Travel reviews by Mr & Mrs W from Wiltshire

"The camp was extremely luxurious and comfortable - perfect after an arduous journey. There is nothing to fault here. Pels Fishing owl in camp was a highlight for us.
The Jao Flats are exceptionally beautiful and we enjoyed them in a good flood year. Lechwe bounding through the water, elephants having fun in the water, wild dogs hunting lechwe on the flood plain, swallows and martins following our truck - Paradiso"

"Duba Explorers was a wonderful camp - wildlife all around. Staff were very friendly and welcoming, they looked genuinely happy to see us, and nothing was too much trouble.
The cold spell started when we arrived here, but we still loved every moment out in the bush. Highlights included a large herd of relaxed Sable, a family of Ground Hornbills and a Wild Dog hunt which could have easily made the grade for BBC Earth"

"Zarafa camp is outstanding in every aspect - location, design, staff, food, comfort, sightings. Our tent was by a fruiting jackal berry tree - everyday it was full of birds and monkeys. In the downtime it was wonderful to sit and absorb it all.
Our guide was probably the most impressive tracker we have had the privilege of spending some time with - he was going to find the wild dogs for us. On the last day we finally caught up with them and located a new den which was very exciting indeed. We felt truly blessed."

"Duba Plains is our favourite camp. This was our 6th visit and as usual we had special sightings. A mother lion leading her 2 cubs across the flood plain to a kill she had made in the night, a wild dog hunt on the floodplains, 4 adult porcupine with 1 youngster in good view, but even without these the area is stunning and not to be missed.
The staff were again outstanding. There was a staff member who was visiting the camp and it was her job to assess the camp and introduce improvements, and I did feel very sorry for her because I genuinely failed to see what she could come up with!"

"We had Wild dog sighting that you only could really dream about, we saw them for 6 days running, puppies playing, adults hunting and adults feeding. General game was excellent.

The new camp is stunning - 50 nights would not have been long enough!"

"Totally different environment but we loved it here. Not so much game but the Kalahari lions were truly awesome. The honey badgers were delightful, the Oryx graceful and elegant.

This might not be everyones idea of the the best safari but we met a lady who had just arrived and was staying for 3 months. We could have easily joined her."

"We are unable to comment as we were informed there were lions at this camp so we stayed at Jacks Camp.

The weather was terrible - windy & cold but we still had a terrific time. I did not expect the meerkat experience to be so enchanting and our guide Shabba? was really very informative and a pleasure to be with.

The game, as we expected was not all around us but to see this type of habitat with the meerkats makes this, for us an essential add on to any trip to Botswana."

"We loved the location of this camp and the camp manager was inspirational. On the drives we saw lots of game including a family of 6 cheetahs & a pack of Wild Dogs.

However our guide Bali did try very hard but we were slightly disappointed as we had heard/read a lot about the quality of the Kwando guides. He did not seem to be able to position the car very effectively for photos and mis-identified a few birds but to be fair he did try but just was not to the standard we had hoped. Bali did take us at a very long night drive & we saw a lovely Serval which was very nice & we appreciated this.

The Tracker BJ was terrible. He spent most of his time chatting & lost his concentration for frequent & extended periods. We thought it was just us being very demanding but found out later the other couple felt the same & joked they were going to give their tip to my husband as he had spotted 99% of our sightings.

We were meant to stay here for 4 nights but we were getting increasing frustrated so asked if we could go to Lagoon earlier which was not a problem."

"We really enjoyed our stay here.

Our guide Alson and his tracker Baruti were everything we could have asked for. Their tracking ability was unbelievable. How the guides managed to find the 3 cheetah brothers in all that space I will never know. Beruti was constantly spotting animals way before us and we saw lots of anilmals here.

There were many highlights which included following the Wild Dogs hunting, watching them on a kill, spending time at a Hyena den watching the puppies play, watching Wild Dog puppies play, but how Beruti managed to spot a Pangolin in the long grass on a night drive is beyond comprehension.

We never thought we would be lucky enough to see this but then we had never met Baruti before! I loved the mornings at the Lagoon with all the birds in the camp & a lovely tortoise. Every drive yielded a new experience for us."

"There was not as much game here as the other camps but lots of elephants.

We had a rare sighting of the Roan antelope, 3 leopard sightings (all very good at night), some very cute dwarf mongoose and a wonderful sighting of an Aardvark. The camp manager Noreen was delightful & very happy for us when we saw the Aardvark.

The head guide Issac was a truely professional guide who would do anything to help and we thought one of the camp staff called Benson must be the politest man in Africa!"