The Ultimate Safari Destination
BOTSWANA SAFARIS
Travel on a luxury safari to Botswana with Explore & Travel Africa.
Famous for the sheer beauty of the Okavango Delta, Botswana is home to vast private and national game reserves that protect the prolific wildlife found, creating a pristine wildlife safari environment. Botswana safaris are rewarding with incredible game viewing, spectacular birdlife, especially during the green season with all the migratory species in the area, and in unforgettable landscapes.
Travel to Botswana and experience an incredible wildlife safari. Explore the Okavango Delta, Chobe National Park, Savuti Linyanti area, Moremi National Park and the Central Kalahari on your Botswana safari.
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BOTSWANA SAFARIS – WHERE TO GO?
Safaris in Botswana tend to follow a circuit to ensure you get the best on your safari. Combine a water paradise experience in the Okavango Delta, with the big game and predator areas of the Linyanti, Khwai or Moremi and the large herds of elephants in Savuti and along the Chobe River in the Chobe National Park. Explore the Central Kalahari Game Reserve with unique and authentic cultural encounters with African first people, The San.
The Okavango Delta
The Okavango Delta is arguably one of the most incredible feats of nature and the jewel in the Botswana safari crown. Explore narrow papyrus lined channels of crystal clear water, just wide enough to mokoro (canoe) through, wide-open permanent lagoons, rivers and channels, all creating a home for a plethora of birds, aquatic animals and wildlife. Large islands have formed in parts of the Okavango Delta where private luxury safari lodges are located, in the perfect place to enjoy the splendours of the Delta.
Chobe National Park
Chobe National Park is where you will find huge herds of elephants during the dry season from late June to October when the rains start. Large buffalo herds and lion prides are prolific in the Chobe National Park. The Chobe River forms the border to Namibia and most of the safari lodges in Chobe are along the river. Sunset cruises on the Chobe River are one of the loveliest game activities in Botswana. Only an hour away from Victoria Falls, a Chobe Safari the perfect place to start or end your Botswana tour.
Savuti
The Savuti Marsh area of Chobe National Park is in the west of the park. Also called Savute or just Savuti, this area was once a large lake and now the Savuti Channel seldom if ever has water. When the Savuti Channel does flow as it did in 2010, there is great excitement! Plenty of herbivores are found in this area which in turn attracts the predators like lions, cheetah, leopard, wild dog and hyenas.
Selinda, Kawndo and Linyanti
The vast Linyanti area of Northern Botswana covers three incredible private reserves. The Selinda Concession area, the Kwando Concession that stretches to the Kwando River and the northern border with Namibia, and the Linyanti area. The Kwando and Linyanti Rivers provide water all year round ensuring that these areas are a haven for wildlife. The endangered cheetah and wild dogs are fairly regularly spotted, especially in the Kwando Concession.
Moremi Game Reserve
The Moremi Game Reserve offers a Botswana Safari in a pristine paradise. Diverse landscapes include floodplains, rivers and lagoons of the Okavango Delta with mopane woodlands and acacia tree forests. Big cats are numerous in the Moremi, on islands like Chief’s Island and around Mombo and Little Mombo Camps.
Khwai Concession
The Khwai concession borders the Moremi Game Reserve and the Okavango Delta and offers an outstanding game watching safari. Community-owned, the Khwai concession safari lodges have a range of activities including game drives, night drives, walking safaris, community visits and trips into the Okavango Delta.
Makgadigadi Pans
Makgadigadi Pans are a collection of salt pans that are some of the largest in the world and is a unique safari destination in Botswana that you can visit at any time during the year. Spend a day with the meerkats, searching for the blank maned lions or enjoy a quad bike adventure. During the wet season, the pans fill up with water, attracting large numbers of flamingoes and big herds of zebra, springbok and wildebeest. The wet season is an exciting time to visit Makgadigadi Pans.
Central Kalahari Game Reserve
The Central Kalahari Game Reserve is ancient, magnificent and remote. Explore the desolate plains in the dry season, visit Deception Valley and gaze in awe at the incredible night skies. In the wet season, the Kalahari turns green, attracting large herds of gemsbok and springbok, as well as cheetah and black-maned lions.
Experience luxury Botswana safaris in a land of dramatic contrasts, from the crystal-clear waters of the Okavango Delta to large elephant herds in Chobe.
LUXURY BOTSWANA SAFARIS
Some of the best safari lodges in Africa are found in the Okavango Delta. There is a range of Luxury Botswana Safaris to choose from, with big names like Wilderness Safaris and Great Plains Conservation having numerous lodges across the northern Botswana safari circuit. There is a range of safari lodge providers and safari lodges and camps to suit your unique style.
Botswana Safari tours tend to be fly-in trips, going to places where there is no road access. All flights are conducted in small light aircraft like a Cessna Grand Caravan, and some in smaller planes. Creating a safari to Botswana can become complicated if you wanted to do it yourself. Botswana is one of the countries in Africa where using a tour operator like Explore & Travel Africa will save you lots of time, effort and most likely, money. Contact us today for a chat about Botswana, we have been and would love to take you there.
BOTSWANA SAFARIS – A LOW IMPACT TOURISM MODEL
Botswana is one of the ultimate safari destinations in Africa, although it does come with a price tag, Botswana adopted a low impact tourism policy, with safari lodges and camps spread out through the private concessions and national parks, offering an exclusive and incredible safari experience. This means that safari lodges are on the more expensive side enabling the companies who run the lodges to protect the wildlife and the environment they find themselves in without too many people on the land.
If you do travel on a budget there are a few comfortable safari lodges in unique and beautiful areas within Botswana. You can also travel out of the high season from April to June where the nightly rate is much lower than July through to October.