Little Mombo Camp

 

Little Mombo is situated on Mombo Island, adjoining the northern tip of Chief's Island, and is within the Moremi Game Reserve in northern Botswana. The camp offers abundant big game viewing, arguably the best in Botswana. The highlight here are the concentrations of plains game and all the predators, including the big cats! Lion sightings are particularly good.

Little Mombo is an extension to Mombo Camp, and is built under the shade of large shady trees overlooking a wonderful floodplain teeming with game. The three tented guest rooms and connecting walkways are 6-feet off the ground, enabling wildlife to wander freely through the camp, but at the same time allowing for guest safety. The rooms are comfortably furnished, spacious and well appointed and have en-suite facilities under canvas, and an additional outdoor shower for those who enjoy a shower under the stars. The dining room, pub and living area overlook the open plain in front of the camp and there is a plunge pool for relaxing in the heat of the day.  

A stay at Little Mombo isn't complete until you learn about the reintroduction of rhinos in the Okavango.  The biggest threat to the existence of white and black rhinos is man, who has destroyed hundreds of thousands of animals in the mistaken belief that their horns possess the power of an aphrodisiac. In Africa, there were an estimated 100,000 black rhinos in the early 1960s. Today, there are less than 2,600. Rhinos have been eradicated in several areas including Botswana, where both species occurred at different times during the early 20th century.  Wilderness Safaris, the owners of the Mombo concession, and the Department of Wildlife and National Parks, have cooperated and reintroduced white and black rhinos to this part of the Delta, perhaps the most remote in the Okavango.