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Type: Luxury Lodge

Summary: Luxury safari lodge in the heart of Botswana

Feature: Luxury accommodation meets enthralling safari experiences

Rooms: 12 luxury suites

Location: Botswana

Star rating: 5 Star

Nearest airport: Maun Airport

Transfer: Approximately a 90-minute flight from Johannesburg to Maun Airport, followed by a 25-minute light aircraft flight to the Xigera airstrip and 10 minute private car transfer to the lodge.

Luxury Holidays At Xigera Safari Lodge

Situated on the western side of the Moremi Game Reserve in the enchanting Okavango Delta of Botswana, Xigera Safari Lodge is a year-round destination for a luxury safari. Suspended on stilts and connected by elevated walkways, Xigera Safari Lodge offers exclusive and elegant accommodation for up to 26 guests, each dedicated to celebrating African art, design and creativity, including a unique treehouse experience for those looking for something extra. Conservation and sustainability are at the heart of Xigera, which is powered entirely through solar energy, boasts an eco-friendly waste disposal system and has eliminated all single use plastics. Refuel after bucket-list-ticking safari experiences with ever-changing seasonal menus featuring fresh and local ingredients from Executive Chef Ziyaad Brown, along with unique safari dining experiences such as bush breakfasts, wild picnics, and dining under the stars. Looking out to the seasonal floodplains of the Okavango Delta, not only is this luxury lodge set within a spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Site, but its unique location offers visitors unrivalled access to extraordinary experiences. From thrilling motorboat safaris and bespoke wilderness experiences to sunrise yoga, catch-and-release finishing, and mokoro boat rides, Xigera Safari Lodge is the ideal location for a luxury safari holiday.

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Why Xigera Safari Lodge is so special...

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Safari

Xigera Safari Lodge offers guests the freedom to create their own Okavango Delta adventure. Enjoy game drives at your own leisure, in cars especially adapted for the demanding local environment, with local safari guides who are each experts in their field. You can also connect with nature on a private walking safari led by expert guides and appreciate the raw beauty of Africa, or make the most of the local surroundings and track down beauties with a dedicated photographic safari. Fishing lovers can also enjoy in-season catch-and-release fishing experiences, or thrilling explorations either by traditional mokoro boat (with a glass-bottom for seeing the marine life) or a motorboat with an elevated deck for wildlife spotting.

Safari at Xigera Safari Lodge

Hotel Experiences

As well as incredible safari adventures, enjoy a range of onsite experiences and amazing opportunities to explore the stunning location. Join one of the guides and enjoy a unique tour of the impressive artwork throughout the site, visit the Xigera Shop which sells artisanal designs and fashions sourced throughout Africa, or spend some time viewing the myriad of stars near the warm campfire and relax with a refreshing drink. You can relax at the soothing pool pavilion and take in a world of sites, from wild game to the surrounding flora and fauna.

Hotel Experiences at Xigera Safari Lodge

Spa Breaks

During your visit to Xigera Safari Lodge, enjoy a range of relaxing and rejuvenating body and facial treatments at the secluded spa. Unwind in one of the two spacious treatment rooms (or in the comfort of your suite) and enjoy treatments based around three pillars of wellness: restoring, calming, and purifying. In line with sustainability practices, all treatments showcase wellness products that are hyper-potent, 100% natural and non-toxic. Additionally, Xigera Safari Lodge offers an extensive wellness programme, featuring international guest experts and pioneers in the fields of mindfulness, wellness and holistic healing, channelling the natural healing powers of the wilderness.

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Pricing

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Accommodation and Dining Experiences

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Overview

Overview

Each of the 12 luxurious and beautiful suites at Xigera Safari Lodge rest with ease amongst the luscious wild landscape, taking advantage of the remarkable location. Positioned to offer complete privacy and uninterrupted views, each suite features an elegant bedroom, separate living space and expansive bathrooms with indoor and outdoor showers and an elegant, freestanding bath overlooking the floodplains. All suites also boast complimentary Wi-fi, a watercolour painting kit, and a wildlife compendium to record your sightings and take home as a complete record.

