Okavango Delta Lodges

Sleep under the stars without leaving your suite: at Baines' Camp a four-poster sky bed rolls out onto each private deck, beside a star bath. The camp overlooks the Boro River in a private concession bordering Moremi Game Reserve.

Camp Okavango is a water camp on Nxaragha Island in the permanent Delta, with no game drives. Days run by mokoro and motorboat, on guided island walks and, in season, fishing, with helicopter flights at extra cost. Choose it for the stillness of the channels.

Walk, drive or paddle: Duba Explorers Camp offers all three, with day and night drives, guided walks, and boat or mokoro trips when water levels allow. It sits on an island in the north-east corner of the private Duba Plains Reserve.

Great Plains Conservation is the only operator on the private Duba Plains Reserve, so sightings are shared with very few vehicles. Suites have plunge pools and copper baths facing the floodplain, and day and night drives use high-clearance vehicles built for wet ground.

The Duba Plains Suite is a two-bedroom tented villa at Duba Plains Camp, each bedroom with its own veranda and plunge pool. A private guide, vehicle, butler and chef come with it, so the day runs to your timetable. Ideal for families or small groups.

Duke's Camp brings 1940s campaign-style safari to an island beside a lagoon in a private concession bordering Moremi, in the northern Delta. Days mix mokoro and boat trips with day and night drives, so you see the Delta from the water and the land.

Duke's East is the smaller sister to Duke's Camp, sharing its private concession in the northern Delta. It can be booked for exclusive use, which suits a family or a group of friends, and offers the same mix of drives, mokoro and boat trips.

On Xaxaba Island in the Gunns Concession, Belmond Eagle Island Lodge mixes water and land: mokoro, powerboat and fishing trips alongside game drives and nature walks, as the season allows. Suites have private plunge pools, and sundowners are poured at the Fish Eagle Bar.

Gomoti Plains Camp lies in the Gomoti River system, on a community-run concession in the south-eastern Delta. Day and night drives are the focus, with boat trips when the water allows, and a plunge pool and in-suite massages fill the midday break.

Jacana Camp is a small Wilderness water camp on an island in the private Jao Reserve, usually ringed by floodwater. Mokoro and boat trips lead the day, with game drives on the drier plains as the water drops. It suits birders and couples.

Choose Jao Camp for range: mokoro and boat trips, day and night drives, and full-day outings on Hunda Island, with a spa and gym between activities. Each suite has a bathtub and plunge pool, on a wooded island in the private Jao Reserve.

Between the Vumbura River and the Selinda Spillway, Kadizora Camp has permanent channels on its doorstep, so water activities run year-round alongside day and night drives and walks. It sits in a private concession of the northern Delta, and Gunotsuga village visits can be arranged.

Kanana Camp lines the Xudum River in a private concession of the south-western Delta. Drives, night drives and walks run alongside seasonal mokoro and boat trips, and the heronries are a birding highlight. A night at the Kanana Sleep Out can be added.

Red lechwe graze the floodplain below Kwetsani Camp, on a palm-fringed island in the private Jao Reserve. When the water is high, mokoro and boat trips take over; game drives on Hunda Island keep the land side going.

Little Tubu is the smaller, more personal sister to Tubu Tree, on Hunda Island in the private Jao Reserve. Its tents are linked by boardwalk, activities follow the flood between land and water, and the Tubu star bed offers a night in a converted hide.

Arrival is by boat at Little Vumbura, on a wooded island in the private Vumbura concession of the northern Delta. Drives, walks, mokoro and boat trips are all on offer, and the whole camp can be booked for one family or group.

Natural Selection's Mbamba opened in 2025 in a private concession of the northern Delta beside Moremi, Vumbura and Duba Plains. Its name means hello in the Bukakhwe San language. Expect day and night drives, mokoro, boating, fishing and trips to the Tsodilo Hills.

Mokolwane is a Natural Selection camp of raised tents in the Xudum concession of the southern Delta. Day and night drives run year-round, mokoro and boat trips follow the seasonal water, and helicopter flights show you the whole picture from above.

