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The
new Selinda Camp has been completely rebuilt and re-opened in
March 2007 to acclaim. It is a small, wonderful, luxury tented
safari camp that is situated on the banks of the eastern
Selinda Spillway - a waterway that links Botswana's Okavango
Delta to the Linyanti and Kwando marshes, rivers and
floodplains. The shaded camp is raised a meter or so off the
ground and offers extraordinary views over the floodplains,
waterways and wide open savannas which are only broken by
distinctive and attractive palm islands. It is these views
that are one of Selinda's most compelling features. Guests sit
on their verandas while enjoying their meals and gaze
pensively over the floodplains of Africa enjoying the passing
wildlife as it has done for millennia. There is hardly a
moment which goes by without animals in front of camp.
Selinda
has nine guest tents under thatch, accommodating a maximum of
18 guests. Each tent has comfortable three-quarter sized beds,
and fine linen. Luxurious mosquito nets add to the romantic
atmosphere of our tents and ceiling fans and roof vents cool
your living space when needed. The interiors have writing
desks and lounge furniture collected from around the world for
those that want to write or relax between drives and walks.
Selinda Camp is
located in the 300,000 acre (135,000 hectare) Selinda Reserve;
one of Botswana's prime wildlife viewing locations and most
beautiful settings. The Selinda Reserve is fortunate in
that it is the only reserve that straddles both the Okavango
Delta in the west and the Linyanti waterways and savannahs in
the east. The Selinda Reserve follows the course of the
Selinda Spillway as it connects the Okavango to the Linyanti /
Kwando river systems. The Selinda Spillway is like no
other. It is a river that can flow in two directions,
depending on where the water levels are the highest. In
most years it flows in both directions with water pushing
'up' from the Linyanti waterways and also 'down' from
the west, fed by the waters of the Okavango Delta
The Selinda
Reserve is one of Botswana's famous wildlife 'concessions' or
private reserves that offers all the privacy that Botswana is
famous for. At the same time, guests to the Selinda can
enjoy wildlife viewing at a level that Chobe National Park is
famous for - but without any of the crowds and without
the restrictive rules and regulations that are needed in areas
of high tourism density. With only 28 guests, Selinda
can offer a peaceful and private experience far from the
crowds - but with unrestrictive and exhilarating wildlife
viewing. The Selinda Reserve has a network of small tracks
that traverse the area, and if there is something special on
the go, we can go 'off-road' sensitively when there is
something exceptionable. There are still places in this
reserve where no person has ever set foot before.
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