Chada & Greystoke - the best part of the trip

We spent the last ~10 days in Nomad camps and I wanted to write and tell you that this time was definitely the best part of our trip. We were really impressed with the superb quality of the Nomad team and facilities.

Chada Camp - Kristen and Mark are wonderful hosts and managers. We felt welcome and incredibly well taken care of. We really enjoyed their company at meals, their knowledge and passion for Africa, the wildlife, Katavi Park .... Our guide at Chada was Gabriel. He is a really special person and by far the best guide we had over our 3 week journey. He is charming, fun, incredibly knowledgeable about fauna (from the smallest bird to the big mammals) and flora, intuitive about our interests, just top-notch (and his English is quite excellent). The rest of the staff at Chada were also wonderful - attentive, warm and friendly.

Mahale Camp - We loved the setup, the bandas are beautiful as is the public areas. Both Paul and Lazarro did a nice job guiding us both with the chimps and on extracurricular walks. Lazarro in particular went above and beyond taking us on a wonderful monkey / baboon spotting trek. Staff at Mahale were also good. The only major negative at the camp when we were there were the tsetse flies - which definitely made the beach and swimming / kayaking pretty much impossible. I suspect nothing to be done about that - except I will definitely advise folks to avoid tsetse season if they come to Greystoke :-(

In any case, we look forward to visiting other Nomad camps in the future - thx for a great experience.

DG - October 2010

(Nomad writes: the tsetse's have been particularly bad this year, more so than usual, but mainly only found along the forest edge. We have been in touch with TANAPA about putting in more tsetse traps).