Peter's Pan - where does the name come from? Well, Peter O'Toole was in Savuti in the 1980's making a film which doesn't appear to have ever been released. A lot of the film was shot in and around this natural pan, at which point the guides in the area starting referring to it as Peter's Pan - the name remains to this day in reference to O'Toole's time filming here. NB - relative newcomers Belmont, who have sponsored the signage at GZ, are clearly not aware that this is Peter's Pan NOT President’s Camp - you will find President's Camp at our President Camp Cache!
This pan holds water longer than most in the area at the end of the wet season and so is a regular drinking spot for animals coming off the dry Savuti Marsh, and when the water gets too low it is the staging point from which most animals take off across the sandridge to the North-West and head for more reliable water to be found 60 kilometres away in the Linyanti area of the Chobe National Park. The two small hills to the North-East are called Twin Hills, and the far side of the nearest hill is a regular den site for the leopard who has, along with her cubs, starred in a number of documentaries filmed in the area over the last few years - this leopard family was famous for diving into the Savuti Channel to catch cat fish during the last period when the Savuti Channel last flowed between 2010 and 2014. The larger hill to the West is called Leopard Rock - good luck in spotting one! There is one scene in the National Geographic documentary "Eternal Enemies" where there is a fantastic extreme wide angle shot looking from near where you are standing at GZ across to Leopard Rock where the camera slowly zooms in to reveal a lioness clambering up through the rocks towards a rocky overhang where she had given birth to her cubs - a great piece of filming.