Reviews of Muchenje Safari Lodge
Wildlife sightings and reviews
175 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Muchenje Safari Lodge and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa

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"Muchenje Safari Lodge- the trips highlight"
Everything was absolutely excellent, rooms, meals and especially service.
The game viewing Chobe was the best on our trip, Enjoyable, interesting and tiring boat trip and game drives with our guide Rambo." See all these reviews: 11n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana; 2n in Zimbabwe
"first stop in botswana this trip"
a very extensive and varied all-day tour -- two game drives and a 3 hour cruise on chobe river." See all these reviews: 9n in Botswana
"Muchenje Safari Lodge review"
wildlife was outstanding wild dogs observed , 2 leopard sightings & lions a plenty not to mention elephant paradise also numerous sable antelope
all day game drive / boat safari simply stunning
great hosts with excellent food
rooms & main areas are well managed & equipped
staff superb" See all these reviews: 9n in Namibia; 2n in Botswana; 2n in Zambia
"A very good lodge"
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"Muchenje - 2 days recommended"
Viewing hundreds of buffalo moving across the area. Lovely scenery.
Full day safari including the river cruise in a small boat - seeing elephants swim across the river.
Excellent rooms.
Lowlights:-
Empty swimming pool - always told 'it will be filled next day'. it never was!
No radio contact from our vehicle to other vehicles - so we never did see the lions even over four days - even though others were lucky!
Bush walking safari only around small area directly outside the lodge - can not be compared to the walking safaris at Hwange & Shinde'
Mosquitoes and flies very high in this area.
Other guests had been advised by there tour operators that 2 nights at this lodge would be enough and I would agree with this as there is little variety - safari drives seemed to be very repetitive!" See all these reviews: 6n in Botswana; 5n in Zimbabwe
"A lovely camp in Chobe"
All the staff are lovely and everything was very well organised. The chalets have everything you could wish for, mosquito nets are prepared while you are on your afternoon game drive and all clothes could be laundered including underwear which I was not expecting. My only negative would be that the rooms were a little hot but we soon found out that everywhere was hot in Botswana in Sept!
Synack, our guide was great, knowledgable and fun, and as well as the usual early morning game drives we went on the full day out which included the river cruise and the afternoon game drive back from the river. Beforehand I had mixed ideas about whether to do this but we thoroughly enjoyed it even though it was a long day. The only downside to this is that it takes approx 1h by road to get to the river at Kasane where the boat leaves from." See all these reviews: 8n in Botswana; 3n in Zimbabwe
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The large concentrations of elephant are similarly at the eastern end. We only saw occasional solitary elephants close to the lodge." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana; 3n in Zimbabwe
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The boat trip in the Chobe Park was incredible, being so close to the elephants/crocodiles and watching the elephants swim across the river was a real treat
I felt we could have returned back to the lodge after lunch as it was quite a full day with a game drive afterwards. The lodge was quite a long drive from the entrance of Chobe NP and was also very cold when driving along the tarmac road." See all these reviews: 9n in Botswana; 3n in Zimbabwe
"Sophisticated safari"
However, the accommodation, organisation, food and facilities were exceptional; our every need was catered for, right down to the provision of hot water bottles on our early morning game drive.
It was extremely exciting when towards the end of one game drive, we were fortunate to see a pack of wild dogs hunting giraffe." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana; 2n in Zimbabwe
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