Surely one of the most romantic camps in Botswana... if not the whole of Africa.

San Camp, in the Makgadikgadi Pans and Kalahari Desert, sits serenely in a reef of palm at the edge of the world.You can see the curve of the earth here. Turn 360 degrees and nothing crosses the eye but the bowl of the sky. It is the nothing-ness that attracts. This is God's own minimalism.

San Camp, and sister lodge Jack's Camp, are unique in that they are the only permanent camps to offer a chance to explore and understand the Kalahari. Our concession adjoins the Makgadikgadi National Park with its endless vistas of rolling golden grasslands.

A safari to San Camp is also a complete desert experience focusing on species unique to the area such as aardvark, gemsbuck and springbuck.

San Camp forms part of the Stewart Granger Memorial Collection of 1940s safari tents, with bucket showers, flush loos, four-poster beds, mosquito net canopies, percale sheets, and paraffin lamps. There is no electricity at San Camp.

Six white canvas tents twinned with a dramatic location, combine to create an oasis of civilization in what can be the harshest of stark environments.

Accommodation at San Camp include all meals and drinks daily. You'll enjoy everything from picnic breakfasts to decadent lunches to lavish dinners in the elegant mess tent.

San Camp offers 3- to 6-day itineraries centred on exploring the Makgadikgadi Pans.

A relic of one of the world's largest super-lakes, the Makgadikgadi Pans dried up thousands of years ago as a result of the continued shifting of the earth's crust. When the lake was formed, some five to seven million years ago, its shores were the setting for the mysterious transition from ape to man.

Venturing far into the centre of the Makgadikgadi, on 4-wheel drive quad bikes, we are able to explore remote archaeological sites, periodically discovering never before documented fossil beds of extinct giant zebra and hippo. The fact that you can travel across the pans at great speed and still arrive nowhere only underlines the pans immensity. There is nothing out here. Absolutely nothing.

No outcrops, no features, no grass, no trees, no sound but the crunch of your boots in the crust.

The Kalahari desert is its own universe. It is the only place where guests are virtually guaranteed to see the rare and elusive brown hyaena and be able to walk through the Kalahari with a gang of habituated but wild meerkats!

THE RATES INCLUDE:

• ACCOMMODATION & ACTIVITIES
• FOOD & BEVERAGES
• EXPERT GUIDING
• NATIONAL PARK ENTRY FEES & VAT.

THE ABOVE RATES EXCLUDE:

• PREMIUM IMPORTS
• INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS & INTERNAL TRANSFERS
• TRAVEL INSURANCE, VISAS & DISCRETIONARY TIPS.