The Kalahari wilderness is home to the Mankwe

Hunting lodge

The semi-arid Kalahari desert is an evocative world, a land overflowing with game, strange red dunes and the long buried empire of Monomotapa and its cities of gold. Mankwe Lodge is situated here in the far south western corner of this  315,000 square mile wilderness in South Africa’s North West province. To the north and north west Botswana and Namibia also share this vast, thirsty land with its great herds of plains game. Black maned lions as tough as any on earth rule this land. In a land mostly without surface water, the creatures that live here have developed a variety of adaptions to survive and prosper. Always thirsting for water the lions will eat mice and unexpectedly porcupines, which they battle regularly, coming away with quills protruding from their faces and legs. Not an extra designed to calm a thirsty lion and those men and woman who wander the Kalahari should consider themselves prey animals. The landscape is one of extremes. Thorn trees and waving seas of grass stretch into the distance and merge with the violent thunderstorms that grip the desert horizons. Mankwe’s log fire evenings are deafeningly quiet and in the flickering warmth you will be aware of not being alone. The firelight doesn’t stretch far into the velvety dark but hides those who watch you. High above the crystal clear star canopy helps define a truly different world. Following the tracks of a lion in the early dawn, with air and sand crisp with cold, will be one of your first Kalahari experiences. You will be aware of the growing tension and the endless criss crossing tracks of lion prey, aware too that each has a story your professional hunters and trackers would be happy to tell. While your focus is lion, Mankwe does offer plainsgame and species such as  springbok, blue wildebeest and gemsbok abound. You arrive by light charter aircraft and land on Mankwe’s private strip, only of course, after your professional hunter has cleared it of game. Some arrivals are by road, providing a close up view of the Kalahari as you approach Mankwe Lodge.
The Kalahari - serene, unhurried and tranquil An ambience 200     million years old A refuge for game that follow the  summer rains Lion country, man country
Hunting Kalahari Lions
Your surroundings
Hunting Plainsgame
Administration
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The Kalahari

wilderness is home

to the Mankwe

Hunting lodge

The semi-arid Kalahari desert is an evocative world, a land overflowing with game, strange red dunes and the long buried empire of Monomotapa and its cities of gold. Mankwe Lodge is situated here in the far south western corner of this  315,000 square mile wilderness in South Africa’s North West province. To the north and north west Botswana and Namibia also share this vast, thirsty land with its great herds of plains game. Black maned lions as tough as any on earth rule this land. In a land mostly without surface water, the creatures that live here have developed a variety of adaptions to survive and prosper. Always thirsting for water the lions will eat mice and unexpectedly porcupines, which they battle regularly, coming away with quills protruding from their faces and legs. Not an extra designed to calm a thirsty lion and those men and woman who wander the Kalahari should consider themselves prey animals. Following the tracks of a lion in the early dawn, with air and sand crisp with cold, will be one of your first Kalahari experiences. You will be aware of the growing tension and the endless criss crossing tracks of lion prey, aware too that each has a story your professional hunters and trackers would be happy to tell. While your focus is lion, Mankwe does offer plainsgame and species such as  springbok, blue wildebeest and gemsbok abound.
The Kalahari - serene, unhurried and tranquil An ambience 200     million years old A refuge for game that follow the  summer rains Lion country, man country
Hunting Kalahari Lions
Your surroundings
Hunting Plainsgame
Administration
Click thumbnail to enlarge
The landscape is one of extremes. Thorn trees and waving seas of grass stretch into the distance and merge with the violent thunderstorms that grip the desert horizons. Mankwe’s log fire evenings are deafeningly quiet and in the flickering warmth you will be aware of not being alone. The firelight doesn’t stretch far into the velvety dark but hides those who watch you. High above the crystal clear star canopy helps define a truly different world.
You arrive by light charter aircraft and land on Mankwe’s private strip, only of course, after your professional hunter has cleared it of game. Some arrivals are by road, providing a close up view of the Kalahari as you approach Mankwe Lodge.
Kalahari Lion hunt 2014 C
Memberships