Seventeen hundred and fifty acres, converted.
Sleep overthe channel.
Camp on the southern Delta. Wildlife arrives before the kettle does.
Seventeen hundred and fifty acres on the southern edge of the Okavango Delta, converted from a hunting reserve into a conservation sanctuary. Six tents and eight camp pitches sit inside it.
Every night funds anti‑poaching work through the Connect Trust. The land is the project. What was once tracked is now followed.
The conservancy story →The Okavango,in full.
Annual flood arrived 14 May. The southern channel will run high until late August.
Two ways to spend the night. Pitch your own under the leadwoods, or settle into a raised canvas safari tent. Both pay the same conservation levy. Both are five minutes from the deck.
Walks, mokoro, archery, hide, birding. Led by trackers who live in the bush. No buggies. No PAs.
Three trackers, born on this land. Walking guests in for fourteen years.
A reserve restored. Sixty‑three mammal species. One hundred and eighty‑seven birds. Two lions, not four.
Elephant
Today, 04:18
Herd of 12
Hippo
Today, 06:00
Pod of 8
Giraffe
Yesterday, 17:40
Group of 4
Leopard
11 days ago
Solitary
A flat fifteen‑dollar conservation levy on every guest, every night, paid directly to the Connect Trust. Seventeen hundred and fifty acres held as a sanctuary, where hunting once happened. Four thousand patrol hours funded last year.
The conservancy story →Tell us roughly when you would like to come. We reply within a day, in person, usually with a question or two and a quiet word on timing.
