Reviews of Nxamaseri Lodge
Wildlife sightings and reviews
77 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Nxamaseri Lodge and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa
Wildlife sightings by our travellers
Starting in Sep-2018, 11 of our travellers have recorded their wildlife sightings at Nxamaseri Lodge.

Hippo
82% success

Elephant
20% success

Sitatunga
13% success
Mr J & Mrs S
Steyning
"Nxamaseri Lodge review"
3 nights Arrived 12 Nov 2010
"Hosts Jack and Eve Drew V. Good. Only Guests.
Room rustic, basic but ok. Good food.
Fantastic fishing. I caught 6 kilo Tiger. 13.5 lbs.
Mr. P brilliant fishing guide." See all these reviews: 9n in Namibia; 5n in Botswana
Room rustic, basic but ok. Good food.
Fantastic fishing. I caught 6 kilo Tiger. 13.5 lbs.
Mr. P brilliant fishing guide." See all these reviews: 9n in Namibia; 5n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Average
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Average
Mr & Mrs S
Norwich
"Nxamaseri Lodge review"
1 night Arrived 27 Jul 2010
"A great place to stay, surprisingly we were the only ones other than a camera crew.
Really wished we could have stayed longer! Great guide and lovely canoe trip." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana; 6n in Namibia; 2n in Zambia
Really wished we could have stayed longer! Great guide and lovely canoe trip." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana; 6n in Namibia; 2n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs L
Sheffield
"Nxamaseri Lodge review"
2 nights Arrived 16 Apr 2010
"Superb in every aspect - one of our most enjoyable stopovers."
See all these reviews: 15n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana; 2n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs W
Lichfield
"Glad to have started on the Panhandle"
5 nights Arrived 9 Mar 2010
"Having our first stay at Nxamaseri meant that we were able to experience the Okavango River in the Panhandle as the annual surge was taking place: this gave perspective to our visit to the delta. The lodge provided boats to explore the river - fish, birds, and setting - and a vehicle to visit the Tsodilo Hills. Adam was an outstanding guide to all the wildlife, and on the Tsodilo expedition; and knew exactly how to handle the boat for fishing purposes. Jack and Eve provided all the welcome, support and advice that we could have asked for: including enabling us to re-arrange our itinerary with Expert Africa when this needed to be amended.
Maybe because we were the only visitors, this was a less formal camp than the two we stayed in in the delta. The excellent cooking and meals were 'home' rather than hotel-style.
This is not a location to be visited if big game viewing is an objective, as its brochures make clear. But it is an outstanding facility for appreciating the ecology of the delta, with people who have both the expertise and the commitment - and the literature - to explain it.
NB to anglers: for tigerfish, take standard big pike spinners with good quality hooks, and the best traces you can find (at least 20lbs bs.) Lightish rod OK." See all these reviews: 14n in Botswana
Maybe because we were the only visitors, this was a less formal camp than the two we stayed in in the delta. The excellent cooking and meals were 'home' rather than hotel-style.
This is not a location to be visited if big game viewing is an objective, as its brochures make clear. But it is an outstanding facility for appreciating the ecology of the delta, with people who have both the expertise and the commitment - and the literature - to explain it.
NB to anglers: for tigerfish, take standard big pike spinners with good quality hooks, and the best traces you can find (at least 20lbs bs.) Lightish rod OK." See all these reviews: 14n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs A
Hants
"Okavango River experience"
2 nights Arrived 6 Oct 2009
"The chalets were open-fronted and open under the eaves. This was unfortunate because:
(1) there was no safeguard against the predations of the local vervet monkeys, and
(2) the chalets were not proof in any way against insects from stagnant water which was everywhere around (the river was at its highest level for over forty years). We both got badly bitten by insects other than mosquitoes.
This was run essentially as a fishing camp, although there was plenty of birdlife, etc as an alternatve occupaton. Good guide." See all these reviews: 13n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana
(1) there was no safeguard against the predations of the local vervet monkeys, and
(2) the chalets were not proof in any way against insects from stagnant water which was everywhere around (the river was at its highest level for over forty years). We both got badly bitten by insects other than mosquitoes.
This was run essentially as a fishing camp, although there was plenty of birdlife, etc as an alternatve occupaton. Good guide." See all these reviews: 13n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Average
Location:
Good
Service:
Average
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Poor
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Average
5 friends
Amsterdam
"Beautiful birds at Nxamaseri Lodge"
2 nights Arrived 10 Aug 2009
"A beautiful secluded spot for a restful visit to the Okavango Delta. Excellent guide for birding trips on the water - rich variety of the local bird life. Fantastic sunrises and sunsets!
The service was very personal. The chalets themselves gave a lot of privacy, but didn't have a proper front wall. You could solve this - if you didn't want to be brave at night - by pulling down a transparent tent canvas." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia; 5n in Botswana
The service was very personal. The chalets themselves gave a lot of privacy, but didn't have a proper front wall. You could solve this - if you didn't want to be brave at night - by pulling down a transparent tent canvas." See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia; 5n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good
Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Mr & Mrs A
Maida Vale
"One of the highlights of our holiday"
3 nights Arrived 2 May 2009
"We visited Nxamaseri in May after unusually heavy floods and we thought the area was absolutely stunning. The boat transfer to the lodge is an amazing experience in itself through the most beautiful wetland area.
