Servus!
Habe noch eine Bewertung gefunden, welche baer nicht wirklich überraschende Erkenntnisse liefert. Der Preis liegt offenbar für Touris bei USD 120,-!
Die 4 Zelte stehen am Campground Nr. 10 und in der Hochsaison soll es vorkommen, dass zusätzlich Camper (mit Dachzelt) auch noch dort abgestellt werden!!
Hier noch ein paar Infos:
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LG, Michi
“Tents expensive and easily raided by baboons”
3 von 5 Sternen Bewertet am 6. Dezember 2013
Despite our efforts at reading Trip Advisor reviews and extensive Google-ing, we were not aware that the Third Bridge campsite now offers 4 permanently set tents. Because of the time required to set-up and take-down our rooftop tent, and because of the difficulty of going up and down at night (bathroom necessities etc) with hyena and other predators nearby, we opted for the tents on the spot at the Management’s (Xomaes) office in Maun - in spite of the $120 nightly price tag. The tents are nice, although they are somewhat too-close together . There is hot water, an in-suite bathroom and a shower (attached to the back of the tent but with no roof) and a nice covered porch. Beds are comfortable and there are plenty of zippered windows to open if you want to keep your tent cool. There are also lights powered by solar power. There is no fence around the tents – like the rest of the camp, so animals can pass by your tent - as did a large hippo one morning.
The problem with these tents, and the camp in general, whether you camp or stay in a tent, is the out-of-control Baboons. We discovered that they apparently come into the tents routinely. On our second day we left the tent for 2 hours and we came back to a very messy situation. The contents of our small garbage bag were all over the floor and worse yet, there were baboon feces mixed in with the trash. It took us 30 minutes to clean up the best we could. Fortunately we had not left much in the tent, but there were hairs on the bedspreads and an eerie “hand-print” on the mirror. I thought it was just our tent that had been raided since we did have a few food items such as eggs in the trash bag, but two other tents that had been vacated the day before had the door opened (you need to unzip these doors and the baboons know how to do this) and the trash cans were overturned and some non-food trash was on the floor.
We had been told there were baboon problems, but did not realize the extent of the problem. There is no means to secure the tents as the baboons will rip their way into them if you lock them. This forces you to pack and unpack everything of value each time you leave the tent. This defeats the time advantage gained in using the tents in the first place, though the convenience of the in-suite bathroom remains. Camping apparently is not much better, as the same thing can happen to cars. Baboons have learned to open car doors and hyenas are also a problem, as other reviewers have reported (we didn’t see any). A camper told us she saw “spider”, a nickname given to a hyena that frequents the camp, pulling a large ice chest - that she later opened.
We were under the impression that the staff would collect our trash from the tent as we were told they would come in and clean once a day. They came and made the beds but did nothing else, - not even picking up the numerous dead insects in the shower. (Note: due to a miscommunication between the Maun office and the Third Bridge camp, our tent wasn’t ready when we arrived (manager later apologized profusely) as it took some time for the staff to make it ready). It is now understandable to us why the tents are not left in a “ready state” when unoccupied, as they must be cleaned just prior to a guest’s arrival (in case the baboons have decided to visit them.) As we were leaving the Third Bridge area we discovered a large metal cage full of trash. It had a door but no lock so the baboons in principle could open it easily. Other campers were depositing trash bags there. At $120 per night, trash pick-up would have been a minimum service that should be provided for the tents. If this service isn’t provided, they really need to inform everyone about the place to deposit your trash. As with the rest of Moremi, good signs about almost anything are lacking.
Our overall impression was that the current camp management (Xomaes for past year or so) is not responding adequately to the problems with the baboons and hyenas. The equivalent of “bear-proof” boxes or cages for food and valuables, easy to implement, would go a long way in reducing this problem. We noticed in Kruger National Park in South Africa that some of their tented camps had heavy duty metal cages with locks on the tent porch to store food and valuables (a refrigerator was also in the cage) on the balcony outside each tent. That simple solution apparently has greatly reduced baboons stealing food or other items. I should add that the Kruger tents were as nice as the ones in Third Bridge, with more facilities, and at less than half the cost of the tents at Third Bridge. Of course, in fairness, Moremi is much more remote than Kruger and gets much less visitors.
Perhaps the main attraction of Moremi’s Third Bridge is its remoteness – the poor road conditions in getting there result in a very uncrowded experience. But visitors need to be aware of the problems and risks in camping or tenting here.
I would probably not return to this camp unless the baboon problem has been solved.
Zimmertipp: If you stay in one of these tents and you go out leave nothing inside, not even clean trash.
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Aufenthalt Dezember 2013, Paar
