Reviews of Little Ruckomechi
Wildlife sightings and reviews
1 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Little Ruckomechi and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa
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"Little Ruckomechi review"
Our tent was well equipped and very comfortable but a bit smaller than at the other camps that we visited. It was also the only camp that didn’t have an outdoor shower.
During our stay (3 nights) we were the only guests in camp and the team was fantastic really making us feel like part of the family. The food was also good although dinner was probably not quite up to the standard of, say, Chikwenya.
The camp offers a good range of activities: game drives, canoeing and boat trips on the Zambezi and guided walking. Having done canoeing and boating at Chikwenya, we passed on the canoes but did a combined boat and game drive on one morning. Apart from that we stuck to the game drives as the viewing was excellent with a very good and enthusiastic guide.
Although it is a small camp, there are other camps in the area and therefore a number of vehicles out at any given time. The game viewing was excellent with a number of sightings of Lion and Leopard and a couple of Cheetah in addition to many sightings of Elephants, Hippo, Zebra, Eland and other antelopes. The variety of birds was also high." See all these reviews: 10n in Zimbabwe; 4n in Botswana
Cheetah
2 sightings
Eland
4 sightings
Elephant
10 sightings
Hippo
10 sightings
Leopard
4 sightings
Lion
7 sightings
Zebra
5 sightings
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