Tubu Tree Camp

By light aircraft from Maun to the Hunda airstrip in the western Okavango Delta, then a short drive across the island to the camp. The scheduled light aircraft are shared and may stop at other camps' airstrips on the way, and the same routes link the Delta camps, so you can fly in from another camp rather than going back through Maun.

If you would rather set your own times, we can arrange a private charter in a Cessna Caravan or a Pilatus PC-12 into the Hunda airstrip. Either way, pack soft bags and travel light, because the small aircraft have strict limits on weight and space.

Yes. TravelHealthPro, the UK's official travel health service, puts the northern half of Botswana, the Okavango Delta among it, at high risk of malaria from October to May, when it recommends antimalarial tablets, and at low risk for the rest of the year. Low risk is not no risk. The American CDC includes the Okavango and Ngamiland districts in the areas where it recommends medicine to prevent malaria.

We are travel planners, not medical professionals, so we make no recommendation about tablets: that decision belongs to you and your own doctor or a travel clinic. What we can say is practical. Cover arms and legs from late afternoon, and keep repellent with you on evening drives.

Yes, in the flood season. When the water from Angola reaches Hunda Island, roughly May to late September and only as far as levels allow, the camp runs mokoro trips in traditional dugouts, motorboat outings and catch-and-release fishing for tigerfish and tilapia. Outside those months the island is dry country and the days are spent on land.

On land the choice holds all year: game drives by day and after dark in open vehicles, with a spotlight at night for genets, owls and the leopards the island is known for, and guided walks on foot, where you never walk alone. A night out in a raised hide made up as a star bed can be arranged too. If you want water in the plan, tell us your dates and we will check the flood before promising a mokoro.

Both camps stand on Hunda Island, both were rebuilt and reopened in June 2024, and a raised boardwalk joins them, so the wildlife and the guiding are the same. What differs is size. Tubu Tree has eight tents, one of them a family unit, each raised on a wooden platform in the trees with a private deck and an outdoor shower, a thatched lounge and dining area up among the branches, and a pool deck facing the floodplain.

Little Tubu is three tented suites for no more than six guests, set in the treetops above a seasonal riverbed. We would send families and friends travelling together to Tubu Tree, and a couple, or a small party wanting a camp of their own, to Little Tubu.

Yes. The camp's family unit is two adjoining tents, each with its own bathroom, sharing a lounge, so parents and children stay together without sharing a bathroom. The tents and walkways are raised among the trees, so younger children need an adult close by.

A private vehicle and guide can be added for a family, because the day then runs at the children's pace rather than a shared vehicle's. Not every activity is open to every age, so tell us the children's ages when you enquire and we will plan the days around what each of them can do.

No. It stands in the Jao Reserve, a private concession on the western side of the Okavango Delta whose eastern edge borders Moremi Game Reserve. Being outside the national reserve is why the camp can take you out on game drives after dark.

The reserve has been in the hands of the Kays family, an old Maun family, since they took on the concession in 1998, and David, Cathy and their son Martin still run it. Tubu Tree followed the first three camps in 2002, on Hunda Island, the drier western part of the reserve, where mopane woodland and Kalahari sand meet the floodplains.