September 2008
Oddballs was very special. The camp personnel were there to greet us at the airstrip and took good care of us for our two day stay. We had a full-day mokoro trip the second day with a packed lunch and we saw many different kinds of animals. My son celebrated his 18th birthday at Oddballs and Michelle arranged for a cake and celebration from the staff. Great attention to detail. I've recommended Oddballs to friends and I hope to go back someday.
Brooks Berry
September 2008
Our stay en Oddballs Camp, was perfect, people very friendly and profesisonaly, very, very good.
Pilar Pozo
August 2008
Oddballs Camp was of course not luxurious but well run and again the food and guides were good.
Lorraine Mascarenhas
August 2008
Oddballs is a dream come true. The management is very professional and saw to all our needs. They treated us as if we were there only visitors. Our guide Kagiso was brilliant. He saw to all our personal needs and our safety. He is a true asset to Oddballs.
All in all we had a magnificent holiday. Thanks to everyone who arranged it.
Nicolene Potgieter
August 2008
Stay at Oddballs - In general this excellent and mostly what I had expected. Our guides, Kagiso and Philemon were ideal. Kagiso's knowledge of the fauna and flora of the delta is to be marveled at. Joyce and MD at the main camp were the perfect hosts. The camping experience at Oddballs was a real delight and we all enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.
Patrick Buerger
July 2008
The flight and stay at Oddballs also worked out well. Everyone enjoyed the mokoro trips and the friendlly atmosphere at camp. The guides knew their trade well, both in handling the mokoro and on explaning about the delta, fauna and flora... Again the staff did everything possible to make our stay pleasant.
Geir Michalsen
July 2008
Oddballs will remain my personal favorite and I think the rest of the group would say the same. We felt welcomed and were immediately immersed in the rhythm and sights and sounds of the Delta. Our guides met us at the plane and stayed with us until we left. We became one group enjoying each others company, learning about each other and being led on some amazing adventures. We had a great experience, seeing leopard, lions, elephants in our camp ground, hippos and crocs in the water, giraffes walking across the island from us….
Mary Lee Fay
July 2008
We were made to feel very welcome at Oddballs by the management team, catering staff and all the guides. TK was fantastic to have as a guide and the way that we were looked after, especially on our first night at Oddballs, was wonderful. In all, top-class 5-star service!
Our stay at Oddballs was perfect. It's a stunning setting, very relaxing atmosphere and we just wish we could have spent more time in the camp on hindsight. However, our 4-night mokoro safari was execatly the way we wanted to experience the delta. We saw, heard, smelt, avoided and stalked all kinds of things. To spend 4 days exploring one of the world's richest and most important ecosystmes in a traditional dug-out mokoro being guided and taught by the person who hand-crafted it is something very special indeed!
The trip to the village on the last morning was a really inspiring experience for us - because I work in the environment sector here in the UK, it was inspiring to see how the people in the village made good use of waste materials in such a sensitive environment. It was also pleasing to learn about the agreements around land and sustainable hunting in the area. I just hope that more people go there willing to learn rather than just to buy a bowl or mat and take photographs!
Again, just from my experience having visited many lodges over the years and having seen the sector from the client, guide and marketing points of view, I would say that the opportunity to travel in a traditional mokoro is very special and while I know there are sustainability issues around the raw materials, it is a unique experience worth marketing and holding on to where possible.
Neil and Chloe Aldridge
July 2008
ODDBALLS CAMP: 3 nights was perfect! Absolutely fantastic. Service excellent. Accommodation great in dome tents on wooden platforms. Mattresses were a little thin, so I think this may not suit everyone. Food.. unbelievably good. All comments in the guest book praised the food. Guides were excellent and very cautious (and needed to be) when taking us out on walks or in the Mokoro. Elephants visit the camp regularly at night. This was very confronting for us, but exciting, as one stood next to our tent for 30 mins and devoured the shrubbery.
Lighting was mainly oil lamps, but a 9 volt supply via solar power available in the tents. This was a real getaway and so relaxing... no contact with the outside world!
Peter and Barbara Pamphilon
July 2008
The stay at Oddballs was excellent, initially we were disappointed that the tents were not larger, but we adapted. The food, service, style, layout, location was great. The environment was beautiful, the trees magnificent, the night time and day time visits by elephants memorable. We will go again but probably vary our timing, though for a first visit it was the correct choice. The camp was largely empty, I am not sure if the atmosphere would be so good if it was full or even half full. Joyce was the pivot around which the camp operated smoothly. She is a gem; the cooks should be complimented on their creations.
Robin Jones
July 2008
Oddballs Camp:
We absolutely loved our bush camping experience. Our guide, Culture, was wonderful. We didn't quite realize what a complete wilderness experience this would be (thought our guide would have a gun!). But this was one of the most memorable experiences of our lifetime.
Pat Livingstone
July 2008
Oddballs Camp was haven on earth with very friendly staff and guides.
A trip, i would certainly recommend to friends and family!!
Marian von Mitschke-Collande
June 2008
We had great fun at Oddballs, and are very glad we decided to spend two nights camping. Our guide Kitso was savvy and friendly. If we had not had confidence in his bushcraft and good judgement, we would not have followed him unarmed into the bush. Actually getting out for two long walks a day made the trip for us, and the afternoon siesta allowed us to recover from our jet lag. He even netted some fresh tilapia for dinner. He was very careful and looked out for us. He got up in the middle of the night to feed the fire, and on the way back to the base camp, had to gently persuade a stubborn elephant to move out of the way of our mokoro. The food at the lodge was excellent, and the staff there were all very friendly.
May 2008
Oddballs was fantastic
Susan Kerr
May 2008
Everything in place when we got to Maun for our flight to Oddballs. Delta air was very accomodating and the pilot gave a very safe scenic flight. Oddball's staff and guides were out standing. They went out of their way to make sure our stay and mokoro trips were of top service and quality.
Thank you again,
David Hummel
May 2008
Oddballs Camp — Just our style. Nice, but not over the top. Our guide, Julius, has worked for Delta Camp in the past and we were most impressed with his knowledge, skills and kindness.
Erin Ellis
May 2008
Oddballs Camp Great place, very nice guides, good food; we particularly liked the mokoro transfers and the walking, even if this keeps animals at a distance.
Anton Tschopp
March 2008
Our safari experiences were amazing particulary the walking safaris at Oddballs. We would most certainly like to go again one day and would recommend you to any one we know thinking of doing the same. Our expectations have been more than met and we have had such fun. Thankyou all so much and for all the time you had to spend altering answering etc.
Hilary and Andrew Smith
February 2008
Oddballs Camp – my husband and I really enjoyed the serenity of this camp. The kids were a little less comfortable with the walk to the bathroom (in the middle of the night) and my daughter (because she was alone)said that the fact that she could hear the hippos feeding during the night so close to her tent made her a little uneasy. We explained that this was the African experience we were trying to expose them to. The food at Oddballs was great. I am not sure that walking safaris are for me but I really enjoyed seeing the local village; a mokoro being made and eventually seeing elephants and giraffes on the first morning there. Our guides were very knowledgeable and amiable.
Lynelle Crawford
January 2008
We loved Oddballs, staff, accommodation, food was great.
Alexander L. Meyer
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