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Twee Rivieren Rest Camp
Twee Rivieren Rest Camp
Twee Rivieren Rest Camp

Twee Rivieren Rest Camp


26°28’21.1"S 20°36’43.8"E

Reviews of Twee Rivieren

Wildlife sightings and reviews

35 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Twee Rivieren 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, 6 of our travellers have recorded their wildlife sightings at Twee Rivieren.
Lion

50% success

Leopard

0% success

Cheetah

50% success

Wild dog

0% success

Oryx

100% success

Wildebeest

100% success

Giraffe

60% success

Meerkat

40% success

Aardvark

0% success

Brown Hyena

0% success

Eland

0% success

Pangolin

0% success

Spotted Hyena

0% success

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Mr & Mrs W
Warwick

"The best base for your trip to the Kalagadi"

1 night Arrived 8 Jun 2017
"SAN Parks have upped their game at Kgalagadi. From Reception at Twee Rivieren, onward, the visitor experience is a good one. Everything is clean, works and is well maintained in the rest camps. The staff are invariably courteous and friendly.

Twee Rivieren shop is the best in the Park. You can stock up there on essentials for the wilderness camps with those things you've forgotten to get in Upington. The restaurant is unique in the Park and should be experienced. There is also a kiosk for takeaways which seems mostly to be used by staff and building and maintenance workers. It's cheap and can provide the toasted ham, cheese and tomato sandwich of fond memory from visits to other SAN parks.

Before you leave, top up your fuel and inflate/deflate your tyres at the filling station. There, too, service and facilities have improved since our last visit two years ago." See all these reviews: 16n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Average
Facilities:
Excellent
R & J
Edinburgh

"Twee Rivieren Rest Camp review"

2 nights Arrived 4 Sep 2016
"A perfectly good place to stop off at the beginning of a Kgalagadi trip.

Nice clean chalet and a decent restaurant (though my vegetarian platter turned into a venison pie). We actually saw a huge amount of wildlife whilst driving around on our day here, including a meerkat colony.

We went on organised morning and evening drives and saw many animals including wildcat, genet and cape fox." See all these reviews: 15n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Good
Service:
Good
Activities:
Average
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Average
Facilities:
Good
Dr. L & wife
Denmark

"Good starting point for Kgalagadi"

1 night Arrived 21 Nov 2015
"Nice cottage, well maintained. Kind reception at arrival to Twee Rivieren. Polite staff.

You can buy quite a lot of basic groceries in the shop including meat.

OK restaurant and fine little pool. Good place to start the trip." See all these reviews: 10n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Mr D & Ms P
Dursley

"Twee Rivieren Rest Camp review"

1 night Arrived 9 Nov 2015
"Comfortable although not luxurious self catering. Good facilities in accommodation.

Basic facilities in the camp. Good location for game viewing." See all these reviews: 11n in Namibia; 4n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Mr & Mrs H
Dorset

"A good final stop"

1 night Arrived 27 Oct 2015
"Whilst you could easily combine an early morning game drive from Mata Mata with a drive back to Uppington we had decided to spend our final night in Twee Rivieren. This enabled us to enjoy the morning and the drive down to Twee Rivieren without feeling any time pressure.

Our evening game drive culminated in watching a pride of lions marching to and drinking from the waterhole just outside the camp. Our morning game drive had the excitement of seeing 5 cheetahs (a mother and 4 grown up cubs). This put the icing on the cake for our visit to the park." See all these reviews: 10n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Good
Mr & Mrs H
Dorset

"Comfortable camp with good facilities"

2 nights Arrived 19 Oct 2015
"The chalet allocated was good. As this was our first entry into the park we had to go through the formalities of park entry and obtain our permit. This was easily done although I suspect if you arrived at a busy time there would be some delay.

We booked a sunset drive which was excellent value for money. We left the rest camp at 1800 returning at 2100 which covered about 90 mins before sunset with the rest being a night drive. There was lots of night activity and the guide was extremely knowledgeable. At the time if you self drove you had to be back into the park by 1900 so you do see things you wouldn't on your own.

On our first game drive we took the Mata Mata road. Unfortunately we saw next to no game along this route and indeed every subsequent time we drove this route for the first 20 km along the road from Twee Rivieren we saw no game. We may have just been unlucky but we had superb sightings along the Nossob road so would recommend starting with that route unless current information indicates to the contrary. There is a sightings board next to the shop which is always worth a quick look before setting out.

The restaurant at the rest camp was excellent. You book a table at the shop." See all these reviews: 10n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Good
Mr & Mrs D
Winchester

"One Meerkat Safari !!"

1 night Arrived 6 Feb 2015
"After a long day of travelling we were not sure what to expect at Twee Rivieren - the first of our National Parks self catering accommodation . What a pleasant surprise! We were greeted in reception by a lady with a big smile who was very helpful and pleasant. When we asked about the timings for our drive the following day she handed us over to a Ranger who gave us advice about the varying road conditions and timings for various parts of our travels through Kgalagadi . He also kindly gave us a few tips about the 4WD system on the Toyota Hilux.

We were directed to our accommodation no. 25 - a family unit.! The 2 twin bedded bedrooms were air conditioned, there were 2 further beds in the 'living room' and a well equipped kitchen area ( with a double hob but no oven ) and , of course, shower and toilet facilities. It was very clean and comfortable - so much better than we had anticipated.

We decide to eat at the, on site, restaurant where we had a very nice meal ( enormous portions!) . At the time we felt service was a little slow but in retrospect it was the we hadn't quite switched into Africa mode - slower pace of life and so much nicer than the frenetic lives we live in the U.K.

After a good nights sleep we awoke early , refuelled the vehicle , shopped at the well stocked shop for the bits that I had failed to purchase in Uppington . Collected our park permit from the gate - all permits are kept overnight by park officials," See all these reviews: 12n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs D
Harrow

"Twee Rivieren Rest Camp review"

1 night Arrived 18 Jan 2015
"We had the same chalet twice. It was spacious. It was in reasonable condition, adequately equipped and clean.

At Twee Rivieren electricity is available 24hrs a day. There is airconditioning in the chalets. The shop is open for most of the day.

We tried the restaurant for one evening meal. The meal was good and the restaurant itself was pleasant (and very different from the park board restaurant of some decades ago)." See all these reviews: 7n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Good
Service:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Mr & Mrs W
Warwick

"Good launch pad for safari in Kgalagadi"

1 night Arrived 30 Aug 2014
"Our luxury chalet was located at the far end of the accommodation at Twee Rivieren overlooking the campsite. It's fairly new, and so it is well kitted out, comfortable and having all mod cons.

The restaurant was uncrowded and food from the simple menu was generally well cooked and so can be recommended as the best in Kgalagadi (OK, it's the only one.)

Use the shop as well. It has the widest range of stock in the park." See all these reviews: 13n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Good
Service:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Average
Facilities:
Average
Mr & Mrs P
Purley

"Twee Rivieren Rest Camp review"

1 night Arrived 28 Aug 2014
"Quite acceptable for a state restcamp with reasonable courtesy from all staff.

Food very acceptable in the circumstances although breakfast left a little to be desired." See all these reviews: 9n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Average
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
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