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Reviews of Nkwali

Wildlife sightings and reviews

238 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Nkwali and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa

Wildlife sightings by our travellers
Starting in Apr-2018, 60 of our travellers have recorded their wildlife sightings at Nkwali.
Lion

88% success

Leopard

93% success

Wild dog

63% success

Hippo

100% success

Elephant

98% success

Giraffe

98% success

Zebra

98% success

Buffalo

86% success

Spotted Hyena

84% success

Wildebeest

27% success

Eland

9% success

Roan antelope

6% success

Aardvark

5% success

Sable antelope

5% success

Pangolin

0% success

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Ms D & Mr B
Berks

"Nkwali Camp"

4 nights Arrived 25 May 2010
"Love the new dining 'room' and swimming pool!

Staff, food, service - all remain excellent, hence this being our third stay at Nkwali.

An added bonus was seeing a leopard every single evening game drive. Stunning!" See all these reviews: 12n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs S
MGC

"Excellent location by river"

4 nights Arrived 13 Dec 2009
"great location and very freindly and knowledgeable staff. We did longer evening game drive one evening thinking it would be just the usual sun downers, but were surpised by staff having got there in advance and set up sun downers on the top of a hill with amazing views!

The start of day with breakfast by camp fire followed by river crossing and foot safaris are a wonderful experience and they are led by friendly and engaging staff.

Food is excellent and we liked having meals with staff and unwinding after a good days gaem spotting and walking." See all these reviews: 17n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
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Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs R
Highgate

"Nkwali review"

2 nights Arrived 6 Oct 2009
"Wonderful first experience of African safaris. Brilliant service. Very comfortable.

However, that part of the park does have other operators in it (we got totally spoiled later at Tena Tena and Nsefu)!" See all these reviews: 9n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Good
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs MB
Farnham

"Fantastic hospitality at Nkwali"

2 nights Arrived 11 Sep 2009
"The hostess Melissa brings a wonderful warmth to the camp, nothing is too much trouble. Everything really is tailored to your needs. When we arrived we were keen to do a walking safari and because we were only staying two nights (big mistake should have been three) we needed to do it the next day. Kiki, the resort manager, personally took us as the rest of the guides had already been allocated to game drives.

The food was great and note that there are English sockets in each room for charging etc." See all these reviews: 11n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs P
Wales

"Lovely Nkwali"

3 nights Arrived 22 Aug 2009
"Food excellent - everything excellent - we did not have a quibble about anything." See all these reviews: 14n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs M
New York

"Unbelievable Time at Nkwali"

2 nights Arrived 31 Jul 2009
"Our entire safari experience has to go down as our most memorable vacation ever. We were impressed with every aspect of our experience here and at Tena Tena, including the knowledge and training of the guides, the quality of the meals (not to mention the charming 'snacks' offered while in the park), the individualized attention we received, and the very real commitment to make sure that each of us thoroughly enjoyed our stay." See all these reviews: 8n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mrs H
Cheshire

"Our favourite place of the whole trip, Nkwali"

4 nights Arrived 27 Jul 2009
"South Luangwa Game reserve and Robin Pope Safaris in particular formed the best part of our 3 week trip to Africa. Loads of game and fabulous birds. Incredible accomodation and wonderful people.

We were privileged to have Kanga as our guide for our whole stay. He is amazingly well informed, friendly, and good with children. He is part of a great team of Guides at Nkwali who make you feel safe yet "out there!" We felt that our stay focused on us and our needs: Our jeep drives were changed to suit our interests and the night drives which proved too scary for the 10 year old were cut out. This involved changing meal times for us which also was done without difficulty.

Melissa the camp manageress was fabulous, we felt well informed and looked after. She handled last minute flight changes without turning a hair!

Jo Pope has great taste and organisational skills and these are reflected in the decor, shop gifts, and meals -no-one has a repeat menu whilst with their safaris!

The abiding memory was the impressively strong role models that the Zambian guides provided and the sense of community within the camp, based on mutual trust. The need for trust cannot be overstated for visitors, completely out of their comfort zones. Robin Pope Safaris understand this and enable you to form good working relationships with their exceptional staff." See all these reviews: 10n in Zambia; 6n in Mozambique; 1n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs M
Northumber

"Nkwali review"

2 nights Arrived 9 Jul 2009
"Good welcome at Mfuwe airport and transfer to camp. Accomodation excellent. Food excellent.

Melissa and team very friendly and looked after us very well. Good wildlife viewing." See all these reviews: 14n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs W
Poole

"Nkwali review"

3 nights Arrived 9 May 2009
"Although this was our first Safari and first visit to the Continent of Africa, the trip lived up to all our expectations." See all these reviews: 7n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr Y & Dr C
Essex

"Nkwali review"

4 nights Arrived 5 May 2009
"This was our fourth visit and we enjoyed some wonderful wildlife again. In one 24 hour period we saw a Leopard hunting in daylight (unsuccessfully), had wine on the river watching the sun go down, a pride of lions at night and a pack of wild dogs the following morning. In between there was a barbeque in the bush under tha stars.

We might have been especially lucky on previous visits, but we wdidn't feel that we were made to feel as special this time. We were not asked by the camp if we wanted to go walking or on a boat trip although these were arranged when we asked. There was a large South African birding group in camp which seemed to take priority and the best guides. Ours was enthusiastic and helpful, but inexperienced.

Another very good experience, but not sure we'd go back to Nkwali. Even at this time of the year we came across a number of other vehicles (admittedly most from Nkwlai or the Robin Pope houses." See all these reviews: 14n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
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