Jack’s Camp offers a unique choice of activities, allowing guests to mix wildlife, culture and a little adrenalin. Due to the pans’ seasonality, different activities are offered throughout the year. In the dry winter months, guests will have the opportunity to travel across the saltpans on the camp’s quad bikes to a spot where guests can view the earth’s curvature and feel like they are the only people on the planet. For guests who want something different, there is a unique opportunity to combine three nights at Jack’s Camp with an epic quad bike journey across the Makgadikgadi Pans, with two nights spent sleeping out under the stars amongst the boulders and baobabs on remote Kubu Island.

Year-round activities include a visit to Chapman’s Baobab and walks with a Bushman tracker, where guests can truly appreciate what it takes to survive in this environment. Guests can also enjoy day and night drives to see a variety of animals, including gemsbok, springbok, aardvark, lion, cheetah and the very shy brown hyena.

During the wet summer months (November to April), when the landscape is transformed, the focus is on the thousands of zebra which migrate from the Boteti River and Makgadikgadi Pans National Park. In addition, after the rains, when the pans fill with water, numerous species of birds, from flamingos to wattled cranes and pelicans, descend from the skies to feed in the watery grasslands. During the dry or winter months, the migrations move westwards, but many desert-adapted creatures remain resident.