Kubu Trips Reservations Kubu is the oldest rock formation in Southern Africa and through the millennia has seen the comings and goings of extinct seas and deserts, ancient salt mines and served as a remote outpost of a long-forgotten civilisation. Kubu is also a spiritual centre for ancient initiation ceremonies. We spend three nights at Jack's and San and sleep in bedrolls under the stars for the two nights at Kubu. The excursion to Kubu starts on the quad bikes across the main pan en-route to Kubu Island. The journey to and from Kubu is extremely interesting as it includes a very ancient defence fortification which was only discovered three years ago.
Accommodation is in canvas bedrolls which are laid out under the stars.
Kubu itself, a granite extrusion island studded with baobabs, is of course one of the most graphically beautiful spots in Botswana and is full of intriguing detail, such as ancient walling and European trade and Bushman beads. Kubu is also close to what is probably the biggest greater and lesser flamingo breeding site in the world. 30,000 flamingos fledge there when water is good and although the mud mound nests are deserted at the times of the year when we are able to visit Kubu, they are still fascinating. Many chicks are left to die if they hatch too late to be able to join the incredible march across the Pans that the young flamingos undertake in search of water. Their remains lie on the pan surface almost petrified by the salt.