Botswana: reviews from our travellers
Original reviews written by our most recent Botswana travellers.
"Botswana Safaris October 2013"
We would be interested to know whether other travellers have given similar negative feedback on Little Kwara. The guide in question has been there for many years.
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Very pleased with the overall service." Read full review: 14 nights in Africa; 13 on a Botswana safari
"African Adventure"
The trip exceeded our expectations and thank you." Read full review: 17 nights in Africa; 7 on a Botswana safari
"A Fabulous and Exciting honeymoon"
We were wined, dined and given a wealth of memorable experiences to recount to friends. Although most of these are about the animals (such as being stuck between a leopard, her baby and a pack of hungry wild dogs), we were also charmed by many of the local people we met.
We also felt the combination of our 3 camps was good - the intimate rustic charm of the Kwando-run Little Kwara, the outstanding quality of Wilderness-run Duma Tau and the Wilderness marketed 'franchised' Tubu Tree which probably had the best balance in terms of intimacy and quality but sadly lacked animals.
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We are very happy with the service we got from Expert Africa and Megan in particular. Can't be faulted. In a good way, there were no real surprises to our trip - the picture was as she had painted it. We appreciated this. Thanks Megan.
On this feedback form when I pressed 'back to previous page' for the first time (when I was on page 3) I lost all of the comments on page 3. I may be wrong but I don't think I was warned about this. Perhaps below the 'back to previous page' button you could say please save first." Read full review: 8 nights in Africa; 8 on a Botswana safari
"Botswana October 2013"
Not yet - this was our most enjoyable safari in every way.
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Nothing - our experience with Expert Africa is always excellent" Read full review: 9 nights in Africa; 7 on a Botswana safari
"Feedback"
The only thing I would ahve changed was not to stay at Muchenji. It was my preference that we stay away from Kasane in a more remote environment but I hadn't fully appreciated the distances and the amount of travel time involved to visit the NP and river.
It was fortunate that we had fleeces with us and I would certainly recommend that all visitors take warm clothing with them for the morning and evening game drives. In my view this should be emphasised more strongly.
Please warn guests that the G&T's served are really, really strong" Read full review: 30 nights in Africa; 10 on a Botswana safari
"Excellence again from EA"
"Our second trip to Botswana, 6 years later."
In spite of (in our opinion) generally less animals and smaller herds, we had many good sightings, very good photography.
Many thanks for organising it and the camps we asked for in spite of rather short notice.
Thank you again for a great safari vacation!
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Your trips, service and help are excellent (we got used to that).
One minor thing - maybe update your Botswana brochure re.: tips. We took US cash as per recommendation, found that the local (camp) brochures raised tips to $15/day. Your brochure is the same as 6 years ago." Read full review: 10 nights in Africa; 10 on a Botswana safari
"My Sep 2013 trip"
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Advice on where to buy pulas was not good. Windhoek airport does not stock pulas in any of the three exchanges. Bank in Namibia (4 tried) also don't sell pulas. Finally bought them in Botswana at Barclays. Other point is that Windhoek airport exhanges do not take travellers cheques." Read full review: 18 nights in Africa; 11 on a Namibia trip
"My Sep 2013 trip"
The combination of Zambia with Namibia worked very well, as we were able to spend time in one of the prime game viewing areas of Africa as well as have the freedom to see things for ourselves once we had the use of our vehicle. We will be back as soon as we can!
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The only suggestion we would have for improving our itinerary would be to spend 2 days driving across Etosha national park rather than one, and staying in the intermediate camp. This would allow more time for game viewing while making the transit on what were quite rough roads.
On the other hand, the gravel road to Waterberg plateau was much better than expected and only took about 20 minutes to transit.
Overall, we were very glad that we had upgraded from a standard car to a SUV." Read full review: 23 nights in Africa; 8 on a Namibia trip
"A wonderful holiday"

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