Situated in Ngamiland in the OKAVANGO DELTA in the
Jao game reserve, West of MOREMI GAME RESERVE. The area boasts of a wide
expanse of savannah grassland and open plains, with Palm islands and groves. The
camp is on an island surrounded by marshes, which flood during the annual
floods. Kwestani is a ten bedded luxury tented camp, raised on wooden platforms
enabling you to overlook the open plains. The marshland offers exceptional birds
such as wattled cranes, pigmy geese, and pel’s fishing owl. The open plains
offer you the ultimate site of animals in their numbers scattered across the
plains. Animals expected to see are the rare and elusive Sitatunga, large herds
of Red Lechwe, Red Hartebeest, Lions, Leopards and Cheetah. This area affords
you to do game drives or MAKORO trips into the swamps, and walking in the
palm-fringed forests.
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Kwetsani is a 10-bedded luxury Camp that sits on an island surrounded by marshes.
Jack's Camp and San Camp are unique in that they are the only permanent camps to offer a chance to explore and understand the Kalahari. Our concession adjoins the Makgadikgadi National Park with its endless vistas of rolling golden grasslands. Desert palms line the horizon…. Behind us are the huge salt pans of the Makgadikgadi.
Jack's Camp was originally established in the 60's by Ralph's father, the late Jack Bousfield, who lived there for many years preceding his unfortunate death in an aircraft accident.
We have now completely refurbished the Camp in a traditional East African 40s safari style. Authentic, but comfortable and stylish, including many thoughtful and unique details…. Roomy, classically styled tents with private bucket showers and flush loos are set into a palm grove creating an oasis of civilisation in what can be the harshest of stark environments.
A visit to the area is essential for anyone interested in evolution and the origins and explanation of the Okavango Delta and Botswana’s big picture….
It is also a complete desert experience focusing on species unique to the area such as gemsbuck, brown hyaena and springbuck, as well as the geology, archaeology and anthropology of the Kalahari and Makgadikgadi. Jack's and San Camp are the only places where Guests are guaranteed to see the rare and elusive brown hyaena in the whole of Africa.
Desert palms line the horizon—Behind are the huge salt pans of the Makgadikgadi.
Planet Baobab is situated close to the village of Gweta, (also charmingly known as “ The Place of the Bullfrogs”), on the Francistown-Maun road and sheltered by a grove of gigantic baobabs, Planet Baobab combines style with comfort whilst remaining true to its traditional African inspiration. Bushman grass huts, palatial Kalanga mud huts (with en suite bathrooms) traditionally painted with amazing designs and a shady campsite where you can pitch your own tents provide a plethora of different options at all price levels.
The Africantastic ‘shebeen’ bar features a huge and pendulous, beer bottle chandeliers suspended from the massive thatch roof, traditional wooden kgotla chairs and funky black-and-white cowskin recliners which are supremely comfortable. We serve the most delicious chocolate cake in the Kalahari and have the best showers.
Planet Baobab offers you the unique opportunity to explore the vast and fascinating Makgadikgadi Pans by quad bike.
Planet Baobab offers you an insight into the culture and traditions of the local people as well as an understanding of African village life. Planet Baobab offers a budget experience that is far from basic! In fact it is quite unique and very special. Architecture and design derives inspiration from local culture. Details include traditional wallpaintings, mud sculpture and grass huts all hand-made and crafted by local artisans.
ACCOMMODATION is in Traditional Bakalanga Mud Huts. These huts with en suite facilities are uniquely designed and offer tremendous comfort and true style. Perfectly designed for the African climate, they are warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Inspired by traditional homes of Botswana, each one is different from the other: Lelwapa/verandah areas have low cow dung walls and exterior artwork has been applied with natural pigments harvested from termite mounds. All bedding is provided and each hut features a unique shelving space for Guests to use, electricity, table and chairs and kgotla chairs to enjoy the view of sunsets between the ancient baobabs that shade the village.
Planet Baobab combines style with comfort whilst remaining true to its traditional African inspiration.
