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

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"Beautiful camp - lovely pool"
Game drives involve a 20 minute boat journey to the jetty where the Land Rovers are parked. This makes a pleasant trip during the day but returning from the night drive in the dark and having hundreds of bugs flying at you as you manoeuvre the channels at speed is not a pleasant experience. Alternatively you could opt to view game from a mokoro. However, while we were staying at Vumbura a Swiss couple had been badly shaken when their mokoro was overturned by a hippo.
Our guide seemed more interested in taking his own photos and pampering to an American in our vehicle. He was also quite difficult to understand. We had been so lucky with guides everywhere else that his faults really stood out and annoyed us. Aside from this criticism it is a beautiful camp with a lovely pool. We saw wild dogs again here, two herds of sable and got some great shots of a leopard hung over the branch of a tree." See all these reviews: 24n in Botswana; 7n in Mozambique; 1n in South Africa
"Simply incredible. A true delta experience."
The landscapes are mindblowing and the wildlife is great. Our guide did an amazing job "reading the bush" to track a leopard, which had just caught a monkey. Probably one of our best memories!" See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana
"Little Vumbura review"
The accommodation was good and well maintained.
Our only concern about this camp was that the food was moderate and often there was not enough of it. This is our second visit to Botswana and this was our 5th camp and we have never experienced this before." See all these reviews: 8n in Botswana; 2n in Zambia
"Little Vumbura review"
Would seriously recommend Okavango Delta as a truly wonderful place to visit, and Little Vumbura as a great camp" See all these reviews: 7n in Namibia; 3n in Botswana; 1n in South Africa
"Superb venue, great game drives"
Our guide Savara was excellent and made us feel as though he was on the same voyage of discovery we were on, even though he has seen it all before. His enthusiasm and manner of explanation are a credit to the team at Little Vumbura.
Even though we had an unlucky start with vehicle breakdowns ( 4 in all!), it did not detract from what was a most enjoyable start to our safari." See all these reviews: 8n in Botswana
"Fifth Visit to Little Vumbura"
Tsessebe 'making up' in a mud wallow, sable 'in flagrante', lion galore, wild dog, 2 hyena females each with twin pups and a first sighting of the uncommon white headed vulture. All this set in the most wonderful golden light that one gets at this time of year.
Our guide was Rain, a highly accomplished, educated and amusing companion on all our game drives. We were also privileged to meet up again with Madala Kay who had been our guide on our last Little Vumbura visit. One of the great men of the delta.
Little Vumbura is a very beautiful place but the change in the reed cover in the area has restricted the boat rides which used to be a key feature of the camp. Nonetheless the game drives amply overcome this limitation and we can happily recommend the camp as a truly memorable experience." See all these reviews: 10n in Botswana
"Little Vumbura review"
We loved every day and were treated like Royals.
We thought that the canoe safari might be a waste of an afternoon however we thoroughly enjoyed the trip and the sundowners with the other guests. It was perhaps the change from so many road safaris." See all these reviews: 9n in Botswana; 3n in Zambia
"Peace on the water"
We again had the gift of wildlife hanging out right by our cabin, similar to Chitabe Lidaba. I think these were various species of antelope cows waiting to give birth. Guiding was excellent as was the food." See all these reviews: 8n in Botswana; 3n in Mozambique; 2n in South Africa; 2n in Zimbabwe
"Little Vumbura - a good few days"
Camp was nice, rooms were clean and well cared for, food was pretty good (although not as good as at Selinda) and staff were friendly.
Going to and from drives by boat was lovely and very picturesque. We did a mokoro trip which is always relaxing and interesting and we really enjoyed that. Game drives were hit and miss in terms of what we saw. We saw sable for the first time and they were beautiful. We also saw a herd of 3,000 buffalo and followed them for a long time.
Because the camp was full, over a 4 days we shared a vehicle with a number of different people. The only disadvantage was that every time we had someone new in the car, it was like we were starting from scratch and we would go back to finding the buffalo to see if the lions were around. This wasn't our guide's fault but more a case of what other guests wanted to do. That said, we had some lovely sightings of a young leopard which were really memorable." See all these reviews: 11n in Botswana
"An amazing time at Little Vumbura"
The game was incredible - we had lenghty encounters with leopards, wild dogs and sable (which we've not seen in Southern Africa for many years). On our first evening drive, we were lucky to witness a very rare and unusual battle between a leopard and her cub and honey badgers - the mother leopard dived into they honey badger sett, dragged the youngster out and ran up a tree, closely followed by the mother honey badget. A fight ensued in the tree in which both honey badgers escaped and bolted back into their sett. The guides were as excited and astounded as we were, never having seen such behaviour before.
We would thororghly recommend Little Vumburu to other travellers." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana
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