Sunset Safari & Bonfire
Your first evening: the light going long over the corridor, then a fire before dinner.
A private Botswana expeditionJune 21 – 27, 2027
Soil & Soul
Seven days and six nights through two of the most protected wildernesses left on Earth, the Boteti River Valley and the Okavango Delta, with two facilitators who have devoted their lives to this work.
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An invitation
This story starts with a woman who came home from Botswana and couldn't stop talking about it.
Gloria had gone alone, looking for something she couldn't quite name, and what she found there rearranged her. Around the same time, on the other side of the world, Pablo and Geo had Africa on their minds too, half-joking about it the way you do with a dream that feels too big to say out loud. Then Gloria called. She wanted to bring people back with her.
That's how Soil & Soul began. Not as a business plan, but as an expedition to a place with roots deep enough to hold whatever you're carrying.
For seven days and six nights, eleven of us will move through two of the most protected wildernesses left on Earth, guided by two facilitators who have devoted their lives to this work, and by a land that has been teaching people how to belong to it for longer than any of us can trace. We'll travel through the Boteti River Valley and the Northern Okavango Delta, watch elephants cross open corridors at dusk, sit with the San Bushmen and their seventy thousand years of ecological memory, and rise over the Delta by helicopter to see, for one unforgettable stretch, exactly how small our problems really are.
This isn't a place to disappear from your life. It's a place to come back to yourself, fully enough that your life starts to look different when you return home.
Pablo, Geo & Gloria
Eight seats. By application. June 21 to 27, 2027.
Start the conversation→- 7days
- 2sanctuaries
- 8seats
- 1helicopter flight
- 90days of integration after
- Monday 21 June 2027, Maun (MUB)
- Sunday 27 June 2027, charter to Maun
- Eight guests, by application
- Two private sanctuaries: a lodge in the canopy and a remote tented camp
- June: dry, cool mornings, the Delta in flood ⚑ verify
- Maun to Boteti River Valley to Okavango Delta to Maun
Investment: $11,000 shared $13,000 private
Maun
Boteti River Valley
Moela
Makgadikgadi
Okavango Delta
Karangoma
June 2027
Game drives
Mokoro drift
Walking safari
Helicopter over the Delta
Bushmen walk
Cacao ceremony
Sunrise practice
Bonfire
Who this is for
For the person who has thought about Africa more than once and kept finding reasons to wait.
For the ones who are quietly successful and privately searching, who built the life they wanted and are ready to actually feel it. For anyone standing at the edge of a change, whether that's reinvention, a transition already underway, or just a quiet knowing that something in them needs room.
It's for people who travel for meaning, not just for the photo. Who care about conservation and ancestral wisdom in equal measure to comfort. Who can hold luxury and rawness in the same hand, and who'd rather feel something real than be protected from it.
If Africa has been calling and you've kept finding reasons to say maybe next year, this was built for the year you stop postponing.
The land
Two sanctuaries
Botswana doesn't give you one way to see it, and we don't want you to miss any of them.
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Chapter one. Boteti River Valley · Botswana
Moela Safari Lodge
The soil of the expedition.
Moela sits high above the Boteti River on the edge of Makgadikgadi National Park, inside the conservation-driven Ngande Reserve, overlooking a corridor where elephants, giraffes, and big cats still move freely across open land. Each suite is its own quiet room in the canopy, with a private deck, a linen-draped bed, and an outdoor bath, and the river running somewhere below you at night. Very little needs to happen here for you to feel something shift.
Signature moments
- 01Sunset safari & bonfire
- 02Dawn walk with Bushmen elders
- 03Cacao ceremony at sunset
- 04Dinner with the Bushmen and tribal dance
The river 
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Chapter two. Northern Okavango Delta · Botswana
Karangoma Camp
The soul of the expedition.
On day four, we transfer to the Northern Okavango Delta, arriving into Karangoma by helicopter: a remote tented camp set deep in an untouched floodplain. This is the soul of the expedition. Days open in stillness on your private deck and close under a sky so full it feels prehistoric. Elephants, giraffes, and zebras move through uncurated, and more than two hundred bird species pass through in June alone.
Signature moments
- 01Helicopter over the Delta
- 02Mokoro drift
- 03Night drive for predators
- 04Last-night barbecue
The tented suite 
The water
The daily rhythm
Seven days, six nights.
Everything here is optional. Nothing is mandatory.
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Arrival at Moela
Arrival and a welcome drink. Room check-in and a brief orientation (35 min). Sunset safari. Bonfire gathering before dinner.
