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Dunia Camp
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Dunia Camp

Reviews of Dunia Camp

Wildlife sightings and reviews

53 independent comments and wildlife information from our travellers who have visited Dunia 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 Sep-2018, 15 of our travellers have recorded their wildlife sightings at Dunia Camp.
Lion

100% success

Leopard

87% success

Cheetah

54% success

Wild dog

0% success

Elephant

100% success

Giraffe

100% success

Hippo

100% success

Buffalo

93% success

Spotted Hyena

93% success

Wildebeest

77% success

Zebra

77% success

Black Rhino

46% success

Eland

33% success

Roan antelope

17% success

Aardvark

0% success

Oryx

0% success

Pangolin

0% success

Striped Hyena

0% success

Showing 41-50 of 53
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Arrival date
Mr & Mrs WS
SW London

"Dunia Camp review"

2 nights Arrived 4 Jun 2012
"We absolutely loved Dunia! This was our favourite place of the whole trip. The location is magical, truly in the middle of the bush, and we could hear the wildebeest migration and the hyenas from our tent at night. Richard, Peter and the entire team at Dunia created a wonderful atmosphere and really made us feel part of "Dunia family", especially in the evenings when everyone meets around the fireplace outside to admire the African night skies and exchange highlights of the day's game drives. The service is outstanding with the hot "bucket showers" a particular highlight, the food is excellent, the tent very comfortable and the landscapes around the camp very beautiful.
But it is Patena, our guide, and his trainee, Hamza, who really made our stay unforgettable with a series of superb game drives - we have been on a number of trips and game drives in southern Africa but the quantity of game we saw around Dunia and the quality of the sightings were unrivaled. The first day Patena asked us what we would particularly like to see and when we said we had not seen a leopard yet he found us three leopards that same day! Other highlights included a cheetah with her cub and a close encounter with a stretching male lion. Patena and Hamza also taught us a lot about the different animals, their behaviour and social structure.
Dunia is a real gem and we would highly recommend a stay there to everyone visiting Tanzania." See all these reviews: 6n in Tanzania
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr G & Ms T
Oxon

"Dunia Camp review"

3 nights Arrived 12 Feb 2012
"Richard made us welcome and hospitable. Nice camp good attentive service if lacked a little character." See all these reviews: 11n in Tanzania
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

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

"Dunia Camp review"

2 nights Arrived 17 Sep 2011
"Thompson the guide was excellent-personable and took care of our every need. Extremely knowledgeable about bird names/info. Very flexible when we wanted a change of plans.

Peter the manager was very personable.
Helen really appreciated the hot water bottle in the bed." See all these reviews: 13n in Tanzania
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Mr ES
California

"Dunia Camp review"

2 nights Arrived 15 Sep 2011
"WOW. Best stop of the trip in terms of camp. Unforgettable experience. Peter Ijajara the camp Manager was EXCEPTIONAL as was his back-up crew. A fantasy stop to be sure....

At this point it was clear that ASILIA came across as an impressive operator. Of particular mention is Fazo Mtoro our guide until this location who was EXCEPTIONAL on all LEVELS. He made a VERY BIG difference to the whole experience. Cannot recommend him enough." See all these reviews: 8n in Tanzania
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs B
Kent

"Dunia Camp review"

2 nights Arrived 9 Sep 2011
"Dunia Camp is a wonderful experience. Although looking like its back to basics, nothing can be further from the truth.

The staff were extremely efficient even managing to bring hot water for your gravity shower exactly at the time you requested. They even managed to serve us ice cream in the middle of the day. The food was marvellous even more so considering its location and not being a permanent camp.

Here we had a Dunia camp driver / guide to ourselves. He was very knowledgeable and was even able to find a Black Rhino for us." See all these reviews: 10n in Tanzania
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Good
The L family
London

"Great comfort in the depths of the Serengeti"

2 nights Arrived 10 Aug 2011
"Dunia Camp is situated on a slope in an interesting area of the southern Serengeti. Sunrise views are stunning. We had excellent game drives all around the area of the camp, including amorous lions down by the river.

