Tuludi Camp delivers the classic luxury safari experience with a host of added perks that border on the wondrously unconventional. Picture seven, treehouse style rooms sheltered beneath an airy canopy of leadwood trees, a sophisticated camp interior that treads the line between contemporary and traditional, designed to immerse you completely within the essence of Okavango safari. Embark through undisturbed, natural landscapes of the private Khwai Reserve and sight the many infamous mammals that call Northern Botswanan home in a plethora of land and sea-based game viewing activities, all while being luxuriously pampered with freshly prepared food and bottomless beverages.
Tuludi Camp, Botswana
Tuludi Camp is Located within the Khwai Private Reserve in the secluded, northern reaches of the Okavango. Bordered by the world-famous Moremi Game Reserve to the south, and the vast Chobe National Park to the east. Together the three reserves are part of the greater Okavango Delta World Heritage Site. Tuludi is accessible via light aircraft to Banoka airstrip, from where it’s about a 15-minute drive to the camp.
- 5 Star rated safari retreat
- Luxury en-suite tented accommodation (6 Rooms)
- All inclusive rates, including food, drink and activities
- Game viewing activities such as game drives, game walks and mokoro excursions
- Sleep outs amidst the pristine, none-polluted wilderness sky
- Motorised boat excursions along the Okavango Delta
- Families with children age 6 and over are welcome
- Alfresco high tea with friends and guides
- Bird watching with the opportunity to spot over 450 indigenous species
This luxury family unit can accommodate up to 2 adults and 3 children, containing a total of 2 bedrooms and 2 en-suite bathrooms. The lofty canvas construction mediates room temperature, ensuring comfortable degrees of cool and warmth both day and night. Interior is elegantly furnished, exhibiting a stylish yet classic design. Both indoor and outdoor shower facilities with tub included are available, providing multiple bathing options.
Enjoy a rejuvenating night’s sleep with a luxurious king size bed with an additional 2 singles. Bedding is cotton linen and mosquito nets are provided. This especially sizeable unit comes with a private plunge pool and sunken seating area, accessible via the outside veranda that offers astonishing views over the surrounding floodplains.
Amenities Include:
- Double en-suite bathroom
- Indoor and outdoor shower facilities
- Bathtub
- Veranda
- Plunge pool
- Mosquito nets
- Electrical outlets
- Hairdryer
- Safe
- A kettle with tea and coffee available
- Complimentary laundry service
- Complimentary WIFI
These twin canvas luxury tents spaciously accommodate up to 2 guests, with an interior floor space of 62.5 square metres. The interior is warmly furnished with a touch of sophistication and an abundance of character. The canvas construction ensures a lofty and consistent temperature, pleasant throughout all hours of the day. En-suite bathrooms come with indoor and outdoor showers and tub come as standard, providing ample bathing options.
Rest easy with comfortable double beds with cotton linen sheets and mosquito nets, ensuring an undisturbed, tranquil night’s sleep. Additionally, a sunken seating area and a private plunge pool on the outside veranda, both overlooking stretching floodplains, provides an atmospheric spot with which to unwind while absorbing the surrounding environment.
Amenities Include:
- En-suite bathroom
- Indoor and outdoor shower facilities
- Bathtub
- Veranda
- Plunge pool
- Mosquito nets
- Electrical outlets
- Hairdryer
- Safe
- A kettle with tea and coffee available
- Complimentary laundry service
- Complimentary WIFI
Prepare yourself for the pinnacle of luxury dining with Tuludi Camp’s extravagant range of morning, day and evening cuisine. Start your day with a freshly prepared continental breakfast, prepared to your preference with a host of additional commodities. You can expect to be provided with a variety of lite snacks and bites throughout the day and between meals, ensuring around the clock appetite satisfaction.
Don’t think for a moment that dining is limited to the indoors, as you may wish to enjoy a spot of lunch alfresco between daytime activities – bush picnics being notorious well received and enjoyable. Come evening, you are welcomed to the in-camp restaurant for a sumptuous feast, magnificently prepared for you to enjoy amongst the company of friends and family. All dietary requirements and preferences are accounted for, so be sure to let the staff know in advance. Food and drink come as all-inclusive as standard.
Feel free to come and enjoy a range of locally sourced and imported alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages at any time of the day. All-inclusive as standard. Maybe you’re craving a lite snack or bite to eat? Help yourself. The Tuludi Camp bar is accessible via the central boardwalk and offers elevated views over the surround plains, the perfect place to grab a beverage before unwinding with friends at the many available viewing platforms and social areas situated nearby.
Home to over 450 indigenous bird species, the Okavango attracts birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts alike from all around the world. Migration occurs between November to March and is the optimum time for birders as this is a time when many birds breed and migrate inland. Be sure to bring a set of binoculars, as not to miss some of the rarer avian species sighted throughout the private Khwai Reserve.
Set sail for the river delta in this once in a lifetime marine safari adventure. Traverse open waters in hard bottom aluminium boats as professionally licensed guides take you on a journey through the deeper channels of the Okavango Delta. Ensuring a truly remarkable maritime safari experience. Boats are equipped with comfortable seats, a foldaway canvas roof and life jackets as standard.
Set sail for the marine safari adventure of a lifetime as your private guide – experienced in the art of mokoro excursion, rows you through tranquil delta channels in search of aquatic game and exotic bird species. There are few things more relaxing than calmly drifting through delta waters in a traditional style dug-out canoe, soaking in the atmosphere at the heart of the Okavango.
Sleep outs provide the opportunity for you and your partner to spend the night in a cosy and intimate sky suite situated within the wilderness of the Private Khwai Reserve – surrounded only by nature and the canvas of stars above. Star viewing is spectacular in the private Khwai Reserve as a pristine night sky – unpolluted by city lights and smog, reveals the wonders of the universe for you to gaze upon.
