One of the Okavango Delta’s most remote camps, Duba Plains is a small, intimate camp on an island in a large reserve in the furthermost reaches of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. It is surrounded by expansive seasonally flooded plains and shaded by tall Ebony, Fig and Mangosteen trees.
Accommodation is in just six roomy tents with an en-suite bathroom, an outside shower, and a veranda overlooking the flood plain and the Okavango Delta. The dining room and bar area are raised on platforms along with a swimming pool complete with a view.
Duba is famous for its lion and buffalo interaction that is unique to this area in the Okavango Delta. It has been the setting for a well known National Geographic documentary. In addition, large herds of elephant feed on the islands and hippo concentrate in deeper channels. Tsessebe and wildebeest dot the plains of the Okavango Delta, while red lechwe are found on the wetter floodplain fringe. Birdlife is abundant and impressive, with Okavango specials such as Rosy-Throated Longclaw, Slaty Eegret and Wattled Crane being found in the area. A variety of safari activities include game day and night drives, walks and possible mokoro excursions in times of good floods – usually only between May and September.
The camp is part of a community participation plan that aims to bring benefits to the communities that live around the Okavango Delta through ecotourism.