Mombo Camp | Botswana Safari Lodges

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Widely recognised as the finest safari camp in Africa, Mombo Camp is Botswana’s flagship lodge. The larger Mombo and smaller Little Mombo are owned by the luxury operator Wilderness Safaris, regarded as one of Africa’s leading lodge owners. Located in the heart of the Okavango Delta’s Moremi Game Reserve Mombo and Little Mombo are stunning camps situated in one of the continent's finest game viewing regions. Phenomenal concentrations of Africa’s big game surround both camps making Mombo one of the leading wildlife camps in the world. To put it simply, Mombo is as good as it gets!

Mombo - The Details

Located in the heart of the Okavango Delta’s Moremi Game Reserve on the northern tip of Chiefs Island, Mombo is approximately one hours flight from the International airport at Maun. The camp is accessed by its own private bush airstrip which is roughly 30 minutes game drive from camp.

Mombo – Botswana’s 'Place of Plenty' - looks over a floodplain that literally teems with game. The main communal area has stunning views over a wide stretch of the plain. Consisting primarily of a main thatch structure that is home to the lounge, bar and small library as well as a long wooden dining room table, the camp also has a wide decking area for meals under the stars. There is also a fire place and boma as well as ample space for private dining.

The whole of the camp is raised up onto a wooden deck with wooden walkways between the rooms; buffalo often sleep under the rooms at night. Each of the 9 luxurious tents are identical, set out to stretch across the island - all have good views over the floodplain. Each room is equipped with a decking area and an outside sala (double bed!) to enjoy the scenery in your own privacy. The rooms are absolutely beautiful, made of the highest quality and fit well with the surrounding environment. The rooms are linear in design with the bathroom and two showers at one end. The mid section has a large wardrobe and towards the opposite end is a gigantic bed followed by your very own living area equipped with a mini-bar and selections of snacks.

The Mombo reserve boasts massive concentrations of plains game and an incredible concentration of the predators. Wild dog and cheetah are rarely seen but the dominant female from a wild dog pack has remained and adopted up to 15 black-backed jackals and created a pack, with which it hunts and lives. It even regurgitates its food for the young, in true wild dog style.

According to Mombo guides you are almost guaranteed a lion sighting every drive and if not, then certainly every two drives. Chief's Island also has some of the highest concentration of Rhino in Botswana after the successful reintroduction programme – numbers are actually on the up in this specific part of the Delta. The guiding is top notch and Wilderness channel the best and most sought after guides to Mombo. The staff and in-house service is well up there with some of the best hospitality in Africa - they excel in the food and beverage department.

Mombo only offers game drives during the daytime. Night drives are not permitted due to the camp's location inside the Moremi Game Reserve. Water levels are too low for boating activities.

When staying at one of the finest safari camps in Africa, you have to be sure you are staying at a camp which protects the environment which it boasts. Luckily, with WIlderness safaris you are sure to be doing just that. Please see our blog post, with a photo of how Wilderness ensure their camps are built with a low carbon footprint.

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Client Reviews

[100% BASED ON 6 REVIEWS]

I wanted to drop you a note and tell you what an absolutely fantastic trip I had to Mombo and Vumbura Plains. I walked away with 2900 photos and am, by no means, a serious photographer. Thank you again for all your wonderful suggestions. They really paid off for me. You can be certain this is not my last trip there.

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- A Luchechko

It is our 7th trip to Africa and we have stayed in the best places, but the staff at Mombo are the best ever, especially the manager, Ryan, he was extremely professional, hands-on, very caring, making sure that we were happy. He was always around... always and never the case anywhere that we have stayed. From the time he woke us and met us at 5:30 until we retired. his knowledge was overwhelming about the area to when he had world views it was the same. If he lived in LA he would be a very good friend to my wife and myself.

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- S Silver

The sequence of the camps…from Royal Livingstone to Kwetsani to Little Mombo to Jack’s was perfect! Note about Jack’s camp: we were lucky enough to be able to do their surprise sleep out on the pans! What an experience…I wasn’t sure about Jack’s camp and was worried it wouldn’t be right. But we’d seen so much wildlife in Mombo, another camp would have been redundant. Keeping the sleep out a surprise is a good thing…I’m glad we didn’t know. Don’t tell people…the surprise is worth it. And, of course, some can’t do it due to sandstorms, etc. And you were right: the kids loved the 4X4s and the meerkats.

The surprise birthday party was incredible: message written w/beans on the bed when we returned from afternoon outing…champagne for us…handwritten birthday cards…animal prints from an artist

Guides were all knowledgeable, friendly, patient w/kids (Ronald in Kwetsani…but he’s going off to join his brother’s mobile safari business; Mos in Little Mombo…GREAT!!!! Excellent w/the kids; Chabba in Jack’s…wonderful wonderful. Funny, knowledgeable.)

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- J, Lamattina

We loved Mombo Camp in Botswana. It was the first camp we went to and probably spoiled us for life in terms of game viewing. On our very first day ever on safari we saw lions, the one wild dog of the area which had just had his kill appropriated by a hyena, and a white Rhino. And, of course, we saw herds of elephants, towers of giraffe, and a bloat of hippos and on and on. In addition to the bounty of animals, the accommodations at Mombo were heavenly. Hot waters in our beds at night, liquor to our heart’s content, food every time we turned around, and a wonderful staff everywhere we turned. It truly was heaven.

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- C Lazare

Mombo was great, despite their period of flux it was one of our best trips. Great viewing almost every drive, even though you have to work a little harder now than in the halcyon days of 5 or more years ago when the huge lion prides held sway. A rogue bull elephant in camp was taking apart the raised walkways on a daily basis. He even joined us for a night-cap around the camp fire - he stood just 6 feet away from us, quietly feeding... We had 12 individual rhino sightings in total, both black and white. Tsile our guide was superb, as were all the staff and management, even though some were in temporary holding positions, pending the go ahead for the refurb. ( as an aside, Tsile is actually retiring this month, but will be available upon request, something we will likely do when we go back next time )

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- A Marshall

Little Mombo - on the game front, this was absolutely number 1!!

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- E Reynolds

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