Having been closed to tourist traffic on and off during the Angolan civil war and Namibian struggle for independence the Caprivi Strip in northern Namibia has been reopened and is now slowly finding its way back onto tourist maps.

The area in question stretches east along the top of Botswana and is quite unlike the rest of the country. It receives a relatively high rainfall and has dense lush vegetation. There are lots of small villages with children herding goats and cows. There are several game parks, the Caprivi, Mahango and Mdumu and these, combined with a successful community game guard scheme, ensure the wildlife concentrations are high. With permanent rivers, reedbeds and riverine forest there are a large number of bird species, including those not so commonly found in other parts such as the kingfishers, darters, herons and gallinules.

There are two sister camps we particularly recommend in the Caprivi: Impalila Island Lodge and Susuwe Island Lodge. Both can be reached by light aircraft from Etosha or by land from Livingstone and work well when combined with visits to Victoria Falls or northern Namibia.