The Plains Camp The Plains Camp Barn is an entertainment area and gathering place that includes: a dining and lounge area, with Wi-Fi facilities and cell phone reception, a bar, a swimming pool and curio shop, all of which overlook a waterhole and the Okonjima plains. Undercover parking is available.
Location
Okonjima is halfway between Windhoek and Etosha National Park (2½ hours’ drive/10km off the B1). It is centrally located and ideally suited as a base from which to organise various excursions to other locations.
Accessibility
Air Access: Our private airstrip is 1.3km or a 5-minute drive from Main Camp, 15 minutes from Bush Camp, 20 minutes from Bush Suite, and 25-30 minutes from The Villa.
Seasons
Okonjima Plains Camp is closed during certain periods in December, January and February each year for maintenance and upgrading. Please contact us to confirm closing dates. The most pleasurable months to visit Namibia are April, May and June, but you will always feel welcome no matter which time of the year you visit.
Accommodation
View Rooms: The 10 spacious View Rooms have earned their name for their views across the Okonjima grass plains. All rooms are set 20-70 metres apart, some distance from the entertainment area at the Plains Camp Barn. Unit number one and the spacious family unit (a combination of rooms three and four) are closest to the barn.
Each View Room consists of:
A large veranda with two-day beds and two loungers
A wheelchair ramps
Two double beds
Cellphone reception, a working desk and comfortable reading chair
A tea/coffee station, A mini-fridge for own use & Two roof fans
Twin basins and a large twin shower
A security safe & A telephone
The Cheetah Rehabilitation Project
AfriCat’s Cheetah Rehabilitation project was initiated in 2000 and aimed to give some of AfriCat’s captive cheetahs Acinonyx jubatus the opportunity to return to their natural environment. This inexperience, as well as their conditioning to captivity, makes these animals unsuitable for release on farmland, and so they were released into the 20,000ha Okonjima Nature Reserve (ONR). Between 2000 and 2018, 53 former captive cheetahs were released into the 200 km2 Okonjima Nature Reserve. Besides reducing the number of cheetahs in captivity, the project aimed to assess whether rehabilitation is a successful instrument of conserving an endangered population. The majority of all rehabilitated animals were individuals rescued from farmland who spent a significant amount of time in captivity prior to their release. Age upon release varied between 10 months and 8 years.
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