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Tuludi
A childhood treehouse dream, rebuilt to five-star spec.
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Up into the trees
Tuludi is built the way children draw safari camps — up in the trees, walkways strung between them, a library in the branches and a slide to leave it by — then finished the way adults hope: quietly, luxuriously, with a long view over the floodplains. The camp stands on stilted timber-and-canvas platforms in a grove of leadwood, apple-leaf and combretum in the southern reaches of the Khwai Private Reserve, its open-air veranda dropping to sunken seating and a firepit above a busy waterhole, so the game viewing starts before the vehicles do.
The main space earns its lingering: a curved black bar set with mosaic-glass animals — leopard, roller, pangolin — a large pool for the midday heat, and dining that moves where the day suggests, from the long communal table under the stars to a private dinner on your own deck. The treehouse library, four metres up with that slide back to earth, is the camp's signature — sophistication that never quite stops grinning.
Seven rooms in the canopy
Morning arrives at canopy height here — birdsong at eye level, the floodplain unrolling gold beyond the deck's edge, and your own plunge pool holding yesterday's warmth for the first slow hour. Each of the seven rooms runs to sixty square metres of raised space under canvas, and the interiors reward a slow look: contemporary lines threaded with old maps, brass instruments and safari curiosities, so the room reads like the study of a well-travelled relative who happens to keep a floodplain out the window. After dark the soundtrack is the reserve's — hippo at the waterhole, a scops owl in the leadwood — carrying clean through the mesh.
The bathroom carries its own share of the theatre: a bathtub set to the view for the long soak after the dust, an indoor shower for cold mornings and an outdoor one for rinsing the day off under the sky. The deck completes the set — plunge pool, loungers, the waterhole's comings and goings below — and six rooms take a double or twin while the family suite runs as two adjacent tents off a shared boardwalk, keeping parents and children close without sharing a wall, for two adults and two children.
A private reserve keeping its own hours
Two hundred thousand hectares, one operation, no gate times: the Khwai Private Reserve runs between Moremi and Chobe, and Tuludi's drives run morning, afternoon and into the evening — the after-dark hour when the reserve's leopard and smaller night shift come out to work. The ground is a former hunting concession returned wholly to photographic safari, and it shows in the wildlife's composure: sable and roan among the prey species, wild dog and the big cats their only pursuers, and elephant moving through in processional numbers.
The water rounds out the days when levels allow — mokoro trips and boat outings through the floodplain channels — and guided bush walks slow everything to track-and-sign pace. Committed walkers should take a private vehicle and guide for the stay, which turns the whole reserve into a walking safari with wheels attached.
The treehouse library is the camp's best-kept siesta secret — four metres of shade, a breeze through the branches and the waterhole's comings and goings below. Take the book up the stairs; take the slide down.
The Khwai Private Reserve was once a hunting concession — today its 200,000 hectares run photographic safaris only, and the wildlife's only pursuers are the leopard, lion and wild dogs that were always here.
The private ground between two giants
Tuludi stands in the southern Khwai Private Reserve — 200,000 private hectares bracketed by Moremi Game Reserve to the south and Chobe's wild country to the east, where the Delta's waterways dissolve into dry woodland. The reserve has its own airstrip, reached by light aircraft from Maun or Kasane, with a game-drive transfer to camp.
What it costs.
Rates are per person per night, based on two guests travelling together (sharing).
Polish with a sense of play
Plenty of camps do luxury and a few do whimsy; almost none hold both without dropping either. Tuludi does — plunge-pool comfort and evening drives on private ground, wrapped in a design that remembers safaris are meant to be fun. When a journey reaches the Khwai Private Reserve, this is the room at the top of the tree.
Is this for you
- ✓You want private-reserve freedoms — evening drives, walks, water — with real polish
- ✓A plunge pool on your own deck is the between-drives plan
- ✓You like your luxury with imagination rather than marble
Very beautiful camp but it didnt feel precious, if that makes sense. We loved the mokoro and had excellent game viewing. Food was a big plus too.
Once we have your dates, we'll plan everything from Tuludi outward: the flights into the reserve, how many nights to spend, and a water camp to partner it.
The fine print.
- —All meals
- —Local-brand drinks
- —Two scheduled camp activities daily
- —Park fees
- —Return airstrip transfers
- —Laundry
- —Flights to and from the reserve's airstrip
- —Premium-brand drinks
- —Conservation, community & reserve fee (charged per person per night)
- —Private vehicle and guide (required for dedicated walking programmes)
- —Travel and medical insurance
- —Gratuities and items of a personal nature
Children from six years are welcome; families with children under ten pre-book a private vehicle for the stay. The family suite keeps two adults and two children on their own shared boardwalk.
By light aircraft from Maun or Kasane to the Khwai Private Reserve's airstrip, then a game-drive transfer to camp.
Mokoro and boating depend on seasonal water levels, and the camp is unfenced — wildlife moves beneath the walkways, and staff walk you to your room after dark.