” is phenomenal. *tanzanite is a rare blue gemstone, only found in a small area nearby Kilimanjaro-airport;
John Sung’are
co-founder
John is also a Masai and the son of a former member of parliament; he lives on his modest farm in a beautiful valley between Monduli and Arusha. John is married and has 4 children, in the age of 6 to 20 years. He joined the “Wildcats” because he wants to create his own future in modern Tanzania. In the safari world everybody knows John and John knows everybody; but on safari he has only one goal: to make you want to come back! He knows all the secret hide-a-ways of the big cats: ”I smell a lion”. After a while we see these big cats lying in the grass
Steef Somers
Steve Somers is a Dutch veterinarian with a passion for Africa. He learned to get around in Africa on a motorcycle on his trips to Dakar (Senegal). Travelling in Africa you need to have a certain attitude to solve problems along the way. On the other hand he learned to organize in the 2 veterinary clinics which he runs with his wife Astrid in the Netherlands. Their 4 sons (22-26) try to keep him young in snowboarding and windsurfing. Although loosing already, he got his moments… His love for Africa combines photography and wildlife in an unbelievable setting. That’s what the “Wildcats” is about.
Astrid Somers
Astrid Somers is a “born” vet, she is enjoying the nature of the Tanzanian parks in every way. Been on safari with her family several times, she wants you to see with your own eyes the unspoiled Serengeti and the impressive highland woods of Arusha National park. Yes, she doesn’t just want to drive around, but also explores the parks by foot. Or visits a real native village far beyond the touristic sites…. When Astrid and Steve met John and Jacob a dream came through: “building an African company with the right people in a tremendous atmosphere”.
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