COVID-19 delays Mombo's return to glory

Going to one of the country’s top tourism addresses and then returning into a 48-day lockdown must count as one of life’s curious ironies. The juxtaposition of the two cannot be more stark, a poles-apart experience with surreal luxury and wilderness freedom on one end and humdrum home confinement on the other.

Still, during the lockdown and accompanying routineness, for those in the small group blessed to be amongst Mombo Camp’s last visitors before the cessation of tourism activities, the memories provided much-needed comfort.For Tourism Minister, Philda Kereng, who headlined the small group, the memories will no doubt have been more overpowering, given her admission that the trip was her first visit to the Okavango Delta.