Camp Okavango sits on Nxaragha Island in the permanent water of the Okavango Delta, north of Moremi. There is no road. The island is surrounded by water all year, which makes this one of the few camps in Botswana where the programme is water first and land second — boats, mokoro and walking, with no game drives at all.
Quick facts
- Area
- Okavango Delta
- Property type
- Safari Camp
- Setting
- Nxaragha Island, permanent water of the Okavango Delta
- Nearest park or reserve
- Moremi Game Reserve
Tents
Eleven safari suites and one two-bedroom family suite, taking a maximum of 24 guests. Solar power runs around the clock with generator backup, and there is satellite Wi-Fi.
Facilities at Camp Okavango
A swimming pool, two open-air fire decks, a self-service bar and a curio shop. For stays of three nights or more the camp offers a sleep-out platform. Children are accepted from six years.
Who it suits
Travellers who want the water Delta rather than the game-drive Delta, and birders.
Location and access
Fly-in only, by light aircraft from Maun to the camp’s own airstrip, then a boat or vehicle transfer. There is no road access at any time of year.
How we checked this listing
Suite counts, activities and power arrangements come from the Desert & Delta Safaris operator page. We have not stayed here.
No game drives is a feature, not an omission
A great many first-time visitors arrive in the Delta expecting a vehicle and a checklist. Camp Okavango does not offer that, and the camps that do are mostly on drier ground further south and east. What you get here instead is a motorboat through papyrus channels, a mokoro poled through shallow floodplain, and guided walks on the islands.
That is a slower and quieter way to see the Delta, and for birds and for the landscape itself it is the better one. If you want lion and leopard on a morning drive, book a land camp as well — our Okavango Delta guide explains how the water and land areas differ.
Permanent water, and why that matters
Most of the Delta is seasonal. Water arrives from the Angolan highlands months after the rain that produced it, spreads across the floodplain, and retreats. A handful of areas hold water all year, and Nxaragha Island is in one of them.
That means the boating here does not depend on the flood in the way it does at camps on the fringes, where a poor flood year can leave the mokoro on dry ground. Our guide to the flood cycle sets out why the timing is so counter-intuitive.
Who Camp Okavango suits
- Birders, for whom a boat through papyrus is worth more than a vehicle on a track.
- Travellers combining camps, pairing this water camp with a land camp elsewhere in the Delta or in Moremi.
- Anyone who wants the Delta itself rather than a list of mammals seen from a vehicle.
It suits you less if this is your only Botswana camp and you want big cats, or if you are travelling with children under six.
Booking this property
Camp Okavango is sold through Desert & Delta Safaris and through travel agents. There is no public booking engine and no link we could confirm lands on this camp specifically, so we have not published a booking button. This is normal for Delta camps rather than a warning sign.
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