Kanana Camp is located in the remote inner reaches of Botswana's Okavango Delta. Kanana means 'paradise' in Setswana and with its remote location, its name can hardly describe the natural treasures found here.
Kanana Camp is built among spectacular shade trees of Ebony, Knob Thorn Acacia and the Sausage Tree. The 8 deluxe luxury style tents (accommodating 16 guests) are built on stilts to insure a good view of the floodplains for all guests. The common facilities of the camp are also built up on stilts overlooking these floodplains. The dining and sitting areas are raised on decking encircling a massive ancient fig tree. Professionally managed menus include fresh bread baked daily and fresh vegetables. A well stocked bar with lots of ice. The gift gallery is stocked with local handicrafts and other items. Kanana Camp is fortunate to have its own airstrip nearby, making access very easy.
The area is an excellent walking and Mokoro area. While game viewing in 4x4 vehicles is available and very popular, one can best experience this region by viewing game on foot or by gliding silently through the delta by mokoro (dug-out canoe). It is a moving and incredible experience which draws you intimately into nature in its purest form. Void of the intrusions of man, the silence allows your senses to come alive - your hearing more acute and your skin charged with electricity upon hearing the elephants - morning calls in the distance.
Besides elephant, a wide variety of other game frequent the life giving force of the delta, including impala, lechwe, hippo, crocodile and lion. Kanana Camp is one of the few lucky camps in the Okavango Delta to have an exclusive heronry where many migratory water birds come to have their young from July onwards. This is a very important nesting site for these birds and one of the few in the Delta. The birds you are likely to see roosting here are the yellow bill stork, marabou, open bill stork, darters cormorants and slate egrets. Kanana Camp is now regularly reporting sightings of the rare Pels fishing owl in addition to hyena, which has also become a rare sighting in this area. Even more rare are the Situanga, which live in swamps and are very good swimmers. They may take to the water to evade predators such as leopards or wild dogs, lying submerged in pools with only their nostrils above the surface.
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