Aerial view of the camp's thatched deck on a wooded bank where a channel opens into the lagoon, golden reedbeds on the far side under a sky of scattered cloud

Botswana · Moremi Game Reserve

Camp Xakanaxa

Two entirely different Africas before dinner, from the same camp, without repacking a bag.

First, the pronunciation: Ka-ka-na-ka. Get that right and the rest of the trip goes better.

Camp Xakanaxa sits on the banks of the Khwai River where it meets the Xakanaxa Lagoon, in the heart of the Moremi Game Reserve, and its location is what sets it apart. This is one of the very few safari camps that can offer a genuine Okavango Delta safari by both land and water, all year round. Most camps in the Delta are one or the other, or one for part of the year. Xakanaxa is both, always.

The thatched dining area lit warmly at dusk on a timber deck over still water, a boardwalk with lanterns leading in, a sliver of moon above — The dining deck at dusk

Rivers in the Okavango are where things happen, and a camp on the banks of one has already won half the argument.

In practice that means a day can begin on a game drive through Moremi and end on the lagoon, with the light going soft over the water and the engine cut. Two entirely different Africas before dinner, from the same camp, without repacking a bag. Anyone who has moved between Delta camps to get both will appreciate how rare that is.

The Khwai River does the rest. Rivers in the Okavango are where things happen, and a camp on the banks of one has already won half the argument.

Ka-ka-na-ka. You will be saying it for years.

The camp

Guest tent interior: a four-poster bed under a mosquito net, a woven pendant light, a cream sofa and a writing desk by the window — A guest tent

Family tent with two beds under draped netting, rust-red canvas chairs, a chest of drawers and a standing fan — The family tent

Tent bathroom of reed screens and timber with twin basins under a mirror, the canvas roof open to the trees — Twin basins, under canvas

Land and water

Guests on a covered safari boat in tall reeds, an elephant feeding a few metres away — By boat, with company

Aerial view of a game-drive vehicle on a sandy track through a herd of buffalo spread across green floodplain grass — Buffalo, from above

A circle of cushioned chairs around a fire pit on a timber deck under bare branches, the sun setting over the lagoon — The fire deck at sunset

Camp Xakanaxa

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