Destinations
Botswana
Botswana
Situated in the southwest portion of Africa, this land-locked country boasts a spectacular array of landscapes and wildlife, offering one of the most exclusive safaris experiences on the continent.
Chobe National Park, Okavango Delta and the starkly beautiful Makgadikgadi Pans is home to a diverse collection of fauna and flora and is undoubtedly one of Africa’s premier travel destinations. Moremi Game Reserve and Linyanti further the list of classic wildlife experiences.
Highlights
Chobe
Chobe National Park is Botswana’s first National Park and has one of the largest concentrations of game in Africa. Famed for its massive elephant population this park is centred around the deep winding Chobe River that allows for impressive wildlife viewing from vehicle or boat.
The Okavango Delta is a vast inland river delta in northern Botswana and provides for some of the best safari experiences in Africa. Permanent crystal clear waters transform the otherwise dry Kalahari Desert habitat into a scenic landscape of exceptional and rare beauty, and sustains an ecosystem of remarkable habitat and species diversity.
Okavango
Linyanti
The Linyanti area spreads across the north east of Botswana, between Chobe and the Okavango Delta. This is a vast area dominated by woodland and two water systems, the Linyanti and Kwando which also forms the border between Botswana and Namibia. The Linyanti Swamp is one of the most attractive areas and boasts a great diversity of game in a more secluded environment. The area’s relative remoteness makes it a favoured safari destination.
The Savuti (also spelt Savute) area borders the Linyanti to the North and the Chobe to the east and is one of Africa’s best known big game areas. Savuti is a place of mystery, of stark beauty, and periodically boasts one of the greatest concentrations of animals in Southern Africa. Lying within the protected Chobe region, Savuti is renowned thanks to the Savuti Channel, which periodically flows from the Linyanti, fanning out into the Savuti marsh. This unpredictable state of the flowing Savuti Channel remains a mystery yet it’s this phenomenon that makes the area even more of wildlife spectacle.
Savuti
Makgadikgadi
The remnants of a network of great lakes, once an extension of the Okavango Delta, but whose water supply dried up centuries ago. Most of the year the area is arid and the wildlife migrates away in search of permanent water sources, leaving behind only desert adapted specialists. During the rainy season from December to March one can witness the second largest migration after East Africa’s Great Migration as large herds of zebras in their thousands trek south into the Makgadikgadi National Park in search of rain-sprouted grassy plains dotted with seasonal waterholes.