Reviews of Mwamba Bushcamp
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Mwamba Bush Camp Review
The staff and management of Mwamba did a remarkable job, providing a luxury experience in a camp setting which reverts to bush in the rainy season.
Sylvester was a great guide, but the best experience came in replacing an early morning a drive with session in the hide.
The proximity of the animals, including the mud sprayed from an elephant having a mud bath, was unbelievable.
Experience Africa in a Unique Setting
What a lovely Bushcamp Mwamba was.
The hosts, Lindsey and Craig, were so very pleasant and helpful and provided such a delightful experience in the wilds of Zambia. The guide, Sandy, showed us some lovely terrain on safari and the wildlife was everywhere. We experience hundreds of Cape Buffalo running to the river for a drink one day.
Many elephants and impala, baboons and vervet monkeys were seen around the camp. The location seemed to be on many of the animals normal route so wildlife were frequently seen. We really enjoyed the hide as a way to view the animals and birds in close proximity without disturbing their behavior.
All of the staff were very accommodating, helpful and so polite. You just felt very welcome from the moment you arrived.
We enjoyed the story about how every year this camp is completely dismantled at the end of the safari season when it begins to rain and then rebuilt from scratch in the dry season. It was very comfortable and showering and sleeping under the stars in the privacy of our chalet was a delightful experience. The food was very good and we had no problems with eating even fresh produce.
Mwamba Bushcamp review
Craig and Lindy were amazing managers.
Sylvester may have been our best guide ever. He probably saved our lives from a charging elephant, we were on a walking safari.
Still the traditional bush feel
Has retained its bush character and style. Still one of our favourites. 4 rooms has made activities more flexible as long as you have 2 walking guides in Camp. Everything worked like clockwork.
Sandy was a great guide and walks were possible every day.
Waterhole hide was fabulous for mid day viewing. Game excellent.
A great 3 Nights
It has been a while since we last visited Mwamba and whilst there have been a few changes these have only improved the experience.
Everyone goes out of their way to ensure you have a great time and the game viewing was outstanding.
Mwamba camp 24-27 July
My second visit to Mwamba - this time I brought 3 friends with me. As last time, we had Craig and Lindy as hosts and the superb Patrick as our guide.
This place has a real 'bush' feel, with reed walls and roof and an open air bathroom - but delivered with real style and panache. The hide in the camp overlooking the water hole is an added bonus, and we all had some great sightings of birds and animals from there. But Patrick's skill at interpreting alarm calls of baboons and squirrels, and knowing from them what was about and in which direction must be unsurpassed
We had wonderful game drives with him, and also a morning walk in the bush. The walk was something I would particularly recommend to anyone going to S Luangwa. Patrick spotted a headless baboon in a tree, and when we returned later with the vehicle we were rewarded with viewing mum leopard and her two baby cubs - a real magical 30 minutes spent watching them.
Carig and Lindy always busy in the background looking after our comfort, and did that very well - the sloshing of the hot water into our shower bucket always arrived just at the requested time!
A lovely camp to stay in - combining luxury and a real feel for being out in the bush wonderfully.
The best at Mwamba
This camp was very special, we loved it here, our guide Andrew was very special and Craig and Lindsey were wonderful, we had 3 nights here but wished we could have stayed longer, Thankyou for such a great time.
Read more about the whole safariWe Love Mwamba Bushcamp!
We loved our stay at Mwamba Bushcamp. It's rustic, relaxed and surrounded by wildlife. Elephants peering over the bathroom wall, the sound of lions and a great hide for lunchtime entertainment.
Eve, Lyndie and Craig were superb hosts and the food was excellent. Superb work by the chef (Zacks).
We really enjoyed having a single guide for our stay in the camp - allowing us to build up a relationship with our guide Andrew. The game drives were excellent - we saw lots of wildlife (16 members of the Mwamba/Kaingo pride), great photographic opportunities and we loved the locations for morning coffee and sundowners. Andrew was a great guide - enthusiastic and committed, good company, informative and gave us a welcome window into Zambian life.
We'll be back!
Mwamba - rustic but not roughing it!
The location of Mwamba gives it a truly remote feeling, where the boundaries between natural bush and the camp are very blurred. The four reed and thatch chalets are well hidden under the trees with spacious open-air bathrooms. Plentiful hot water for the shower and hand basin are provided by a bucket system, which can be requested on demand, or delivered at a set time. The provision of electric charging points for camera batteries etc is a welcome new feature.
Eating and drinking in the open air - be it breakfast, brunch or dinner - is a joy.
All the staff are friendly and helpful. On this visit our guide Andrew Mweetwa showed once again his superb knowledge and bushcraft, and was excellent company. Managers Craig and Lindy were very attentive, and Craig's helpful pointers in the hide were very much appreciated.
The high point of our stay was our first-ever sighting of African wild dogs, Andrew came back from a game drive to fetch us from the camp (where we had elected to stay one morning for an extended hide visit) in order to find them. Great service indeed!
Heaven on earth at Mwamba
Mwamba is for us a magical place. Extremely remote, very peaceful and so unspoiled, that you feel very thankful to be guest of this gem and its beautiful nature. Of course you find wildlife in and around the camp in abundance. For people they are afraid that they may have wildlife in their room, Mwamba is maybe not the right camp.
We do love the hide "Last waterhole". We could sit their for hours.
Guiding and hosting here is on the highest level. Fantastic!