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Moela
Sunrise mindful practice before breakfast. Bushmen walk. Free time — journaling, movement, massage, or simply resting at the lodge. Cacao ceremony during the sunset safari, watching the light and wildlife move together.
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Moela
Free or mindful morning. Morning safari. Free time — massage or simply resting at the lodge. Evening dinner with the Bushmen and tribal dance.
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Transfer to Karangoma
Depart Moela after breakfast. Transfer to the Northern Okavango Delta, arriving into Karangoma by helicopter at midday. Afternoon game drive. Optional night drive, 9:00–11:00 pm, for predator sightings.
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Karangoma
Sunrise boat ride on the Delta. Afternoon land drive. Break time for journaling, light movement, or massage.
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Karangoma
Morning boat outing on the Okavango. Afternoon drive, wildlife nearby. Evening barbecue, last night together.
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Departure
Slow breakfast, closing circle, charter flight back to Maun.
The moments
Some are scheduled. Some will simply happen.
Dawn Walk with the Bushmen
A morning with San elders and seventy thousand years of ecological memory.
Cacao Ceremony at Sunset
Watching the light and the wildlife move together, cup in hand.
Dinner with the Bushmen & Tribal Dance
An evening around the fire, stories and dance.
Sunrise Practice
Mindful movement before breakfast, offered as an invitation, never homework.
Helicopter over the Delta
The Okavango unfolding beneath you as an impossible braid of green and water across the desert.
Night Drive
9 to 11 pm, when the predators move.
Mokoro Drift
A dugout canoe poled silently through the channels, close enough to hear the reeds move.
Walking Safari
On foot with local trackers, at a pace slow enough to actually notice everything.
Closing Circle
A slow breakfast and a circle before the charter back to Maun — and three integration calls in the ninety days after.
Days open in stillness on your private deck and close under a sky so full it feels prehistoric.
Karangoma CampNorthern Okavango Delta Night 4
Conservation
Your presence heals the land
Every seat on this expedition carries a conservation levy. Not as an add-on, but as part of what it costs to be here at all.
At Moela, your stay funds habitat rehabilitation, protects a wildlife corridor that elephants and big cats have used for generations, and helps keep the ecological knowledge of the Bushmen at Moela alive and passed forward. At Karangoma, your presence supports anti-poaching patrols and the local livelihoods that protect the Delta's future.
We don't invite guests because we need bodies in beds. We invite guests because their presence is what makes the conservation possible. It is an exchange.
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Karangoma anti-poaching patrols · local livelihoods
Taken care of
Your expedition includes
Every Soil & Soul expedition is built around four chapters.
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Chapter one. The Land
- Six nights across two private sanctuaries: Moela Safari Lodge and Karangoma Camp
- Private road transfer from Maun on arrival, and a light-aircraft charter between camps
- Helicopter transfer directly into Karangoma
- All internal flights and transfers, including the return to Maun
- Morning and evening game drives at both camps, a mokoro drift, and a guided walking safari
- The conservation levy supporting Ngande Reserve and the Okavango ecosystem
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Chapter two. The Body
- Daily yoga, breathwork, and somatic practice with Pablo
- Movement therapy with Gloria
- Locally sourced meals, with all beverages, including alcohol, included at both venues
- Full laundry service at both lodges
- Up to 20 kg of soft-bag luggage for internal charters
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Chapter three. The Spirit
- A dawn walk with Bushmen elders at Moela
- Ancestral storytelling and fireside integration circles
- A private opening ritual and a closing ceremony
- A few signature moments along the way, which we'd rather you discover in person than read about here
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Chapter four. The Return
- A Soil & Soul welcome and departure gift
- Three integration calls with Gloria and Pablo across the ninety days after you're home
- Lifetime access to the private Soil & Soul alumni circle
Not included (five)
- International flights to and from Maun
- Travel insurance with medical evacuation coverage required
- Visa fees where applicable
- Gratuities
- Personal purchases
The terms
The size of the group is the whole point. It's what lets the land, the facilitators, and the people around the fire actually reach you.
Eight seats · by application · June 21 to 27, 2027
- Investment
- $11,000 USD shared suite · $13,000 USD private suite
- Deposit
- $500 USD non-refundable deposit holds your seat once we confirm fit
- Payment plans
- 0% payment plans available — we'll work with you directly on a schedule that makes sense
- Welcome kit
- Your welcome kit and packing guide arrive within 48 hours of your deposit, and your ninety-day arc with Gloria and Pablo begins from there
- Cancellation
- All payments are non-refundable starting 60 days before departure, on or before April 22, 2027.
