Lagoon Camp

18°12’55.8"S 23°24’46.3"E

95% (265 reviews)

Reviews of Lagoon Camp

Wildlife sightings and reviews

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

Starting in Jun-2018, 62 of our travellers have recorded their wildlife sightings at Lagoon Camp.

Lion

90% success

Leopard

68% success

Cheetah

51% success

Wild dog

55% success

Elephant

100% success

Giraffe

100% success

Hippo

100% success

Wildebeest

98% success

Zebra

93% success

Buffalo

84% success

Spotted Hyena

65% success

Sable antelope

54% success

Roan antelope

42% success

Brown Hyena

11% success

Pangolin

5% success

Aardvark

4% success

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G and P

Montana

"Lagoon Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 19 Aug 2021

"We had an outstanding stay at Lagoon. This was the first camp of our trip and a great way to kick things off.

It was amazing to watch our guide and tracker go to work, reading the tracks at the waterhole, determining where the animals had gone and, then, not long after, finding them in their element! Our guide and tracker at this camp were truly incredible — so much so that we will request them for our future trips to Botswana. They really made our experience memorable as we were just learning so much all the time about the wildlife, the vegetation, and the history of Botswana.

The camp staff was incredibly welcoming and we were blown away by the size of the chalet. Many COVID protocols were in place, such as taking temperatures and wearing masks. We felt very safe, especially since all activities are open air." See all these reviews: 11n in Botswana

Experience Report

Overall Rating:

Excellent

Location:

Excellent

Service:

Excellent

Activities:

Excellent

Rooms:

Excellent

Food:

Excellent

Facilities:

Excellent

Sightings Report

Buffalo

2 sightings

Elephant

10 sightings

Giraffe

10 sightings

Hippo

Multiple sightings

Leopard

1 sighting

Lion

Multiple sightings

Roan antelope

1 sighting

Sable antelope

1 sighting

Wildebeest

Multiple sightings

Zebra

Multiple sightings

Ms C

Montana

"Lagoon Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 19 Aug 2021

"Three nights at Lagoon Camp was just about right - two nights would have been too short a visit. The setting right on the river is fantastic - I really enjoyed watching the elephants across the river, and one afternoon on a game drive, we parked to wait for a large herd to cross the river. What a spectacle! Lagoon Camp seemed a little less spruce than Kwara Camp, but I believe Kwara Camp had recently been renovated.

Our guide and tracker here were fantastic, as really all of our guides were on the whole trip. They tracked down four male lions trying to get at a warthog in its burrow. The lions then all paused, and started to walk away. Our tracker thought he'd heard a buffalo in distress, so we tracked the male lions, and found 4 females trying to bring down the buffalo. Again, the guides at Lagoon knew birds, to my delight.

The boat ride at Lagoon was relaxing, but there was less to see along the river here than on boat rides at Kwara and Setari. No crocodiles, for example, and oddly not many birds. But seeing birds and animals is partly luck." See all these reviews: 10n in Botswana; 8n in Namibia; 2n in Zimbabwe

Experience Report

Overall Rating:

Excellent

Location:

Excellent

Service:

Excellent

Activities:

Excellent

Rooms:

Good

Food:

Good

Facilities:

Excellent

Sightings Report

Brown Hyena

1 sighting

Buffalo

10 sightings

Elephant

10 sightings

Giraffe

10 sightings

Hippo

Multiple sightings

Lion

10 sightings

Roan antelope

4 sightings

Sable antelope

Multiple sightings

Spotted Hyena

Multiple sightings

Wildebeest

10 sightings

Zebra

10 sightings

M & Mrs G

Harrogate

"A brilliant introduction to safaris"

2 nights Arrived 1 Nov 2019

"Our room, No. 1, was excellent. We loved the through draught and the visiting elephant and baby to our window.

The lodge staff were all fantastic; Lizzie was in charge, so friendlyn and welcoming. Moss called us to dinner in an unforgettable and uniique fashion. I will treasure her smile." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana; 2n in Zimbabwe

Experience Report

Overall Rating:

Excellent

Location:

Excellent

Service:

Excellent

Activities:

Good

Rooms:

Excellent

Food:

Good

Facilities:

Excellent

Sightings Report

Buffalo

3 sightings

Cheetah

1 sighting

Elephant

10 sightings

Giraffe

2 sightings

Hippo

4 sightings

Lion

1 sighting

Sable antelope

1 sighting

Spotted Hyena

1 sighting

Wild dog

2 sightings

Wildebeest

10 sightings

Zebra

1 sighting

Party of 4

Islington

"Best wildlife sightings at Lagoon Camp"

3 nights Arrived 31 Oct 2019

"Good-sized en-suite tent with great views over Kwando river.
Friendly staff at the camp.
Expert guide and spotter.
During our stay here we saw the highest concentrations and greatest variety of wildlife on our trip.
Morning and afternoon game drives were long, which made brunch a relaxed affair but left very little time before dinner.
Kwando river was too shallow for boat cruises." See all these reviews: 9n in Botswana

