Chitabe Camp

This additional suite, elevated above the ground on raised decks shares the same features and furnishings as its contemporaries, with the addition of a larger, king size bedded room. Ideal for couples seeking an intimate retreat in the lap of luxury. En-suite bathrooms with indoor and outdoor shower facilities are available, in addition to a lounge area and veranda that offers astonishing views over the surrounding wilderness.

Amenities Include:

• En-suite bathroom
• Indoor and Outdoor shower facilities
• Veranda
• Lounge area
• Mosquito nets
• Hairdryer
• Fan
• Safe
• A small kettle with tea and coffee provided
• Complimentary laundry service

These luxurious meru-style tented double bedded suites, shaded beneath an airy canopy of trees stands elevated on raised decks, providing atmospheric vistas over the surrounding bushland environment. Each unit comes with en-suite bathroom facilities with indoor and outdoor showers included. The eloquent design and furnishings inherent to each unit invokes the essence of a classical safari setting that compliments the in-camp atmosphere.

Amenities Include:

• En-suite bathroom
• Indoor and outdoor shower facilities
• Veranda
• Lounge area
• Mosquito nets
• Hairdryer
• Fan
• Safe
• A small kettle with tea and coffee provided
• Complimentary laundry service

All inclusive dining and beverages ensure around the clock appetite satisfaction, keeping you energised for both day and night activities.

Chitabe Camp offer the quintessential dining experience one would associate with a luxury safari retreat. All food and beverage expenses are covered in the initial fee, making your stay all-inclusive as standard. Three main base meals are served throughout the day – breakfast, lunch and dinner, with a host of complimentary bites served in-between, ensuring around the clock appetite satisfaction.

The camp’s talented and dedicated team of catering staff can accommodate any specific dietary requirements or reservations you may have, so just be sure to let them know in advance. Ranging from light and healthy to lavish and indulgent, all pallets and preferences are accounted for, ensuring a remarkable culinary experience for all guests. The in-camp bar provides a wide variety of locally sourced and imported alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, allowing you to help yourself with unrestricted access.

View expansive delta lands like never before with this once in a lifetime areal safari adventure. Nothing compares to the feeling of soaring high above the Okavango in a guided helicopter excursion, with breath-taking vistas as far as the eye can see. Watch in awe as large mammal herds pass far beneath your feet and witness the expansive delta channels as the life breathing arteries that spread widely across the landscape.

Helicopter flights offer astounding sights unattainable via conventional land and water-based safari, and as such, the quintessential safari experience would be incomplete without it. Scenic helicopter flights are accessible via external camp location and come at additional fees.

Chitabe Camp offers guided tours to closely situated villages inhabited by indigenous peoples. This is the ideal activity for those who wish to experience the authentic Botswanan day to day life. Upon your arrival at the village, you will have the opportunity to greet village elders and speak with local children.

Guides and locals alike will take you on a tour throughout the village, allowing you to soak in the sights and sounds of authentic village life, revealing opportunities to visit local bakeries, churches and market stalls, creating lasting memories every step of the way.

The Okavango Delta is home to a magnificent variety of indigenous bird species that attract the eye of birders and wildlife enthusiasts from every corner of the globe. Over 450 species make for a unique and unparalleled viewing experience.

Knowledgeable guides, familiar with the many indigenous birds and their beckoning calls will familiarise you by pointing out different species as you progress. Some of the rarer avian species include the illusive Pel’s fishing owl, endangered wattled crane and the majestic African fish eagle. All you need to do is bring the binoculars.

Embark on foot with your own private and experienced guide for the land-based safari excursion of a lifetime. You will be led safely through a variety of eco systems where there is bountiful opportunity for spying scores of exotic and indigenous game, many of which now thrive within the confines of the Moremi Game Reserve after extensive repopulation initiatives. Ensuring a rememberable and impactful experience for all.

Guided game drives give you the opportunity to set out amongst the vastness of undisturbed natural habitats and organic landscapes of the Okavango wilderness. Embark with seasoned and experienced guides in open 4×4 safari vehicles for the chance to see a plethora of safari staple predators, such as the many big, prowling cats indigenous to the bush, or meandering elephant herds, frolicking zebra, giraffe, hippopotamus, kudu and countless other mammals’ home to delta lands. Don’t forget to bring a camera!

Wilderness Safaris aim is that if the camps ever needed to be moved they could do so without leaving an imprint on the land. All Wilderness Safari camps are built in the most eco-friendly way possible. To reduce their carbon footprint and to help them become carbon neutral in their operations, they invest in new technologies to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels.

Wilderness Safaris partner properties all work under the sustainability ethos of conservation, culture, commerce and community. Pack for a Purpose is one of the community projects that Wilderness Safaris has partnered with, it is “a non-profit organisation that provides travellers with up-to-date information about required supplies for community-based projects.”

This is an educational programme created by Wilderness Safaris which aims to educate and inspire the next generation of environmental leaders by teaching them life skills and environmental issues. This programme aims to “create a network of learning sanctuaries that uplifts and cares for our children and conserves the planet.”

Wilderness Safaris created their own Trust in 2003, this is an independent entity that fund-raises for money to be put into various conservation projects. This engages with projects which can be beyond the scope of the areas in which Wilderness Safaris operate, ensuring that “conservation is a driving force in reaching more people, wildlife and places.”

The Jao Concession and the University of Botswana have created a committee hoping to “encourage better engagement between local communities and the Jao Concession, specifically regarding curbing poaching and overfishing.”

Both the black and white rhino were declared locally extinct in Botswana in the early 1990s. Since then, Wilderness Safaris have partnered with the Botswana government and other NGOs to reintroduce and establish healthy, breeding populations of black and white rhino in the Okavango Delta. Wilderness Safaris helped to restore these rhinos to the wild “in the largest cross-border move ever completed.”

Wilderness Safaris is a strong believer in giving back to local people and communities, proving opportunities for indigenous people to join the sustainable travel industry and imparting invaluable skills to those who seek to make an impact. As such, Chitabe Camp employs a host of local people in the construction and maintenance of its facilities.

The opportunities awarded to talented and passionate people are highly sought after throughout the whole of Botswana, and as such, seek to provide long term career opportunities as opposed to jobs. It is the dedicated guides and staff that deliver the quintessential sustainable holiday experience.

Chitabe Camp, in addition to a host of other Wilderness Safaris lodges operates on entirely 100% sustainable solar energy. By utilising the abundance of sun inherent to Northern Botswana, Chitabe Camp is able to supply a consistent source of energy that is used to power the camps many facilities, negating the need for diesel powered generators that are detrimental to the surrounding wilderness and environment.

Through ecologically friendly initiatives such as this, Chitabe Camp serves as a shining example of how to successfully operate within the sustainable tourism industry for all to see.

Chitabe Camp is constructed from primarily recyclable and locally sourced materials where applicable, negating the need to haul lumber and other construction materials long distances from neighbouring towns and villages. Initiatives such as this greatly offsets potential carbon emissions and negates disruption to the surrounding environments and habitats. Accommodations and camp facilities are constructed from degradable and natural materials, as to ecologically fit with the surrounding environment rather than impose upon it.