When you stop here after a long day on the road, you'll sigh with relief. It feels like you've arrived in a botanical garden, with apple-leaf, leadwood, silver cluster-leaf and monkey thorn trees all around. Bird baths are strategically located.
At your self-catering chalet, the sand is neatly raked and the braai is clean. The inside is beautifully decorated with tasteful linen and beadwork. There are also lots of hooks to hang your stuff.
There are deck chairs next to the bright-blue swimming pool and Miley the tame Meyer's parrot keeps an eye on the boma.
Someone clearly loves this rest camp, and that person is Ansie Pool.“Before we, everywhere,” she says, pointing to the densely vegetated bank on the opposite side of the Kavango River. “We built everything ourselves, and we're still not done!”
