Reviews of Twee Rivieren
Wildlife sightings and reviews
38 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Twee Rivieren and kindly agreed to share their thoughts. They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa
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"Perfectly good stopover at entry to the Park"
The lodge is functional and there is no game watching apart from the organised evening drive. The journey here was a very easy 3 hours from Upington. Staying awake after the flight will be the main challenge! Stock up with all the essentials at Pick and Pay in the centre of Upington. You can't miss it!
Obviously you need to fuel up at Twee Rivieren. Also you need to reduce tyre pressures for the sandy roads in the Park. The petrol station staff were very helpful with this operation. Our Nissan double cab had a spare petrol tank fitted. Very useful but the design means that putting 50 litres in takes a full half hour, due to continual air-locks." See all these reviews: 7n in South Africa
"Twee Rivieren Rest Camp review"
We had expected something far more basic, and yet everything we needed was provided, it was good to be cooking our own food and the AC was so powerful, we were really warm at night.
The next morning we discovered that we had a puncture, and several adept men who were waiting for their parties to take them into the Kgalagadi stepped forward to help." See all these reviews: 24n in Namibia; 11n in South Africa
"Twee Rivieren Rest Camp review"
"Twee Rivieren Rest Camp review"
"Twee Rivieren Rest Camp review"
"Well organised camp as base"
Good shop and Restaurant.
As Kagalgadi Transfrontier Park is essentially a self drive experience, which is what we wanted, the activities are not extensive but adequate." See all these reviews: 7n in Zambia; 6n in Botswana; 2n in Namibia; 2n in South Africa
"Back to Twee Rivieren Rest Camp "
Meals in the restaurant were again excellent." See all these reviews: 11n in South Africa; 3n in Namibia
"Uppington to Twee Rivieren Rest Camp"
When we arrived there was some confusion among the staff about our accomodation but this was quite quickly sorted out. We were rather later in arriving as the plane from Jo'burg to Uppington was late leaving Jo'burg (the driver of the shuttle bus on the tarmac didn't know which was our plane as a smaller one was substituted at the last minute) which didn't give much time to get to the rest camp having gone into Uppington to pick up supplies at the supermarket. Also we took some time looking over the car as there was some damage to it when it came in from Kimberley. The road into the rest camp was quite badly churned up by the big plant being used to tarmac the drive. The drive in therefore took us longer than expected.
The camp rules weren't terribly obvious and nothing was spelled out to us. Perhaps a one page flyer could be prepared and given to visitors. I cannot comment on the activities as we were not aware that there were any. The shop was also not very well stocked but as I said, we had stocked up in town before leaving for the camp. No English-language guides were available." See all these reviews: 11n in South Africa; 3n in Namibia
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