Welcome to Planet Boabab

In the midst of the arid landscape, far away from the hustle and bustle of city life, one will find an unbelievable camp in the middle of nowhere. Named after the ancient baobab tree, Planet Baobab is situated on the road between Francistown and Maun.

This is perhaps the funkiest camp in the entire Kalahari, guaranteeing all visitors the time of their lives, a place where cars come to a shuddering stop for passing elephants. Planet Baobab evokes the welcoming bustle of a roadside pit stop in the middle of nowhere.

Accommodation

The accommodation at Planet Baobab is truly original, reflecting the traditional building methods of the original inhabitants of the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans in Botswana. You can choose between a traditional Bakalanga hut, built from mud and a traditional grass hut.

Because both these types of huts at Planet Baobab are made from natural materials indigenous to the Makgadikgadi area in Botswana, they are perfectly temperature-controlled without the need for air-conditioners.

Some ideas of what to do at Planet Baobab

You can light your own camp fire or gather round the communal blaze in the lelwapa and enjoy a cool drink, then sling your own boerewors onto the fire or enjoy Planet Baobab's unique Pan-African cuisine.

A bar menu is also available and we're vegetarian friendly! When it comes to ablutions, this oasis comes to its own. In addition to sluicing off the dust of the Kalahari highways with enough hot water for Africa, these are the most original shower blocks and bathrooms on the continent.

Base yourself here and you can take guided walks and quad bike trips into the bush and the Pans with our expert Guides discovering the geological origins of what was once the world's largest ever super lake.

Follow the palm trail created by elephant droppings as these ancient creatures trekked across the arid waste when the super lake dried up and thousand year old flint spear heads left by the stone age hunters who were the region’s first inhabitants.

Learn the African handshake from the Batswana in the cattle posts and villages near to Planet Baobab and discover how Botswana continues to be one of the most successful and interesting societies in Southern Africa.

Enjoy a cuppa of Mma Ramotse’s famous red bush tea with the grande dames of Gweta and, if you are really adventurous.. sample some sizzling 100% organic traditional sorghum beer.

At every stage and at every turn of this voyage you will hear traveller’s tales from Guides and companions who know and love this place. Best of all, if you are very lucky, you can overnight on the Pans under the most spectacular night skies in the world, enjoying a barbecue of a lifetime.

Curl up under a canopy of stars - a light which you cannot switch off.

In a continent which is full of surprises, and a place which is full of nothing, Planet Baobab is really something.