Suites

Suites

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  • crop_freeSize:1980 ft²
  • visibilityRoom View:Okavango wilderness view

These luxury air-conditioned suites promise absolute privacy and seclusion with panoramic views over the Delta. Discover an airy bedroom with a comfortable king-size bed, a separate lounge with modern amenities, kitchenette, and spacious dressing room area. Airy bathrooms offer indoor and outdoor showers and freestanding baths, and the private outdoor decks feature gazebos and king-size daybeds

The Baobab Treehouse

The Baobab Treehouse

The Baobab Treehouse
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  • visibilityRoom View:Okavango wilderness view

The one-of-a-kind Baobab Treehouse is situated one kilometre away from the lodge and allows guests to experience Africa at its most raw and most remarkable. With no electricity, this luxury treehouse is completely off the grid and boasts three levels linked by a beautiful spiral staircase. Both the spacious bedroom and elegant bathroom feature canvas walls that can open entirely or remain zipped closed for privacy and protection from the elements. Guests can ascend to the top of the baobab and enjoy an open-air deck complete with a bed.

Overview

Overview

Enjoy a range of ever-changing menus created by some of The Red Carnation Hotel Collection’s most talented chefs, including locally sourced, African-inspired dishes, a mouth-watering pizza menu, cocktail menu, and in-suite dining menu. Allow Executive Chef Ziyaad Brown and his team to create a range of delectable meals.

Culinary Safari Journey

Culinary Safari Journey

  • restaurant_menuCuisine:Ever-changing menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner
  • checkroomDress Code:Casual
  • icecreamChildren's Menu:Yes
  • dinner_diningVegetarian Option:Yes
  • local_activityReservation Required:No

An atmospheric restaurant

The Boma

The Boma

  • restaurant_menuCuisine:An ‘anything, any time’ approach to dining
  • checkroomDress Code:Casual
  • icecreamChildren's Menu:Yes
  • dinner_diningVegetarian Option:Yes
  • local_activityReservation Required:No

Alfresco dining experience with unforgettable Okavango views

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Botswana Travel Information

Best Time To Travel

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  • APR
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Climate

Botswana's climate is semi-arid making the winter months (from May to August) the best and most popular time to visit as the grass is sparse and animals are easier to spot. However, during the summer (from November to March) Botswana’s becomes a kaleidoscopic paradise with an explosion of new life, allowing predators to take full advantage of the abundance of inexperienced young. The receding water levels reveal more open areas populated by grazing game species and make the islands and plains more accessible.

Getting There

Flight Information
British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and South African Airways direct from London Heathrow to Johannesburg.
Via Dubai with Emirates from London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle and Glasgow.
Onward connecting flights with Airlink and Air Botswana to Maun.

Flight Time
From London Heathrow to Johannesburg: 10 hours, 50 minutes.
Onward connecting flights from:
Johannesburg to Maun: 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Johannesburg to Kasane: 1 hour, 45 minutes.

Botswana Tourism Development
Visitors to Botswana will be asked to pay a new Conservation & Tourism Levy of 30.00USD when they arrive at all ports of entry (excluding children aged 9 and below).

Chobe National Park

Located in the north of Botswana bordering Namibia, Chobe National Park was established in 1968. The park covers an area of 11,700 square kilometres and has a diversity of eco-systems including flood plains, swamps and woodlands. The park is perhaps most famous for its vast herds of elephants, reputed to be the biggest concentration in the world. Aside from these gentle giants, you can expect to see Cape buffalo, hippos, crocodiles, lion and leopard. Bird watchers won’t be disappointed with 460 bird species identified including carmine bee-eaters, fish eagles and the sacred ibis. Nothing can quite beat watching an African sunset, especially when you are cruising the Chobe River. See the vast herds of elephants and pods of hippo wade into water as you sip on a cocktail.

Chobe National Park
Okavango Delta

There is nowhere quite like the Okavango Delta on this planet. Botswana is blessed with this ecological paradise, courtesy of tectonic plate shifts that swell the Kwando River and flood the plains, thus providing the perfect sanctuary for animals to thrive. The abundance of animals is astonishing to witness, as the flooded plains are the perfect location to drink and graze in almost incomprehensible numbers (from May to October). In turn, this creates a spectacle that is not replicated anywhere else in the world. Species that may be seen during this time include the elephant, buffalo, giraffe, zebra, hippo, rhino, lion, leopard, cheetah, impala, African wild dog and wildebeest. Explore the waterways of the delta in a traditional dugout canoe. Known locally as mokoros, this is an excellent way to see wildlife as polers gently guide the vessel through the reeds and channels. Get closer to the bird life, listen out for the snorts of hippos and watch the splashes of the red lechwe as they run through the lagoons.

Okavango Delta
Linyanti Wildlife Reserve

Located further north of the Delta, this area is a wonderfully isolated location boasting stunning scenery and prolific numbers of animals and birds, including herds of elephants that reach enormous densities in the dry winter months. Additionally, you'll find species of zebra, antelope, buffalo, wildebeest, hyaena, lion, leopard and cheetah, along with wild dogs, no doubt attracted by the marshes, waterways, riverine forests and grassland. At Kings Pool Camp you can enjoy spectacular sunsets and elephant-watching on a cruise aboard the camp's double-decker barge, Queen Silvia.

Linyanti Wildlife Reserve
Moremi Game Reserve

Covering a staggering one-third of the Okavango Delta, Moremi Game Reserve is home to some of the densest concentrations of wildlife in Africa. It is also very unique as it is the only part of the Okavango Delta that is cordoned off for the conservation of wildlife. Moremi is also home to the renowned ‘Big Five’ (lions, leopards, Cape buffaloes, elephants and rhinos) and, notably, the work done to protect one of the largest remaining populations of wild dogs in Moremi is commendable.

Moremi Game Reserve
Savute Channel

Situated in a remote corner of Chobe National Park, the Savute Channel flows from the Linyanti River for about 100 kilometres into the Savute Marsh. Geologists are fascinated by the region, not least that during the last century, it dried up completely for almost thirty years and then started to mysteriously flow again. When the channel is full, a wealth of migratory birds can be seen, as well as large herds of zebra and hungry predators.

Savute Channel
Central Kalahari Game Reserve

Remote, untouched and isolated, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve is the largest in southern Africa and the second largest in the world. A scattering of seasonal camps, such as Kalahari Plains can be found here, from which you can appreciate the solitude of this barren landscape. Despite its remote location, the reserve is also home to the Kalahari black-maned lion, and sightings of cheetah are quite common. Deep in the remote Kalahari, the Zu/’hoasi bushmen have survived in the barren landscape for centuries. Join them on an interactive bush walk as they share their knowledge of the desert plant and wildlife as they hunt and gather.

 

Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Selinda Reserve

Selinda Reserve is a glorious area of Botswana comprising 320,000 acres of pristine wilderness. It is home to the ancient, mesmeric Selinda Spillway, which flows in two directions and leads to the Okavanga Delta in the south and the Linyanti wetlands in the west. Here, you’ll find the largest concentrations of elephants and buffalo in Southern Africa, along with the endangered ‘painted wolf’, or African wild dog. Get set to enjoy early-morning and late-afternoon game-drives, guided bush walks and boat-based activities when water levels permit.

Selinda Reserve
Makgadikgadi Pans Game Reserve

Stretching some 12,000 square kilometres, the Makgadikgadi Pans form one of the largest salt pans on the planet. Formerly one of the world’s great lakes that covered most of Botswana, it dried up thousands of years ago following tectonic shifts in the Kalahari Basin. The area is flat, arid and remote with just a scattering of desert palms and baobab trees, making it a place of solitude, silence and peace. San Camp and Jack’s Camp provide excellent bases to explore this vast wilderness. Activities include walking with the local Zu/’hoasi Bushmen, meeting the curious meerkats or setting off across the desert landscape by quad-bike.

Makgadikgadi Pans Game Reserve

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