Jack's Camp

Here romance exists in spades: Each of the nine canvas tents come with campaign desks and hand-carved beds and, on the outside, broad wood decks, swings, and plunge pools.

It’s still the most spectacular lodge in Botswana, each of the large, high-ceilinged tents are film-set perfect furnished with Peter Beard prints: four posters, Persian rugs and plenty of mahogany.

Set on the arid Makgadikgadi Pans, in the Kalahari Desert, Jack's Camp is where those who are hungry for the silence of the desert go, who lust for its adventure and poetry, and for the oriental-rug-lined tents of this authentic African camp

At Meno A Kwena, a remote bush camp on the western edge of Botswana's Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, a group of San people are leading some European tourists through a stretch of bushveld dotted with ubiquitous acacia trees.

Many have tried to emulate Jack's over the years, but it remains one of the most legendary camps in southern Africa thanks to its old-school glamour and authentic explorers' camp vibe.

If you're bold-spirited, reasonably fit, and have kept your childlike sense of wonder, then Jack's is for you.

On the arid Makgadikgadi Pans, in the Kalahari Desert, Jack's Camp is where those who are hungry for the silence of the desert go, who lust for its adventure and poetry, and for the oriental-rug-lined tents of this authentic African camp.