Tips 👏
- Our campsite was wild but organised, with wifi at the reception, wet toilets and showers and other folks close-by.
- Incredible place to see Elephants and Lions.
- There’s an airstip nearby to bring client going to lodges. Useful in case of vital emergency.
🏠 Accommodation
We stayed at Kwai Campsite which was booked by the organisation. Organised wild camping ran by local community, with basic facilities and some wifi.
🚲 Getting there
We got driven there by our guide Rock, which took the whole day from the delta by doing game drives on the way.
⏱ Duration
We stayed three nights there which was perfect. Very convenient area, with lots to see around.
Road to Kwai 🚚
Once we reached the car in the delta, we made our way to Kwai with calm. We started the car around 10AM and arrived at the camp already set by Partner around 5PM. That was the perfect time to enjoy a nice shower with a view, have dinner, share some stories around the bonfire before going to bed early.
The drive from the delta to there was fairly long and solely composed by sandy and bumpy roads. However our guide Rock used this as a game drive time, and took some detour to track local wildlife. Thanks to his knowledge, we saw plenty plenty and from very close. Once we entered officially the reserve, we manage to saw antelopes, elephants and giraffes from very close. But the highlight was a pack of 16 lions with cubs and another one of four nearby digesting their lunch, resting in the shadows, just incredible!
Various game drives 🦁
The two full days we spent in Kwai were composed by the same program: early wake up around 5:30AM, morning game drive until 11AM, lunch and siesta until 4:30PM, afternoon game drive followed by sunset break with beers, dinner, stories around bonfire and early bed. That was proper simple and relaxing, and we saw tons of animals.
The campsite was located very close to the river, so we got lucky enough to got greeted by a pack of wild dogs one morning at breakfast, as well as three wandering elephants passing by during our siesta time.
During our various game drives, we managed to not only seeing animals relaxing, but also animals feeding. While we saw (by this time we were used to it) the classic giraffes, elephants, pumbas, zebras and hippos, we also managed to see one hyenas as well as two lions feeding on an antilope early morning, and a very rare leopard that was finishing his dinner. Note that we managed to see the same leopard twice by going back in the same area the next day.
Just to flag, observing animals feeding is natural but can be quite disturbing, specially right after the hunt. It’s absolutely fine to not want to watch it, and feel free to tell to your guide. Barbara didn’t wanted to see and we simply drove away.
Another highlight of this area was going to see elephants and their babies going to drink in the river at the sunset. Rock brought us there with fresh beers, and we could admire the spectacle of seeing around 30 elephants rushing from the bushes to the water to cool down and drink after a hot day. Some were very curious of the cars and checked-us out from a meter away!
After those awesome three days, we left the camp at 7:30AM, got lucky enough to see a herd of buffalos on our way out, and started our long and dusty drive to Savuti our next stop.
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