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Jack’s camp, an oasis of style and comfort in Botswana’s Makgadikgadi Pans is truly like nowhere else on Earth.

The camp’s hub is a canvas pavilion, housing a natural museum and library; it is also where guests meet for elegant meals at a long communal dining table, enjoy decadent teas in the tea tent and relax in a pavilion swimming pool. The 10 stylish guest tents all have en-suite bathrooms with indoor and outdoor showers, Persian rugs, cool cotton sheets and rugged wilderness views from the veranda. There are two distinctly different seasons in the Makgadikgadi: the dry season lasts from 16 April to 31 October, and the wet season lasts from 1 November to 15 April.

During the wet season, the desert teems with game and predators, and guests can witness the last surviving migration of zebra and wildebeest in southern Africa. During the dry season guests can experience the vast salt pans by traveling at great speed on quad bikes – there is absolutely nothing out here. The guides team up with a small group of Zu’hoasi Bushmen for a morning’s walk, offering guests a window into the past and an inkling of how to survive in the harshest of environment. A safari to Jack’s Camp is also a complete desert experience focusing on species unique to the area, such as aardvark, aardwolf, gemsbok and springbok.

Guests are also virtually guaranteed of seeing the rare and elusive brown hyena and are able to walk through the Kalahari with a gang of habituated but wild meerkats.

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Jack’s Camp accommodates a maximum of 20 guests in ten roomy and stylish canvas tents with en-suite bathrooms featuring indoor and outdoor showers. The tents are set in a palm grove and are fashioned in classic 1940’s safari style, creating an oasis in what can otherwise be the harshest of environments.

Persian rugs underfoot and cool cotton sheets form a striking contrast with the rugged wilderness viewed from the comfort of one’s own verandah.

Many of the guides at Jack’s Camp are qualified Zoologists/Geologists, often working on PhD research. As such, they are most able to convey all the nuances of the desert and the adaptations of its inhabitants which are considered to be the most interesting features of the environment. Guests at Jack’s Camp also have the opportunity to participate on excursions with local Bushman trackers.