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By the time the fire is lit, the savannah has already gone quiet. This is the social heart of Nkasa Plains Camp — a fire...
28/09/2026

By the time the fire is lit, the savannah has already gone quiet. This is the social heart of Nkasa Plains Camp — a fire pit set in open sand, with the plains of the Zambezi Region stretching out behind it. There is no competing light source out here, no town glow on the horizon. The chairs come out, the day is talked through, and the darkness beyond the fence belongs entirely to the bush. Nkasa Rupara is Namibia's largest protected wetland, and the camp sits directly on its border, on a private concession where nights feel genuinely remote.

Moremi's floodplains shift with the seasons, and herds move through them with a quiet sense of direction that looks almo...
25/09/2026

Moremi's floodplains shift with the seasons, and herds move through them with a quiet sense of direction that looks almost unhurried from the outside. Calves are raised communally — every female in the herd plays a part in their care — so these water crossings are rarely made alone. The dry season draws wildlife to permanent channels and shallower reaches, where the land and water meet in long, open stretches like this one.

Moremi holds close to 100 mammal species within its roughly 5,000 km², and the elephant herds here are among the most reliably present of them all — arriving, moving through, and disappearing back into the mopane with the same unhurried certainty.

The flood retreats slowly through Botswana, and the mokoros wait. These traditional dugout canoes are how the delta has ...
19/09/2026

The flood retreats slowly through Botswana, and the mokoros wait. These traditional dugout canoes are how the delta has always been read — at water level, in silence, moving with the current rather than against it. A mokoro safari draws you into landscapes that no game drive vehicle can reach: reed channels, lily-covered shallows, the soft world between water and land.

Read more here: https://untouched-safaris.com/mokoro-safari-okavango-delta/

At O Bona Moremi, the days are structured around the bush — morning drives, a slow brunch when you're back, high tea in ...
16/09/2026

At O Bona Moremi, the days are structured around the bush — morning drives, a slow brunch when you're back, high tea in the afternoon — but there's a looseness to it that a schedule never quite captures.

The Khwai Concession sits at the edge of Moremi Game Reserve, and the camp opens out into both: woodland, floodplain, the sounds that shift between them depending on the hour. Come evening, someone lights the fire on the deck. The bush settles into its other life, and the night drives begin.

More about O Bona Moremi at www.untouchedsafaris.com.

At this altitude, the Delta gives up its secret: it is not a place but a pattern. Channels branch and double back around...
14/09/2026

At this altitude, the Delta gives up its secret: it is not a place but a pattern. Channels branch and double back around pale islands, and the water that fills them has travelled a long way before arriving here. The giraffe – small and lit against all that open green – stands on a dry tongue of ground where the flood has not yet reached, or has already passed.

The Okavango covers roughly 20,000 km², and from the ground you encounter it in fragments: a channel here, a lagoon there. From a scenic flight above it, the whole system reveals itself at once.

More on the Okavango: https://untouched-safaris.com/mokoro-safari-okavango-delta/

In banded mongooses, the adult running alongside a pup is not necessarily its mother. Each youngster can be assigned a d...
11/09/2026

In banded mongooses, the adult running alongside a pup is not necessarily its mother. Each youngster can be assigned a dedicated 'es**rt' — an adult or subadult group member who forms an exclusive one-to-one bond with that specific pup, feeding, protecting and guiding it as it learns to forage. The es**rt is often unrelated to the pup entirely.

Studies have found that pups receiving attentive es**rting go on to be heavier at sexual maturity and achieve greater reproductive success across their lifetime — a lasting return on care given in the first few months of life. Banded mongooses are a regular presence in the woodlands and open ground around Khwai, where troops move through the landscape across all seasons.

More on the Khwai area: https://untouched-safaris.com/khwai-community-area-botswana-hidden-gem-safari/

At O Bona Moremi, the days move between early starts on the Khwai concession and slow returns to camp, where the tents s...
08/09/2026

At O Bona Moremi, the days move between early starts on the Khwai concession and slow returns to camp, where the tents sit quiet under canvas, the bush just visible through the mesh windows. The guides know when to stop and when to keep driving.

The camp itself holds the other half of the experience — the smaller things, the handmade details, and the staff whose warmth comes through in every song.

More information at www.untouchedsafaris.com.

At Nkasa Plains Camp, the private concession covers 2,200 hectares bordering the Nkasa Rupara National Park — Namibia's ...
05/09/2026

At Nkasa Plains Camp, the private concession covers 2,200 hectares bordering the Nkasa Rupara National Park — Namibia's largest protected wetland. Drives cross open plains, floodplains, wooded islands and channels in search of elephant, buffalo, lion and leopard, with very few other vehicles around.

The camp itself is built to hold that atmosphere rather than dilute it. Sixteen elevated tents with private decks, indoor and outdoor showers, and a main area where a bar overlooks a waterhole and a fire pit anchors the evenings. It is the kind of place that earns its keep not through spectacle but through proximity — to the land, to the animals moving through it, and to a corner of Namibia that most travellers never reach.

More about the camp and what a stay looks like: https://untouched-safaris.com/nkasa-plains-camp

Khwai is a place where woodland and open floodplain press up against each other, and for a predator, that boundary is wo...
01/09/2026

Khwai is a place where woodland and open floodplain press up against each other, and for a predator, that boundary is worth patrolling. The concession borders the Moremi Game Reserve with no fence between them, which means animals move freely through both, on their own schedule and by their own routes.

The dry season clears enough cover that a moment like this becomes possible — not a glimpse, but a proper encounter, the cat in full light with nowhere to disappear to. Both day and night drives run in the concession, and either one can deliver something that takes a while to process afterwards.

More on Khwai and O Bona Moremi Safari Lodge: https://untouched-safaris.com/khwai-community-area-botswana-hidden-gem-safari/

Hippos produce an oily secretion from specialised glands in their skin. When it first emerges it's colourless, but withi...
28/08/2026

Hippos produce an oily secretion from specialised glands in their skin. When it first emerges it's colourless, but within minutes it oxidises and turns red. Scientists have confirmed it's neither blood nor sweat, but a compound called hipposudoric acid that functions simultaneously as a sunscreen, an antibiotic, and an insect repellent — all produced by the animal itself.

Along the Khwai River in Botswana, hippos spend the heat of the day submerged, and when they surface you can sometimes catch that faint red blush across the face and behind the ears. It's one of those details a guide points out and you never quite forget.

More about Khwai and what to expect there: https://untouched-safaris.com/khwai-community-area-botswana-hidden-gem-safari/

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