Wilderness Mombo

Wilderness Mombo is a flagship Botswana camp, one of the finest in Africa, offering superb game viewing and an extremely luxurious safari. With a prime location on Chief’s Island and some of the highest concentrations of wildlife in the Okavango Delta, Mombo is top of the wish list for many. Rebuilt in 2018, Mombo reopened as an even more luxurious camp though maintaining the essence of the original Mombo which so many have come to love.

Mombo camp is located at the divergence of the main Okavango River into two channels. Being extremely fertile, the area where Mombo Camp is situated claims some of the highest densities and diversity of wildlife in Southern Africa. Long known to the local people, the Yei and Xaniqwe, the area was named ‘’Mombo’’- the Yei word for “the place of plenty.” Ably complementing the extraordinary game viewing, the camp itself has majestic views of a scenic floodplain from beneath huge African Ebony and Sycamore Fig trees. The areas boast large and consistent numbers of plains game as well as good predator numbers – and is one of the best places in Botswana to see rhino.

Mombo Camp lies on the Mombo concession, on the northwestern edge of Chief’s Island, within the Moremi Game Reserve. This is the greatest landmass in the Okavango and has a reputation for the most prolific game. This is also a beautiful area offering quintessential Okavango landscapes, with glistening waters peppered with white and pink lilies, open floodplains and palm tree islands.

Mombo has eight elevated luxury tents, connected by wooden walkways, and all with extensive views of the game lively floodplains. The rooms are supremely spacious and spoiling – with stretched canvas walls across timber frames and sliding doors revealing wonderful views. On outside deck offers plenty of space and comfortable sofas and sala beds to stretch out and enjoy the views and the coming and goings of wildlife. Inside the room is split into various areas, with an enormous bed as well as a separate lounge area, wardrobe and dressing room and bathroom with two showers. Each room features a minibar with a well-stocked variety of drinks and snacks.

From the raised deck, guests are immersed in the safari experience with plentiful game grazing on the floodplain beneath them. The main guest areas include a thatched dining, lounge and bar area, a separate library as well as a fire deck. The camp’s swimming pool is situated off the lounge area.

Mombo Camp is unique in that it offers a well- equipped gym with the same incredible views over the flood plains, allowing one to work up an appetite between the seemingly endless and delicious meals. A range of spa treatments are available and either the treatment rooms or your own room make for a fabulous spot for some pampering.

About the Moremi Game Reserve

Moremi Game Reserve covers some 4,871 km2, as the eastern section of the Okavango Delta. Moremi is mostly described as one of the most beautiful wildlife reserves in Africa as it combines mopane woodland and acacia forests, floodplains and lagoons.

It is the great diversity of plant and animal life that makes Moremi so well known. The reserve contains within its boundaries approximately twenty per cent of the Okavango Delta.

There are a wide range of habitats in Moremi; from riparian woodland, floodplain, reed beds, permanent wetland through mopane forest to dry savanna woodland. The mainland part forms only about thirty per cent of the reserve and is, in many ways untypical - the remaining area being part of the Okavango Delta.

Birdlife is prolific and varied, ranging from water birds to shy forest dwellers. There are many species of ducks end geese, as well as an amazing variety of heron.

Elephants are numerous, particularly during the dry season, as well as a range of other wildlife species from buffalo, giraffe, lion, leopard, cheetah, wild dog, hyaena, jackal and the full range of antelope, large and small, including the red lechwe.

Wild dog, whose numbers are so rapidly dwindling elsewhere, are regularly sighted in the Moremi and have been subject to a project being run in the area since 1989.

Moremi is best visited in the dry season and game viewing is at its peak from July to October, when seasonal pans dry up and the wildlife concentrates on the permanent water.

At any time of the year, the game is prolific (although what is seen obviously varies with the season).

Mosquitoes are prevalent throughout the reserve and it is strongly recommended that visitors should take an anti-malarial prophylactic.