Located on the northern edge of Chief’s Island in the Okavango, Mombo Camp is widely known as one of the Delta’s more affluent and luxurious lodges. The lodge belongs to the Wilderness Safaris portfolio and includes nine intricately and well-designed raised tents sit on platforms amongst shady trees overlooking expansive plains. The tents are very elegantly furnished and include en-suite bathrooms, outdoor showers and bathtub, sitting areas, dressing rooms, and private viewing decks with a plunge pool.
The communal dining and bar area offers extravagant views where guests can admire large groups of game that wander through and past the camp. Mombo also hosts a five star spa, a and gym.
Location
Quick Facts
- Located on the northern tip of Chief’s Island, Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta — about an hour’s flight from Maun
- Widely regarded as Africa’s finest safari camp; Wilderness Safaris’ flagship property
- 9 raised canvas tents (up to 2m off the ground), each with bedroom, lounge, en-suite indoor/outdoor showers, private veranda and shaded sala
- Sister camp to Little Mombo, connected by boardwalk
- Sits in the “Place of Plenty” — exceptional density and diversity of game: elephant, zebra, buffalo herds plus lion, leopard, wild dog, hyena, cheetah
- Twice-daily 4×4 game drives; seasonal water activities (boat/mokoro) when floods allow, roughly June–October
Personal Thoughts
Mombo is not called Africa’s finest safari camp for nothing. Sitting on the northern tip of Chief’s Island, right where the floodplains hold wildlife year-round, it has that rare combination of scale and comfort: nine raised tents, each private enough to feel intimate, but the camp as a whole big enough to have real energy in the evenings around the fire. The game viewing does the rest of the talking. This is proper “Place of Plenty” territory — elephant, buffalo, and zebra moving through in real numbers, with lion, leopard, wild dog, hyena, and cheetah all working the same ground. Twice-daily drives mean you’re rarely waiting long between sightings.
What I like about Mombo is that it doesn’t feel like it’s resting on its reputation. The addition of water activities in good flood years — mokoro and boat trips through the channels — adds a different rhythm to camp life beyond just game drives, and it’s a nice reminder that this is still a living, changing delta system. It’s an easy camp to recommend without qualification, and one I keep coming back to when people ask me where to start in Botswana.
Mombo Camp Lodge Layout
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