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Mababe Region, Botswana

Wilderness Mokete

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (USD2,836.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Light-touch luxe lodge

Setting

Where buffalo roam

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All-action game viewing on the Mababe plains comes with a raft of frills when your ringside seat is Wilderness Mokete — an upscale safari camp, sensitively designed to respect this pristine landscape. A documentary film crew couldn’t better plan the diversity of wildlife and seasonal dramas that unfold here. Enjoy them from the camp’s hide, on game drives, nature walks or helicopter tours — or serenely in the shade, from your tented suite’s private pool. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Nine.

Check–Out

10am, and check-in is at 2pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates include all meals, drinks (apart from some premium alcohol), nature drives, guided hikes and some excursions. Extras to pay for include travel between camps, specialist excursions and spa treatments.

Also

Unfortunately this remote camp is not suitable for guests with limited mobility.

At the hotel

Hide, campfire, boma and WiFi in the main lodge and suites. In rooms: air-conditioning, two-way radio, coffee- and tea-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, yoga mats and weights, hairdryer and Healing Earth bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Wilderness Mokete has just nine tented suites, all equal in appeal: as well as indoor lounge space, you can expect a shaded, furnished deck and private plunge pool. If you’re travelling with little Smiths in tow, up to two extra beds can be added to the lounge area of your suite, subject to availability.

Poolside

As well as a private pool with your tented suite, you’ll have access to a bijou plunge pool by the main lodge, framed by a wooden deck and edged by sunloungers.

Spa

An on-site therapist can deliver massage treatments within the privacy of your suite (available for over-12s only, at additional cost).

Packing tips

Go light on reading: with so much activity within gazing distance of your suite, you may not get through as many page-turners as you anticipate.

Also

Helicopter tours are a memorable addition to any stay here, bringing a sense of scale to your Mababe sojourn.

Children

Mokete has more of a grown-up feel, but subject to availability, up to two children can sleep in your suite on extra beds; and if your little Smiths are 12 or younger, you’ll need to reserve a private safari vehicle. Additional charges apply.

Sustainability efforts

Wilderness takes a threefold approach to sustainability, aiming to protect (with sensitive management between people and wildlife), empower (by investing in the local community) and educate (supporting pathways out of poverty). In total, its camps help to protect six million acres of land, highlighting conservation and bringing tourism to rural areas across the African continent. Each camp treads lightly following a set of strict standards that apply to the construction and operation of each stay. Standards cover water and energy consumption; monitoring of waste and recycling, and supply chain management. Camps are audited twice yearly and must comply with at least 85 per cent of the requirements. Any shortfalls are targeted to be addressed before the next audit. Wilderness Mokete runs entirely on solar power.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Beside the fire, nursing a nightcap, with just the sounds of the bush playing out in the distance.

Dress Code

Bush threads get the green light here; the only occasion you may want to switch things up for is a private dinner under Mokete’s star-freckled skies.

Hotel restaurant

There’s nothing as formal at Wilderness Mokete as a restaurant in the traditional sense. Dining is tailored to fit with the day’s scheduled activities: enjoy a picnic in the bush, or catch up with fellow guests over lunch in camp. Evenings might mean sociable suppers with others, or a more intimate feast for two, but however you decide to dine, expect a choice of regional plates guided by Botswanan ingredients and seasonal crops. If you’re up and out early, a basic breakfast at camp will be followed by drinks and snacks on the trail. Similarly, guided afternoon outings are always accompanied with on-location drinks and nibbles.

Hotel bar

Sundowners, apéritifs and drinks around the campfire may well become part of your daily routine at Wilderness Mokete, and you’re unlikely to go thirsty with staff on hand to take your order for drinks — hot, cold or something a little stronger.

Last orders

Banish any expectations of set dining hours and embrace the fact that food and drink will be seamlessly integrated into your day just when you want it.

Room service

There’s no room service, but your suite is kitted out with a minibar and the lodge is nearby when hunger calls.

Location

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Address
Wilderness Mokete
Mokete Camp
Mababe Region
Botswana

East of the Okavango Delta, Wilderness Mokete stands sentry over the woodlands, sweeping grasslands and seasonal floodplains of Mababe.

Planes

Maun International Airport is your nearest runway for scheduled international flights; from there, Wilderness can organise the 40-minute helicopter transfer to Mokete, where they’ll meet you for the five-minute drive to camp.

Automobiles

Drives of the game-spotting variety are the only kind you’ll encounter on this trip, which is better served by air transfers and doesn’t involve you getting behind the wheel.

Other

Once you’ve booked your safari stays, the Wilderness team will be in touch to arrange travel between camps — usually helicopter transfers or scheduled or private charter flights for Botswana.

Worth getting out of bed for

Mababe Depression is a varied landscape of mopane and acacia woodland, fertile grasslands and seasonal floodplains. Game drives, bush picnics and guided nature walks bring its assorted wildlife into focus: super-herds of zebra, antelope and buffalo are typical screensavers, and you can get a sense of their numbers on a helicopter tour, and insights into nocturnal predators on a night safari. Owls, eagles, vultures and buzzards are among the prolific birdlife that soar the skies here. And the sunken hide out in the marsh is a photographer’s dream for capturing passing game in covetable close-up. 

The camp’s remote, lighter-weight set-up makes Wilderness Mokete an ideal first stop on a Botswana-wide trip. Other Smith-approved stays here include best-in-class Wilderness Mombo, perched where the Okavango Delta splits into its primary channels, and Wilderness Jao, set on a remote island. Wilderness Chitabe has a superpower in the diversity of habitats that surround it, and — north of the Delta — Wilderness Vumbura Plains has water safaris all year round. Finally, in the far-flung Linyanti Wildlife Reserve, elephants steal the show at Wilderness DumaTau. 

Local restaurants

All meals and snacks are included with your stay — whether back at the lodge for dinner or out in the bush for a mid-drive pitstop. 

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this upscale tented stay in northeast Botswana and unpacked their bird guides and zoom lenses, a full account of their in-the-action African break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Wilderness Mokete in the Mababe region…

‘Remote’, ‘raw’, ‘untamed’: if these descriptions of Wilderness Mokete spike your interest, this in-the-wilds Botswanan safari camp is for you. An outpost of just nine stilted suites, Mokete sits in a lesser-known corner of Botswana, bringing together wetland, woodland and grassland. It’s home to a wealth of predators — from jackal to hyena, to cheetah — ;and prides of lions stalk the zebra, tsessebe and buffalo that graze here. Spy them from a sunken hide in the marsh, on nature walks and game drives — or even up high in a helicopter. 

Luckily, your lodgings are neither raw nor untamed, but spaciously appointed with a private, pool-toting veranda. Dining is artfully arranged around your schedule and involves anything from bush picnics to sundowners at the boma, and a romantic dinner for two under the stars. Book an in-suite massage with Mokete’s spa therapist and let your thoughts soar with the raptors drifting overhead.

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Price per night from $2,836.00