Kings Pool Camp

Gregory Fox

My last memories of King's Pool Camp will be spending my siesta time relaxing on my deck watching the game come down to drink and listening to the hippos below me in the Linyanti River. Even while you are in your tent listening to the night sounds, the hippos will still let you know that they are there. King's Pool is the ultimate in luxury camps and offers the best of service, guiding and accommodation.

  • Gregory Fox

Kings Pool Camp is located in the Linyanti Wildlife Reserve, a vast private concession in the northern part of Botswana, on the western boundary of Chobe National Park. The accommodation here is luxurious, the wildlife spectacular. Kings Pool Camp overlooks the Linyanti River and the oxbow-shaped Kings Pool Lagoon. The Linyanti area has a large wildlife resource with a wide variety of species, but it is most noted for its very large elephant population, which can reach enormous densities during the dry winter months. Other game is abundant, such as impala, lechwe, kudu, zebra, giraffe, buffalo and bushbuck, and their predators: lion, leopard, cheetah, wild dog and spotted hyaena. Rarer species such as sable and roan antelope emerge from the woodlands during the dry season.

Location

By Air: Kings Pool Camp is an approximately 45 minute flight from Maun and 45 minute flight to Kasane. The camp is a 5 minute drive from the airstrip.

Highlights

  • Kings Pool is famed for its two hides:
  • one located at the western end of the camp where one can spend one's entire siesta time watching game come down to drink.
  • The other is an original underground hide, with the water at eye-level - seeing elephant feet and trunks almost within touching distance while safely inside is an extraordinary experience.
  • Elephant can be seen all year round but peak roughly from May till late October.
  • Excellent birding, especially carmine bee-eaters in summer.
  • Great hippo and game viewing on the lagoon in front of camp.

Facilities

Facilities available at Kings Pool Camp include:

  • Dining Room
  • Bar & Lounge (under thatch)
  • Curio Shop
  • Swimming Pool
  • Limited Gym Facilities (including 2 yoga mats and open boma for dinner around campfire)
  • Raised walkways allow animals to wander freely through the camp to and from the water.

Activities

Activities at Kings Pool Camp include game drives, walking safaris and hides for game viewing.

Meal Basis

Fully inclusive accommodation including all meals, drinks (excluding premium brand drinks) and activities.

Child Policy

Children over the age of 8 years are welcome. Private activities need to be booked for families with children.

Accommodation:

Kings Pool Camp offers 9 tents of canvas and thatch each with a large bedroom area, lounge, private plunge pool and 'sala'.

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Customer Review

Holiday to Botswana during February 2011

Botswana Review

All I really know about Botswana is the camps I stayed in and the bush apart from a brief visit to Maun which can probably best be described as a "frontier" town but it seemed to me to be clean and orderly

Rated... 5stars

Signed:

Bill Passmore

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