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Game walks are available, as are San Bushman cultural walks conducted near camp at a slow pace, focused on how the San people read and lived off the land. A day trip to the Baines Baobabs — seven ancient trees that the artist Thomas Baines painted in 1862, in the south of the park — includes a picnic lunch on site.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eight standard tents each have indoor and outdoor showers, a fan, mosquito nets, and a deck facing the water. The family tent adds a separate twin bedroom and suits children from six years. A swimming pool, open-air lounge, and thatched dining area and bar make up the communal space. Laundry and airport transfers are included, and the camp has internet access.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wetu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43808311803963,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/6776\/2747\/files\/18123nxaipancamp-wildlife-2jpg_0a8b39c3-4bf6-4b85-b365-7cd098e7ee23.webp?v=1784342836"},{"product_id":"euphorbia-mashatu-174053","title":"Euphorbia Mashatu","description":"\u003cp\u003eEuphorbia Mashatu sits inside Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana's Northern Tuli block, near Lentswelemoriti. The camp holds eight private villas, each built with a form drawn from the shape of the Mopane pod. The reserve runs on solar power, and the camp is designed to keep its footprint on the land light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach villa is fully private, air-conditioned, and has its own plunge pool looking out over the surrounding bush. Inside and outside showers, a mini bar, mosquito netting, a safe, and a fridge are all included. A deck called the nest overlooks the reserve and the Majale River ravine below, and it reads well at sunrise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGame drives here are limited to four guests per vehicle, guided by rangers who work the reserve on foot and by road. Walking safaris focus on tracks, plants, and insects rather than large game alone. Other activities available on the reserve include horseback safaris, mountain biking with rangers, night drives, and photography sessions using a sunken underground hide designed specifically for close-range wildlife photography. A spa team works from your villa, using locally sourced ingredients. Guided bird watching and star gazing are also offered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFly-in access is available via Limpopo Valley Airfield, with return flights operating from Lanseria on set days of the week.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"phasec-create","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43808522895419,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/6776\/2747\/files\/174053_2Fmashatu_euphorbia_villas-_villa_7_at_dusk.jpg?v=1784350809"},{"product_id":"koro-island-camp-243193","title":"Koro Island Camp","description":"\u003cp\u003eKoro Island Camp sits on a small island in the Limpopo River inside the Central Tuli Block. The only way onto the island is across a suspension bridge, which puts the main river channel in view from the moment you arrive. The camp runs entirely off-grid on gas and paraffin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe camp holds eight guests across four en-suite Meru tents, each positioned to look out over the Limpopo. The sleeping tents are spacious, with comfortable beds and storage; the bathroom for each tent is open-air and built behind the tent, fitted with a bathtub. Meals are served in a thatched communal area, and the campfire outside handles dinner in the evenings. A raised deck overlooks the main channel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eActivities run twice daily: game drives in modified vehicles, guided walks and big game tracking on foot, night drives, and cycling — electric bikes are available on request. The river frontage is good for birding. An elevated platform at a waterhole, called StarBeds, is bookable for nights spent watching elephant, leopard, hyena, and antelope come to drink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA field research programme studying leopards and brown hyenas in the Tuli is based here, and guests can join monitoring work in the field with the lead researcher. Half-day excursions reach a sandstone amphitheatre on the Moutlotse River where rock art depicts elephant, giraffe, sable, wild dog, and aardvark. A spa visit at the nearby Koro River Camp can be arranged.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"phasec-create","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43808523878459,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/6776\/2747\/files\/243193_2Fdsc_0831baobab.jpg?v=1784350815"},{"product_id":"jacks-camp-10032","title":"Jack's Camp","description":"\u003cp\u003eRiding quad bikes across the salt pans defines the dry-season experience. Jack's Camp occupies a palm grove at the edge of the Makgadikgadi, the floor of a super-lake that evaporated five millennia ago. The camp was established in the 1960s by Jack Bousfield, a safari pioneer who explored this corner of the Kalahari on crocodile-catching expeditions. His son Ralph refurbished the property in 1992 in the style of 1940s expedition camps. Nine canvas tents occupy 270 m² each—135 m² indoors, 135 m² on the deck—furnished with Persian rugs, campaign furniture, brass lamps, and hand-carved beds. Each tent has a private plunge pool, indoor and outdoor showers, and an overhead cooling system. A central mess tent holds a 36-seat dining table that served as an officer's mess in the 1820s, a Natural History Museum of fossils and artefacts collected from the pans, a pool table, and a library. A separate Persian tea tent serves afternoon treats, and a pool pavilion sits among the palms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuides lead walks with habituated meerkats at sunrise, tracking the animals as they forage. Game drives cross the one-million-acre private reserve in search of brown hyena, aardwolf, bat-eared fox, and black-maned Kalahari lion—eight thousand brown hyena remain worldwide, and the Makgadikgadi holds a working population. Horse rides thread through the surrounding desert scrub. Walks with San guides demonstrate traditional tracking and water-finding techniques. Between November and April roughly thirty thousand zebra and wildebeest migrate across the pans following seasonal rains; flamingos gather in shallow pools to breed. In the dry months the salt flats harden into a white crust and quad bikes cross the open expanse. Helicopter flights run over the pans, and a day trip visits a fallen baobab, one of the largest trees in Africa. 