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Muchenje Safari Lodge
Muchenje Safari Lodge
Muchenje Safari Lodge
Muchenje Safari Lodge
Muchenje Safari Lodge
Muchenje Safari Lodge
Muchenje Safari Lodge

Reviews of Muchenje Safari Lodge

Wildlife sightings and reviews

171 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Muchenje Safari Lodge and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa

Wildlife sightings by our travellers
Starting in Jun-2018, 37 of our travellers have recorded their wildlife sightings at Muchenje Safari Lodge.
Lion

89% success

Leopard

50% success

Cheetah

0% success

Wild dog

25% success

Elephant

100% success

Giraffe

100% success

Zebra

100% success

Buffalo

97% success

Hippo

94% success

Sable antelope

53% success

Spotted Hyena

47% success

Wildebeest

44% success

Roan antelope

35% success

Eland

23% success

Brown Hyena

15% success

Sitatunga

9% success

Aardvark

3% success

Pangolin

3% success

Showing 61-70 of 171
Duration
Arrival date
Ms L
Minneapolis

"Muchenje Safari Lodge review"

2 nights Arrived 11 Oct 2016
"good game drives, great location and fine accomadations" See all these reviews: 10n in Botswana; 3n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs H
Orpington

"Muchenje - 2 days recommended"

3 nights Arrived 14 Sep 2016
"Highlights:-

Viewing hundreds of buffalo moving across the area. Lovely scenery.

Full day safari including the river cruise in a small boat - seeing elephants swim across the river.

Excellent rooms.

Lowlights:-

Empty swimming pool - always told 'it will be filled next day'. it never was!

No radio contact from our vehicle to other vehicles - so we never did see the lions even over four days - even though others were lucky!

Bush walking safari only around small area directly outside the lodge - can not be compared to the walking safaris at Hwange & Shinde'

Mosquitoes and flies very high in this area.

Other guests had been advised by there tour operators that 2 nights at this lodge would be enough and I would agree with this as there is little variety - safari drives seemed to be very repetitive!" See all these reviews: 6n in Botswana; 5n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Average

Location:
Good
Service:
Average
Activities:
Average
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Average
Facilities:
Average
Miss G
Hertfordshire

"A lovely camp in Chobe"

2 nights Arrived 8 Sep 2016
"This was our first lodge in Botswana and the view from the lodge general areas and your chalet are amazing.

All the staff are lovely and everything was very well organised. The chalets have everything you could wish for, mosquito nets are prepared while you are on your afternoon game drive and all clothes could be laundered including underwear which I was not expecting. My only negative would be that the rooms were a little hot but we soon found out that everywhere was hot in Botswana in Sept!

Synack, our guide was great, knowledgable and fun, and as well as the usual early morning game drives we went on the full day out which included the river cruise and the afternoon game drive back from the river. Beforehand I had mixed ideas about whether to do this but we thoroughly enjoyed it even though it was a long day. The only downside to this is that it takes approx 1h by road to get to the river at Kasane where the boat leaves from." See all these reviews: 8n in Botswana; 3n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs V
Petworth

"Muchenje Safari Lodge review"

3 nights Arrived 10 Aug 2016
"We had not appreciated that while being to the west of the National Park with less tourists, the vast majority of the anlmal life is at the eastern end of the park. It meant that the night drive saw next to nothing and we only saw lions and leopard on the day we went to the eastern end of the park to do the boat trip.
The large concentrations of elephant are similarly at the eastern end. We only saw occasional solitary elephants close to the lodge." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana; 3n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Average
Service:
Good
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Mrs J & Family
Dunmow

"Muchenje Safari Lodge review"

2 nights Arrived 16 Jul 2016
"Beautiful lodge in a lovely position with an amazing view. The food and service was again faultless. The guides were extremely knowledgeably.

The boat trip in the Chobe Park was incredible, being so close to the elephants/crocodiles and watching the elephants swim across the river was a real treat

I felt we could have returned back to the lodge after lunch as it was quite a full day with a game drive afterwards. The lodge was quite a long drive from the entrance of Chobe NP and was also very cold when driving along the tarmac road." See all these reviews: 9n in Botswana; 3n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Good
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Good
Mr & Mrs B
Sydney

"Wonderful stay at Muchenje Lodge"

2 nights Arrived 7 Jun 2016
"Fantastic staff at Muchenje really help to make guests comfortable. From the moment we arrived, we were made to feel at home.

Safaris were excellent. The vehicles are comfortable and guides very good. We enjoyed all of them, including the water safari on our full day trip! Extra special that was getting hot water bottles and fleecy ponchos to keep the chill away in the morning!!

Rooms were spacious with comfortable beds and nice hot showers.

Food was incredible! Plenty of choice and very tasty. Good range of included drinks!

Quick and good laundry services.

The management were very helpful in sorting our car pick up for us." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs F
W Midlands

"Sophisticated safari"

2 nights Arrived 7 Jun 2016
"Personally we found the overfamiliar manner of the manager to be off putting. Not everyone appreciates this approach.

However, the accommodation, organisation, food and facilities were exceptional; our every need was catered for, right down to the provision of hot water bottles on our early morning game drive.

It was extremely exciting when towards the end of one game drive, we were fortunate to see a pack of wild dogs hunting giraffe." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana; 2n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Ms AA
NZ

"Beautiful lodge in stunning setting."

2 nights Arrived 7 Jun 2016
"Muchenji impressed us from the start with the welcome, the setting, the attention to detail, the food, the entertainment and the friendly and very competent staff.

Robert and Joy were conscientious and very capable in their role as hosts, providing us with detailed information over a welcoming snack and drinks as soon as we arrived. They were excellently supported by their assistant managers Natasha and Paul. The attention to detail was further evidenced by the provision of hot water bottles and ponchos to wear during cold morning and evening game drives.

The game and boat drives were excellent with knowledgeable guides and Chobe providing great variety in game viewing." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana; 2n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs G
York

"Great base to explore Chobe"

2 nights Arrived 26 May 2016
"The facilities, layout and decor of the central camp area were of a very high standard with incredible views across the Chobe riverfront. Good food and friendly staff. We were celebrating a birthday during our stay and were surprised by a number of special touches that were highly appreciated.

Wildlife is very concentrated in this area and the lodge offers various different activities, so you won't be disappointed with what you see. We were lucky enough to see an African Wild dog pack make a kill on our first drive here.

Thatched chalets were clean and well appointed with a deck that has great views." See all these reviews: 5n in Botswana; 2n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Excellent
Chris & Ammi
USA

"Nice, Intimate Chobe Safari Lodge"

2 nights Arrived 21 May 2016
"The lodge managers, Robert and Joy, were a hoot. Experienced, humorous and helpful answering any issues we had. Muchenje does not have electrified fences, but as it is a mile or so from the Chobe Park, you never know what will be visiting you in camp! Elephant were outside our door and Lions tracks were seen on the property the week prior to our arrival.

Mixed opinions on the guides. Neither Great but not bad. They did keep us out of harms way and showed us lots of elephants, giraffes, cape buffaloes hippos and African Crocs. Lion tracks were abundant but not the cats themselves.

We were not terribly impressed with the buffet offered by the lodge. It was standard fare and nothing to write home about. The location for Chobe was mixed. Its private from other lodges but a bit of a drive daily to the Chobe park for game viewing." See all these reviews: 8n in Botswana; 2n in South Africa; 2n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Good
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Average
Facilities:
Good
Showing 61-70 of 171
96%
171 reviews of Muchenje Safari Lodge by travellers since August 2007
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