Experience Report

Overall Rating:

Excellent

Location:

Excellent

Service:

Excellent

Activities:

Excellent

Rooms:

Excellent

Food:

Good

Facilities:

Good

Sightings Report

Buffalo

Multiple sightings

Cheetah

Multiple sightings

Elephant

Multiple sightings

Giraffe

Multiple sightings

Hippo

Multiple sightings

Lion

Multiple sightings

Roan antelope

1 sighting

Sable antelope

Multiple sightings

Spotted Hyena

Multiple sightings

Wild dog

1 sighting

Wildebeest

Multiple sightings

Wiljo

Norfolk

"Lagoon Camp review"

2 nights Arrived 11 Oct 2019

"Excellent all round and spectacular setting overlooking the lagoon, fed by the Kwando river.

Staff at Camp were especially warm and welcoming, creating a very pleasing ambience and the Kwando formula of driver guide and tracker, working as a team on the game drives worked very well and made for some very interesting sightings. In particular, on one drive, the team tracked wild dogs for 3 hours before finally locating the pack resting by the river. Their patience and persistence was truly impressive. On another occasion, similar teamwork resulted in an encounter with 2 male cheetahs. The guides in different vehicles communicated well with each other, alerting and directing their colleagues to interesting sightings.

The daily formula consisted of morning and afternoon game drives. The latter merged with a night drive for the last hour or so on the way back to camp after dark. There were opportunities to fish from the lagoon directly from the deck in Camp as well as from the Camp's boat. Because of the unprecedented dry conditions, the boat was moored some distance from Camp but we were given the opportunity to undertake a boat safari which provided some wonderful bird sightings and a fresh perspective on the location.

We also stayed at the sister camp in this concession (Lebala) which was equally as impressive but quite different in character with its setting within open grassland. The opportunity to experience both locations back to back made for an interesting and varied programme and we felt it maximised the wildlife viewing opportunities in the concession, although of course, nothing is guaranteed." See all these reviews: 16n in Botswana; 10n in Zimbabwe

Experience Report

Overall Rating:

Excellent

Location:

Excellent

Service:

Excellent

Activities:

Excellent

Rooms:

Excellent

Food:

Excellent

Facilities:

Excellent

Sightings Report

Buffalo

5 sightings

Cheetah

2 sightings

Elephant

10 sightings

Giraffe

10 sightings

Hippo

10 sightings

Lion

6 sightings

Wild dog

1 sighting

Wildebeest

5 sightings

Zebra

5 sightings

Mr & Mrs W

Oxon

"Exellent stay at Laggon camp"

3 nights Arrived 7 Oct 2019

"We had 3 nights at Lagoon camp, where we had sightings of lion, cheetah and wild dogs. Also a glimpse of a civet and honey badger and 2 bush babies.

I almost stepped on a black scorpion on my back to the tent at night, saved by the prompt warning from our guide, Gee.

One night we had a most impressive storm, and next morning the camp was running as normal, The boat trip was great, so close to such very large elephants!" See all these reviews: 9n in Botswana

Experience Report

Overall Rating:

Excellent

Location:

Excellent

Service:

Excellent

Activities:

Excellent

Rooms:

Excellent

Food:

Excellent

Facilities:

Excellent

Sightings Report

Buffalo

1 sighting

Cheetah

2 sightings

Elephant

10 sightings

Giraffe

3 sightings

Hippo

5 sightings

Lion

3 sightings

Roan antelope

2 sightings

Sable antelope

3 sightings

Spotted Hyena

1 sighting

Wild dog

1 sighting

Wildebeest

5 sightings

Zebra

10 sightings

Mr Mitchell

Weybridge

"Lagoon Camp review"

2 nights Arrived 16 Sep 2019

"Beautiful setting with luxurious accommodation" See all these reviews: 9n in Botswana

Experience Report

Overall Rating:

Excellent

Location:

Excellent

Service:

Good

Activities:

Excellent

Rooms:

Excellent

Food:

Good

Facilities:

Excellent

Sightings Report

Buffalo

Multiple sightings

Cheetah

Multiple sightings

Elephant

Multiple sightings

Giraffe

Multiple sightings

Hippo

Multiple sightings

Leopard

1 sighting

Lion

Multiple sightings

Roan antelope

1 sighting

Wild dog

1 sighting

Wildebeest

Multiple sightings

Zebra

Multiple sightings

Mr & Mrs R.

Wadhurst

"Lagoon Camp best location of the 4 visited"

2 nights Arrived 25 Aug 2019

"Superb location with the spacious chalets all right on the river bank overlooking the river and wetlands. We heard hippos in the river at night and saw them during the day together with elephants. Whilst we saw lion, cheetahs etc., game viewing was not as prolific as others had reported, perhaps due to it apparently being the 2nd year of drought, nor did we see anything significant at night. The river cruise was enjoyable for its peace and tranquillity and bird life but the high point of our 2-night stay was 2 sightings of a pair of cheetahs passing through the camps concession. Of the 4 camps we visited, this was one of 3 that had trackers as well as guides and we found having a tracker considerably enhanced the experience.

