Okonjima is run by the Hanssen family. Wayne, Donna and Rosalea Hanssen bought Okonjima from their parents, Val and Rose, in 1993 and turned the farm into a well-known conservation project.
                                            
Okonjima is the home of the AfriCat Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the rescue and preservation of Namibia’s big cat population. It has rescued over 1000 big cats since 1993 and released 86% of them back into the wild.

Okonjima Plains Camp is the main camp at Okonjima. The camp offers 14 standard rooms (4 of the rooms form 2 large, double rooms/family-units) and 10 View Rooms (including one family-unit) that feature a bigger veranda and provide more privacy as the rooms are set further apart. The old-style garden rooms will no longer be used for guests. Sitting between the standard rooms and the view rooms, 'the barn' is the camp's gathering place and includes the bar, dining and lounge area, the pool and the curio-shop. A second pool can be found at the old main building which is located right at the end of the standard rooms. There is a beautiful big garden area here to sit and relax.

Okonjima offers three further accommodation options:

Read more about Okonjima Bush Camp
Read more about the Okonjima Bush Suite
Read more about the Okonjima African Villa

Located 48 km south of Otjiwarongo, Okonjima sits 24 km west of the main highway at the end of a gravel road. It is the perfect place to break the journey between Etosha and Windhoek.

Windhoek International Airport is some three hours away; Etosha National Park is approximately four hours away. Okonjima can also be reached by plane and is a popular destination on fly-in safaris as well.

Okonjima has its own 200 km² wildlife reserve which is home to cheetah, leopard, hyena, wild dog, zebra, wildebeest, giraffe, kudu, oryx, and various other species of antelope.

Several of the cats in the reserve are fitted with tracking collars, which makes them very easy to find. Leopard can therefore easily be encountered during game drives. Cheetah, wild dog and hyena can be tracked on foot during one of the bushwalks.

There are three walks to choose from, varying in length from between 1.5 and 4 hours. Antelope often cross guests’ path and a climb up a small mountain is rewarded by fantastic panoramic views of the bush savannah’s sweeping plains stretching as far as Waterberg.

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