Camp Okuti

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 4*

By Kate Bergh Added: 18 May 2009

Camp Okuti was rebuilt at beginning of 2008 and is looking very good. The overall design makes reference to the old wagons used by the settlers. I liked Camp Okuti for its attractive authentic bush feel. The pool area, being adjacent to the main deck but with some secluded shaded deck for relaxing during the heat, was particularly nice as it overlooks the river channel. The food was excellent and the staff were exceptionally friendly (especially the lovely Moni!)

The rooms are huge. They are not so shaded as at Shinde and Footsteps and so could get very warm in the summer months but they have been designed to allow a good through draught of cooling night air. The indoor and outdoor bathrooms were very attractive. Again very well appointed with safe, toweling robes, flip flops, comfy chairs in the room and on the deck, mosquito nets.

The terrain around Camp Okuti is rather special and varied with beautiful areas of open woodland contrasting with beautiful lagoons and pools and large expanses of grassland. We visited Dead Tree Island which had excellent birdlife and eery lifeless trees silhouetted in the water – great for arty photography.  However you are in the Moremi Game Reserve which is a National Park so you do see other camp’s vehicles and also mobile safari vehicles…Game-viewing is known to be excellent in this area and we were certainly very lucky with an exciting (and somewhat horrific ) lion kill – three lion on one zebra which we saw from the beginning (lions sleeping) to the start of the hunt to the chase to the bloody kill. However a point to note is that such a notable sighting soon brought a host of other vehicles so it would be good to combine a Moremi camp with a private concession camp to get that real sense of Okavango wilderness. Camp Okuti offers both game drives and boating. The boating is not as pretty as at Kanana and so I would focus more on the game drives whilst staying here unless you are a keen birder.