Safari sophistication oftentimes entails great intrusiveness. Sable Alley Camp has been designed with the opposite effect in mind: being a great deal sustainable while at the same time providing one of the most intimate and exclusive wildlife experiences in Botswana. The camp is located Northeast of the Okavango in a private reserve that is devoted to wildlife conservation and ethical travel.
On the edge of the Makgadikgadi salt pans, Jack’s Camp is the right place to relive the heyday of exploration and the rugged glamour of golden-day safaris. There is something irresistible about taking a dip in a luxurious tented pool and enjoying the decadent comfort of the camp… in the middle of one of the harshest environments on Earth!
The Makgadikgadi Salt Pans are the stage of Africa’s second largest zebra migration. Everything happens on a large scale here. But it pays to notice the smaller denizens of the pans too. While staying at Jack’s Camp on the edge of the Makgadikgadi, a mob of habituated meerkats likes to get quite close to avid explorers. Perhaps not Botswana’s wildest encounter, but certainly the cutest.
Safaris are all about seeing. As my plane is landing in an airstrip in the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans a limitless landscape unfolds before our eyes. In the following days, I would receive a master-class on seeing.
Travel changes the person. That much I already knew. In the following week I would explore the other side of the equation, that is, how the traveller can change the world. On a safari in Botswana, I realised that travelling to these endangered places is what will save them in the end.
I was brought up around animals, and on my family vacations in Australia we would see crocodiles and other wild animals. I’ve always had this passion. After our honeymoon, we got the bug. Africa just got my soul.
