Access & Location
Guests of the property tend to fly from Victoria Falls or Harare to Mana Main airstrip. At the airstrip, you are met by a camp guide, and the 45-minute drive to camp provides a good opportunity for your first vehicle safari here!
John’s Camp
Comfortable accommodation at the heart of Mana Pools National Park
Pleasant lounge and dining areas, al fresco dining, fire-pit
Five Meru-style canvas tents, all with en-suite facilities
Great game drives, walking safaris, fishing, sleep-outs, village tours
Activities
John’s Camp offers an enticing assortment of activities – game drives, walking safaris, fishing, sleep-outs, and village tours.
Game viewing
Birdwatching
Sleep-out
Village visit
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Mana Pools is home to a wealth of mammals, birds, and more! Four of the Big Five are in residence – lion, leopard, elephant, and buffalo – as are other predators such as cheetah, hyena, and wild dog, in addition to herbivores including zebra, eland, impala, waterbuck, and warthog. Monkey and baboon are frequently spotted feasting on the fruit of acacias, while the hippo and croc count is the largest in all Zimbabwe!
Concentrations of feathery friends are impressive too – the park has over 350 species, and among the highlights for birders are southern carmine bee-eater, rufous-bellied heron, and the mysterious Pel’s fishing owl. All these and more may be encountered on drives and walks.
Sleep-outs take place either in a dome tent with a mosquito net roof or on a rustic platform – both types of accommodation offer the chance to drift off under the starry skies with the sounds of wildlife all around you!
And tours of a local c are also available, often combined with checking out the national park headquarters. This is a really interesting activity, well worth fitting into your itinerary if possible.
*This property is unfenced and located in a wildlife area, so large and potentially dangerous animals do pass through. If you opt to stay here, always be alert when walking around the camp and request for a member of staff to escort you if you have any concerns. Any guest is escorted after dark as a matter of course.
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Once you have arrived at John’s, you can relax in the lounge area of the camp’s open-sided mess tent, which boasts comfy seating, an explorer’s chest functioning as a coffee table, and lovely views of the River Zambezi!
The river is also visible from the dining area, where a long table is set out for communal meals. Often guests enjoy al fresco dining closer to the water, and the camp’s fire-pit serves as a fantastic space for socialising too.
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Guest accommodation at John’s Camp consists of just five canvas tents, all either side of the mess tent on the Zambezi floodplain.
As they are Meru in style, they are double layered – the outer layer extends over the inner layer to form a pleasant private veranda, where you can sit and observe the local wildlife. A zipped door leads inside the tent, and the interiors include either a double bed or twin beds, lighting above, a tea-and-coffee station, and large gauze windows. The washing facilities are at the back, through a flap – these comprise flush toilet, washbasin, and classic bucket shower! There’s also a canvas washbasin, on the veranda. And each tent can be set up as a triple, with the extra bed suitable for a child.
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