An afternoon game drive to the sleep out location allows you to partake in a full day’s safari activity, before settling down in the evening in an isolated yet luxurious suite with a king size bed, hurricane lamps and mosquito nets. A light breakfast is served in the morning before an additional game viewing ride back to camp.
Tuludi Camp hosts a variety of exciting game-oriented activities appropriate for adventure seeking families and small groups. Embark for the wilderness on an Okavango expedition of a lifetime. Private and experienced guides will lead you by foot through the expansive delta plains where you will have the opportunity to view all manner of exotic and indigenous game. Don’t forget to bring a camera, so not to miss meandering herds of elephant, prowling lion prides, zebra, giraffe, hippopotamus, buffalo, Nile crocodiles, and the many other exotic creatures as you traverse this wild, breath-taking landscape.
Set forth for the open landscapes of the Okavango in open 4×4 safari vehicles with your own private and experienced guide as you search for majestic beasts and prowling predators in this once in a lifetime delta safari adventure. Be sure to bring a camera, as not to miss the herds of meandering elephant as they stoop to drink from delta waters, or roaming lion prides with their accompanying cubs. Frolicking zebras make for a sight to behold, as do giraffe, cheetah, kudu, hippopotamus and rare wild dog – hunted near to extinction yet thriving within the confines of the private Khwai Reserve.
Guided game drives offer the opportunity to get up-close-and-personal with an array of natural wildlife indigenous to delta lands. As you traverse from one eco-system to the next, you will know how it feels to experience authentic African safari, leaving only lasting memories.
Natural Selection supports the vision of the Botswana Community and Conservation Initiative (BCCI), which provides regional conservation and support for rural communities to develop sustainable land-use practices that promote conservation-based economic opportunities, facilitate landscape-scale wildlife movements, and provide for climate change resilience.
Natural Selection has also partnered with Coaching Conservation ‘to provide local people with the critical information they need to stay safe and healthy during the pandemic.’ ‘Over the last three years, 1.5% of every guest’s stay in [Natural Selection’s] camps have gone towards community and conservation projects. Combined with the direct contributions that [Natural Selection’s] camps make to local community outreach, this amounts to nearly 1 million USD of committed funds.’
Natural Selection started the Etosha Heights Rhino Protection program, which is an anti-poaching group that monitor Rhinos, and ensure that poachers are unable to illegally hunt these endangered creatures. ‘We take rhino conservation extremely seriously, and the Etosha Heights team work tirelessly to safeguard the future of these bushveld unicorns and ensure that many more generations can enjoy watching them.
Within the reserve we have an anti-poaching camp and team who are dedicated to protecting the rhinos and preventing any illegal hunting from happening along the boundaries of the reserve. Our rangers are on the ground 24 hours a day and have completed an intensive training programme to ensure that they’re the best of the best. Combined with new state of the art anti-poaching surveillance technology, this team is a force to be reckoned with.’
Natural Selection ensures that 1.5% of your expedition fees goes to wildlife conservation. They also work with the local communities, governments and conservation organisations in order to help protect conservation areas and sustain them. The camps that are built are subtle and blend in with the environment and the habitats that already exist there, causing minimal disruption to the surrounding wildlife.
The increase in the number of elephants in the Okavango Delta in recent years is a cause for celebration. However, for villagers along the Delta’s panhandle and outskirts, the sudden boost in elephant numbers means that their land is more likely to be trampled and humans may be at risk of fatal encounters. Natural Selection has recognised that transportation for local communities is a need, and they worked with EcoExist and the Okavango Community Trust to launch the ‘Elephant Express’ in January 2020. The ‘Elephant Express’ service transports children to schools safely, as well as helping patients get to clinics without the fear of crossing paths with a gigantic elephant.
Natural Selections has been working with the local Khwai Village in order to identify needs within the community and create solutions. Natural Selections have launched several projects to do this, such as the Feed A Child programme which provides schoolchildren with a healthy vitamin-rich meal at the start of the school day, setting up a pre-school in Khwai Village and providing an income for the teachers, supporting the village elders and disabled members of the community, and providing homes with electricity using solar power. Natural Selections’ initiatives not only help the local communities but inspires the local villagers to see ecotourism in a positive light, helping to prevent human and animal conflict.
The Singkwenza Toys to Waste Workshop provides a hands-on learning experience for educators, parents and villagers alike who seek to craft toys for the often-deprived village children. Toys are hard to come by in isolated regions and remote villages across Southern Africa, and so this initiative seeks to impart the skills and knowledge of how to construct toys from recyclable and abundant materials readily available within the community.
It should go without saying that the key factor to sustainable, eco-friendly tourism is a consciousness for environment and respect for the lands situated within. While this unfortunately isn’t the case with all institutions, Natural Selection seeks to set an example.
All Natural Selection safari lodges are constructed from readily available, locally sourced and recyclable materials, negating the need to haul vast quantities of lumber and other raw construction materials long distances through remote eco-systems and habitats, avoiding the disturbance of natural wildlife throughout Southern Africa. Special care is taken when scouting out the location for a potential retreat, as to consider the implications on the surrounding wildlife and environment before corporate interest.
Wherever possible, all Natural Selection retreats are powered using renewable energy sources. In-camp facilities such as lighting and heated water are powered using solar panel electricity, residing conventional diesel-powered generators to supporting and emergency applications only. Over time, these initiatives make a profoundly positive ecological impact that aid in the conservation of the environment and local eco-systems, which is why Natural Selection is constantly striving to incorporate these technologies wherever applicable, seeking to comprehensively negate their collective carbon footprint by whatever means possible.
Tuludi Camp welcomes all children age 6 and over. However, due to the sometimes dangerous and arid nature of the environment, all children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.