4 Rivers

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4 Rivers is the latest Kwando Safaris offering in one of the Delta’s best private reserves. It’s stylish, but earthy and in keeping with its wild surroundings. Here, everything is about unforgettable wildlife experiences, but Kwando has added a splash of luxury to make for a less rustic and more chic safari experience. It’s one for safari buffs who don’t want to give up on a few creature comforts.

4 Rivers Camp - The Details

While you won’t get massages and spas here, 4 Rivers offers its own main area luxuries, including an inviting pool and open-sided, high ceilings to make guests feel connected to their Delta surroundings. Its ethos is old world safari, where the purpose of camp is to maximise serenity and relaxation in between all-important wilderness adventures.

The camp is made up of eight tents and one family tent, so it has an intimate feel. All tents have both indoor and outdoor showers, as well as elevated private decks with outside seating. In rooms there are also spacious lounge areas and a double vanity basin.

While 4 Rivers is lovely, the real beauty of this camp is found in the outside world, in the 175,000 Kwara Private Reserve, which is jam-packed with brilliant wildlife including the elusive wild dog. A mosaic of waterways, mopane woodlands, forested islands and plains, this ecosystem can hold a huge diversity of wildlife, including masses of prowling predators.

Not only is this reserve one of the Delta’s best for wildlife viewing, but 4 Rivers has the western section of the park completely to itself, with the other Kwando camps further east. This means you have a truly exclusive safari experience, and can enjoy the wildlife all to yourself. 4 Rivers also has its own airstrip, which is just a 15-minute drive from camp.

Activities include game drives, night drives, walking safaris and mokoro trips, however the latter two depend on water and bush levels.

Low season is where the lodge really comes into its own, with all of this for $725 per person per night, while this price rockets to just shy of $2,000 in high season.