Jacks Camp: Magkadigkadi Pan Botswana

Camp’s Quick Facts:

During the 1960’s, Jack Bousfield the legendary traveller stumbled to trap the expedition of Makagdigadi pans upon at a site he captured with his imagination to establish a camp under an African acacia tree with unshakeable expectation that others would felt the same and lived here until his untimely tragic death in a light aircraft accident occurred in 1992. Ralph Bousfield, son of Jack Bousfield and his partner Catherine later established uncharted Africa Safari Company and followed his father’s footsteps and vision of homestead under the acacia tree and started with Jack’s camp now situated in the depth of Kalahari Desert on the edge of the Makgidkgadi Pans. The beginning of year 2003, Jack’s Camp was refurbished in a stylish feel of the East African safari traditional of 1940’s to give the guests a feel of a colonial styles camping under the African skies. Today, Jack’s Camp is among the fewer camps in Makgadikgadi Pans offers the best unique historical home-stay feel with a hub-romantic canvas pavilion which could have come from a medieval jousting tournament of the time and not the a deciduous green. The main Chambers where guests meet for the lavish elegant meals at a long communal dining table is supported by three poles to give the guests an African authentic dining.

The Camp’s bedrooms, bathrooms and Surrounding:

The stylish built –on Canvas tents has ten roomy fitted in en-suite bathrooms, African indoor and outdoor showers to give the guests a total feel of the Kalahari breeze on their skin. The fashioned classical styled camp’s room’s tents are set each into a palm grove creating an oasis of civilization in what can be the harshest of stark environments in Kalahari. The interior Persian rugs underfoot and cool cotton sheets form a striking contrast with the rugged wilderness viewed from the comfort of one’s own veranda.

The Camp’s Quick Safari High-lights & Activities:

• The Makgadikgadi 4wd quad bikes are offered to venture the centre of heart of the Pans.
• Guests can explore remote archaeological sites, periodically discovering never before documented fossil beds of extinct giant zebra and hippo.
• The fact that you can travel across the pans at great speed and still arrive nowhere only underlines the pans immensity.
• Virtually nothing is out there at Makgadikgadi Pans, no features, Grass, trees, sound and outcrops other than the crunching of your boots in the crust as you walk along the Pan.
• The Kalahari Desert has its own universe and only the place where guests are virtually guaranteed to observe rare elusive brown hyena and be able to walk through the Kalahari with a gang of habituated wild Meerkats!
Other general species in the area such as gemsbok, springbok and aardvark are sighted on a night game drive.
• The unique Kalahari landscape transforms into wet seasons during the rains with spectacular flock clouds of flamingo and other migratory birds descending from sky to decorate the watery grasslands.
• Dazzle of zebras, Wildebeest mingle around the grassland to materialize the lush green pasturing grass and for several months the desert is teeming with wildlife and predators stalking the preys.
• The Safari Guides at Jack’s Camp, and its satellite San Camp, are a complete erudite breed and competent in their field of guiding guests on Kalahari safari Desert.
• Graduate students from variety colleges and university combine their research with a team of a small group of Zu/’Hoasi Bushmen to guide guests between morning walking safari or afternoon game drives.
• Following the legendary Bushmen/san people’s past bush natural experience, they teach guests while on safari on how they have survived in this harshest environments, using ancient knowledge of plants, animal behaviour and survival skills in century years.
• The cunning tricks and survival struggles of the feisty inhabitants of the Makgadikgadi Pans are certainly not without drama as the emphasis is to observe the intricacies of a truly unique ecosystem to which Uncharted Africa Safari Company has established and added a few stylish adaptations of its own.

Camp Accessibility:

Situated on the South west of Botswana bordering South Africa, Jack’s Camp can be reached by road or charter flights on a combination of couple of nights spent sleeping out under the African stars amongst the boulders and baobabs on Kubu Island and extraordinary full day journey by quad bike across the Ntwetwe Pan can be offered to the guests.

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Camp/Lodge Extra Information Below:

• Rates include safari Activities while booked in the Camp/lodge
• Bed and breakfast, Dinner, house wine though lunch is optional or unless stipulated
• Internal transfers/charter flights if stipulated at the time of booking.

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