{"id":323,"date":"2010-11-13T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swisstraveler.net.mars.preview-kreativmedia.ch\/wp\/uncategorized\/review-of-mowani-mountain-lodge-damaraland\/"},"modified":"2024-09-29T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T14:59:00","slug":"review-of-mowani-mountain-lodge-damaraland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/africa-middle-east\/review-of-mowani-mountain-lodge-damaraland\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Mowani Mountain Lodge, Damaraland, Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Absolutely superb location, good restaurant, but a bit dated tents:<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">On our\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">brilliant <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">Botswana<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">, <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">Namibia<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"> and <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">Victoria Falls<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"> fly-in safari guided expertly by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimatesafaris.na\/\">Ultimate Safaris<\/a> (sightings included the Big 5, cheetah, wild dog and sitatunga)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"> we (two families with a teen each) also made a stop at this beautifully located lodge amid rocky hills. <br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/><br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2745\" src=\"http:\/\/swisstraveler.net.mars.preview-kreativmedia.ch\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FE0773A8-3A5C-4A95-A7C7-D8CDE1A8CD83_1_201_a-1030x685.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FE0773A8-3A5C-4A95-A7C7-D8CDE1A8CD83_1_201_a-1030x685.jpeg 1030w, https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FE0773A8-3A5C-4A95-A7C7-D8CDE1A8CD83_1_201_a-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FE0773A8-3A5C-4A95-A7C7-D8CDE1A8CD83_1_201_a-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FE0773A8-3A5C-4A95-A7C7-D8CDE1A8CD83_1_201_a-1536x1021.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FE0773A8-3A5C-4A95-A7C7-D8CDE1A8CD83_1_201_a-2048x1362.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FE0773A8-3A5C-4A95-A7C7-D8CDE1A8CD83_1_201_a-1500x997.jpeg 1500w, https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FE0773A8-3A5C-4A95-A7C7-D8CDE1A8CD83_1_201_a-705x469.jpeg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"> <br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/>The facilities can still be described as good. There is a lovely pool between boulders, the most beautiful spot for sundowners (on top of the rock) as well as a nice tented restaurant and lodge. Also the food was very good. The dinners were excellent as were the breakfasts. When it comes to service, it was good at the restaurant and okay everywhere else.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;\">As far as the activities are concerned we cannot judge the ones offered by the lodge as we had our own guide (from <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimatesafaris.na\">Ultimate Safaris<\/a>). With him we successfully tracked down the desert elephants.<br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/><br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2756\" src=\"http:\/\/swisstraveler.net.mars.preview-kreativmedia.ch\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/185553A2-31B7-4C08-83DA-03D679E67189_1_201_a-1030x685.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/185553A2-31B7-4C08-83DA-03D679E67189_1_201_a-1030x685.jpeg 1030w, https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/185553A2-31B7-4C08-83DA-03D679E67189_1_201_a-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/185553A2-31B7-4C08-83DA-03D679E67189_1_201_a-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/185553A2-31B7-4C08-83DA-03D679E67189_1_201_a-1536x1021.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/185553A2-31B7-4C08-83DA-03D679E67189_1_201_a-2048x1362.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/185553A2-31B7-4C08-83DA-03D679E67189_1_201_a-1500x997.jpeg 1500w, https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/185553A2-31B7-4C08-83DA-03D679E67189_1_201_a-705x469.jpeg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/>All in all, Mowani Mountain Lodge is a nice accommodation in a wonderful desert landscape. You get here fine food, yet it could do with some improvements as to the tents (rather dated).<br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/><br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Date of stay: October 2010<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolutely superb location, good restaurant, but a bit dated tents: On our\u00a0brilliant Botswana, Namibia and Victoria Falls fly-in safari guided expertly by Ultimate Safaris (sightings included the Big 5, cheetah, wild dog and sitatunga) we (two families with a teen each) also made a stop at this beautifully located lodge amid rocky hills. The facilities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,105,61],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa-middle-east","category-africa-middle-east-hotels","category-namibia","tag-safari"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16955,"href":"https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/16955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisstraveler.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}