Chief's Island, in Moremi, lies just across the Boro River from Moremi Crossing, and guided walks there are the highlight. The camp, on palm-fringed Ntswi Island, is otherwise water-based: mokoro and motorboat trips, plus wild island camping for the adventurous.

North Island is a Natural Selection camp on its own private island in the northern Delta, where the floodwater arrives early. Suites have a bathtub and plunge pool, and the activity list spans game drives, boat and mokoro trips and helicopter flights.

Ebony trees shade &Beyond Nxabega Okavango Tented Camp, in a private concession bordering Moremi. Tents have open-air showers and a private sala, and drives, walks and seasonal boat and mokoro trips cover both sides of the Delta.

Nxamaseri Island Lodge lies on a private island in the Okavango Panhandle, where the river runs between papyrus banks before fanning into the Delta. It is a water lodge: boat and mokoro trips, island walks, birding and fishing for tigerfish.

Okavango Spirit is Natural Selection's houseboat in the Panhandle, moored each night on the banks of the Okavango River. Cabins open onto private decks, and smaller boats take you birding and game viewing by day, with mokoro trips and a visit to the Tsodilo Hills.

Pelo takes its name from the Setswana word for heart, after the shape of its island in the Jao Reserve. Ringed by permanent water, it is a simple, classic water camp: mokoro and motorboat trips through the floodplains, with walks on nearby islands.

Pom Pom Camp overlooks a lily-strewn lagoon on Pom Pom Island, in a private concession at the head of the Xudum River system west of Moremi. Day and night drives and walks run alongside seasonal mokoro and boat trips: a classic all-round Delta camp.

Qorokwe means the place where the buffalo broke through the bush into the water. This Wilderness camp lies between the Santantadibe and Gomoti channels in a private concession bordering Moremi. Day and night drives lead, with walks and mokoro or boat trips when water allows.

Rra Dinare overlooks the Gomoti River in a private concession bordering Moremi, on the south-eastern edge of the Delta. Day and night drives are the focus; mokoro, boating and walks depend on water and local conditions. It is run with the Sankuyo Community Trust.

Families who want game drives and walks rather than water should look at &Beyond Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge, which runs a children's programme. It sits under wild palms and fig trees in a private concession bordering Moremi, with a spa, gym and optional helicopter flights.

Year-round land and water activities are Shinde Camp's strength: drives, walks and water trips can all fit one stay. The camp sits on a palm island beside the Shinde Lagoon in a private concession of the northern Delta, with a family tent.

Shinde Footsteps is a small, old-school bush camp in the Shinde concession, where walking safaris share the bill with mokoro trips and day and night drives. Its size makes it ideal for exclusive use by a family or a group of friends.

Sitatunga Private Island Camp, a Great Plains camp and Relais & Châteaux member, occupies an island in a private concession of the north-western Delta. It is almost entirely a water camp: photographic boats, mokoro trips and catch-and-release fishing in sitatunga country.

The Sitatunga Private Island Suite stands apart from the main camp on the same island, with two en-suite bedrooms, a shared lounge and its own pool. A private guide and boat come with it, so mokoro, boating and fishing run on your schedule.

Pair Stanley's Camp with a water camp and you have both halves of the Delta. Game drives are the mainstay here, with water activities when the flood allows, in a private concession in the southern Delta bordering Moremi Game Reserve.

The Tubu star bed, a converted hide, offers a night out under the stars from Tubu Tree Camp on Hunda Island, in the private Jao Reserve. By day, game drives on the island combine with boat and mokoro trips when the flood is in.

Vumbura Plains is two Wilderness camps, North and South, raised on decks in a private concession of the far northern Delta bordering Moremi. The range is wide: day and night drives, walks, mokoro, boating and catch-and-release fishing, plus helicopter flights.

A plunge pool and sala on every tented suite deck set the tone at &Beyond Xaranna, on its own island in a private concession of the south-eastern Delta. Boating and mokoro lead when the water is in; game drives and helicopter flights fill the rest.

Xugana Island Lodge looks over the Xugana Lagoon in the Shinde concession of the northern Delta. There are no game drives: it is a water lodge, with mokoro and boat trips, island walks and fishing, and an easy companion to a land-based camp.