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Eight seats · by application
Eight guests, with Gloria, Pablo and Geo
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Conservation levy in every seat
Ngande Reserve · Karangoma
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Two private sanctuaries
Moela Safari Lodge · Karangoma Camp
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Ninety-day integration arc
Three calls with Gloria and Pablo after you're home
Meet your hosts
The people who’ve put their own lives into the practices.
Gloria Quezada
Before Gloria understood the language of the body, she danced it. At five, she was performing folkloric dance across Washington, D.C., connecting with her ancestors through movement. At six, after a tragic car accident took her grandmother’s life, her intuitive knowing deepened. She became fascinated with animals, nature and the spirit world, spending hours surrounded by National Geographic archives and captivated by Jane Goodall. She didn’t have the language for it then, but she was learning to listen.
That listening became her life’s work. For more than twenty years, Gloria has worked with the body through intuitive bodywork, movement, energy work and Ayurveda. She also spent fourteen years as a doula and infant massage therapist, and six years in Tulum learning alongside Mexica medicine people and deepening her relationship with ancestral knowledge, healing and community.
Botswana brought all of those threads together. Gloria went alone, following a feeling she couldn’t fully explain, and came home changed. She laughed harder, cried tears of joy, breathed deeper, sat stiller and felt more present than she could remember.
Soil & Soul was born from that experience: an expedition that brings together her love of the body, movement, nature and the wild. She isn’t taking you somewhere she simply discovered. She is inviting you into a place that changed her.
Pablo Jivam
Pablo Jivam spent sixteen years building the practice he now brings to the Kalahari.
At thirty, he left a career as Brand Manager at Cartier México for a pilgrimage across Asia — a year of immersion in India, then three years and fourteen countries learning how different cultures carry, and release, what they’ve been holding. Tantra. Kriya Yoga. Ayurveda. Reiki. Prana Vidya. 1,200+ hours of formal training, married to an ICF coaching path and Harvard Medical School’s wellness program — ancient method, tested against modern science.
Over 2,500 sessions later, his approach hasn’t changed: the mind lies, the body doesn’t. In a landscape this vast, that gets harder to argue with. Pablo doesn’t direct what surfaces here. He builds the conditions for it — and then gets out of the way.
Co-founder, BUMI Wellness.
Why BUMI
BUMI Wellness didn’t set out to become a safari company. We started by building local experiences that help people come back to themselves, and Africa was our next big adventure.
What makes this different isn’t the lodges, though they’re extraordinary, and it isn’t the itinerary, though we built it with a lot of care. It’s that you’re not doing this alone, and you’re not doing it with strangers hired to make you feel good for a week. You’re doing it with a community that’s been building trust with each other long before this trip existed, led by two people who’ve put their own lives into the practices they’ll be sharing with you.
We built Soil & Soul because we believe the version of you that exists before the world made you this busy is still in there. We just think Botswana is very good at helping you find it.
Pablo, Geo & Gloria
The Return — three integration calls across the ninety days after you’re home lifetime access to the private Soil & Soul alumni circle
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Follow the journey
Behind the scenes of Soil & Soul, and the countdown to Botswana.
Before you go
Getting ready
Everything below is current as of our last update, but entry rules and health advice change. Please confirm anything marked ⚑ verify with your travel clinic or the official sources for your country.
01 · The countdown
Six stops between now and Maun
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Check that your passport is valid six months beyond 27 June 2027 ⚑ verify and arrange travel insurance with medical evacuation cover — it's required.
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Visit a travel clinic: malaria prophylaxis for the Okavango and routine boosters ⚑ verify
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Book international flights to Maun (MUB), usually via Johannesburg or Cape Town ⚑ verify and confirm your visa status — the U.S., Canada, the U.K., the E.U. and Mexico enter visa-free for up to 90 days.
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Read through your welcome kit and packing guide, and share your arrival flight details with us.
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Start malaria prophylaxis if your clinic prescribed it ⚑ verify
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Pack: soft bags only, up to 20 kg for the internal charters. Then weigh it.
02 · Travel essentials
Papers, pula, and warm layers
01Visas
Travelers from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., the E.U., and Mexico can enter Botswana visa-free for stays up to 90 days. Confirm your specific requirements with your country's foreign affairs office before booking flights.
02Travel insurance
Travel insurance with medical evacuation coverage is required. It's non-negotiable, and it's there to protect you in a genuinely remote part of the world. Both camps are reached by light aircraft and helicopter, so check that your policy names air evacuation specifically, and keep the insurer's name, policy number and 24-hour assistance line with your passport.
