Khwai Private Reserve Anti-Poaching
We equip rangers in Khwai Private Reserve with tools and training to effectively protect wildlife. They patrol, collect data, manage invasive species, and protect trees.
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If you’ve been forever dreaming of an iconic Okavango Delta experience, then end your search with Tuludi. Located in the Khwai Private Reserve, offering over 200,000 hectares of pristine wilderness, here you’ll discover a melee of emerald forests, glistening waterways and all the wildlife imaginable.
Besides embracing the luxury and serenity of space, Tuludi is an exclusive oasis that you’ll be delighted to return to after a day exploring the extraordinary ecosystem. In fact, there is a real elegance to its design. Picture seven tree-house style rooms, shaded by the boughs of cool leadwood trees, each with sophisticated interiors, overflowing with airy spaces and lots of privacy. This is a luxurious and intimate affair, with every detail attended to, offering guests an iconic Okavango Delta experience in the most refined of safari settings.
The Khwai Private Reserve is a venture with the Khwai Village and your visit has a positive impact on conservation initiatives here. Through multiple community-based projects, ranging from pre-school support to a cultural village, we are helping to support and uplift the local community.
Located in the Khwai Private Reserve, in the secluded, northern reaches of the Delta, this magical 200,000-hectare reserve is astonishing in its diversity. Think vast, flowing floodplains that stretch out like the prettiest of emerald-green carpets; pockets of verdant forests and battalions of enormous Leadwood trees; pockets of lily-covered lagoons and meandering waterways. And in the middle of it all is the fast-flowing Khwai River, the lifeline of the reserve and one that attracts herds of wildlife in their droves. The reserve is bordered by the world-famous Moremi Game Reserve to the south, and the vast Chobe National Park to the east. Together the three reserves are part of the greater Okavango Delta World Heritage Site.
Tuludi is accessible from Maun and Kasane and any other camps in northern Botswana. Daily flights are available to Maun from Cape Town and Johannesburg. Fly to Maun and then switch to a light aircraft to fly to our private airstrip in the Khwai Reserve. From the private airstrip, you’ll game drive straight into camp.
We wouldn’t be lying if we told you that Khwai was one of the most consistent areas in the Okavango Delta region for year-round fabulous wildlife encounters. As a result, Tuludi is open all year and along with excellent game viewing, each season brings its own quirks and charms.
We wanted Tuludi to reflect the space and freedom of the surroundings and the high, pitched canvas roofs of the bedrooms create light and airy spaces to retreat to at the end of a busy day in Khwai. Wooden boardwalks wind through the leadwood trees to connect the seven ‘treehouse-style’ tents and each is kept cool by the shady boughs. Inside, the earthy palette is sophisticated and warm and you’ll find separate dressing and sleeping areas, an ensuite bathroom, indoor and outdoor showers, and splashy bathtubs. If that wasn’t enough space to relax, there’s also a sunken seating area and a private plunge pool on the outside veranda, both overlooking those enormous floodplains.
Back at the main area, the lofty space is raised on decks and strewn with cushions, sofas and swinging armchairs to flop into for an afternoon of view-gazing and wildlife-watching. Handily, it’s positioned in the perfect spot to watch the sunset, with a firepit overlooking the Delta floodplains. There’s also a large swimming pool, a treehouse library elevated four metres in the trunks of the trees, and plenty of trinkets and treasures that tell the story of both the camp and the extraordinary game-rich Khwai Private Reserve.
The floodplains around Tuludi aren’t simply beautiful, they’re also the perfect location for enormous herds of elephant and buffalo who wander amongst the grass undisturbed. Whilst the Khwai River is the main water source in the area, the waterways that spindle out through the grasslands attract game from far and wide, and there’s no shortage of zebra, giraffe, antelope and other plains game.
But really, it’s the predators that steal the show here and the concentrations are superior to most in the area. Expect prides of lion on the hunt as dusk falls, leopard lazing in the forest and cheetah stalking their territories – and have your cameras at the ready at all times! The area is also home to a good number of endangered wild dog and if you’re lucky enough to spot them in the wild, you’ll never want to leave. The reserve is diverse even by Okavango terms and the birdlife here also reflects this. You can expect specials like longtoed lapwing, black and slaty egrets, wattle cranes – while the woodlands supper an entirely different suite of species.
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When you visit, you will be directly supporting the following Natural Selection conservation initatives:
The name ‘Tuludi’ is a Tswana word that describes the colours or markings of the leopard, and is also sometimes also used to describe cattle with spotty or flecked skin. It is in fact a ‘royal’ colour or marking that is held in very high regard in Botswana. So, what’s that got to do with our camp? we hear you cry. Well, the day that our partners in Khwai, Kevin and Shannon Lang, set out to find a spot to build Tuludi, they found themselves camping in a grove of enormous leadwood trees. With their low-hanging boughs and shady leaves the trees are first choice for leopards and lo and behold, a beautiful female walked straight past the team after only a few minutes. Later, as the sun began to drop, the rays created a stunning, dappled ‘tuludi’ pattern on the ground all around them – and it was at that moment that they knew this was the spot for Tuludi
Khwai Private Reserve* is a great conservation triumph and we are extremely proud of what we have achieved in the region, and helping us make the area such a success are our outstanding partners: the Khwai Development Trust, the communities surrounding Khwai itself, and Kevin and Shannon Lang.
*This concession and its eco-tourism (non-consumptive) designation, relies on the sustainable use of areas in which eco-systems are intact and, in the process, provides important refuge to countless species and biodiversity under threat, important corridors for migration as well as buffers between wildlife and surrounding land uses. It wasn’t always like this, historically it was utilized for hunting. The conversion from hunting to ecotourism was made a success story by Natural Selection and the KPR management team. At Natural Selection, we recognize the important role that eco-tourism plays in the protection of wilderness areas, and therefore continue to promote and expand our conservation efforts.
