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Okonjima Bush Camp

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Okonjima is half an hour's drive off the main B1 road between Windhoek and Etosha. As a drive it's approximately 2.5 hours from Windhoek and 3.5 hours from Etosha. It is also accessible by plane, with its own airstrip. The property totals 22,000 hectares with rocky outcrops; it is mostly scrubby acacia bush with some open grasslands.
Okonjima Bush Camp's accommodation comprises 10 large, well-spaced, comfortable, thatched rooms each with en suite facilities and with canvas on one side allowing it to be opened to the views. The main living area is under thatch and combines the dining room, lounge and bar and overlooks a waterhole which is lit in the evenings. A small swimming pool completes the facilities.
Cheetahs are the main draw here as Okonjima is the home to the charitable Africat Foundation, whose mission is the rescue and relocation of unwanted or injured cheetahs as well as training cheetahs brought up by hand to hunt. Okonjjima also supports leopard research on a number of second and third generation leopards who have always lived on the property, and who are radio-collared. For those staying just one night, the lodge tries to arrange and evening drive to track a collared leopard using telemetry and an insight into the cheetah rehabilitation programme the following morning. Those staying longer can also track cheetah on foot and see Bushman paintings on an interpretive walk.