Khwai River Lodge c/o Orient-Express Safaris, PO Box 100, Maun Tel: +267 686 0302 • Fax: +267 686 0153 Email: sandy.fowler@orient-express.com www.orient-express-safaris.com PO Box 786432, Sandton 2146, South Africa Tel: +27 21 483 1600 • Fax: +27 (0)86 688 6667 Email: safaris@orient-express.com
The exceptional location of Khwai on the edge of the Khwai River floodplains in the eastern Moremi Wildlife Reserve makes it a regular host to elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard, cheetah and wild dogs. Access to the lodge is by light aircraft from Maun, a 25-minute flight transfer. The lodge has a hide overlooking the floodplains, a swimming pool and a private spa for indulgent massages and treatments as well as a small gym. The camp offers a covered dining area as well as an open-air boma. Activities include morning, afternoon and spotlight night game drives in open safari vehicles as well as guided safari walks. The 14 luxury en-suite tents and one suite are all raised on wooden platforms, offering great views, and each tent is en-suite, with minibar, air conditioning and a four-poster bed with mosquito netting.
Kings Pool Camp 1 Mathiba Road, Private Bag 014, Maun Tel: +267 686 0086 Fax: +267 686 0632 Email: enquiry@wilderness.co.bw www.wilderness-safaris.com
Kings Pool Camp is located in the Linyanti Wildlife Reserve, a vast private concession in the northern part of Botswana, on the western boundary of Chobe National Park. The accommodation is luxurious and the wildlife spectacular. The area is famed for its tremendous elephant herds during the dry season. Nine well-appointed tents each have a large bedroom area, lounge, private plunge pool and sala. The spacious en-suite bathrooms comprise double showers, twin hand basins and an outdoor shower. Raised walkways allow animals to wander freely through the camp to and from the Linyanti River and the Kings Pool Lagoon. The main area includes a lounge and dining area, a pool and an open-air kgotla for dining under the stars. Activities include day and night game drives, walks, and boat cruises along the Linyanti River (water levels allowing). Kings Pool has a unique underground hide at one of the elephants favourite water holes.
Kubu Lodge
Kwa Nokeng Lodge
PO Box 43, Kasane Tel: +267 625 0312 Fax: +267 625 1092 Cell: +267 712 65000 or +267 718 86952 Email: kubu@botsnet.bw www.kubulodge.net
PO Box 23, Sherwood Tel: +267 491 5908 Fax +267 491 5928 Cell: +267 (0)72 300 410 Email: Clinton@botsnet.bw www.kwanokeng.com
The privately owned and run Kubu Lodge is set in 30 hectares on the banks of the Chobe River in Botswana’s warm tropical climate.
Situated along the banks of the Limpopo River in Botswana at the Martin’s Drift Border Post, Kwa Nokeng Lodge is an ideal stop-over for the tourist travelling to and from the North. Furthermore, being just four hours out of Gauteng, its location makes it the perfect family weekend getaway, offering a variety of activities and adventures for young and old. Catering for local and international tourists, Kwa Nokeng Lodge offers a range of accommodation to make anyone’s stay memorable.
It comprises 11 thatched chalets all raised on stilts on a shaded lawn that spreads beneath giant ebony and wild fig trees to the river’s edge. The rustic exterior belies the comfort within, which includes full en-suite facilities, ceiling fans, mosquito nets, tea/coffee making facility and comfortable beds. Other facilities available include a bar, curio shop, quiet reading lounge and a private secluded swimming pool. Activities include three-hour game drives or boat cruises into Chobe National Park for a variety of big game and birdlife, a slow cruise to the confluence of the Chobe/Zambezi Rivers, a visit to the crocodile farm or snake park, a nature trail walk on the property, fishing trips or a day trip to Victoria Falls.
Buffet meals are served around a crackling fire or on our deck under the nurturing branches of an age-old Nyala Berry tree, with a spectacular view of the Limpopo. There are also self-catering units for families that prefer to do their own thing as they unwind and relax. Kwa Nokeng Lodge has a relaxed, family atmosphere and guests can share stories with other travellers around the ‘Mokoro’ bar.
Kwara
Kwetsani Camp
c/o Kwando Safaris, PO Box 550, Maun Tel: +267 686 1449 Fax: +267 686 1457 Email: info@kwando.co.bw www.kwando.co.bw
1 Mathiba Road, Private Bag 014, Maun Tel: +267 686 0086 Fax: +267 686 0632 Email: enquiry@wilderness.co.bw www.wilderness-safaris.com
Kwara is situated on the edge of the permanent waters of the Okavango Delta and shares a common boundary with the Moremi Game Reserve. Owing to the specific location of the camp, Kwara is able to offer power boating, mokoro trips, walks and game drives all year round. In addition, Kwara is in a large private concession, enabling the game drives to operate both off road and at night.
Kwetsani, one of the most remote camps in the Okavango and is situated on an island heavily wooded with palm, mangosteen and fig trees. It is an intimate yet luxurious camp raised on wooden decks high above the lush vegetation under the canopy of these beautiful trees.
The teak furniture created by Zimbabwean master craftsmen is elegant, comfortable and simple. Most of the tents are raised on teak decks to afford views over the surrounding plains and lagoon with the resident hippos.
Five beautifully furnished ‘tree house’ rooms, each with its own en-suite bathroom and viewing deck provide guests with open, airy accommodation of thatch, wood, glass and canvas. The dining room, lounge and pub area, situated under a cool thatched roof, looks out over an enormous floodplain often dotted with red lechwe, wildebeest and other plains game. Kwetsani offers excellent land and water based activities dependent on annual flood levels. Guests can view wildlife by mokoro and boat, or experience game drives by day or night.
CAMPS & LODGES
The camp consists of eight luxury tents accommodating 16 guests. There is one honeymoon suite. The camp setting is a tall treed island on the edge of the Okavango Delta.
Guided tours into the vast Makgadikgadi Pans are also available from the camp.
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