This is a camp for the safari traditionalist. Pom Pom Camp is located in the heart of the Okavango in a private concession to the west of the Moremi Game Reserve. Pom Pom Camp offers great Okavango scenery with game drives, night drives, walks and mokoro safaris as the main activities on offer. This is a 12-bedded safari camp built and designed in the style of safari camps of old. The camp overlooks a scenic lagoon and is built under a grove of shady trees.
Pom Pom Camp has six large walk-in tents, with en suite showers and flush toilets. The bathrooms are enclosed, but roofless - for a true bush experience. There is no electricity in the camp. Instead, paraffin lamps give a wonderfully warm atmosphere.
All the big predators, and Buffalo, Giraffe, Zebra, Wildebeest can be seen. If you are lucky, some of the nocturnal animals such as Serval, Civet and Genet may be seen on night drives.
Guests can choose from game drives, nature walks, fishing and mokoro excursions. Night drives in open 4x4 Land Rovers are also permitted. Hippo and Crocodile are found in the deeper lagoons in the area. Birding enthusiasts will enjoy sighting Pells Fisihg Owl, African Fish Eagle, Giant Eagle Owl and White Backed Vultures.
This is a camp for the safari traditionalist. Pom Pom Camp is located in the heart of the Okavango...
Vumbura (pronounced Vuumbera) is a 16 bedded luxury tented camp situated to the north of Mombo, in a private concession bordering the Moremi Game Reserve in the extreme north of the Okavango Delta. Vumbura offers both water and land activities. Mekoros (dug-out canoes) traverse the flood plains under the guidance of polers from the BaYei tribe, who have been using mekoros as their traditional form of transport for hundreds of years. Boats take guests onto the larger and deeper areas of water (water levels permitting). Open 4x4 Land Rovers allow close proximity to animals in the savannah areas. This is possibly the only area in the Okavango where one can see Red Lechwe from a mokoro in the morning, then a Sable antelope from a game vehicle in the afternoon. Add in Lion, Leopard, Elephant and Buffalo along with all the plains game, and one has an excellent all round game experience in a remote corner of the Okavango. Walks on the islands give guests the opportunity to enjoy Africa from a different perspective. Each one of the rooms has en-suite facilities with hot and cold running water, a shower, and flush toilets. Each room has an outdoor shower under the stars! The main dining, lounge and pub area is tucked beneath a canopy of indigenous trees with a superb view across the floodplain. The camp has a plunge pool. Access into this area is only by aircraft and then by vehicle to camp. if the waters are high in winter, we may have to access the camp by mokoros or boat.
This is possibly the only area in the Okavango where one can see Red Lechwe from a mokoro (dug-out canoe) in the morning, then a Sable antelope from a game vehicle in the afternoon.
DumaTau is built under cool mangosteen trees overlooking an enormous lagoon. It is located just east of the source of the Savuti Channel. The camp falls within the 125,000 hectare Linyanti Wildlife Reserve and lies along the bank of the Linyanti River. Directly across this river to the north is the Caprivi Strip - part of the country of Namibia. The camp is also within driving distance of the Savuti Channel and game drives to the channel are highly recommended - we have seen some of the most amazing predator interactions anywhere by driving through the Savuti channel. DumaTau is owned and operated by Wilderness Safaris.
Accommodation is in nine luxurious, raised, tented rooms under thatch with en suite facilities including hot and cold running water, flush toilets and shower. Each room has an additional outdoor open air shower, for those who prefer to be closer to nature. There is a dining room, pub, lounge, a plunge pool and a guest "loo" with a fantastic view. Complimentary laundry services are provided.
DumaTau offers day and night game drives along the Linyanti River and within the Savuti Channel as well as short nature walks. The camp's boat allows guests access to the waterways to observe the Hippos at close range (water levels permitting). There are a number of hides in the area which give guests the opportunity to observe and photograph animals close up in their natural environment without disturbance.
DumaTau is built under cool mangosteen trees overlooking an enormous lagoon.
The camp is situated near a flood plain in the beautiful
flats of Jao game reserve. The accommodation is small five meru style tents raised on a wooden deck. It has a raised dinning room area built into a canopy of sycamore figs surrounded by wild date palms which are overlooking a wildlife rich floodplain. Jacana is a small intimate camp with an exclusive use for five visitors or more. Activities are dependant on time of the year but feature mainly Game Drives, Makoro, walking in the palm fringed forests in search of the
elusive Sitatunga. Elephant, Buffalo, Lion and Leopard are all found here and the area is well known for it's prolific and various bird species.
