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Frommer's Exceptional

This is one of the oldest lodges in Botswana, opened in 1968 by Harry Selby (who, incidentally, worked for Philip Percival, immortalized by Hemingway as "Pop" in his Green Hills of Africa) and adjacent to Moremi. Today it is the Orient-Express Group's most popular camp, with all the bells and whistles associated with their minihotel approach to the bush safari -- luxurious facilities that include air-conditioned tents, a heated swimming pool, and a video library. The camp -- comprising 15 large twin-bedded tents, each with generous bathroom (his and her vanity units, and so on) and a private deck furnished with hammocks for comfortable eyeballing of the resident hippo and croc -- is built in the shade of indigenous leadwood and fig trees, and overlooks the Khwai River flood plain, where you are likely to see large numbers of elephants. Your chances of spotting lions, hyenas, wild dogs, and leopards are equally high.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's South Africa, 5th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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