Place to stay · Okavango Delta
Splash Camp
Kwando Safaris' camp around a permanent pan in the Kwara Private Concession, north of Moremi. Ten suites and two family rooms, with drives, boats and mokoros all year.
Splash is a Kwando Safaris camp in the south-east of the Kwara Private Concession (NG20), 175,000 hectares that share a 30 km water boundary with the north of Moremi Game Reserve. It opened in 2018 on the site of an old hunting camp, built around a permanent pan that every tent faces. The draw is predators: lion, cheetah and wild dog, followed off-road by a guide and a tracker working together.
What to expect
There are 10 suites and two family rooms, each on a raised deck with an indoor and an outdoor shower, a fan and a desk. Any room can be made up as a double or a twin. Splash Enclave is a separate wing with its own lounge, bar, firepit and plunge pool that a group of 6 to 10 can book outright.
Game drives take at most six people a vehicle, so everyone has a window seat, and night drives are part of the routine. Boating and mokoro trips run all year because the concession has permanent water. Few delta camps can say that. Walks go out with specialist walking guides.
Practical details
- Phone: +267 686 1449 (Kwando Safaris, Maun).
- Fly in to Kwara airstrip, about 30 minutes from Maun or 80 from Kasane, then drive roughly 45 minutes to camp.
- Food and drinks are included, and so is laundry.
- Minimum age is six. Families with children aged 6 to 11 must book private activities, and mokoro trips and walks are for ages 12 and up.
- Suites 4, 5 and 6 can be reached by wheelchair.
Good to know
The Godikwe heronry is reached by boat and is at its best from September to December. Fishing is open from March to December. Power is solar with backup generators, and the sockets will run a sleep apnoea machine but not a hair dryer. Wifi is limited.
Last updated 12 October 2026. Sources: Kwando Safaris, Splash Camp, Kwando Safaris, Splash Camp fact sheet, Kwando Safaris, contact, Expert Africa, Splash Camp.
The leopard that eats in the lounge tree
In August 2026 a leopard killed a warthog piglet and carried it up the sausage tree in front of the Splash lounge. He dragged it under the camp deck, hauled it back up, and stayed around camp for two nights. In May the guides’ notes had him behind a camp kitchen with another piglet stored in a tree.
Rra Tsebe, who treats the camp as his
The guides call him Rra Tsebe, Setswana for Mr Ear, and sometimes Golden Boy. He has been in the monthly sightings notes for Kwara and Splash since at least 2024 as the famous old male, patrolling near the airstrip or up a tree with an impala or a baboon. In September 2025 word went round that he was dead. He was then seen alive with a few wounds, and the carcass was a stranger’s.
He helps explain a decent leopard score. Expert Africa has asked its travellers to log what they see at Splash since mid-2018, and 70% of those trips recorded a leopard. Lion stands at 97%, cheetah at 82% and wild dog at 72%.
Cheetah used to mean one animal above all. In 2022 the regular was a male the guides named Mr Special, who that August was lying up when a young impala almost trod on him and paid for it. The recent notes have a coalition of two brothers and a few lone cats instead.
Whose lions these are
The Kwara Pride had 28 lions on a hippo carcass in August 2026, out in the west of the concession. The Mmaleitho Pride is the Splash one, working Motswere Pan and the woodland east of camp, and in June 2026 it was eating two wildebeest near the staff village. In July three males from the Mababe side were trying to chase a young male out of that pride. A month later a resident male roared from the Bat-eared Fox Den and three eastern newcomers answered from about three kilometres off. Nobody fought.
Guests in several different years report elephants wandering through camp. One in August 2026 had a hyena at dinner as well.
Dogs, and why winter is a gamble
Packs swing from six to nine dogs in the 2026 dry season to 25 or more, with fast-growing pups, in December 2024 and January 2025. They den in winter, and how that goes is luck. In 2022 a pack with ten pups at the den had lost two by September. In 2025 a pack denned in the far west of the concession and lions raided the den in September, killing pups and some of the adults. The surviving pups were out hunting with the pack later that month.
Their prey often bolts for water, which makes for odd scenes. In July 2026 an impala fled a pack into the water near Motswere Pan, where a crocodile grabbed it, a hippo came to look, the crocodile let go, and hours later the impala got away.
The storks at Godikwe
The heronry sits on fig tree islands in a lagoon in Moremi waters. Dates slip from year to year: the guides wrote of frantic nest building in September 2022, yet marabou chicks had already hatched by August 2026. Yellow-billed storks, sacred ibis, darters and night herons pack in beside them. Sitatunga are a long shot from the boat, logged on fewer than a third of trips, though Expert Africa’s team once counted three on a single January outing. They lie up in the reeds through the heat of the day.
What people grumble about
Rarely the guiding, and most guests praise the food. The camp had no wifi or phone signal at all until 2024, which caught out guests in 2022 who needed to reach home. Since then there has been wifi in the rooms and none in the main area. Two visitors, in 2025 and 2026, found the drive in from the airstrip and the churned-up tracks hard on the back. Expert Africa’s own team adds that guides chase the big predators and give less time to smaller things, so speak up if you came for aardwolf or birds.
