GREAT TSAU HILL

Sunrise and sunset are always extraordinary times of the day in Africa and at Great Tsau Hill camp, you’ll see colours – popping and merging as you watch the sky change – that are indescribably beautiful. As you enjoy a sundowner amongst the rocks, you’ll notice that with the nearest town more than 150km away, there is zero light pollution: when the sun goes down and you look up to the stars, the night sky will offer a completely new and stunning visual experience. Sleeping out under the stars in such an unspoiled and remote location creates a sense of wonder that will stay with you for a lifetime; there is nowhere else like this in the world.

Great Tsau Hill is a haven of tranquillity, but it is also teeming with life. Many of the animals on the savanna are active when the sun disappears and with the expert guidance of our Nature Hosts, it’s exciting to embark on a night drive looking for giraffe, brown hyenas, bat-eared foxes, and if your lucky, even the famed Kalahari black mane lions. By day, you can enjoy game drives in a vehicle with a driver or choose to try an e-bike safari: the ideal whisper-quiet transport to take you safely right up to the animals that roam the vast open plains including herds of oryx, hartebeest, wildebeest and ostrich.

This area is home to one of the planet’s oldest societies: the San Bushmen. They have been living at one with this environment since long before the ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian civilisations existed and continued long after; to learn from them is a privilege very few people get to experience. You’ll have the opportunity to go foraging with the San Bushman: to find delicious food and water where none appears to exist. To create weapons for hunting, or fire, from what you find around you. To see them tell stories and perform dances that have been handed down through generations, over tens of thousands of years. It’s a wonderful and humbling experience to live as they do – however briefly – and to understand what it means to frown upon possessions and concentrate only on conserving the environment you know, which in return gives you life.

There are plenty of unique and wonderful experiences on offer at Great Tsau Hill to fill your days, but the pace is relaxed and there is no fixed itinerary. If you spot some rarely-seen game you want to spend the afternoon tracking or wish to spend longer cooling off in the natural pool that’s nestled into the rock formations of Great Tsau Hill, you can. Your time is your own!