Chitabe Lediba

These two luxury family safari suites are ideal for families or family size groups who desire a more intimate lodging experience. Both units are connected by a shared boardwalk and deck, consisting of 2 rooms with their own individual en-suite bathroom and entrance.

The main bedroom contains one king size bed, while the second contains two three-quarter beds. The main bedroom is the only unit to contain an outside shower. Sharing the same archetypal safari style and aesthetic as its contemporary suites, the family suite is host to a variety of furnishings and fixtures to ensure optimum guest satisfaction.

Amenities Include:

• En-suite Bathrooms
• Indoor and outdoor shower facilities
• Veranda
• Lounge area
• Mosquito nets
• Hairdryer
• Fan
• Safe
• A small kettle with tea and coffee provided
• Complimentary laundry service

These en-suite safari tented units serve to provide a comfortable and harmonious lodging for those wishing to reside within the lap of luxury throughout their stay. Decorated in a classical yet intricate safari style, this unit contains two three-quarter beds, a spacious lounge area, a veranda that provides astonishing vistas over the surround bush and a host of additional furnishings and creature comforts to ensure optimum satisfaction.

Amenities Include:

•  En-suite Bathroom
• Indoor and outdoor shower facilities
• Veranda
• Lounge area
• Mosquito nets
• Electronical outlets
• Hairdryer
• Fan
• Safe
• A small kettle with tea and coffee provided
• Complimentary laundry service

The minimal guest capacity ensures a more intimate safari experience than other contemporary camps. Dining is lavish and intimate, with cosy, atmospheric dining areas that offer pristine vistas across expansive floodplains. Prepare yourself for a unique and luxurious safari experience.

Chitabe Lediba’s assembly of talented and dedicated catering staff will ensure the ultimate dining experience throughout the duration of your stay. Three set meals are served throughout the day, as well as a host of lite bites and snacks to enjoy around the clock, ensuring guaranteed appetite satisfaction. Should you have any specific dietary requirements, inform the catering staff and they will be happy to accommodate any specifications you request.

All food and drink come as all-inclusive as standard, allowing you to indulge at your own leisure. Meals range from light and healthy to lavish and indulgent, with everything else in-between. Feel free to enjoy a range of locally sourced and imported alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, either from the self-service in-camp bar, or during meals with friends and family.

Experience the Okavango Delta as you have never seen it before with a once in a lifetime bespoke helicopter safari. View the breath-taking expanse of inaccessible lakes and islands – remote and otherwise unseen, as well as the abundance of roaming wildlife seen from the sky. This experience will allow you to truly absorb the full magnitude and beauty of Okavango Delta from high above, covering a considerably larger expanse than what is possible with conventional land-based safari.

Cultural tours enable you to experience the authentic Botswanan day to day life. Who better to lead this experience than a born and bred Botswanan national – in this case, your own private guide. Set forth from Chitabe Lediba to explore the neighbouring villages situated nearby, where upon arrival, there are opportunities to speak with village elders and meet local children.

While traversing these traditional, character rich villages, you may wish to browse the local market stalls, bakeries or even churches. Enrich yourself within the local customs and cultures for a totally unique and enlightening experience, creating lasting memories every step of the way.

Classical safari game walks enable you to traverse expansive delta lands at a leisurely, more absorbent pace than is possible with conventional safari game drives. Experience a sensation like no other as you traverse the varied eco systems that comprise Okavango lands, all while brushing elbows with scores of exotic game and exuberant wildlife. Experienced guides will lead you safely through pre-determined routes, ensuring a fulfilling taste of the wild with many sights to behold.

The Okavango Delta is host to quantities of avid birders who flock forth year-round to view the immense scores of avian life these indigenous environments have to offer. knowledgeable guides will point out different bird species as you traverse the riverbanks and waterholes frequently brimming with activity.

Binoculars are a must as you peer out amongst flocks of malachite kingfisher and African jacana, with potential to spot some of the rarer species such as, wattled crane, black chested snake eagle and rosy throated long claw. Optimum time for birdwatching is during the wet season, from November to April, when summer migrants swoop inland to mate.

There are few ways better to experience the wealth of exotic game and indigenous wildlife than with a choice of day and night game drives in open 4×4 safari vehicles led by experienced and knowledgeable guides. Thriving game populations make for immense photographic potential as you’re free to snap pictures of meandering elephant herds, frolicking zebra, elegant giraffe and all the big cats synonymous with classical Botswanan safari.

Night drives provide a unique opportunity to survey expansive delta lands after dark. Embark for the plains of the Okavango in the security of seasoned guides as some creatures settle in slumber, while other come out to play.

Wilderness Safaris aim is that if the camps ever needed to be moved they could do so without leaving an imprint on the land. All Wilderness Safari camps are built in the most eco-friendly way possible. To reduce their carbon footprint and to help them become carbon neutral in their operations, they invest in new technologies to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels.

Wilderness Safaris partner properties all work under the sustainability ethos of conservation, culture, commerce and community. Pack for a Purpose is one of the community projects that Wilderness Safaris has partnered with, it is “a non-profit organisation that provides travellers with up-to-date information about required supplies for community-based projects.”

This is an educational programme created by Wilderness Safaris which aims to educate and inspire the next generation of environmental leaders by teaching them life skills and environmental issues. This programme aims to “create a network of learning sanctuaries that uplifts and cares for our children and conserves the planet.”

Wilderness Safaris created their own Trust in 2003, this is an independent entity that fund-raises for money to be put into various conservation projects. This engages with projects which can be beyond the scope of the areas in which Wilderness Safaris operate, ensuring that “conservation is a driving force in reaching more people, wildlife and places.”

The Jao Concession and the University of Botswana have created a committee hoping to “encourage better engagement between local communities and the Jao Concession, specifically regarding curbing poaching and overfishing.”

Both the black and white rhino were declared locally extinct in Botswana in the early 1990s. Since then, Wilderness Safaris have partnered with the Botswana government and other NGOs to reintroduce and establish healthy, breeding populations of black and white rhino in the Okavango Delta. Wilderness Safaris helped to restore these rhinos to the wild “in the largest cross-border move ever completed.”

Wilderness Safaris is a strong believer in giving back to local people and communities, proving opportunities for indigenous people to join the sustainable travel industry and imparting invaluable skills to those who seek to make an impact. As such, Chitabe Lediba, in addition to the closely situated parent camp, Chitabe Camp, employs a host of local people in the construction and maintenance of its facilities.

The opportunities awarded to talented and passionate people are highly sought after throughout the whole of Botswana, and as such, seek to provide long term career opportunities as opposed to jobs. It is the dedicated guides and staff that deliver the quintessential sustainable holiday experience.

Chitabe Lediba is constructed from primarily recyclable and locally sourced materials where applicable, negating the need to haul lumber and other construction materials long distances from neighbouring towns and villages. Initiatives such as this greatly offsets potential carbon emissions and negates disruption to the surrounding environments and habitats. Accommodations and camp facilities are constructed from degradable and natural materials, as to ecologically fit with the surrounding environment, rather than impose upon it.

Chitabe Lediba, in addition to a host of other Wilderness Safaris lodges operates on entirely 100% sustainable solar energy. By utilising the abundance of sun inherent to Northern Botswana, Chitabe Lediba, in addition to the closely situated Chitabe Camp, is able to supply a consistent source of energy that is used to power the camps many facilities, negating the need for diesel powered generators that are detrimental to the surrounding wilderness and environment.

Through ecologically friendly initiatives such as this, Chitabe Camp serves as a shining example of how to successfully operate within the sustainable tourism industry for all to see.