US$ 795

Getting Here: By air and/ or road.
Game Viewing: Game drives, pan drives, and walking safaris.
Highlights: Game viewing, photography and bird watching.
Lodge Style: Ten green roomy and stylish canvas tents with en-suite bathrooms and indoor and outdoor showers.
Location: Makgadikgadi Pans, Kalahari region of central Botswana.
Rates include; accommodation, all meals, all activities, park fees and all drinks (except premium imports).
Rates exclude; charters flights and taxes, and ground transfers.

Camp information:

A safari to Jack's Camp is also a complete desert experience focusing on species unique to the area such as aardvark, gemsbuck and springbuck. It is the only place where guests are virtually guaranteed to see the rare and elusive brown hyaena and be able to walk through the Kalahari with a gang of habituated but, wild meerkats!

The guides at Jack's Camp are an erudite breed. Often graduate students who combine research with guiding, they team up with a small group of Zu/’hoasi Bushmen to guide our Guests on a morning’s walks and game drives. The response from those who have been there is always the same: first your question is echoed, 'Jack's Camp?' followed by a reflective pause/ 'It's different.'

Game Viewing:

During the wet season the landscape transforms. Clouds of flamingo and other migratory birds descend from the heavens to decorate the watery grasslands.

Herds of zebra and wildebeest materialise, drawn by the lush grass, and for several months, the desert is teeming with game and predators.

Activities:

Venturing far into the centre of the Makgadikgadi, on 4wd quad bikes, we are able to explore remote archaeological sites, periodically discovering never before documented fossil beds of extinct giant zebra and hippo. The fact that you can travel across the pans at great speed and still arrive nowhere only underlines the pans immensity. There is nothing out here. Absolutely nothing.