We spent 3 nights at Madikwe River Lodge earlier this month. I am going to put some basic info on here that I would have found useful. There are 2 safari drives a day included in your stay - one at 6am (they do a wake up call at 5.30) and one at 4pm. The 6am was always around 3 hours long, the evening one was sometimes closer to 4 hours. In the morning drive, you stop for a hot choc and a biscuit (they leave out some biscuits before you leave as well) and in the evening drive you stop for a drink and snacks as the sun goes down. You have breakfast when you get back from the morning drive and then can relax around the pool or in your room until and after lunch and then dinner is after the evening drive. Both lunch and dinner are 3 course meals with 2 options for each course and breakfast is a buffet plus cooked to order. We had a wonderful time. Our driver (Jerry) was very knowledgeable and great at finding the animals - we saw the big 5 plus cheetahs twice really close to and even a glimpse of a hyena on an evening drive. The lodge was great and really cool for being on the river - apparently there are crocs/hippos which we didn't see but we did see a lot around the lodge - monitor lizards, a bush buck, lots of hornbills, warthogs, a vervet monkey and a terrapin - some other guests even saw a bush baby outside their lodge in the evening. We were travelling with 2 children - a 6 year old and an 8 year old. The 8 year old loved it all - the drives were quite long for the 6 year old but she managed one a day. Would definitely recommend for people who want an immersive safari experience - you could hear hippos, baboons and leopards at night. Oh and the food was great!
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