03Health ⚑ verify
The Okavango is a malaria area. In June the risk is low but present, so consult a travel clinic about prophylaxis and routine boosters around ninety days out. A yellow fever certificate is not normally asked for — only if you arrive from an endemic country ⚑ verify. Long sleeves at dusk, a good repellent and the nets at camp do the rest. Please verify all of this with your travel clinic and official sources — health advice changes.
CDC · Botswana →04Money ⚑ verify
Botswana's currency is the pula. Almost everything on the expedition is already included — meals, all beverages, laundry, transfers — so you need very little. The lodges accept cards for personal purchases, and gratuities are best given in cash; small US dollar bills travel well. Tell your bank you're travelling, and verify current cash and card guidance with official sources before you leave.
05Weather in June ⚑ verify
June is dry season in Botswana. Expect cold mornings of around 5–10 °C on the open vehicle and on the water, warming to about 25 °C by afternoon under clear skies, then cooling quickly once the sun goes. Pack in layers: something warm for dawn and the night drive, light and breathable for midday. Please verify current forecasts with official sources closer to departure.
06Power ⚑ verify
Botswana runs on 230 V with plug types D, G and M, so bring a universal adapter rather than a single-type one. Remote camps charge in the main area and on a schedule, so a small power bank is worth its weight. Verify the plug types with official sources before buying an adapter.
07Luggage
Soft bags only — the internal charters between Maun, Moela and Karangoma have small, curved holds that a hard-shell suitcase won't fit. Your allowance is up to 20 kg of soft-bag luggage for the internal charters, and full laundry service is included at both lodges, so you can pack for four days and travel light.
08Connectivity ⚑ verify
Connection is limited at Karangoma, deep in the Delta, and lighter than home at Moela. Treat it as a gift. Download what you need before you fly, let the people who matter know you'll be quiet for a few days, and let the land have your attention. Verify current coverage with the lodges or official sources if you need to stay reachable.
03 · Packing list
Four rules, then everything else
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Soft bags only
The light aircraft and helicopter have small, curved holds. A duffel or soft roller fits; a hard-shell suitcase does not.
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Up to 20 kg
Your allowance on the internal charters. Laundry is included at both lodges, so pack for four days and leave room to breathe.
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Warm layers for dawn
June mornings on the open vehicle and on the water are cold; afternoons are warm. A fleece or down layer, a scarf, then peel as the day opens.
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Neutral colours
Khaki, olive, sand and stone sit quietly in the bush and in the mokoro. Bright white and black are best left at home.
Good to know
A few questions you might have
Questions we hear most. Anything else, start the conversation and ask us directly.
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Do I need any prior retreat or yoga experience?
None. Nothing on this expedition is required, and the practices are offered as invitations, not homework. The land does most of the work on its own.
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What's the fitness level required?
Gentle and accessible. Game drives are seated, walks are unhurried, and the mokoro asks nothing more than the ability to sit quietly on the water.
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Can I come alone?
Yes, and many of our guests do. Solo travelers can share a beautifully appointed suite or book a private one, and the size of the group means you'll feel held from the first evening on.
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Do I need a visa?
Travelers from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., the E.U., and Mexico can enter Botswana visa-free for stays up to 90 days. Confirm your specific requirements with your country's foreign affairs office before booking flights.
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Is travel insurance really required?
Yes, with medical evacuation coverage. It's non-negotiable, and it's there to protect you in a genuinely remote part of the world.
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How do I reserve a seat?
Start with a short conversation. Once we confirm fit, a $500 non-refundable deposit holds your seat; 0% payment plans are available.
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What is the cancellation policy?
All payments are non-refundable starting 60 days before departure, on or before April 22, 2027.
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What happens after the trip?
Three integration calls with Gloria and Pablo across the ninety days after you're home, and lifetime access to the private Soil & Soul alumni circle.
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Where do I fly into?
Maun (MUB), Botswana.
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Still wondering? WhatsApp us → hello@bumiwellness.mx →
Reserve your place · Eight seats, by application
Start the conversation
The size of the group is the whole point. It’s what lets the facilitators, and the people around the fire actually reach you.
Getting in starts with a short conversation to see if this is the right fit for you. Most people know within a few minutes whether their answer is yes.
Book a short call
A short conversation to see if this is the right fit for you. Most people know within a few minutes whether their answer is yes.
See you in Maun.
June 21, 2027. Eight seats, by application.The list is full — join the waitlist.
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