Mombo Camp
Situated on Mombo Island, adjoining the northern tip of Chief's Island, and is within the Moremi Game Reserve in the Okavango Delta 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. Mombo is built on an island that is surrounded by open floodplains. The camp is largely built in and around the shade of some large mangosteen, ebony and fig trees and overlooks a wonderful floodplain that teems with wildlife.
The camp has nine comfortably furnished, luxurious tents, raised off the ground. The guest's rooms and the walkways that connect the rooms to the living area are up to 6.5 feet off the ground, enabling wildlife to wander freely through the camp, but at the same time allowing for guest safety. One often finds that animals take refuge under the rooms. The canvas rooms are 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. Activities at Mombo include morning and afternoon game drives in open 4x4 Land Rovers.
A stay at 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.