Jacana, in the beautiful flats of Jao game reserve, is a small intimate camp with an exclusive use for five visitors or more.
The camp is built on Chief’s Island in heart of MOREMI
GAME RESERVE. It is a very luxurious camp, with nine twin-bedded tents, well
spaced out. Each tent over looks a flood plain where you can watch a variety of
birds, and game roaming freely. The camp has a magnificent reputation and
is rated as probably one of the best safari camps, offering the highest quality
of game viewing in the whole of Africa. Documentaries, National Geographic
footage and photographs have been taken in this area. The landscapes are very
diverse offering scenic Savannah, flood plains and acacia woodland
lending the area to its prolific wild life. Large herds of Zebra, Elephant, Buffalo and Lechwe are seen; several prides of Lion reside in the area. The
endangered Wild Dogs are seen occasionally. The water birds are particularly common in the inland water holes. The area has often been described as the
“Gem of Africa.” Main activity in this concession is, of course, game drives.
Often called the “Gem of Africa”, this camp has a magnificent reputation and is rated as one of the best safari camps, with the highest quality of game viewing in the whole of Africa.
Situated in the Lintanti Wildlife reserve which is close to
the western boundary of the Chobe National Park. The camp is in an exclusive
area which gives it access to the Linyanti river and it's marshes and lagoons
which are free flowing and attracts massive herds of wildlife especially in the
dry season. The combination of the water and the inland woodland gives it a
varied contrast. Maximum number of people the camp takes is eight visitors, in
an old style charm safari tented camp. The area is well known for it's big herds
of Elephants in the peak of the dry season. Also found are Lion, Leopard, Roan
Antelop, Sable, Red Lechwe, Sitatunga and Zebra as well as a wide variety of bird life.
Game drives, nature walks and canoeing are the activities available.
the Linyanti river, it's marshes and lagoons are free flowing and attract massive herds of wildlife especially in the
dry season.
Savuti Camp is situated in the Linyanti Reserve along the Savuti Channel in northern Botswana. The camp is built about 17 kilometres ‘downstream’ from the source of the Savuti. The channel stopped flowing in 1980 and what was a Hippo-filled river, is now wide, open grasslands. Savuti Camp is a comfortable eight bedded camp providing accommodation in five large walk-in tented rooms with en-suite facilities. Three of the bathrooms are within the tents and two tents have bathrooms with wonderful open fronts facing onto the Savuti Channel. Each room is raised off the ground on wooden decks. The camp has a thatched dining area, pub and plunge pool, all on raised wooden decks. There is a waterhole close to camp and this attracts large numbers of animals that guests can view from the camp. Activities include game drives in open 4x4 Land Rovers, hides, night drives and walks with an armed guard. Game in the area includes all of Botswana's big game, and is one of the best areas in the country to see predators. There are also good concentrations of plains game in the area.
Game in the area includes all of Botswana's big game, and is one of the best areas in the country to see predators.
Situated in the Jao Game Reserve on the border of the
Moremi Game Reserve. This area has a variety of habitats and landscapes ranging from permanent waterways and marshes to dry and thick Kalahari soils. Both land and water activities are offered in this area dependant on the level of the
water. There is predominantly savannah grassland from October to April the floodplains are filled up with crystal clear waters hence the camp being built on stilts giving it an awesome view of the open plains. The camp sleeps
sixteen people; the tents being canvas walls under a thatched roof built under
shady canopies in amongst palms forests. This camp is a luxury deluxe, huge spacious accommodation and sala. The game found in these areas are
Lion, Leopard, Cheetah, Red Lechwe, Blue Wildebeest and a variety of bird life. The permanent waters allow tracking of wild life by Makoro in the most silent and unobtrusive of ways.
Situated in the Jao Game Reserve bordering the Moremi Reserve, this camp is a luxury deluxe, huge spacious accommodation and sala.
