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Jack’s Camp

Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, Botswana - Part of the Natural Selection collection

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Jack’s Camp

Part of the Natural Selection collection

PROPERTY FACILITIES

Pool

Spa

Library

AVAILABLE SERVICES

Airstrip Transfer

COMFORT LEVEL/PRICE RANGE

Luxury

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Is the Jack's Camp for Me?

Jack’s Camp, re-opened in 2021, pays homage to the property’s enduring and much-loved 1940s campaign style. The 9 guest tents are about 270 square metres in size, with iconic interiors embellished with rich textiles from around the world, Natural History Museum cabinets, and an overhead bed cooling system. Ensuite bathrooms have both indoor and outdoor showers and outside, each veranda has a private plunge pool.

There’s an impressive choice of extraordinary activities to be enjoyed including quad biking, bushman walks, classic desert game drives, meerkat visits and horse rides.

Keep your eyes peeled for the year-round desert wildlife: brown hyena, oryx, Kalahari lion and, after dark, aardvark, porcupine, honey badger and bat eared fox.

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Jack’s Camp Rooms

The Jack's Camp has 9 rooms. Select a room for more details.

Jack's Camp Double Tent

Jack's Camp Twin Tent

Room facilities

Air Conditioning

Safe

Mini Bar

Fan

Activities offered by Jack’s Camp

Activities on site

Night Game Drives

Game Drives

Horse Riding

Bird Watching

Cycling

Sleep Outs

Activities off site

Scenic Flight

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Game Drives at Jack's Camp

Take game drives and night drives in custom

built 4x4s to spot the unique desert wildlife

that inhabit the pans, like the elusive brown

hyena or Kalahari lion. Your experienced

safari guide will help you discover a desert

landscape, pulsating with life. Complete with

bush picnics, morning coffees and chilled

drinks.

Meet the Meerkats at Jack's Camp

Get up close and personal with our families of meerkats. Leaving camp as the sun begins to rise you will accompany these inquisitive members of the mongoose family as they set off in search of their breakfast. Walk amongst them (you’re not allowed to touch or feed them) and if you take a seat you might be lucky enough to be mistaken for a termite mound, where you’ll be used as a look out point for predators.

Jack's Camp Bushman Walk

Discover the secrets of the pans with the

Zu/’hoasi Bushmen on a fascinating bush walk.

See this ancient desert landscape through their

eyes. These skilled hunter gatherers will show

you how to survive, using their extraordinary

tracking skills to uncover a smorgasbord of

culinary delights… from bulbs, to scorpions, to

berries. Spending time with them is a very rare

privilege.

Jack's Camp Horse Safari

Saddle up to explore this wild, unspoilt area in the
same way many of the earliest explorers, hunters
and missionaries did – on horseback! You’ll embark
on an adventurous outride (for all level riders). This
is an exhilarating way to spot wildlife, cantering
along the crusty salt flats and following the animal
highways that bring life to the Makgadikgadi Pans.

This is an additional cost.

Jack's Camp Quad Biking

This is pure desert adventure! Take an exhilarating

quad bike across the salt-crusted pans

(all pan activity is weather permitting). You’ll

feel total freedom as you trek across this vast

and ancient landscape, discovering so much

about the remnants of this once super lake.

Fallen Baobab

A visit to the Fallen Baobab – one of the three largest and oldest trees in Africa and reputedly the campsite of Livingstone and Selous.

Zebra and Wildebeest Migration - Green Season

Witness the second largest migration in Africa.

A stonking spectacle of black and white stripes

as approximately 30,000 zebra and wildebeest

migrate across the Makgadikgadi Pans, followed

closely by stalking predators, waiting for the rich

pickings of tired hooves. This is a wildlife explosion

and an experience not to be missed!

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