Travel reviews by Mrs W from Bath
Review Distribution
Total number of trips
1
Countries visited
1
Lodges stayed in
2
Excursions taken
0
Brilliant Trip
Zambia between 10 Aug 2007 and 23 Aug 2007
"This was the best of 3 trips to Zambia- superb wildlife and excellent lodges."
Tena Tena
"Tena is a wonderful camp"
4 nights
Arrived
11 Aug 2007
Excellent
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location
Excellent
Service
Excellent
Activities
Excellent
Rooms
Good
Food
Excellent
Facilities
Good
Chongwe River Camp
"Chongwe is a brilliant camp on the Zambezi"
8 nights
Arrived
15 Aug 2007
"We had an unusually long stay at Chogwe - 8 days. We love game drives but thought we might get fed up with nothing but rattling game drives. But it did not work out like that.
We did a lot of walks - Duncan is brilliant. In the evening we sometimes did half cruise or canoe and half game drive. We went fishing, which we don't, and caught a 50lb Vundu and an 8lb Tiger Fish, and enjoyed seeing them swim away after the photos. Cruising and fishing mean you can get up later than 5.45am - an advantage when you are making a longer stay. We enjoyed the Bush Camp for one night, and would recommend it for two.
The staff are very helpful, and will accomodate whatever activity you choose. The food is worthy of a 5 star restaurant - Russell is a superb chef.
Our only concern about Chongwe is the wild elephants in the camp each day. Inexperienced guests, especially children, might get into difficulties. Other than this we thought Chongwe was a wonderful camp, and we will go back."
We did a lot of walks - Duncan is brilliant. In the evening we sometimes did half cruise or canoe and half game drive. We went fishing, which we don't, and caught a 50lb Vundu and an 8lb Tiger Fish, and enjoyed seeing them swim away after the photos. Cruising and fishing mean you can get up later than 5.45am - an advantage when you are making a longer stay. We enjoyed the Bush Camp for one night, and would recommend it for two.
The staff are very helpful, and will accomodate whatever activity you choose. The food is worthy of a 5 star restaurant - Russell is a superb chef.
Our only concern about Chongwe is the wild elephants in the camp each day. Inexperienced guests, especially children, might get into difficulties. Other than this we thought Chongwe was a wonderful camp, and we will go back."
Excellent
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location
Excellent
Service
Excellent
Activities
Excellent
Rooms
Excellent
Food
Excellent
Facilities
Excellent
Feedback response
Chris, the owner of Chongwe, comments that Chongwe are in the process of hiring a few “full time ele-minders” for daytime as well as nighttime duty. Basically their job will be to usher guests safely around any ellies in camp.
The camp’s very aware of this issue, and is trying hard to address it; it's particularly acute towards the end of the dry season - and 2007 has been a very dry year in the Lower Zambezi.
The camp’s very aware of this issue, and is trying hard to address it; it's particularly acute towards the end of the dry season - and 2007 has been a very dry year in the Lower Zambezi.
We love the leopards and owls especially. The guiding is superb, especially Kerry, the boss.
The food is great and the whole place is a superb package. an extra bonus is the Kawaza village and school - worth a visit by everyone, to see how rural Zambia works, and how the lodges contribute."