Vumbura Plains is a Premier luxury camp situated to the north of Mombo, in a private concession bordering the Moremi Game Reserve in the extreme north of the Okavango Delta. The Vumbura area offers both land and water safari activities in an area that has a wonderful variety of habitats and a great diversity of wildlife. This reserve in Botswana offers an enormous traversing area of close on 130,000 acres.
Vumbura Plains overlooks a vast, attractive floodplain and the rooms are built under cool and shady trees. This camp is a state of the art new design by the designers of Jao Camp and North Island and promises to be the way forward in ultimate ‘Safari Chic’. Vumbura Plains consists of two 14-bedded camps linked by raised boardwalks and each has its own dining, lounge and bar area although all 28 beds or parts thereof can be utilised for larger parties. All of the luxury rooms are raised off the ground on wooden platforms with walkways connecting them to the main living areas. Each room has a large, very comfortable bedroom, a lounge, an outside "sala" and en-suite facilities with an indoor and outdoor under the stars. Each room has its own plunge pool. The main dining, lounge and bar area is tucked beneath a canopy of shady, indigenous trees with a wonderful vista across the floodplains.
The main activity at Vumbura Plains is game viewing in the wonderful and varied wilderness of this part of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. The Vumbura area is possibly the only area in the Okavango where one can see red lechwe (an animal that inhabits the fringes of the waterways) and a sable antelope (an animal that enjoys the dry savannah ) on the same game drive. Add in Lion, leopard, elephant, cheetah and buffalo along with all the plains animals and one has an excellent all round safari wildlife experience in a remote and private part of Botswana’s Okavango. Birding is great too with large varieties and quantities. Walks, mokoros and boating give Vumbura's guests the opportunity to enjoy Africa from a different perspective.
Vumbura Plains is part of a community participation plan that aims to bring the communities who live around Botswana’s Okavango Delta into the tourism mainstream.