THE EXPERIENCE
Where Every Track Tells a Story
Set in the heart of Botswana’s world-famous Okavango Delta, this is one of the last places on earth where a man can hunt as men once did. There are no fences here. There is only the country itself — vast, wild, and honest — and the animals that have always belonged to it.
The concession runs across pristine wilderness of every kind: floodplains that shine like beaten silver, riverine forest heavy with shade, mopane woodland, acacia savannah, and the seasonal wetlands that draw game from a hundred miles. It is old Africa. It has not changed, and we mean to keep it that way.
My beloved Africa, Land of Happyness
The Country
“A true wilderness safari in one of Africa’s most iconic landscapes, where every track tells a story and every hunt becomes a lifetime memory.”
The Delta is a place of water and thirst in equal measure. In the wet season the channels fill and the plains flood, and the buffalo move onto the islands in their hundreds. In the dry, the herds crowd the permanent water, and the bulls walk the old paths their fathers walked. You learn the country by walking it, and you hunt it the same way — on foot, in the early light, reading the ground.
THE HUNT
The Great Game of the Delta
Elephant
Buffalo
Leopard
The Great Game of the Delta
Elephant
The old bulls of the Delta are the reason many hunters come at all. They move through the concession on ancient routes, unhurried, following water and memory. Hunting them is a matter of patience and legs: days of tracking through mopane and along the floodplain edges, reading dung and broken branches, until at last you are close enough to judge the ivory and closer still to make the shot count. It is the most demanding hunt in Africa, and for many the most rewarding.
Buffalo
If the elephant is a study in patience, the buffalo is a study in nerve. Large breeding herds roam the floodplains and the woodland, and moving into them to pick out a mature, hard-bossed bull is close, tense work. The buffalo does not forgive a careless approach. He looks at you, as the old hunters said, like you owe him money — and when the wind shifts or the shot is anything but true, he will tell you so. This is the finest dangerous-game hunting the Delta offers.
Leopard
The leopard is the ghost of this country. The dense riverine habitat and the healthy prey base make ideal cover for him, and the concession has a well-earned name for producing exceptional cats. He is hunted with skill and patience — reading sign, understanding his movements, and waiting out the long, still hours near last light. When he comes, he comes like smoke. Few trophies in Africa are harder won or longer remembered.