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Where to go in Botswana

Botswana is a paradise for nature lovers, offering some of Africa’s most superb national parks and wildlife reserves.

With its massive elephant herds and diverse wildlife, Chobe National Park offers an unforgettable experience with game drives and boat safaris along the Chobe River. The Savuti region, part of Chobe, is famous for its lion pride and game drives. Moremi Game Reserve, nestled within the eastern fringes of the Okavango Delta, is the best place to see leopards and wild dogs. The Central Kalahari Game Reserve has vast open savannahs and offers the chance to see unique desert-adapted species. The Okavango Delta is a UNESCO World Heritage site and a must-visit destination with its pristine wetlands, diverse wildlife, and scenic water channels.

These parks make Botswana one of the preferred African safari destinations, showcasing its unique landscapes, rich biodiversity, and top wildlife sightings.

Botswana National Parks

CHOBE NATIONAL PARK

Out of all of Botswana's national parks and game reserves, the Chobe National Park is the second largest national park. It has one of the largest concentrations of game spotted on the African continent. Its uniqueness in the wealth of wildlife and the true African nature of the region presents the safari experience of a lifetime. Chobe National Park is famous for its elephants. It is common to encounter herds of over a hundred at a time. The latest enquiry into the elephant population estimates it to be 120,000 - the highest elephant concentration in Africa and the largest continuous surviving elephant population on earth. The Chobe elephants are migratory, making seasonal movements of up to 200km from the Chobe and Linyanti rivers, where they congregate in the dry season, to the pans in the southeast of the park during the rainy season. