Evolve Back Gham Dhao Lodge

The Evolve Back Gham Dhao Lodge offers its own unique experience. Luxury tents are your base to discover the Kalahari Desert.

Luxury African chic with contemporary facilities to provide a relaxed and comfortable vacation haven for your cultural holiday to Botswana and safari enthusiasts in search of a different perspective on Africa. Relish the warm and friendly service at The Evolve Back Gham Dhao Lodge on your next luxury Botswana vacation in 2025 and appreciate the high standards of guiding. Get insight into the modest day-to-day lives of the Bushman people as you embark on guided nature walks and listen as a San guide imparts his knowledge of the plants and animals that dwell in these harsh environs.

You will love the warm setting of The Evolve Back Gham Dhao Lodge Botswana which truly offers its own experience from luxury canvas tents that create the safe havens you need after long days out seeking wildlife in secret wilderness regions. Find the lodge on a magnificent 11 000 ha private wildlife conservancy in the Kalahari Desert about 30 kilometres north of Deception Valley, where diverse wildlife roams including the famous Black-Maned Lions and endangered Cheetahs. Spend full days out finding the game, seeing the birds and noticing the dry landscape unravel and change before your eyes.

Settle in three different kinds of rooms at The Evolve – double tents boast luxury ensuite showers, outside showers, solar-powered lights, tea and coffee-making facilities and energising views across the arid landscape full of space and splendid sunshine. Superior double tents feature large, thatched decks with bathtubs and extra space while the family tent is two luxury tents merged to make one large abode for parents with children. 

Enjoy top-notch facilities at the main lodge including Wi-Fi, a handy gym with modern equipment, a wellness centre, swimming pool, a spacious comfy lounge and a dining area with a large deck on which to sit and meditate, sip a drink or game view. Set off daily on early game drives, sundowner night drives with stargazing, and wilderness walks with the ancient San culture. 

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For that dreamed-of, real-life African safari experience book a stay at the luxurious yet informal The Evolve Back Gham Dhao Lodge also known as Hunter Valley Lodge on the border of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve , Situated in Botswana’s prime game viewing and Bushmen territory. Surrounded by sprawling open grasslands and incredible bushveld in the heart of Botswana’s wild and dry Kalahari Desert, this lodge is typically African, warm and comfortable.

Find it located on an 11 000 hectare private wildlife conservancy about 30 kilometres north of Deception Valley, in the deep desert region of the Kalahari, a lodge that focuses on game viewing and cultural interactions with the San descendants who still live here. Professional guides will show you the famous Black-Maned Lions and endangered cheetahs. 

When the rains come in late summer to refill the dry riverbeds of the Kalahari Desert, the grass grows and the trees blossom bringing huge herds of antelope to the region.  Predators get busy and visitors flock to this dramatic part of Botswana’s infamous game-viewing territory. 

You are one of only 20 guests at The Evolve Back Gham Dhao Lodge at any one time – here in the huge open spaces of the desert and you are treated like gold. Enjoy the main shady lodge area under thatch on a large wooden deck where the bar and boma make the central meeting points and where the pool and extensive views are there to entertain and thrill. Animals and birds can be sighted all day from the comforts of the main guest area and your own private chalet.

Choose from 6 luxury tents at The Evolve Back Gham Dhao Lodge – three superior tents and one family tent which is two luxury tents joined and then settle into the amazing facilities of ensuite showers or baths, tea and coffee making facilities, private decks, huge spaces with chairs and forever views, of course. Join Voyage2Africa to book The Evolve Back Gham Dhao Lodge as part of your extensive Botswana tour to see the Kalahari and the Okavango Delta too, we customise your special package deal with your input and requirements!