We had an exceptional holiday, packed with activities from start to finish. Highly recommend all of the camps we stayed at and Julie for the itinerary she suggested.
Tribes service
Excellent
Excellent
Recommendation to go to Victoria Falls was spot-on. Particularly as they are experiencing the highest water levels since the sixties.
Also style of camps was exactly what we were looking for.
Expectations
Excellent
Excellent
Excellent service and friendly atmosphere combined with the isolation of no mobile phones or TVs at Kwando camps.
Having both guide and tracker at Kwando was definitely a benefit and I am sure helped to locate more game.
Muchenje lodge was busier than the Kwando camps but that comes with the proximity to Chobe reserve and the number of herd animals provided another dimension. Also like to thank Rod for his excellent advice to take the longer flight over Vic Falls!
Guides
Excellent
Excellent
Guides were very knowledgeable and took time to ask what we were interested in.
Social & Environmental Responsibility
Excellent
Excellent
Safari experience felt like animals were in natural environment, not a theme park. Good to see Kwando camps run by Botswanan staff including camp managers.
Other comments
Highly recommend Botswana and we are already trying to work out when we can go back to Southern Africa.
David Livingstone Lodge was a fantastic new hotel with fabulous rooms that seems to be overlooked by most tourists as there were only 9 guests (in the 70 rooms). The staff were very helpful and there was no hard sell when we arranged our helicopter flight over the falls.
Spotted very large numbers of everything. The conditions were difficult with tall grass causing particular challenge but that is part of the experience and you should never go armed with a checklist! We were lucky.