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Reviews of Kwara Camp

Wildlife sightings and reviews

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

Wildlife sightings by our travellers
Starting in May-2018, 60 of our travellers have recorded their wildlife sightings at Kwara Camp.
Lion

97% success

Leopard

67% success

Cheetah

78% success

Wild dog

75% success

Elephant

100% success

Giraffe

100% success

Wildebeest

100% success

Zebra

98% success

Hippo

98% success

Spotted Hyena

85% success

Buffalo

82% success

Sable antelope

33% success

Roan antelope

21% success

Sitatunga

20% success

Aardvark

0% success

Black Rhino

0% success

Pangolin

0% success

White Rhino

0% success

Showing 111-120 of 232
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Arrival date
Dr D
Parker

"Kwara Camp"

2 nights Arrived 4 May 2014
"Kwara Camp was most enjoyable and we had a memorable 13 hour all day game drive with lunch in the bush with Tom and his tracker Kelly. This was the best part of Kwara Camp--excellent guides and staff. This was the best game drive our our trip with sightings of lions and over 150 elephants and rather constant game coming into view all day long. Our second game drive found a pack of 15 wild dogs and we watched them for 40 minutes.

Botswana camps and game drives are VERY different from East Africa where we have been five times. The camps are small and intimate. The staff is uniformly superb and knows your name from the beginning. The drives are in beautiful terrain, woods, grasses, water crossings, savannah. AND there are not many animals compared to East Africa. Except for our one all day game drive, the other five days of drives at a total of three camps did not produce many animal sightings. When we did have a good sighting, such as the wild dogs, we spent a lot of time there and learned a lot about them from the guides who seem to know the game on an almost personal basis.

It takes some adjustment to appreciate the Botswana game viewing experience. You have very few vehicles to contend with. The guides have great local knowledge and game viewing is distributed between lots of birds, regular elephant and impala viewing and occasional other antelope, wart hogs, and the rare cat encounter.

Kwara was the best game viewing. However Kwara as a camp was disappointing in terms of our tent and the overall condition of the camp. It had a worn out feel. Our tent was very small with an off-again-on-again hot water shower, holes in the window mesh. The public areas were nice and in better repair but all over a renovation is needed." See all these reviews: 6n in Botswana; 3n in South Africa; 2n in Namibia; 1n in Zambia
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Poor
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Average
Dr B
Miami Beach

"Tree House Tent"

3 nights Arrived 28 Apr 2014
"My stay at Kwara was very nice. Of the 3 lodges I stayed at, the food here was the best. The facilities were wonderful and my room (a tree house tent) offered wonderful views and an area to unwind in the afternoon and evenings.

I saw a number of animals right from my balcony!

The tree house was very nice except for a few details:

1) there was a hornets nest somewhere outside near my shower - I notified the staff about it but nothing seemed to change with the hornets persisting in that area. At night when it was cold, I could go out to shower since there were fewer hornets but this was not as pleasant as I would have hoped.

2) There appeared to be a break in to the room before my arrival and I think baboons may have urinated all over the carpet/rug and the side of the bed in this room. There was a distinct smell of urine at all times. At night, the maid would burn an incense which made the room much more pleasant to sleep in and the smell did not overly bother me.

The games drives were very good and I liked that there was a walking safari and morokoro option here." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr JF
NW London

"Kwara Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 23 Apr 2014
"Kwara camp has an excellent location and a great variety of game - in our 3 days we saw lion + cubs, male lion + kill, cheetah, giraffe, elephant, hippo, wildebeest, baboons, vervet monkeys, wart hog, various antelopes and some spectacular birds.

Activities included game drives, a walking safari and a great boat trip through the Okavango waterways. The rooms are very well-appointed and the facilities good. Our guide and tracker were both great.

The only thing that prevented this being a 5/5 rating was the attitude of a couple of the camp managers, one of whom was somewhat chippy towards western visitors (e.g. uncomfortable comments on colonialism, racism etc), the other showing a lack of real interest in, or enthusiasm for, her job. Otherwise outstanding." See all these reviews: 6n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Average
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Ms J & Ms B
Canada

"Great animal encounters at Kwara"

3 nights Arrived 17 Apr 2014
"Great camp, great encounters with animals.

