Reviews of Shinde Camp
(93%) From 85 travellersThey do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa.
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Beautiful site by the lagoon.
A delightful camp, in a lovely setting by the lagoon, and with very attractive communal areas. Relaxed and friendly staff, led by the manager, Thuso. Excellent food, and the tea with our wake-up call was most welcome.
Our guide, Lucky, was outstanding, with great knowledge of the flora and fauna, which he shared extensively with infectious enthusiasm. He also talked freely about life and society in Botswana. We very much enjoyed the time we spent with him.
Good for wildlife, and our mekoro trip was enchanting. Our paddler, BT, succeeded in spotting a sitatunga (not on your checklist for this camp). Lots of lechwe, reedbuck, tsessebe, a side-striped jackal and many different birds.
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Superb erudite guide kenny
Plane nearly,crash landed on arrival
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We enjoyed the Shinde Camp and were glad to have gotten there as there was no email from Expert Africa to let us know what time are flight was to leave on Oct 15. Very luckily for us the woman at the Maun guest house did the research for us & delivered us where we needed to be.
Great walking safaris with Simon.
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Shinde Camp was the highlight of the trip.
The staff were wonderful, so friends and engaging. Their singing was wonderful. The camp is on the edge of the Okavango Delta so we had excellent trips in a mokoro and on the motor boat.
The guide, Sam, was also excellent and very informative. I felt quite safe when he took us on a walking safari and also a night safari.
Can't recommend this camp highly enough
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Lovely location and staff were very helpful. Food delicious and plenty of it.Loved that there was a choice of land and water activities. The only downside I would have to say it that when sharing a jeep with other people is that you don't learn as much. One day we were lucky enough to have the jeep to ourselves and then the next day we had to share, so we found that we were being given the same information for the new couple that had arrived. Rather frustration when we have come all that way and didn't feel we had learnt anything new. It would be great somehow if each campsite did a short questionaire to see what knowledge visitors already had and would like so that they could put similar people together in a jeep.
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Another good guide - Lucas.
A great place.
I was a bit disappointed that there was no staff recognition of my birthday.
Wonderful camp on edge of delta
Amazing lodge - very well managed with outstanding guides / drvivers
Saw cheetah plus cubs twice , lion , hyena plus cubs , elephant and baby elephant , most antelope inc rare to see tsitatunga and one or two giraffe .Numerous birds .
Night drives excellent and saw numerous hippo plus rare civet and hyena and jackal .... plus the night sky
Power boat / fishing trip good but makoro not very interesting as reeds too high to see anything
Rooms were very well appointed and well serviced including laundry
Food was good but rather short of staff for its service
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It was a bit of a shock coming from the solitude of a mobile camp to a lodge with other tourists, however it was a great lodge and the rooms were fantastic - so spacious and comfortable.
In fact the whole lodge was designed really well - loved how it's been built to incorporate existing trees. Loved the staff and loved the fact that the managers and guides ate with the guests. Far more interesting talking to them rather than just other tourists 😊 Impressed too with how they remembered everyone's names! Food not as good as Andrew's camp but I'm not sure anyone could match that.
Our guide, Ezekiel, was fantastic and really knowledgeable - he also had the most amazing eyesight. Was so easy to arrange different activities through him. Felt that nothing was too much trouble for him - that goes for all the staff there.
Wonderful start to our safari
A very knowledgeable, experienced and enthusiastic manager led an equally knowledgeable, enthusiastic and friendly team. Cleanliness, comfort and catering were of a very high standard. We loved the surprise bush dinners and sundowners.
Wilson was our very friendly, helpful guide who rapidly picked up our interest in birds as well as animals and local history. The mokoro polers were equally forthcoming. All had excellent spotting skills.
There many great game sightings but we all particularly enjoyed watching the fish eagle and saddle-back storks catching and devouring fish.
Our time in Shinde was too short. Safaris included early morning and evening drives of very good length. No opportunity was wasted.
Checklist booklet of birds and animals is a great idea. Thanks
Only minor criticism: no wi -fi connection for BT users
Very attentive staff
On our last night we were treated to a private candlelight dinner...unforgettable
great food, loved the attentiveness of all staff
