Little Vumbura
Hotel
Little Vumbura is an extremely beautiful luxury camp, located in the private Kwedi Game Reserve, which borders the Moremi Game Reserve at the most northerly part of the Okavango Delta.
This camp offers both kinds of safari: land-based and water-based. The camp is located on a palm-covered island in the permanently-flooded part of the Delta. However it’s only a short hop to drier areas, which are just waiting to be explored in classic 4WD safari style.
The vegetation ranges from the vast read more » open flood plains to dense Mopane bushland and offers spectacular game viewing and bird watching opportunities all year round.
At Little Vumbura you can meet the grassland inhabitants such as kudu, gnu, and tsessebe, as well as those which live in the damper regions: red lechwe, waterbucks, hippos, and crocodiles.
This region is famous for its large numbers of sable antelope and the huge herds of buffalo and elephants. These in turn attract dramatic numbers of predators such as lions, leopards, hyenas and cheetahs.
And a rich combination of Okavango water birds and their neighbours from the acacia and savannah covered areas make this region a very special experience for all bird lovers.
Because of the small size of this camp – only six tents – Little Vumbura offers a personalized private atmosphere. The safari trips offer a chance to meet other travellers, and the evenings can be spent chatting with the camp’s guests, rangers and guides in a cosy and friendly ambience.
The camp’s main buildings are beautifully laid out, with a semi-open air restaurant and bar, a small library and pool deck all built on wooden platforms. From here one can take in the stunning views of the surrounding plains, and perhaps hear the hippos calling to one another.
If you are looking for a first-class land and water safari experience, backed up with private and comfortable accommodation, then Little Vumbura is the camp for you.
Important Note: Little Vumbura Camp can only be reached by light plane, and during the winter high-water season it’s necessary to cover the last part either by motor boat or Mokoro.
Living
Because of the small size of this camp – only six tents – Little Vumbura offers a personalized private atmosphere. The safari trips offer a chance to meet other travellers, and the evenings can be
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spent swapping stories from the day around the fire with the camp’s guests, rangers and guides in a cosy and friendly ambience.
The tents are built on wooden platforms or at ground level and are connected to the camp’s main buildings with either footpaths or wooden walkways. The spacious tents are comfortably appointed, and offer en-suite facilities with hot and cold running water, shower and WC, in addition to a shower outdoors under the stars.
A highlight of this facility is the honeymoon-tent, which is set in a location with the most beautiful view, and which is a little more spacious. A further highlight is to sit in the bath which is set into the deck outdoors and take in the marvels of nature all around you.
If you’re planning your honeymoon at Little Vumbura, speak to us and we’ll very happily arrange for you to have the honeymoon suite. However, you’ll also be very comfortable and cosy in our other tents, and above all right in the middle of nature.
Don’t be too afraid of those strange noises in the night: that will probably be the hippo neighbours enjoying themselves in the soft and juicy grasslands around about – just another wonderful Little Vumbura Okavango experience.
It’s this closeness to the natural environment which has made this camp the secret tip for Africa insiders, and keeps the regular safari-goers coming back.
Activities
It goes without saying that the highlight of Little Vumbura is a safari. And this we offer in the “classic” variation – on land with an all-terrain vehicle, or Okavango-style with a Mokoro (traditional
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dugout canoe).
Safaris in this region offer a very rich experience, since Kwedi belongs to the richest region in Botswana. It’s above all best known for the large numbers of sable antelopes, and the impressive herds of buffalo and elephant.
These in turn attract considerable numbers of predators such as lions, leopards, hyenas and cheetah: these are often spotted during safaris in large numbers. And a rich combination of Okavango water birds and their neighbours from the acacia and savannah covered areas make this region a very special experience for all bird lovers.
The sheer quality of the safari experience offered by Wilderness Safaris means we can’t recommend them highly enough. The rangers really know the area and the animals, and to go on safari with them is a special pleasure.
Facts about Kewdi Game Reserve
The ownership of this area of approximately 100,000 hectares was transferred to the people of the northern border region of the Okavango by the Botswana government and the Tawana Land Board.
In this way the local population derive a direct benefit from the wilderness the environment and the projects undertaken in this region.
They live in five traditional villages north of the Okavango and Kwedi. In order to assure that all benefit from this arrangement equally, all projects in the region are contribute annually to the Okavango Community Trust.
This trust represents the interests of all the people living in the five villages to the north of the Okavango. They enjoy first rights to any job opportunities, training and the benefits of other community projects that are run in the area from time to time.
The five villages involved in this initiative are Seronga, Gunitsoga, Eretsha, Betsha, and Gudigwa.
This trust has selected Wilderness Safaris as their joint venture partner, to run and manage the lodges and the tourism activities in this area. With this arrangement come hunting permits for the region, including the ability to hunt elephant, leopards and so on.
Wilderness Safaris has elected NOT to take up these permits, losing in the process something in the order of US$300,000 yearly.
The reasons not to hunt are many and varied, but one of the most important reasons is that hunting and photographic tourism simply cannot mix in the same area for many reasons.
One of them is that the animals in the area quickly catch on that hunting is taking place, and they either move away or become very skittish. However, a result of this “photos only” policy in the Kwedi area (and because of the wide ranging habitats and permanent water in the floodplains) the Kwedi now has some of the best wildlife viewing in all of Botswana.
The vegetation ranges from the vast open flood plains to dense Mopane bushland and offers spectacular game viewing and bird watching opportunities all year round.
Wilderness Safaris offers over five camps in this part of Botswana, and this way are able to offer land and water-based safaris.
These camps are Duba Plains, Vumbura, Little Vumbura, Vundumtiki and Kaparota, all of which have their individual identity and character; all characterized by the highest standards every Wilderness Safaris offers.
