Audi Camp Maun Botswana

Audi Camp is situated at the edge of the Okavango Delta 12Km from Maun.
The Camp offers camping, tented accommodation and en suite tents.
We have an a la carte restaurant, bar and pool. We also cater for a wide variety of activities in and around the Okavango Delta including cultural and community based trips.

email: maun@go.botswanatravelservice.com

Audi Camp is 12 kilometres north of Maun, on the road toward the Moremi Game Reserve, located on the banks of the Thamalakane river – the southern most tributary of the Okavango Delta.

Accommodation at Audi Camp Maun

We have luxury en-suite tents on raised wooden decking over looking the river, mini-meru tents with beds, lights their own fire places and cooking area. Large dome tents with stretcher beds.
We also have many shaded camping areas and some of the sites have power points. We have a bar and a la carte restaurant.

Features of Audi Camp:

Camping and Accomodation:
We have 4 luxury en-suite tents on raised wooden decking overlooking the river, a house with four rooms, 10 beds, kitchen, shower, bath and toilet, 10 mini-meru tents with two single beds, linen, electricity, fan and bedside light.
We also offer 8 large dome tents with two camping beds and mattresses, (bedding sets can be rented from the camp). The camp provides a large shaded camping area for those of you with your own equipment, power points sites available on request. The camp is fenced, has security lights and a watchman patrolling at night.

Facilities Available:
Hot and cold ‘open air’ showers
Restaurant and bar area – breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks available all day
Conference facilities
Swimming pool
Self-catering kitchen and braai stands
Firewood/ice available to buy
Equipment hire for mokoro trips
Lock-away facilities for excess luggage.

Some ideas of what to do at Audi Camp:
Trips & Safaris
Vehicle Safari
Fly-in Trips
Mokoro Trips
Moremi Safaris
Kalahari Safaris
Chobe/Moremi Safaris
Luxury Mobile Safaris
Nxai Pans Safaris

Where is Audi Camp?
Audi Camp is situated on the banks of the Thamalakane River, 12km from Maun on the Shorobe Road towards the Moremi Game Reserve.

PHILOSOPHY
Audi Camp was started in August 1993. Our goal was to provide quality and value for money with camping and safaris in Botswana.
We have since expanded our operations and continue to adhere to the same ideals.
One of the mainstays of our philosophy has been to work directly with the local communities. Too often in the past, local people have only been involved in tourism as employees and normally only as labourers.

They have never had the opportunities to develop their business skills nor to have control or empowerment over of the local resources.
The evolution of these skills requires successes, failures and long term experience. As the communities become more involved with the tourist industry they began to see the value and uniqueness of their culture, skills, and environment.
With experience and time we think that the communities will begin not only to see their traditional knowledge and skills as a marketable service but something worth passing on to future generations – rather than being over run by industrial and western values.

Our mokoro trips should be viewed as a "cultural" experience as opposed to a "wildlife" experience. In stating this, we do not mean you will not see wildlife, wildlife is an integral part of the local culture, but this should be secondary to experiencing the people you will be with. What the traveller should understand is that different cultures do not have similar "world view" perspectives. Trying to see and relate to the area and environment as the local people do, can be a fascinating experience.

We hope that you will take the time and the opportunity to try to do this – but this will require an effort on your part. You will have to do away with many of your own expectations and cultural bias.

This is a unique chance to involve yourself with a local culture. Although they now are starting to earn a living from tourism, these people are not "commercial" in any sense of the word. They are just very nice, down to earth people trying to share their world with you. We hope that you will join us, enjoy the people and enjoy yourselves.

THE OKAVANGO DELTA:
The Okavango Delta is one of the world’s largest inland water systems. It's headwaters start in Angola’s western highlands, with numerous tributaries joining to form the Cubango river, which then flows through Namibia (called the Kavango) and finally enters Botswana, where it is then called the Okavango. Millions of years ago the Okavango river use to flow into a large inland lake called Lake Makgadikgadi (now Makgadikgadi Pans).

Tectonic activity and faulting interrupted the flow of the river causing it to backup and form what is now the Okavango Delta.

This has created a unique system of water ways that now supports a vast array of animal and plant life that would have otherwise been a dry Kalahari savannah.

The delta’s floods are fed from the Angolan rains, which start in October and finish sometime in April. The floods only cross the border between Botswana and Namibia in December and will only reach the bottom end of the delta (Maun) sometime in July, taking almost nine months from the source to the bottom. This slow meandering pace of the flood is due to the lack of drop in elevation, which slopes a little more than 60 metres over a distance of 450 kilometres. The delta’s water dead ends in the Kalahari – via the Botetle river, with over 95 per cent of the water eventually evaporating.

During the peak of the flooding the delta’s area can expand to over 16,000 square kilometres, shrinking to less than 9,000 square kilometres in the low period. As the water travels through the delta, the wildlife starts to move back into the region. The areas surrounding the delta are beginning to dry out (the rains in Botswana occur approximately the same time as in Angola) and the wildlife starts to congregate on the edge of the newly flooded areas, May through October.

The delta environment has large numbers of animal populations that are otherwise rare, such as crocodile, red lechwe, sitatunga, elephant, wild dogs, buffalo, wattled crane as well as the other more common mammals and bird life. The best time for game viewing in the delta is during the May-October period, as the animal life is concentrated along the flooded areas and the vegetation has dried out. The best time for birding and vegetation is during the rainy season (Nov.- April) as the migrant bird populations are returning and the plants are flowering and green.