Selinda Camp is a comfortable tented safari camp situated on the banks of the eastern Selinda Spillway, a waterway linking
Botswana's Okavango Delta to the Linyanti Swamps. Situated along the Spillway is a private wildlife reserve where only a handful
of guests can experience some of Africa's finest wildlife. The shaded camp has a splendid view over open floodplains dotted with
palm islands.
Activities include:
Early morning game drives aboard 4x4 Landcruisers, followed by an open-air "brunch".
Sufficient time to relax by the pool, siesta, or write postcards.
Afternoon game drives, with sundowners, that blend into a night drive with spotlights.
Occassional Bush Dinners. Short walks from camp or on drives.
Every full moon, an opportunity to take part in our monthly game counts.
You are likely to see Elephant, lion, cheetah, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, kudu, impala, hippo, hyaena, sable, wilddog,
lechwe. Night drives produce an abundance of nocturnal species. Stunning birdlife and vegetation, which is best viewed in summer
from October to April.
A private wildlife reserve where only a handful
of guests can experience some of Africa's finest wildlife.
A special area has been set aside in the Selinda Reserve especially for walking safaris. The area is located along the Selinda
Spillway, a water course linking Botswana's Okavango Delta to the Linyanti Swamps. The walks take you along time-worn trails,
through riparian forest and open plains. Typically, guests undertaking walking safaris, commence their safari at of one of the
permanent camps (Selinda or Zibalianja), then break away onto the walk, which ends up three days later, at the other permanent camp
for the last night. In total, this is usually a five day safari
Activities include:
Approximately 6-8 kilometres inter-camp walking in the morning, and 4 kilometres walking in the vicinity of camp each afternoon.
Enjoy the skills and bushlore of a traditional bushman tracker.
Night spotlight drives in big game country aboard a 4x4 Landcruiser.
The chance to try out a bit of fishing or enjoy the birding and scenery.
You are likely to see Elephant, lion, cheetah, wilddog, varied plains game, and great birdlife. Walking safaris are closely
in touch with nature. Our guide and tracker will introduce the smaller creatures, and stalk you up on the big game. Night
gamedrives seek out the nocturnal animals.
Zibalianja Camp is a small, intimate tented safari camp situated on a palm island on the edge of Botswana's northern Linyanti
Swamps. Close by is the lagoon after which the camp is named. There are panoramic views of open floodplains dotted with palms.
Activities include:
Early morning game drives aboard 4x4 Landcruisers, followed by an open-air "brunch".
Sufficient time to relax by the pool, siesta, or write postcards.
Afternoon game drives, with sundowners, that blend into a night drive with spotlights.
Occassional Bush Dinners. Short walks from camp or on drives.
At certain times of the year, fishing on the lagoon.
Every full moon, an opportunity to take part in our monthly game counts.
Specialist guiding delivers elephant, lion, cheetah, possibly a leopard, zebra, wildebeest, hippo, hyaena, sable, wilddog, lechwe, and plains game. Night drives produce an abundance of nocturnal species. Unbelievable birdlife and varied vegetation, which is best viewed in the summer between October and April.
Close by is the lagoon after which the camp is named. There are panoramic views of open floodplains dotted with palms.
The tented Camp are mobile units which are set up a day before the safari and taken down the day the guests depart for the next camps.
Tents are spacious walk in tents with simple on suite facilities, such as bucket showers, canvas basins etc., giving the vsitor
the traditional camping experience yet with the blend of luxury camping. Both the Moremi and the Central
Kalahari camps are similar in their set up and guests stay for a minimum of three nights in those areas that we have use of, including walking areas. Activities on offer would be walking, mokoro activities, game drives and village excursions.
A traditional camping experience... with a blend of the luxurious.
Tubu Tree Camp is situated in the Jao game reserve in the Okavango Delta's system. Vast open areas and flood plains, rich with big herds of Lechwe, Tsessebi and the rare sitatunga is the high light. Lion, leopard and Cheetah are regularly seen in close proximities of the camp. In this reserve you experience both water and land adventures that will afford you an a rewarding experience. Jacana is built up and slightly raised from the ground overlooking a delta marsh that has some of the best Makoro activities in the delta.
In this reserve you experience both water and land adventures that will afford you an a rewarding experience.
