Wilderness Mokete accommodates 18 guests in nine tents. It is an intimate experience that will place you in the heart of the drama, built in an intentionally minimalist style without forgoing any comfort. With only canvas between guests and nature, a stay at Mokete is an immersive feast for the senses. There is a swimming pool for warm afternoons and a Star Bed for cool evenings under the sky.

South of Chobe National Park, and east of Moremi Game Reserve, Mababe is the nearest water source for thousands of animals in the dry season. Its permanent marshland is fed by the perennial Mababe River and the seasonal draining of the Okavango Delta, linking to the Linyanti through the Savuti Channel, to create the enormous grassland of the legendary Mababe Depression.

Guests will transfer to camp via scenic helicopter flight (7-minutes) from the Santawani airstrip. The camp can also be reached via convenient self-drive from Maun, Moremi Game Reserve, and Chobe National Park. Vehicles are securely parked in Mababe village and guests transferred to camp.

The Mababe Depression marsh fills in the summer season, creating a wetland of some 2,600 hectares. This progressively disappears in the dry season, although never completely, with permanent water feeding nutrient-rich grasslands, welcoming great herds. Here it’s not uncommon to see vast buffalo herds, tsessebe in their hundreds, and large prides of lions following in their wake.

An extraordinary migration of massive herds of zebra pass through twice a year, at the turn of the season in December, and again in March. The zebras move south to the Nxai Pans where they give birth at the beginning of the rainy season and return north once the rains stop.

There is a good chance to fly over a buffalo herd for a solid ten minutes, the spectacle stretching the breadth of the horizon. And with the buffaloes come the lions. Lion kills can happen every day, perhaps even multiple times a day.

Wilderness Mokete offers exceptional and unconventional safari adventures, where guests can choose to stay on a game drive as long as they please, or stop for a lazy bush picnic – or stay out with the predators late at night if they wish. Guided walks can be arranged, or guests may be tempted to spend an afternoon in the sunken hide, eye-to-toe with the elephants.

Community visits and scenic helicopter flights are at extra costs.

SwissAfrican Travel Service
Dammstrasse 27
8702 Zollikon
Zurich, Switzerland


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