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Wilderness Mombo

Price per night from$9,792.00

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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 (USD9,792.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Leader of the pack

Setting

Chief’s Island edge

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In Wilderness Mombo’s prized place on Chief’s Island, where the Okavango Delta’s primary channels split, the stage is set for prime game viewing on drives, walks and helicopter rides. Wildlife is in plentiful supply, and your hosts follow their locale’s abundant lead, with top seasonal dining, soothing spa treatments and pool-toting suites. But generosity also comes in intangible forms: quality time together, new connections and the feeling of utter serenity…

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Eight suites.

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 and other safari activities, park fees and laundry service. 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.

Hotel closed

The camp welcomes guests year round, but the spa will open later in 2025.

At the hotel

Gym, wine cellar, two hides, boma, library, boutique, laundry service and WiFi in the main lodge and suites. In rooms: air-conditioning and ceiling fan, 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

Ease is the theme at Wilderness Mombo — meals, drives and some drinks are included with your stay — and choosing a room follows suit. The two not-your-typical tent-style suites cater to different dynamics: the Guest Room makes for an intimate safari sojourn; the Family Room is ideal for bigger gaggles who can gather round its outdoor sunken seating area. Each option is blessed with a private plunge pool, a freestanding metal soaking tub and vast views of the floodplains.

Poolside

The long lap pool feels like an extension of the Delta’s floodplains. It charms and cools in all seasons, as does its pergola-shaded terrace, which hosts alfresco yoga and poolside sundowners. It’s open daily from 7am to 6pm.

Spa

Set to open later in 2025, the spa will soothe with a range of botanical massages and facials that celebrate locally sourced, traditional ingredients, such as baobab oil, marula and African potato balm. Rejuvenating rituals are just the tonic to days out in the wild, and treatments can also be arranged in your suite on request.

Packing tips

No need to download any David Attenborough documentaries or bring National Geographic reading material — you’ll get the real deal on safari adventures.

Children

Over-sixes are welcome; if you’ve got under-12s in tow, you’ll need to reserve a private safari vehicle (extra charges apply). The Family Rooms sleep four, and by prior arrangement, a dedicated staff member can supervise children.

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 Mombo is 100 per cent solar powered.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Each table is graced with a mega view, as is the boma.

Dress Code

Adventure kit flies from dawn to dusk; smarten up for main-lodge dinners.

Hotel restaurant

There’s nothing as formal in camp as a restaurant in the traditional sense: meals are tailored to fit with the day’s scheduled activities, but evenings are often a chance to come together with other guests and staff over drinks before sitting down to an à-la-carte menu that’s guided by authentic Botswanan flavours and seasonal superfoods. There’s plenty of scope for alfresco and amid-nature meals, especially at the camp’s boma. Guided outings, whatever the time, are always accompanied with on-location drinks and/or nibbles. 

Hotel bar

Sundowners, apéritifs and drinks around the fire pit may well become part of your daily routine at Wilderness Mombo, 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

A minibar in your suite is stocked with soft drinks and low-alcohol options. When hunger strikes, wander over to the lodge (or call on the two-way radio) where staff will be happy to help.

Location

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Address
Wilderness Mombo
Mombo Camp
Okavango Delta
Botswana

On Chief's Island in the heart of Moremi Game Reserve in northern Botswana, you’ll find Wilderness Mombo, where the Okavango Delta splits into its primary channels.

Planes

You’ll most likely fly into Maun’s international airport — Kasane is also an option but the onward light-aircraft transfer is longer; Wilderness will then arrange a small-plane or helicopter charter for an extra cost to Mombo Airstrip, a 15-minute drive from the camp.

Automobiles

It’s charter flights only as there’s no self-drive access to the camp.

Other

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

Worth getting out of bed for

Queen-of-the-camps Wilderness Mombo and Mother Nature are a match made in heaven, or rather, the Okavango Delta. Abundant wildlife gathers on the floodplains — particularly in summer when migratory herds and pursuing predators cross the dried-up landscape — and the camp’s game drives, afternoon picnics and nature walks place you front and centre. Get closer with a stake-out in a hide, where patience is a virtue and face-to-face encounters are your reward. The skies deliver as much action as solid ground: spot soaring birdlife; stargaze with a laser pointer, or take flight in a helicopter safari. The camp’s community and conservation projects are worthy of a visit, too.

Wilderness has a bounty of camps across Botswana, starting with two flagship stays: this best-in-class stay, Wilderness Mombo, and Wilderness Jao, which has stellar game viewing and seasonal water safaris. Further north, Wilderness Vumbura Plains has year-round boat trips and concludes this proposed Delta trifecta. If you’re looking to extend your adventure, Wilderness Chitabe has a superpower in the diversity of habitats that surround it; Wilderness DumaTau sits on a panoramic plateau, flanked by storied elephant crossings, and relatively new Wilderness Mokete is a remote, lighter-weight stay (that you’ll want to put first in the running order).

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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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 stylish safari camp in Botswana and unpacked their khakis and camera lenses, a full account of their all-natural break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Wilderness Mombo in the Okavango Delta…

There’s a feeling of being a part of a tight-knit circle at Wilderness Mombo, particularly once you catch onto its in-the-know nicknames: ‘place of plenty’ nods to the abundant wildlife and unique ecosystems that thrive beyond Mombo; staff reverentially call it ‘Mmadikampa’, the mother of all camps.

Wilderness Mombo might have garnered queen-bee status for its jaw-dropping Delta setting — on the northern tip of Chief’s Island, where the river splits into its primary channels — but its all-frills approach to safari takes on a maternal nurturing, too.

Local-botanical spa treatments are good for body and soul; super-fresh dining magically syncs with your days in the wild or evenings back at base, and each sustainable suite is decked out with a view-facing freestanding bath tub and terrace-set plunge pool.

And as you embrace it all — at the starlit boma, from a helicopter safari or by the Delta-edge pool — you’ll quickly understand how this safari camp earned its stripes.

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