Travel reviews by N family from Netherlands

"Overall experience was great. The camp is comfortable and intimate and located in a fabulous spot. Sceneries are magnificent, with the dead trees emerging from the lake and we got the most beautiful sundown pictures of our whole trip. Getting waken up in the middle of the night by elephants splashing in the lake 10 meters from our hut is unforgettable. The guides are very knowledgeable and fun, entertaining guests around the fire camp with fantastic stories. Jenny and her people took very good care of us and the food was good and plentiful. The most wonderful experience was the tracking of the black rhino on foot. We found a mother and her calf after 2.5 hours of following their tracks and it gave a great sense of accomplishment! Overall we enjoyed the variety offered by the walking, boating and vehicle safari possibilities.

Despite this I only rate the activity part as good instead of excellent for 2 reasons:

- The main one is that the variety of game viewing is limited. Especially the 'large herds of buffalos grazing on the shores of the lake and supporting a large lion population', which are described in all Matusadona brochures, are a thing of the past and they disappeared several years ago, when the level of the lake increased. We did in fact not see a single buffalo or lion. It would be more honest not to advertise this anymore.

- The second (minor) issue we had is that Rhino camp had to share its boat / vehicle resources with a nearby tented camp, which resulted on day 2 in the morning in the unavailability of the jeep our guide had planned to use for a driving safari. The driving safari was replaced at the last minute by “let’s walk around the camp and see what we found”, which was pretty disappointing."

"This safari was excellent on all points: nice balance between the game drives, the walks & the time spent in the hide; great guide, knowledgeable, opinionated, entertaining and a really nice person; plenty of wild life to see.

We got upgraded to a luxurious safari, which means that the comfort, food & service at the camp were perfect. The very small isolated camp & the long walks really lead to a very intimate experience with the bush.

For us it was a perfect safari!"