Tailor Made Holidays in Botswana: Mobile Camping Safaris

Botswana mobile camping safari

If you are excited by the prospect of lying in bed watching the tent shake because an elephant is scratching itself on it, or waking up to the sound of a hyena eating a saucepan, then you are probably the perfect candidate for a mobile camping safari. Not for the faint-hearted, a mobile camping safari is an exciting way of exploring the most remote areas of Botswana. Away from the luxury camps and into the wilderness, they are much like the true safari that existed before permanent camps were built.

Audley now has a number of mobile safaris, each led by a professional guide and with a full camp crew. The safaris have set departure dates, run with a maximum of eight people, and explore areas far from the beaten track. Leopard in the Chitabe ConcessionThe days are spent exploring in open 4WDs, on foot or by mokoro. Each night you stay in a pre-erected mobile tented camp, perhaps under a jackalberry tree beside the Linyanti Lagoon or overlooking the Makgadikgadi Pans in the Kalahari. By the time you arrive in camp the tents are prepared, drinks chilling and chef at work in the kitchen. The larder roof may be a sausage tree and oven a pit of coals in the sand but the food is always superb. Wherever you go, there will be campfires, sparkling night skies and the sounds of animals all around you.

Mobile tented camps

Each night on a mobile safari you stay in a mobile tented camp. There are two different levels of camp – the simpler Adventurer and the more luxurious Discoverer. Adventurer Camps have dome tents with camp beds, shared hot bucket showers Leopard in the Chitabe Concessionand bush loos (always with a seat and often with a view). The crew will prepare cooked breakfasts, picnic lunches and three-course dinners. The Discoverer Camps have innovative hexagonal tents with beds, duvets, bedside tables and tiny en suite bathrooms with hot bucket showers. The camp crew will look after your every need from bringing you fresh coffee at dawn to a whisky around the campfire at night. Both are magical ways of discovering the Delta.

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