TAU PAN

Makgadikgadi Pans

Tau Pan: Our View

The Kalahari desert immediately sounds lifeless and baron…it is far from it. It is one of the most diver habitats in the world and home to as much of Botswana big game and plains game as the other areas. There are only two camps in the Kalahari Game Reserve and Tau Pan is on of them. If time permits, we highly recommend a few nights here whether it be the dry or wet season as both are phenomenal times to visit. And you if you can couple your stay with the two Kwando guides that you get per vehicle, you get an experience of no other in the world.

Tau Pan deserves 5 paws. It is extremely good value, the guiding is exceptional and the camp is very well positioned.

Tau Pan: Fast Facts

Our Rating

9 spacious rooms raised on wooden decks
Swimming Pool
Great view so the undulating terrain
Excellent guiding, 2 guides per vehicle
Located inside the Kalahari Game Reserve

Tau Pan: The Detail

Tau Pan accommodates up to eighteen guests in specially designed thatched units on raised decks. The camp offers incredible views from the ridge of an ancient sand dune, an unusual experience in a land as flat as Botswana, and overlooks the famous Tau Pan - recognised for its stark beauty and remoteness.

This, the first safari camp to be built in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, is a model of environmental sensitivity. As with its sister camp, Nxai Pan, Tau Pan has been constructed with the delicate ecologies in mind. Both utilise only solar power for the generation of electricity, heating of water and pumping of water from deep under the Kalahari sands. Waste water is treated in a state-of-the-art sewerage treatment plant and the fully treated water is returned to the sands from whence it came.

Activities offered at Tau Pan are game drives, day trips to the well-known Deception Valley, Sunday, Piper and Passarge Pans, star gazing, bush brunches on Tau Pan, and nature walks with Bushman trackers.

Located on the edges of a natural flood land, Lebala camp has slowly become reknowned for both its superb guiding and excellent location in the Kwando concession. One of the best things about using all of the Kwando camps, in our opinion, is that, with an extra spotter used on game drives, the chances of seeing everything around are that much higher.

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