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En-suite bathrooms have both a bath and a shower, and each suite opens onto a verandah facing the bush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe communal area overlooks an active waterhole, and two swimming pools give you somewhere to be between activities. The kitchen serves meals on a shaded terrace above the waterhole at breakfast and high tea; dinners go to the boma. The cooking is informal and substantial — home-made breads, fresh vegetables, meat dishes, and desserts prepared on site.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGame drives cover the reserve in open four-wheel-drive vehicles with experienced rangers, following elephant paths worn by a population of over a thousand animals. Guided walks and night drives run alongside. The horseback safari programme, operated as Horizon Horseback Mashatu, is available to guests aged twelve and above and must be booked in advance. For photographers, the reserve's sunken underground hide places you at ground level with approaching wildlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Discovery Room at the lodge holds displays on the reserve's natural and cultural history. The on-site Serokolo Spa uses local ingredients. Fly-in access is available from Lanseria to Limpopo Valley Airfield.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- plk-tmpl-cb 2026-07-31T09:30:42.585Z --\u003e","brand":"phasec-create","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43808534429755,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"leroo-la-tau-18115","title":"Leroo La Tau","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeroo La Tau sits on cliffs more than ten metres above the Boteti River on the western bank, where the river runs along the edge of Makgadikgadi Pans National Park. The water draws zebra, wildebeest, elephant, and crocodile to the bank below, and you can watch them from your chalet or from a photographic hide built into the riverbank at water level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lodge holds eleven thatched, glass-fronted chalets and one family suite of two interconnected en-suite rooms, accommodating a maximum of twenty-four guests. Each chalet is raised on a wooden platform with a private viewing deck facing east across the river and the park, giving a 270-degree arc over the Boteti River valley. Fans cool the rooms; there is no air-conditioning. Generator power runs through the day and evening, with twelve-volt DC lighting through the night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwice-daily game drives run inside Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, where lion, leopard, cheetah, brown and spotted hyena, and kudu range alongside the zebra and wildebeest. The annual zebra migration moves along the Boteti from roughly May to October and is visible from the lodge itself. When water levels permit, motorboat safaris run on the river. A three-night stay unlocks additional excursions: a day trip taking in Nxai Pan and the Baines Baobabs, a cultural visit to nearby Khumaga Village, and a sleep-out on the salt pans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lodge is approximately one hundred and forty kilometres southeast of Maun.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"phasec-create","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43808540000315,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/6776\/2747\/files\/18115_2F1734942114958_1724844293_Leroo-La-Tau-Guest-Room-18.jpg?v=1784350905"},{"product_id":"mashatu-tent-camp-17397","title":"Mashatu Tent Camp","description":"\u003cp\u003eMashatu Tent Camp sits in the Northern Tuli Game Reserve in eastern Botswana, on a thirty-one-thousand-hectare concession that holds more than one thousand elephants. The camp has eight tents only, which keeps the atmosphere close and the game drives uncrowded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach tent stands on a raised platform beneath large trees, connected to the rest of camp by footpaths. The en-suite facilities are outdoors — an open-air shower and a W.C. on the private deck — so you wash and dress in the open air. The tents are tall enough to stand in fully upright. There is no air-conditioning and no heating, so seasons matter: summers are hot, winters cold at night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeals are shared either under the open thatched roof of the gazebo or around a fire in the boma, an enclosed outdoor dining area with a view over a floodlit waterhole. A shaded hide faces the same waterhole from a different angle, where you can sit quietly and watch elephant, antelope, and birds come to drink without disturbing them. A plunge pool is available for the hotter months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eActivities run from the camp and across the wider Mashatu reserve: twice-daily game drives in open four-wheel-drive vehicles, guided walks, mountain bike safaris accompanied by rangers, horseback safaris (riders must be twelve or older), night drives, and dedicated photographic sessions at an award-winning sunken underground hide elsewhere on the reserve. Fly-in access is available via Limpopo Valley Airfield, with scheduled shared flights operating from Lanseria.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"phasec-create","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43808541147195,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"planet-baobab-1722","title":"Planet Baobab","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlanet Baobab sits just outside Gweta, a small village on the edge of the Makgadikgadi Pans in central Botswana — two hundred kilometres from Maun and two hundred and ninety from Francistown. It takes children of all ages and offers two types of accommodation: traditionally built Kalanga huts, each with a private bathroom and Afro-chic interiors finished with African blankets and cotton sheets, and a shaded campsite with shared facilities. Eighteen rooms in total.