Okonjima Nature Reserve

Overview Where to Stay

A hand-picked selection of lodges and camps. Click through their name to visit their own website directly.

Okonjima Plains Camp

The largest of Okonjima’s camps, set on open plains 700 metres from the reserve’s airstrip. It has 25 rooms, 11 View Rooms with wide verandas and 14 Classic Rooms, with family units in both, so it suits families as well as a stopover on the way to Etosha. Meals are served in a large dining barn, the camp overlooks a waterhole and has two swimming pools, and the reserve’s leopard, pangolin and brown hyena tracking can all be booked from here.

View Room at Okonjima Plains Camp beside a large termite mound under acacia trees
Photo: Nina Maeter / crew10, courtesy of Okonjima
Classic Room at Okonjima Plains Camp with a wide window onto the bush
Photo: Nina Maeter / crew10, courtesy of Okonjima
Dining barn with a long wooden table at Okonjima Plains Camp
Photo: Nina Maeter / crew10, courtesy of Okonjima

Okonjima Luxury Bush Camp

A smaller, more private alternative to Plains Camp, 2.5 kilometres away at the foot of the Omboroko Mountains. Eight thatched chalets and a Junior Suite stand 80 to 100 metres apart, each with wide glass windows, two queen-size beds and its own separate lounge. Meals and evenings are spent in a pod-shaped lapa with fireplaces overlooking a waterhole, and the pool is reserved for Bush Camp guests. Stays are fully inclusive.

Thatched chalet along a shaded path at Okonjima Luxury Bush Camp
Photo: Nina Maeter / crew10, courtesy of Okonjima
Chalet bedroom under a thatched roof with windows onto the bush at Okonjima Luxury Bush Camp
Photo: R. Seebach / OK Media, courtesy of Okonjima
Thatched main lodge and lawn with outdoor seating at Okonjima Luxury Bush Camp
Photo: Nina Maeter / crew10, courtesy of Okonjima

Okonjima Private Bush Suite

The most private option on the reserve, booked by a single group of up to four. Two en-suite bedrooms share a double-volume thatched living area with a wood-burning fireplace and a full kitchen, in acacia thornveld facing the Omboroko Mountains, 700 metres from Bush Camp. Canvas walls roll up for open views, the bathrooms have indoor and outdoor showers, and there is a 13-metre pool with a natural waterhole nearby. A private chef, guide and safari vehicle come with the suite.

Thatched Private Bush Suite and swimming pool at dusk, Okonjima
Photo: courtesy of Okonjima
Thatched lounge with fireplace and leather seating in the Okonjima Private Bush Suite
Photo: Nina Maeter / crew10, courtesy of Okonjima
Okonjima Private Bush Suite
Photo: Nina Maeter / crew10, courtesy of Okonjima

Okonjima African Villa

The most remote place to stay on Okonjima, around 10 kilometres from the other camps and let to one group at a time. The main house has two en-suite bedrooms, one of them a family unit, and two separate mini-suites stand close by, sleeping up to eight adults and two children aged 12 and over. A host and chef look after the villa, which has its own vehicle, a wood-burning fireplace and an infinity pool on a teak deck overlooking a natural waterhole.

Infinity pool and thatched main house of the Okonjima African Villa at dusk
Photo: Leopard Eye Photography, courtesy of Okonjima
Bedroom opening onto a wooden deck at the Okonjima African Villa
Photo: courtesy of Okonjima
North Suite at the Okonjima African Villa
Photo: Leopard Eye Photography, courtesy of Okonjima