Bush fire engulfs luxurious Xudum Lodge
Innocent Selatlhwa | Monday May 20, 2019 15:26
According to Tracy Trollip from andBeyond, lodge owners in South Africa, the facility burnt to ash on Saturday night with the cause of the fire yet to be established.
“There was a bush fire on Friday, which people tried to put out throughout the day and at night. The fire continued on Saturday and the winds got stronger and jumped over the fire breakers and burnt down the facility,” she said.
Trollip said nobody was injured from the fire as they started evacuating people as soon as the fire started on Friday. Trollip said she could not establish the amount of damage caused by the fire, as it was yet to be assessed. She said she was not aware whether the fire had been reported to the police.
As at Monday noon, acting Officer Commanding No 5 District superintendent Samuel Kgomo said they had not received any report of a fire.
Xudum Okavango Delta Lodge is situated in a private wilderness concession of 25,000 hectares to the south-east of the Moremi Game Reserve in the centre of the Okavango Delta.
Okavangodelta.com states that the concession on which Xudum Okavango Delta Lodge is situated, features a number of permanent river channels that flow throughout the year and create a distinctive layer of vegetation, with lush beds of tall papyrus, miscanthus grass, evergreen figs and ferns.
The website further states that the landscape traversed on game drives includes floodplains, as well as seasonal grassland, woodland, shrub land and savanna.
According to andBeyond website, the rooms at the lodge rate from $1,075 (around P11, 000).