We thought the lodge itself had a lot of character and charm. The (relatively new) managers are a delightful South African couple who really looked after us well.
Our guide was very good on birds and we saw lots of species on our boatrips (with a bit of walking on dry land) even though this was not the best time of year for birds.
We'd love to go back and visit the lodge again at a different time of year.
Day trip to Tsodilo Hills - We really enjoyed this trip although a lot of of the rock art we saw had been damaged by human contact and therefore was a little disappointing. However a couple of times we did some rock scrambling to get up a bit higher and the condition of the pictures was much better once we got away from the most accessible areas.
Nevertheless we did think the trip was worthwhile to soak up the general ambience of the place and find out about its history. It took us about one and a half hours from Nxamaseri (including the initial boat transfer) and the lodge provided us with a very splendid picnic lunch which we ate on a table and chairs under the trees.
We also 'visited ' a San village near the hills. I felt a little doubtful about doing this but our guide said they welcomed visitors to sell their shell jewellery. I bought a couple of necklaces - we didn't look round the village, it wouldn't have been appropriate and I would not suggest visiting unless you're going to buy something." See all these reviews: 10n in Namibia; 3n in Botswana; 2n in Zambia
We thought the lodge itself had a lot of character and charm. The (relatively new) managers are a delightful South African couple who really looked after us well.
Our guide was very good on birds and we saw lots of species on our boatrips (with a bit of walking on dry land) even though this was not the best time of year for birds.
We'd love to go back and visit the lodge again at a different time of year.
Day trip to Tsodilo Hills - We really enjoyed this trip although a lot of of the rock art we saw had been damaged by human contact and therefore was a little disappointing. However a couple of times we did some rock scrambling to get up a bit higher and the condition of the pictures was much better once we got away from the most accessible areas.
Nevertheless we did think the trip was worthwhile to soak up the general ambience of the place and find out about its history. It took us about one and a half hours from Nxamaseri (including the initial boat transfer) and the lodge provided us with a very splendid picnic lunch which we ate on a table and chairs under the trees.
We also 'visited ' a San village near the hills. I felt a little doubtful about doing this but our guide said they welcomed visitors to sell their shell jewellery. I bought a couple of necklaces - we didn't look round the village, it wouldn't have been appropriate and I would not suggest visiting unless you're going to buy something." See all these reviews: 10n in Namibia; 3n in Botswana; 2n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mrs F
Nottinghamshire
"Nxamaseri Lodge review"
2 nights Arrived 14 Nov 2008
"our favourite lodge with Chobe. we had difficulty with meeting up as our mob phones would not work, so they didn't know when to expect us and blue 4wd turned out to be green.
lovely atmosphere, wonderful lady-Lisa running it (locum) and great to have own guide.L ove to return only comment would be poor breakfast - nothing cooked, we felt even boiled eggs would have been good. lunch and dinners excellent" See all these reviews: 10n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana; 2n in Zambia
lovely atmosphere, wonderful lady-Lisa running it (locum) and great to have own guide.L ove to return only comment would be poor breakfast - nothing cooked, we felt even boiled eggs would have been good. lunch and dinners excellent" See all these reviews: 10n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana; 2n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Mrs B
Hampshire
"Nxamaseri Lodge review"
2 nights Arrived 14 Nov 2008
"Beautuful situation very helpful and knowledgable guide assigned to us for whole stay, but we did have trouble making contact at the road, their sign is tiny and mobil phone signal was nonexistant.They thought we should have rung the previous evening, but this wasnt clear in the briefing.In typical english way we were afraid to misjudge times and keep them waiting.
It was the only place wher strangly enough they didnt offer some sort of cooked breakfast, which was strange,because the rest of the food especially the lunch was delicious, It would have been nice to have something however simple especially when going on a boat trip at 7am." See all these reviews: 10n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana; 2n in Zambia
It was the only place wher strangly enough they didnt offer some sort of cooked breakfast, which was strange,because the rest of the food especially the lunch was delicious, It would have been nice to have something however simple especially when going on a boat trip at 7am." See all these reviews: 10n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana; 2n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent
Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Mr D & Mrs L
Cumbria
"a perfect place to relax."
3 nights Arrived 15 Sep 2008
"Very much a place for peace and relaxation.
The car was left at the local village and we did not have any problems driving on the sand, as our vechicle was not a 4x4.
On arrival, Kat made us welcome and even laid on food as we had missed lunch. Rooms were different with the open view, insect spray and nets were provided.
Execellent place for fishing and bird watching." See all these reviews: 12n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana
The car was left at the local village and we did not have any problems driving on the sand, as our vechicle was not a 4x4.
On arrival, Kat made us welcome and even laid on food as we had missed lunch. Rooms were different with the open view, insect spray and nets were provided.
Execellent place for fishing and bird watching." See all these reviews: 12n in Namibia; 4n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good
Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Average
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