The guide and tracker were excellent and always tried to accommodate us re bird and photography interests." See all these reviews: 10n in Botswana; 9n in South Africa
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Good
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Good
Mr B & Ms C
Vancouver

"Kwara Camp review"

2 nights Arrived 1 Mar 2014
"At Kwara we had the most adventurous and energetic guide as well as a well versed spotter who participated knowledgeably in our travels." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana; 2n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Average
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Mrs & Mr G
Cape Town

"Kwara camp review"

2 nights Arrived 1 Mar 2014
"We loved our guide - his assurance, sense of adventure, and bush wisdom, and the great rapport between him and his assistant/tracker. It rained a lot but we went out on activities undeterred and had great fun.

Also loved the more indigenous feel of the camp, with its elephants in the garden!

Would be nice if the camp had more sitting/lounge facilities - sometimes there simply wasnt space for all the guests to be in that single lounge space at once." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Mr C & Mrs H
Canada

"Kwara Camp review"

2 nights Arrived 1 Mar 2014
"Kwara Camp had much the same feel as Lagoon - as it is also a Kwando property. As Expert Africa predicted, and as many of the EA reviews indicate, Kwara is not as luxurious as the other camps. The tents are significantly smaller, are older and less well-appointed. Still, the tent was comfortable and met all of our needs.

The managers, TJ and Joseph, were friendly and helpful - though not as visible as OB had been at Lagoon. Our guide, Thomas, and the spotter, Josiah, were outstanding. Thomas is intelligent, articulate, and charming, with a tremendous enthusiasm that is infectious. Josiah is extremely kind and caring and we all enjoyed getting to know him. He's very knowledgeable and the team of Tom and Josh really worked out well. They went way beyond the call of duty with respect to game viewing - one evening taking us on a cross country dash for a fantastic viewing of a cheetah.

One other staff person who stood out for us was Ocean, whose friendliness and enthusiasm were great.

The atmosphere at Kwara is very informal - even more so than Lagoon. For instance, instead of sitting down at the table for 'tea' in the afternoon, there was a kind of small buffet and guests ate standing up or found a soft chair to sit in. We actually found this to be a better plan, since it encouraged people to chat with one another and reduced (at least a little bit) our calorie intake. The food was good." See all these reviews: 7n in Botswana; 2n in Zimbabwe
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Good
Mrs L
Basingstoke

"Great Safaris at Kwara Camp"

3 nights Arrived 25 Feb 2014
"Lovely, traditional camp although the tents are smaller and little more cramped especially with the additional bed. Lovely staff and good food. Our guide, Russ, and tracker, Master, worked very well together especially when driving through the bush and provided some wonderful sightings including two young Leopards up a tree, a Lioness with an eight week old cub and an African Wild Cat in daylight." See all these reviews: 12n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr L
Wales

"Excellent safari at Kwara"

3 nights Arrived 4 Dec 2013
"I very much enjoyed staying at Kwara camp. The tents had everything you could need while still retaining something of an'Old Africa' feel.

Guiding was good and we saw cheetah, elephant ,lion and much more. The guide (George) was a good communicator.

I was able to take a short mokoro trip and a walk.

The camp was well organised and well run and service and food were both excellent." See all these reviews: 9n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Miss H & Mr W
UK

"Kwara Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 21 Nov 2013
"i was interested in seeing Leopard and as there had been a kill we went back several times to see if we could find it/them. in fact we did not see the mother, but did see the cub briefly at night, and it was marvellous. Our viewing might have been longer but unfortunately, whilst I realise it is common practice to share sightings, the next jeep arrived at the spot at high speed and so caused the leopards to move away.

Still, the only 3 vehicles at any sighting, and not following any predator which is clearly stalking prey, seemed excellent rules, and we appreciated the care the trackers and spotters take of their wildlife.

The rooms are fine, although a little more rustic than some camps, but the food was good and I would not worry about any tripadvisor reports to the contrary. The staff are fabulous and Hilda was a star, always cheerful and kind and considerate of the dietary needs of the diabetic in our group." See all these reviews: 6n in Botswana
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

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