Reviews of Okonjima Bush Camp

"As always very relaxing,everyone very friendly,game drives expertly managed.

Excellent, will return" See all these reviews: 14n in Namibia

"Excellent service and accommodation all round and the tours were exceptional.

We took an evening tour to see porcupines and honeybadgers, a sunrise tour to track cheetahs and a sunset tour to track leopards. Our guide Daniel was excellent." See all these reviews: 15n in Namibia

"We kept the best to last, this was our fifth visit, and we are now getting to know the staff and the guides as well as the Africat team

The rooms were quite fabulous before but are even better now giving a separate sitting room with wide open windows overlooking the plane , The communal areas are very attractive with loads of sitting areas,

The guides are very knowledgable and apart from tracking the leopards and cheetahs, they spot any thing else that moves, and even showed us footprints and snake tracks.

James has an interest in cheetah anatomy and was able to spend some time talking to Tristan Boheme and his vet again at the Africat.education centre

The staff always make us so welcome, we really hope we can go again before long." See all these reviews: 27n in Namibia

"Guiding was superb." See all these reviews: 27n in Namibia

"We were upgraded to Okonjima Bush Camp which is the more luxurious camp, as were all the other guests in fact. We absolutely loved the place. It was beautiful, luxurious, and we had the best meal of our whole trip there. We wished we could stay for longer.

When we booked we were cautiously told it was a place for rescued cheetahs and that the leopards were collared. That is true but it is an enormous enterprise covering a huge area and there are truly wild indigenous creatures there as well. When the guides were tracking the collared leopards we stumbled upon a wild one as well. The guides are well informed and it was different and exciting to track the collared animals with the radio receivers.

I would go back there and would highly recommend a stay of 2 nights." See all these reviews: 12n in Namibia; 7n in Botswana; 2n in Zambia; 2n in South Africa

"Fabulous place to stay, could have done with longer than one night though.

Good post supper activity seeing two of my favourite animals - porcupine and honey badger." See all these reviews: 13n in Namibia

"Having been prepared to find this camp touristy we were very pleasantly surprised and had a most comfortable and enjoyable stay. The accommodation was spectacular and we could have stayed longer.

If the collars gave a false sense of how easy it was to track down game it was still good to see leopard, cheetah and wild dog in a much larger area than we had expected. Also, good to see honey badger even if the circumstances were manufactured." See all these reviews: 15n in Namibia

"THE ROOMS HAD THE XX FACTOR WITH GOOD VIEWS

THE GAME DRIVE AND SUNDOWNER WAS EXCELLENT ESPECIALLY AFTER FINDING A LEOPARD AND CUB" See all these reviews: 17n in Namibia

"Not such an exciting place as some others but it offers walking trails and real chances to see leopards and cheetahs up close. Great scenery and views too.

One place where they might offer a birding game drive." See all these reviews: 15n in Namibia

"The emphasis at Okonjima has in the past been on the cats that have been saved from farmers traps and then released into Okonjima's reserve. This approach has various reservations attached to it and other, more commercial organisations, elsewhere in southern Africa have featured recently in critical press coverage. We were pleased to see when we got to Okonjima that they now stress that their prime activity is working with farmers to find ways of avoiding conflict between people and animals and developing approaches and techniques to decrease predation by wild big cats on livestock.

The leopard programme seems to be a real success, not least because of 'naturally present' leopards in the Reserve as well as 'rescued' animals. But we felt that the Camp would benefit from being more open about the fact that the three cheetahs and one spotted hyena in the Reserve are very unlikely to form the basis of a breeding population, and in reality their role is to be a visitor attraction and to see out their lives in the reserve.

But that being said, the camp is a very pleasant place to stay, with a resident population of wart hogs who provide entertainment, and a lot of birdlife who can provide hours of interest beside your hut, if you fill the small bird bath that sits outside. It is also a privilege to be able to get so close to leopards, with the aid of the guides and the radio collars on a number of the animals." See all these reviews: 28n in Namibia