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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

Wildlife sightings by our travellers
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

Showing 61-70 of 265
Duration
Arrival date
Circusgirl
Blackpool

"Luxury in the bush"

3 nights Arrived 26 Jun 2018
"Lovely accomodation.

My only comment would be that maybe this camp is more suited to bird lovers.

We were a bit surprised at how few animals we saw and this was no fault of our tracker and guide as they were fabulous." See all these reviews: 6n in Botswana; 2n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Elephant

Multiple sightings

Giraffe

Multiple sightings

Hippo

Multiple sightings

Leopard

1 sighting

Lion

1 sighting

Sable antelope

1 sighting

Spotted Hyena

1 sighting

Wild dog

Multiple sightings

Wildebeest

Multiple sightings

Zebra

Multiple sightings

Mr B & Ms O
IOW

"Great wildlife viewing at Lagoon Camp"

3 nights Arrived 8 Jun 2018
"The location of this camp on the river front is excellent so we frequently saw elephant, hippos and waterbuck right in front of the camp.The rooms are beautiful, the most spacious of the 3 camps we stayed at and very comfortable. Freezing nights and mornings when we stayed there (June), so the "bush babies" (hot water bottles) at night were appreciated and the small shop sold gloves and woolly hats which we needed.

The area is quite rich in game and we had good sightings of Leopard, Lion, Wild Dogs, Elephant and Hyena. There is a tracker as well as a guide on the vehicles and we had an excellent guide(Poster) who was a fount of knowledge and a very good tracker (Kaizer). The guide explained that the emphasis at this camp was on tracking predators first, with sightings of other wildlife en route.All the jeeps work together when doing this so it can seem at times as though you're passing other wildlife by to race to a leopard or lion. All the jeeps worked together one evening to follow the wild dogs on their hunt, which was exciting, though we had some reservations about whether the jeeps were coming in too close and affecting the dogs' activities. We preferred our "quieter" game drives, spending time with hyena puppies, the wild dogs when they were resting at the den with their pups, and on one occasion stayed for ages watching a leopard slowly stalking impala.

We enjoyed the boat trip on the river, coming in to very close proximity with the hippos. We also really enjoyed the bush lunch with the staff singing and dancing.

This is a lovely camp, only let down we felt by the food and lack of choice which was not as good as the other camps we stayed at and there didn't seem to be a great deal of camaraderie at dinner time.

." See all these reviews: 9n in Botswana; 3n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Average
Facilities:
Excellent
Sightings Report

Buffalo

1 sighting

Elephant

3 sightings

Giraffe

2 sightings

Hippo

2 sightings

Leopard

4 sightings

Lion

2 sightings

Spotted Hyena

1 sighting

Wild dog

2 sightings

Wildebeest

4 sightings

Zebra

3 sightings

Mr & Mrs S
Harrow

"Lagoon Camp review"

2 nights Arrived 23 Apr 2018
"Very good - as always. Great lion, wild dog and leopard sightings - especially the two leopard cubs playing near a waterhole. Very good guides, who add their knowledge to broaden the whole experience. Camp is comfortable, good great. Maybe they could cut out the singing while you are waiting to eat. Nice once but not at every camp." See all these reviews: 10n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs T
Derbyshire

"Lagoon Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 14 Feb 2018
"Lovely camp, well sited and excellent game viewing" See all these reviews: 15n in Botswana; 2n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Good
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Mr J
Coventry

"Annual adventure in Africa 2nd leg"

2 nights Arrived 24 Jan 2018
"Great staff, very friendly and helpful. Food to die for. Guiding amongst the best that I have encountered. Our guide Myease and tracker Gary were amongst the best that we have been fortunate enough to have. Spent one and a half hours tracking a pack of wild dogs on really hard ground, made even more difficult by the fact that the dogs kept doubling back on them selves. Also saw, amongst other animals, red lechwe, serval another different pack of wild dogs and a wild cat. Only stayed two nights, should have opted for more.." See all these reviews: 16n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Good
Ms M
CambridgeHeath

"Magnificent rooms"

2 nights Arrived 17 Jan 2018
"We would have loved to have time to enjoy the room. Huge, elegant and looking over water with Hippos.

We didn't manage to see so much wild life here.

Staff very friendly.

Beautiful boat ride among the Hippos, with sunset drinks." See all these reviews: 10n in Namibia; 6n in Botswana; 2n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
J & R
Canada

"Lagoon Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 26 Nov 2017
"This was our first experience of a Kwando camp and we weren't disappointed. We had been spoilt at our previous two camps with full breakfasts but soon settled into the porridge, toast and muffins at Lagoon. There seemed to be greater emphasis on the actual Safari here than other camps including starting 30 mins earlier every morning.

There is a great social feel to this camp with both staff and guests seeming more comfortable around the fire first thing in the morning and after dinner. Great location right on the river with hippos and crocs galore. We saw much more game variety here than other camps on this trip including a few animals we hadn't seen before (Sable, Civet, Bat Eared Foxes).

While there were a few instances of driving around with not much too see the sightings were great and the tracker (James) made a real difference to finding the predators. The interaction between guides seemed stronger at this camp when sightings were shared, the only competition was from a couple of guests (As in "My guide found it first).

Lagoon is a very strong contender as one of our favorite camps and we would highly recommend." See all these reviews: 14n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr J
Livingston

"Great Safari at Lagoon Camp"

2 nights Arrived 28 Oct 2017
"A warm greeting with a cold lemonade...Managers and all very friendly and protective of our safety especially our Guide Josiah. Outstanding safari camp , above all expectations.

Roomy accommodations, decorated well. Wonderful tub by a large screen window looking out to water!, indoor and outdoor connected showers. Dinner entrees very good, good variety and quality of dishes.

I was impressed how the Guide Josiah and tracker KB kept tracking a leopard several kilometers, took over an hour and a half of complicated tracking but they found their leopard!..with no assistance from other trackers on radios. Very impressive Got great pictures!

Everyone very cleanly dressed at all times and everything kept freshened in room" See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana; 2n in Zimbabwe; 1n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Ms H & Mr S
CA

"Great safari at Lagoon Camp"

2 nights Arrived 4 Sep 2017
"Wonderful camp, wonderful location, wonderful staff, wonderful guiding, wonderful wildlife.

We've done several safaris and I have to say this was one of my favorite experiences. Our guide, Spencer, certainly added to the experience. He is very knowledgeable. But he's also an entertainer. As far as any subject not related to wildlife and the nature of the area, I'm not sure that I believed much of what he said. But he sure was fun. Our tracker, JD, was amazing. He and Spencer worked very well together and JD deserves a lot of the credit for spotting.

Good lion viewing, packs of wild dogs, large herds of buffalo, of course elephants. Tremendous bird viewing. And in many ways it resembled the Masai Mara in numbers and species of animals. And hundreds of carmine bee eaters nesting! We saw them at another camp and were excited to see even greater numbers here." See all these reviews: 14n in Botswana; 5n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Excellent
Dr N
Cork

"Lagoon Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 16 Aug 2017
"The guide at Lagoon camp was informed, up to date, and terrific in accommodating our interest in seeing wild dog.

It made our stay at Lagoon Camp particularly memorable. We saw the pack hunting and witnessed an extraordinary (albeit distressing) scene of three young lions massacring the young pups of the resident wild dog family." See all these reviews: 6n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Excellent
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265 reviews of Lagoon Camp by travellers since August 2007
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