Abu Camp’s new private villa, Villa Okavango has been designed and built as a separate, private unit on the opposite side of the lagoon from the main camp in Botswana’s Okavango Delta.
It boasts two large bedrooms with en-suite facilities and a spacious sitting room - all on a raised seligna deck beneath magnificent old African Ebony and Sycamore Fig trees. The multi-level decks serve as a gathering point for the guests. Whilst most meals can be enjoyed al fresco overlooking the lagoon and the Okavango Delta, the hospitality area is dominated by the high peaks of an Afro-Bedouin styled tent that shelters a superbly appointed lounge and dining room. The decor items, redolent of everything that is African, would still look entirely at ease in a New York 5th Avenue apartment and the well-stocked bar and its never-ending supply of ice provide almost anything for which a guest would wish!
The emphasis here is on privacy and luxury in the middle of the African bush. Villa Okavango has its own swimming pool and a resident butler. It is designed for a maximum of four people or a small family.
A resident guide is on hand with an open, comfortable four by four to conduct morning and evening game viewing drives. When the Okavango is in flood guests can enjoy the numerous waterways by mokoro, the traditional poled craft used as transport by the local people.