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LODGE REVIEW - KINGS POOL SAFARI CAMP LINYATI BOTSWANA
Kings Pool safari camp is located in the Linyanti Concession, Botswana - an area of unspoiled wilderness that overlooks the hippo-filled, oxbow-shaped Kings Pool Lagoon and the Linyanti River to the north. The camp has 9 luxury tented rooms under thatch each with an en-suite bedroom, lounge, private plunge pool and sala. Shared facilities include a swimming pool, a hide where guests can watch game, boma, lounge, pub and dining room under thatch. The main area is linked to the bedrooms by a raised walkway to allow for free movement of game in the camp. Activities include game drives in open 4x4 vehicles, night drives and guided walking safaris only when the camp manager feels it is safe.The reed and papyrus swamps are ideal for numerous and diverse species of birds and are a magnet for game in the dry winter months.What do you think?
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I have stayed at King's Pool twice and love it. It is a beautiful, intimate camp in a pristine wilderness location in the Linyanti Concession of the Okavango Delta. The accommodations are "tented," but it is hard not to smile when writing that because to call the nine rooms at King's Pool "tents" is almost laughable. The only way to remind yourself you are in a tent is to touch the canvas walls. These "tents" are as big as my first apartment! The tents have a soaring, vaulted, thatched room and are raised on wooden flooring. Each tent features a huge wooden door through which you enter to find an oversize armoire, desk, and floor mirror; a canopy bed positioned in the center of the room; a huge sitting area; a separate "water closet" with sink and a view of the lagoon; and a bathroom with double granite shower and double sinks. Outside is a spacious deck with outdoor shower, private plunge pool and a "sala" -- a covered, open air gazebo with a mattress and pillows... The food is very good -- not the absolute best, but very tasty -- especially brunch. In addition to the four meals served in camp each day (breakfast, brunch, tea, and dinner), guests are also served more snacks on the morning and evening game drives -- cookies, tea and coffee at the "morning coffee stop" and hors d'ouvres and cocktails at the "sundowners" stop -- so don't be thinking you will lose weight on safari!The wildlife viewing at King's Pool is superb. On my trips there I have seen elephant, lion, leopard, wild dog, hyena, hippo, crocodile, jackal, baboons, multitudes of general plains game such as giraffe, warthog, impala, zebra, kudu, and wildebeest, plus smaller creatures like bush baby, genet, porcupine, and more. And of course, don’t forget all the fabulous birds one sees in the area.One particularly cool sighting involved a clan of hyenas that had run a single lioness off a zebra kill and then proceeded to devour the remains themselves amidst a chorus of typical hyena whoops and giggles -- truly an amazing cacophony of sound close-up.On my second trip to King's Pool we had a private guide and one morning he and I drove all the way down to the Zibilianja Lagoon near Duma Tau camp and then down to the Savuti Channel to see water flowing in the Channel -- an occurrence that had not happened in almost 25 years. We then drove down the Channel to a water hole called Rock Pan where we exited the vehicle and sat on the ground near the water hole and photographed elephants coming to drink – it was magical to be on foot so near these enormous creatures. When we arrived back in camp after being gone for almost eight hours, we had missed brunch, but the camp had a special private lunch waiting for us.
Finally the King's Pool staff is incredibly warm and friendly and the camp has a very nice curio shop. I will definitely return to King's Pool -- in fact my mom, dad and their friends will be there in September.
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