San Camp is a Vintage camp and Jack's sister camp. San Camp is seasonal and is not open during the wet season.
San camp offers the Earth, stripped naked - and, such restraint holds its own charms. Six white canvas tents twinned with a dramatic location, combine to create an oasis of civilisation in what can be the harshest of stark environments. The result we believe is one of the most romantic camps in Africa!
San Camp could not be more different from everywhere. The camp is the Stewart Granger Memorial Collection of 1940s safari tents, with no running water nor electricity but with comfortable beds, cotton sheets, paraffin lamps, wonderful food and very personal service. Bathrooms are en-suite with bucket showers and flushing toilets. Hot and cold water is delivered by hand and is available on demand.
San Camp, like Jack's Camp offers the chance to explore and understand the Kalahari. A relic of one of the world's largest super-lakes, Botswana's Makgadikgadi dried up thousands of years ago as a result of the continued shifting of the earth's crust. When the lake was formed, some five to seven million years ago, its shores were the setting for the mysterious transition from ape to man. On four-wheel-drive quad bikes guests can venture far into the centre of Botswana's Makgadikgadi. Remote archaeological sites can be found, 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 pan's immensity. There is nothing out there, absolutely nothing. No outcrops, no features, no grass, no trees, no sound but the crunch of your boots in the crust. Botswana's Kalahari Desert is its own universe.
A safari to San Camp is also a complete desert experience, focusing on species unique to the area such as aardvark, gemsbok and springbok. It is the only place where guests are virtually guaranteed to see the rare and elusive brown hyena and are able to walk through Botswana's Kalahari with a gang of habituated, yet wild meerkats (suricates)!
The guides at San are often graduate students who combine research with guiding; they team up with a small group of Zu/'hoasi Bushmen to guide guests on walks and game drives.