Xigera Safari Lodge
Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Botswana
Location
Moremi, the Okavango Delta
The lodge stands on two islands in the Moremi Game Reserve in the western Okavango Delta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on Paradise Island, surrounded by water for much of the year — the water-based Delta at its most immersive.
Transfer
An Okavango transfer
Fly to Maun, then a light aircraft to the airstrip and a transfer in — a scenic helicopter is available at a surcharge. Soft bags and luggage limits on the bush-plane leg.
Villas
12 suites
Twelve individually designed suites, each distinct, with floor-to-ceiling windows, sweeping terraces with outdoor daybeds, brass and copper baths, copper fireplaces and private plunge pools — including one two-bedroom family suite.
Best For
Who it suits
Couples, honeymooners and design and art lovers after the Delta's most striking lodge — Africa's largest art collection, glass-bottom mokoro and a baobab-treehouse sleep-out — with a family suite for multi-generational trips.
Board Basis
All-inclusive
All-inclusive — meals, drinks and activities — with Red Carnation chefs, Bea Tollman signatures and the family's own Bouchard Finlayson wines.
About the Resort
A living gallery in the Okavango
Xigera Safari Lodge is the Okavango's living gallery — a Red Carnation design lodge on two islands in the Moremi Game Reserve, holding Africa's largest hospitality art collection, more than 100 works by around 80 African artists, woven through the whole lodge. It stands on Paradise Island in the western Delta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, surrounded by water for much of the year, so this is the water-based Delta at its most immersive: glass-bottom mokoro excursions glide silently across the waterways, with motorboat cruises and Moremi game drives for lion, leopard, wild dog and red lechwe. The twelve individually designed suites each have floor-to-ceiling windows, a terrace with an outdoor daybed, brass and copper baths and a private plunge pool, and there is a Tata Harper spa — the first in Africa. Its singular set-piece is the three-storey Baobab Treehouse, a kilometre from camp, for a sleep-out under the stars. All-inclusive and almost entirely solar-powered, it suits couples and design lovers, with a family suite for multi-generational trips.
Accommodation
Suites
Twelve individually designed suites, each distinct, with floor-to-ceiling windows, sweeping terraces with outdoor daybeds, brass and copper baths, copper fireplaces and private plunge pools — including one two-bedroom family suite, for up to 24 guests.
Signature
Suite
Sleeps two. An individually designed king with a terrace and outdoor daybed, a brass bath, a copper fireplace and a private plunge pool, over the floodplain.
Plunge poolFloodplain outlook
Family
Two-Bedroom Family Suite
Sleeps four. Two bedrooms with a terrace — the one family suite.
Two-bedroomFamily
Food & Drink
Dining
Red Carnation chefs cook African-inspired menus and Bea Tollman signatures around an interactive open kitchen, with a cellar that includes the family's own Bouchard Finlayson wines.
Signature
The dining
Red Carnation chefs cook African-inspired menus and Bea Tollman signatures.
Kitchen
The open kitchen
An interactive open kitchen at the heart of the dining.
Cellar
The wine cellar
A wine cellar, with the family's own Bouchard Finlayson wines.
Wellbeing
Tata Harper spa
The Tata Harper spa is the first in Africa, with organic treatments, and there is a private plunge pool on every suite. Throughout, Africa's largest hospitality art collection turns the lodge into a gallery.
Tata Harper spa
A Tata Harper spa, the first in Africa, with organic treatments.
Plunge pools
A private plunge pool on every suite.
The art collection
Africa's largest hospitality art collection running throughout.
Activities & Experiences
Signature Experiences
A water-based Delta safari wrapped in art and design. Glide the waterways by glass-bottom mokoro, drive Moremi for the big cats and wild dog, sleep out in a baobab treehouse, and live among Africa's largest art collection.
Glass-bottom mokoro
Glass-bottom mokoro excursions, gliding silently across the Delta waterways.
Moremi game drives
Moremi game drives for lion, leopard, wild dog, red lechwe and sitatunga.
The baobab treehouse
A night in the three-storey Baobab Treehouse, a kilometre from camp, under the stars.
The art collection
Africa's largest private hospitality art collection — more than 100 works by around 80 African artists.
Scenic helicopter
Scenic helicopter flights over the Delta, at a surcharge.
Getting There
Location & transfers
By air
Via Maun
Fly to Maun, then a light aircraft to the airstrip — a scenic helicopter is available at a surcharge.
In the Delta
Moremi
On Paradise Island in Moremi, in the western Okavango Delta.
Guest Reviews
What Our Clients Say
★★★★★
“The most extraordinary place I have ever stayed. Nothing prepares you for the depth of the silence, the beauty of the reef, or the sheer generosity of the experience.”
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★★★★★
“We’ve stayed here three times now. The house reef has no equal. The stargazing was, genuinely, one of the most moving experiences of my adult life.”
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★★★★★
“I had stayed at Four Seasons, One&Only and Velaa before visiting Xigera Safari Lodge. They are all magnificent. But this is different in a way that is hard to articulate.”
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Good to Know
Good to know
Board basis
- All-inclusive — meals, drinks and activities, in the fly-in camp way.
Made for couples
- A romantic, design-led lodge for couples, with a two-bedroom family suite.
The Delta
- On Paradise Island in Moremi, surrounded by water much of the year — the water-based Delta, where mokoro and boat come into their own through the May-to-August flood.
Getting there
- Fly to Maun, then a light aircraft to the airstrip, or a scenic helicopter at a surcharge.
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