Ilala Lodge is an elegant, intimate and comfortable hotel on the edge of the Zambezi National Park a short safe walk from Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwean side.
Ilala Lodge is a charming hotel, just minutes from Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwean side adjoining the Zambezi National Park.
This privately owned and managed hotel guarantees the service is personal and the atmosphere intimate. All the rooms are air conditioned and have patio doors opening onto a balcony or large front lawn - mowed by a regular troupe of warthog and occasional visits from waterbuck, baboons, monkeys and even elephant from time to time. The Deluxe and Pool Wing assure a view of the distant spray of the Falls and the Garden Wing, a view onto the peacefully luxuriant gardens.
Good travel advice is to eat where the locals eat and they eat at Ilala's Palm Restaurant. With tables set under the stars on clear nights or in the high-thatched dining room, the food is unfussy and the atmosphere is relaxed. The croc-pie and ostrich steak are local delicacies worth trying.
2 Nights
Bed and Breakfast
4 Star
Lodge
Spoken Languages: English
No. Rooms: 73
Special Interests: Adventure, Birding, Fishing, Flora, Gourmet, History & Culture, Leisure, Nature, Relaxation, Shopping, Wildlife, Wine
In the vast flatness that is Botswana any vantage point is like gold and Chobe Elephant Camp has struck the mother lode. On a rocky hilltop with the Chobe River below, the endless plains of the Kalahari Basin disappear into the horizon.
Opting for a more stately imprint, perhaps complimenting its commanding view, Chobe Elephant Camp eschews the standard timber and thatch tented camp style so popular in Botswana and East Africa. Instead you can expect rough-finished sandstone walls, corrugated tin roofs, timber beams, polished floors and a quirky old-world farmstead feel.
Accommodation at Chobe Elephant Camp is in huge chalets well-spaced along the ridge and each one taking in that magnificent view. Rustic-looking they may be but inside they are anything but. Luxurious beds, en suite bathrooms - complete with indoor and outdoor showers - and a private deck turn your room into a palace. The screed floors, sand-filled walls and deep shade provide natural cool in the Kalahari.
The main lodge also salutes the glorious view out over the Chobe flood plains with seating areas galore including a large wooden deck in front and teak Morris chairs and day beds from which to enjoy both view and icy drink. With a limited number of guests at any time, dining is an elaborate table d'hôte affair made less formal by using individual tables.
And then we have the wildlife. Chobe Elephant Camp, as the name so succinctly implies, is where you come to see elephants. And lions, leopards, wild dogs, buffalos, hyenas, giraffes, hippos, crocodiles, vultures, roan and sable antelope, birds by the bucketload and much, much more. Guided game drives and river safaris happen twice a day and you can also visit the local village and take a guided walk through the bush. Camp is unfenced so really the animals come to you. Bliss.
2 Nights
Fully Inclusive - Bed, All Meals, Fees and Activities
All Drinks (excl Premium Brands) Included
Tented Camp
Spoken Languages: English
Special Interests: Adventure, Birding, Flora, Leisure, Nature, Relaxation, Star Gazing, Wildlife
Being in a private concession in the Okavango Delta means Pom Pom Camp and its (maximum) 18 guests have exclusive access to Africa's most pristine and unspoilt wilderness area. One of the oldest camps in the Okavango Delta. It has stood the test of time and is still a fan favourite for all the right reasons.
Pom Pom Camp is a small, intimate and comfortable safari lodge in an amazing location inside the Okavango Delta on the Xudum River system. On the western border of the Moremi Game Reserve. Surrounded by permanent waterways and overlooking a lagoon - fringed with dreamy Ilala Palms and papyrus - Pom Pom Camp offers all the exclusivity of many dearer luxury safari lodges in the delta.
The rooms are Meru-styled East African safari tents: an elevated wooden deck supports a large canvas awning beneath which another canvas tent is stretched explorer-style beneath a dense grove of trees. The deck extends over the water to form a private, shady balcony and out back an en suite bathroom with a roofless - though completely private - shower.
Flying over the delta to land at Pom Pom Camp, you will get an idea of just how remote this safari lodge is. And then you'll marvel at how relative luxury presides in such wild and raw circumstances. The living area has a lovely fireside gathering area, a covered high table dining area and comfortable chairs dotted about looking out through the open-sided thatched structure to the amazing Okavango Delta scenery that starts beneath your feet and extends as far as Earth's curvature will allow - or the nearest elephant.
2 Nights
Fully Inclusive - Bed, All Meals, Fees and Activities
All Drinks (excl Premium Brands) Included
Luxury Tented Camp
Spoken Languages: English
No. Rooms: 9
Special Interests: Adventure, Big 5, Birding, Fishing, Flora, Leisure, Nature, Relaxation, Star Gazing, Wildlife
Its funky name means "father buffalo", and this place is indeed the buffalo's eyebrows. So drenched in wildlife, in the heart of all the action, it's almost ridiculous. Perched upon stilts, overlooking the flood plains of the Gomoti River. A room with a view, submerged into nature. Get lost in the surrounding bush and pure wilderness.
An environmentally sustainable camp in the South Eastern part of the Okavango Delta - a UNESCO World Heritage site. Set on a 67,000 acre private concession next to the Moremi Game Reserve. You'll have to fly in - it's that remote - the airstrips servicing the camps are approximately a 20 minute flight from Maun and 1.5 hour from Kasane. Once you've landed it's a short drive from the airstrip. And it's a game drive. Which is pretty great considering you haven't even arrived yet.
If you're after a true Delta experience and an opportunity to adventure into what makes the Okavango Delta so wild, you've found it here. No WiFi, no distractions. Just you and the bush! It's not about the accommodation here, but all about the wildlife. That's where your focus should be anyway in a place like this!
2 Nights
Fully Inclusive - Bed, All Meals, Fees and Activities
All Drinks (excl Premium Brands) Included
Luxury Tented Camp
Spoken Languages: English
No. Rooms: 8
Special Interests: Adventure, Big 5, Birding, Fishing, Flora, Leisure, Nature, Relaxation, Star Gazing, Wildlife