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe central building runs as a bar and restaurant with an à la carte menu, styled loosely after a shebeen. The pool alongside it is large — the claim is that it is the biggest in the Kalahari, which you will be inclined to believe after a day on the pans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eActivities split by season. Year-round, you can walk with a group of habituated meerkats, join a guided baobab bush walk, visit a local cattle post or village, or take a day expedition to Nxai Pan and the Baines Baobabs. From late April to the end of October — the dry season — quad biking runs across the Ntwetwe saltpan, and the camp organises sleep-outs under the Makgadikgadi night sky. 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Two family chalets add a second bedroom. Ten safari tents occupy raised wooden platforms, furnished with twin beds and en-suite bathrooms with outdoor showers. Powered and non-powered camping sites sit beneath indigenous trees with shared ablution facilities. The restaurant serves indoor and outdoor seating under the canopy; beef oxtail and beef curry appear on the à la carte menu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaily three-hour sunset drives in open vehicles depart for the Nata Bird Sanctuary, a 230-square-kilometre reserve protecting the northeastern slice of Sua Pan. The sanctuary was established in 1988 as Botswana's first community-based conservation project, managed jointly by four local societies. The Nata River delta feeds Sua Pan, drawing pelicans and flamingos in their thousands when water levels allow. You can see zebra, blue wildebeest, bat-eared fox, and black-backed jackal year-round. Meyer's parrots nest in the palms on the lodge grounds. A cultural village tour led by a resident visits the Kgotla meeting place and traditional homesteads built with termite-mound mortar. Sunrise breakfasts beneath baobab trees on the pans can be arranged, and canoe trips explore the Nata River when the water is high.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wetu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43844523425851,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/6776\/2747\/files\/19597_2Fdji00398.jpg?v=1784833531"},{"product_id":"khama-rhino-sanctuary-chalets-67420","title":"Khama Rhino Sanctuary Chalets","description":"\u003cp\u003eLantern lamps light the two-storey A-Frame chalet at the edge of Serwe pan, built without electricity to give what the sanctuary calls an African bush life. Khama Rhino Sanctuary covers 8,585 hectares of Kalahari sandveld 25 kilometres north of Serowe on the Orapa road. The community-run project was founded in 1992 to protect white and black rhino and restore the area to its former state. Eight chalets sit across the sanctuary grounds; each includes bedding, braai facilities, a bar fridge, and an electric kettle. Chalets A and B hold one double bed each. Chalets C and D at Makongwa Camp have two rooms with two beds in each. Chalets F and G near the restaurant area share the same layout. The A-Frame accommodates six people and has a separate bush toilet and hot shower. Twenty-two campsites spread beneath Mokongwa trees, each with a fireplace, braai stand, tap, and birdbath. Two communal ablution blocks serve the camping area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRangers lead two-hour game drives across the sandveld. Nature walks on foot reveal smaller species not easily seen from a vehicle. Morning rhino-tracking outings follow the animals' movements with ranger guides. Self-drive routes run throughout; maps are available at the entrance gate. The sanctuary supports more than 30 mammal species and over 230 bird species. A restaurant and bar stand near the swimming pool. The curio shop at the entrance gate sells local crafts, maps, and wood for fires. An educational centre hosts school groups for environmental programmes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wetu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43844535812155,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/6776\/2747\/files\/khama-rhino-sanctuary-zoo-qp8c62f-paje-botswana-01.webp?v=1784798083"},{"product_id":"kolokolo-safari-home-344568","title":"Kolokolo Safari Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eRenovated as a colonial-style exclusive-use home, Kolokolo stands in the Pitsani sector within Mashatu Game Reserve's portion of the Northern Tuli. The house was named after the Kolokolo bird in Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories — the only creature willing to guide the Elephant's Child to the crocodile. Four en-suite bedrooms flank a central lounge and dining room centred on a fireplace; stacking doors open onto a wrap-around veranda that extends the dining and sitting space outdoors. A fitted kitchen allows guests to prepare their own meals if preferred, though a private chef is assigned to the house. The boma and braai area sit outdoors under the stars; the Limpopo flows audibly beyond the lawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA reservoir pool overlooks the river and the animals that come to drink. A dedicated guide and vehicle conduct morning and evening game drives across the reserve's terrain of riverine forest, rocky outcrops, and plains. Walking safaris follow trails within the lodge grounds and along the river corridor. Solar panels supply all power. The home accommodates up to eight guests and requires a minimum two-night stay. Transfers run between the house and Limpopo Valley Airfield, Pont Drift Border Post, or Mathathane Village. 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A tented bar and lounge anchor the camp, with a dining deck and sunken seating area set back from the water's edge. Dinner is often cooked over the open fire in the boma, where talk turns to the day's tracking. You can hear hippos grunting from the riverbed after dark. Guides lead walks and drives through the reserve by day, tracking elephant, giraffe and antelope on foot or from an open vehicle, and nearly 300 recorded bird species keep watchers busy along the floodplain. For a night away from camp, an elevated platform called Star Beds looks over a waterhole, where leopard, hyena and civet come to drink under open sky. The camp takes a maximum of eighteen guests. 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