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It isn’t all designer-chic safari lodges where you pay up to £400 an evening for the posh of air-conditioned tents the scale of tithe barns. Mobile camping safaris are the solution, as I’ve simply discovered on a marvellous eight-night jaunt through the Moremi Game Reserve with Letaka Safaris. Letaka is that the Setswana word for the tall phragmites reeds that grow round the margins of the Delta lagoons – hence the corporate name chosen by Brent and Grant Reed – aka the Letaka Brothers.

Today Botswana is their home, and with Brent or Grant as your guide Letaka Safaris are getting a byword for seeing wild Africa the approach it ought to be done, sleeping underneath canvas with a mobile camping outfit who extremely recognize the ropes.

My wife and that i are recent safari hands, however the others were new to mobile camping and that i saw them staring in dismay at the dome tents, uninteresting brown and travel-stained, within which they might sleep for ensuing eight nights. No creeping outside with a torch and toilet roll on this safari!

Nobody – myself included – had reckoned on eating thus well on a mobile safari. Frank, a big, jolly Zimbabwean, learnt his trade at an Italian restaurant in Bulawayo, and for my cash he is the best bush chef in Botswana.

By the top of the trip everybody had become a mobile camping convert. Above all, what my safari companions discovered were the true luxuries of mobile camping; not solely the recent showers and chilled sundowners, the same-day laundry and excellent meals that Frank conjured up on beds of hot wood ash, however the priceless joys of exclusive campsites, the overall freedom that comes with having your own non-public vehicle, and in hiring one among Botswana’s most revered guides to reveal the magic of the