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Mokete
A feast by name — and the only table at it.
From our guest surveys — how we gather evidence
Alone at the edge of everything
Mokete means “feast” in Setswana, and the name is a plain description: the camp stands alone — the only one — in a 50,000-hectare concession on the Delta's eastern fringe, where the wetlands spill into the vast, treeless bowl of the Mababe Depression and the marsh gathers wildlife in numbers that read like typographical errors. Buffalo herds by the thousand — among the largest gatherings in Africa — pound the flats to dust, elephant mass on the water, zebra pass through on migration, and the lions here have learned to hunt in daylight, with hyena clans dozens strong contesting the results.
The camp itself runs contemporary and low-slung: nine tents and a tented lounge linked by ground-level walkways, an open-plan bar aimed at a horizon with no edges, a pool with shaded loungers, and the whole operation off-grid on solar. With no other property in the concession, the drives keep the wildlife's hours, not a lodge timetable — if the hunt is on at lunchtime, lunch waits.
A roof that gets out of the way
The last act of a Mokete day happens flat on your back: the canvas above the bed slides away on its runners, and the depression's enormous, unobstructed sky takes over — the Milky Way from your own pillow, with the lions arguing somewhere out on the flats. By day the tents run cool and composed — big picture windows framing the plain, air-conditioning over the bed, fans for the shoulder hours and WiFi when you want it — and each keeps a private plunge pool on its deck, where dangling your feet counts as game viewing when the elephant amble the treeline.
Each tent sleeps two, and children take a tent of their own — the camp's one house rule.
The spectacle, on the wildlife's clock
The Mababe Marsh is the engine: summer rains fill a wetland of two and a half thousand hectares in the middle of the depression, and everything comes — the mega-herds of buffalo and elephant, zebra passing through on migration at times, and the predators that shadow them. Day and night drives work the spectacle without another camp's vehicle in sight, and because the ground is exclusively this camp's, a drive stays out as long as the drama does. The sunken hide adds the ground-level seat — a buried viewing chamber at the water where elephant feet fill the windows — and guided nature walks run seasonally when a walking guide is in camp.
A visit to Mababe Village puts the human history alongside the wild one — stories from the elders, tracking the old way, and the area's basket-weaving tradition in living hands.
Mokete is a dry-country spectacle — open plains, dust, mega-herds — not the lily channels and mokoro water of the classic Okavango. It pairs superbly with a water camp for exactly that reason; taken alone, it shows you one astonishing face of Botswana rather than the postcard one.
Mokete means “feast” in Setswana — named for what the Mababe Marsh lays on each year when the rains fill it: the largest buffalo gatherings in Africa, elephant by the hundred, and the predators that never miss an invitation.
Where the Delta runs out
Mokete stands in the private Mababe Concession on the Okavango's eastern fringe — 50,000 hectares between Moremi Game Reserve and Chobe's wild country, holding the treeless sweep of the Mababe Depression and its marsh. Light aircraft from Maun land at the concession's airstrip.
What it costs.
Rates are per person per night, based on two guests travelling together (sharing).
Herds in the thousands, seasonally
Some safaris trade in intimacy; Mokete trades in scale — the largest buffalo gatherings on the continent, lion prides working them in daylight, and a horizon with nothing man-made on it but your own camp. Add tents that open to the stars, a hide at the herd's feet, and drives that answer to the wildlife rather than the clock, and the case is simple: nowhere else in the portfolio does this.
Is this for you
- ✓You want spectacle at continental scale — herds in the thousands, predators in daylight
- ✓Having a whole concession to your camp appeals more than polish contests
- ✓You're pairing it with a water camp and want the Delta's other face
The open Mababe landscape felt completely different from the Delta, with huge buffalo herds and exceptional predator sightings. We loved the remoteness, the stargazing roof and having sightings almost to ourselves.
Share your dates and we'll arrange the trip around the spectacle at Mokete, choosing the flights, the length of stay and a water camp to balance it.
The fine print.
- —All meals
- —Local-brand drinks
- —Two scheduled safari activities daily
- —Park fees
- —Flights to and from the concession's airstrip
- —Premium-brand drinks
- —Travel and medical insurance
- —Gratuities and items of a personal nature
Children from six years are welcome and stay in their own tent — the tents sleep two, with no third beds.
By light aircraft from Maun to the concession's airstrip.
Night drives are on the programme — the concession keeps its own rules — walks run seasonally when a walking guide is in camp, and the camp is unfenced on open ground with staff walking you to your tent after dark.