Reviews of Mowani Mountain Camp
Wildlife sightings and reviews
152 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Mowani Mountain Camp and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa
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"Lovely camp and great elephants"
Good mosquito precautions, but no mosquitos. Annoying flies which buzz around your eyes prevented us sitting on our terrace with its delightful views across the valley at the back of the camp. The rooms at the front looked to us to have better views, and would also benefit from the afternoon breezes. Rock dassies run around the camp, along with beautiful lizards. Management were friendly and helpful, although they didn’t plan our second day’s afternoon activity, so we had to initiate that ourselves.
There is a tiny swimming pool. More effective is the splendid rocky ledge which serves as the sundowner terrace, affording wonderful valley views as the sun goes down, accompanied by your favourite cocktail served by obliging and friendly staff. Service was horribly slow, particularly at breakfast, where I failed to get my hot order in time to make the morning activity, even though I arrived the moment the restaurant opened.
The activities are good. The highlight of course is the morning drive to find the desert elephants. We had a herd of 14 in the dry river bed, just half an hour from camp, and the interaction with the 3 vehicles present was fabulous – I could have reached out and touched two elephants as they ambled by our jeep. The trip to the rock engravings at Tywfelfontein is intriguing and very interesting, and makes a nice diversion from game drives. The park has very little wildlife apart from the elephants, although an afternoon birding drive yielded three different types of hornbill." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia
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Our guide (Atan) was friendly and knowledgeable and we really enjoyed the excursions to observe desert elephants and see the petroglyphs." See all these reviews: 13n in Namibia; 3n in Botswana; 1n in South Africa
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The birds around the camp are also amazing - we found it hard to pull ourselves away from the birds at the bird pool. Staff great, wonderful place." See all these reviews: 12n in Namibia
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Hard hike up to dining room, but beautiful spot once we got there." See all these reviews: 10n in Namibia; 8n in Botswana
"Outstanding Lodge"
Wonderful sun-downer with a great view, excellent service and food." See all these reviews: 21n in Namibia
"Great location. Poor service and food."
Excellent day out with guide tracking elephants." See all these reviews: 15n in Namibia
"Stunning setting & magical elephants"
However, none of this could compete with the trip to see the desert elephants. It was truly magical, so many elephants and a five week old baby as well. They were completely relaxed with us being there and we followed them for a considerable distance, watching them feed and seeing the baby pick a fight with his elder brother. We were surprised about the relatively small cost charged by Mowani for this trip - we would have paid more!
The one small point we'd make is that the staff were a little stiff at this camp - possibly because this is a high-end camp and it would be nice if they relaxed a little." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia
"Pure luxury at Mowani"
Despite being more expensive and luxurious than other lodges we stayed in, it remained relaxing and very friendly.
Loved the outside shower next to our room (actually a large luxury tent) and we left the curtains open at night so we could wake to the fantastic view. The room, patio and of course the outside shower were completely private.
Great sundowner a few yards away on the top of a hill giving lovely views and photographic opportunities.
I can't praise this place enough - worth the money - and we are definitely going back." See all these reviews: 12n in Namibia; 9n in South Africa
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We enjoyed the trip to Twyfelfontein, which was well led. The game drive to see elephants was excellent" See all these reviews: 17n in Namibia
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Elephant trip was fantastic. Organ pipes / rock paintings trip is better to do by yourself.
Beautiful place! We loved our stay. Three nights were perfect. We would certainly go back!" See all these reviews: 19n in Namibia
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