Keep Travelling – Your African Story
Sep 23, 2026 · 25 min · 10 segments
**Episode Number: 4** **Property / Guest Name:** Jao Reserve – Ryan Kays **Episode Summary:** - Ryan Kays shares what makes Jao Reserve such a distinctive part of Botswana’s Okavango Delta…
Ryan KaysGuest
Rael ZieveHost
For people that don't know, tell us the names of each of the camps and the number of beds that you accommodate at each one.

And then we go to Kwetsani, which is our newest camp, not in terms of age, just in terms of it being the most recently rebuilt.

Chukana now is when we're getting to our four-star camps and the lower end of what our portfolio has to offer.

At Jakana we've got five rooms so it's 10 beds and then we go down to Pilok camp which is five rooms and 10 beds.

Is there a particular reason that they would stay at one camp and then move on to another camp because there is or isn't something that is seen or experienced at the one and not the other?

We typically like to try to pair the far east of our concession with the far west of our concession.

The reason being though is because in the far east we get your traditional delta experience where islands are completely surrounded by water in the flood months.

That's also where you get your classic red lechery, herds of red lechery jumping in the water with the odd set of tunga if you're lucky to find one.

And then we send our guests to the far west where it gets a lot more dry and in that area we don't get the typical big floodplains.

For people that don't know, tell us the names of each of the camps and the number of beds that you accommodate at each one.

And then we go to Kwetsani, which is our newest camp, not in terms of age, just in terms of it being the most recently rebuilt.

Chukana now is when we're getting to our four-star camps and the lower end of what our portfolio has to offer.

At Jakana we've got five rooms so it's 10 beds and then we go down to Pilok camp which is five rooms and 10 beds.

Is there a particular reason that they would stay at one camp and then move on to another camp because there is or isn't something that is seen or experienced at the one and not the other?

We typically like to try to pair the far east of our concession with the far west of our concession.

The reason being though is because in the far east we get your traditional delta experience where islands are completely surrounded by water in the flood months.

That's also where you get your classic red lechery, herds of red lechery jumping in the water with the odd set of tunga if you're lucky to find one.

And then we send our guests to the far west where it gets a lot more dry and in that area we don't get the typical big floodplains.
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