Our experience at the camp was made by the manager Peter and his smiling, helpful staff. The food was of a high quality, remarkable considering the distance it had travelled. The evening camp fire was welcome in the chilly evenings of August and the communal dining table was friendly. The tents are very spacious and comfortable and the delivery of hot water, morning and evening, very prompt.

The night before our arrival the staff and guests had had a disturbed night caused by a lion making a kill in the camp. All was quiet while we were there apart from the grazing animals snuffling outside the tents." See all these reviews: 14n in Tanzania
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Facilities:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Good
Mr J & Mr B
London

"Wonderful location ,poor facilities"

2 nights Arrived 9 Jul 2011
"A wonderful location with an extensive vista across the surrounding countryside which teemed with a wide variety of animals and birds.

The crowds and traffic jams of the central Serengeti were left behind enabling us to enjoy the solitude of the wilderness with the help of a knowledgeable and helpful guide.

Unfortunately the experience was marred by poor bathroom facilities and a camp vehicle which was unsuited to comfortable game viewing" See all these reviews: 11n in Tanzania
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Average

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Good
Activities:
Excellent
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Average
Facilities:
Poor
Dr & Dr L
Cheshire

"A camp with no boundaries"

2 nights Arrived 8 Jul 2011
"The service, food and standard of the tents was excellent.

The camp manager was very good in ensuring that he knew everything you wanted to do and then made sure that you could do everything.

The Dunia Camp safari guide, Thompson, was good on birds but not experienced enough (as had been our Asilia driver guifde, Vincent Matari) to ensure that we had a fulfilling day in terms of the animals we saw." See all these reviews: 13n in Tanzania; 4n in Rwanda
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Average
Rooms:
Excellent
Food:
Excellent
Mr & Mrs W
Newton Abb

"Dunia Camp review"

2 nights Arrived 11 Sep 2010
"A very nice place to stay." See all these reviews: 9n in Tanzania
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Excellent

Location:
Excellent
Service:
Excellent
Activities:
Good
Rooms:
Good
Food:
Excellent
Facilities:
Excellent
Dr B & Dr G
UK

"Dunia Camp review"

2 nights Arrived 19 Feb 2010
"We booked our holiday very close within a couple of weeks of leaving so stayed here knowing that the sister camp Olakira, which was fully booked, would have been a better bet for seeing the migration, which was in the Ndutu area. The manager of the camp kindly suggested that we do a whole day's game drive to Ndutu with other guests that were transferring to Olakira.

This meant that we managed to see a herd of about 1,000 wildebeest in the NCA. This drive was not for the faint hearted however because it took about 2.5 hours each way and, because Dunia uses open sided vehicles, we got wet when it rained and dusty when other vehicles sped past.

We got a great sense at Dunia of the vastness of the southern plains but were also relatively surprised by the lack of resident game in the area around the camp itself. Game drives seemed to go north to the Seronera area and whilst sightings in this area seem to be good (we saw lion, a leopard a long way away, hippo, elephant, giraffe, ostrich) they are balanced by the fact that probably 6 other vehicles will be looking at the same animal and the guides have to stay on the roads. This also meant that the guiding here seemed to be rather reactive and at times it felt like we were rather aimlessly driving around lots of road waiting for animals to happen to appear at the side of them or waiting to see a cluster of vehicles pulled up at the edge.

The tents at Dunia camp were large with a front seating area, a bedroom, a sink area, flushing toilet and warm bucket shower. The food here was very good. As everyone sat at individual tables and many people were travelling with their own guides, it was not a very sociable camp. We think that 2 nights here was a good length of time for us to stay here and we greatly appreciated the way in which the managers worked hard in order to get us down to the Ndutu area." See all these reviews: 7n in Tanzania
Experience Report
Overall Rating:
Good

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