Food average, with meat a challenge but vegetable items good. The absence of mosquitos was welcome. The chalet had socket outlets for both a variety of worldwide plug types and also S. African 3 round pin plugs as well as USB plugs. By taking a UK plug to S. African round pin socket adapter, we were able to simultaneously utilise these 2 sockets to charge 2 gadgets. Able to get a Namibian phone signal." See all these reviews: 10n in Botswana; 2n in Zambia

Experience Report

Overall Rating:

Good

Location:

Excellent

Service:

Average

Activities:

Good

Rooms:

Excellent

Food:

Average

Facilities:

Good

Sightings Report

Buffalo

2 sightings

Cheetah

2 sightings

Elephant

10 sightings

Giraffe

4 sightings

Hippo

2 sightings

Lion

1 sighting

Spotted Hyena

1 sighting

Zebra

2 sightings

Mick

San Clemente

"Excellent Guides & Animal Encounters"

3 nights Arrived 7 Aug 2019

"We stayed at Splash Camp for 3 days 1st & now 3 days to stay at Lagoon Camp. We had such a great experience in our 1st ever safari at Splash Camp we really had no expectations here at Lagoon Camp. This Camp is right on the water & the days (Aug. 6th) were just starting to get hot, so being close to water this felt a lot cooler for us right away. The rooms at the Camp were fantastic, lots of room to spread out & views along the river. The overall camp facilities are a bit dated & some maintance needed, i.e.all the tiles from pool missing, but we had the most volume of animals in close conditions here. Our experiences from watching large pride of lions get into position to hunt Cape Buffilo, to tracking a leopard for nearly an hour that finally roars at us & runs away to following Wild Dog pack line up trotting military style & narrowly missing antelope. Night drive disclosed young lions trying to figure out how to get a porcupine over without getting stuck. All the time we are mere feet away watching the events unfold. We had no idea it could be even better then we already experienced at our 1st safari. Even more close sights & large volumes of pride, herd, packs every type of animal except Rhino, but none of us were disappointed didn't see this 1 animal. So much to see in river rides & land safari's. Cannot say enough good things about the service and people running the camp. The encounters & especially the guides Gee & PD were amazing at tracking & positioning vehicles right in the middle of all the action. Many times it was only the 4 of us, along with our 2 guides." See all these reviews: 6n in Botswana; 3n in Zimbabwe

Experience Report

Overall Rating:

Excellent

Location:

Excellent

Service:

Excellent

Activities:

Excellent

Rooms:

Excellent

Food:

Good

Facilities:

Good

Sightings Report

Aardvark

1 sighting

Brown Hyena

Multiple sightings

Buffalo

Multiple sightings

Cheetah

Multiple sightings

Elephant

Multiple sightings

Giraffe

Multiple sightings

Hippo

Multiple sightings

Leopard

Multiple sightings

Lion

Multiple sightings

Roan antelope

Multiple sightings

Sable antelope

Multiple sightings

Spotted Hyena

Multiple sightings

Wild dog

Multiple sightings

Wildebeest

Multiple sightings

Zebra

Multiple sightings

Mr D.

Libertyville

"Lagoon Camp review"

2 nights Arrived 3 Aug 2019

"We had to fly from Kasane to reach this camp. Due to a last-minute cancellation we were the only passengers for this 1-hour flight.

Unfortunately, we only spent 2 nights at this camp. The views of the river in front of our room were superb. There was a full charging station in the room, which included 2 Usb outlets and we were able to charge all our devices at the same time. The rooms were huge and very well appointed and food was excellent. We had early morning game drives starting after an early breakfast (sitting around the campfire) and returning for a full breakfast. After our last camp, it was nice to have some time to ourselves before tea and the afternoon game drive at 4pm. We enjoyed just sitting on our balcony and watching an elephant feeding on the river bank right in front of our room. He eventually swam over to our side of the river to continue grazing. Hippos were also in plain view, going in and out of the water.

The highlight of this trip was finding a pride of lions feeding on a roan antelope. In all there were 2 males, 2 females and 7 cubs all competing for the spoils. We sat there for ages just taking it all in. The next day, we went back to the same location so the new arrivals could also experience this sight. This was the only camp where we had a tracker in addition to the guide. On day 2 we followed lion tracks for a couple of hours without success, but did see a huge herd of buffalo. Unfortunately, we did not see any wild dogs as they were apparently denning.

We stopped by the river (with hippos) for sundowners and to watch the sunset. A full bar had been put out on a table, again an unexpected surprise. Driving back to camp at night was uneventful. The nights were very noisy with the sounds of hippos in the river.

Again, a wonderful experience with no negatives." See all these reviews: 11n in Botswana; 2n in Zimbabwe

Experience Report

Overall Rating:

Excellent

Location:

Excellent

Service:

Excellent

Activities:

Excellent

Rooms:

Excellent

Food: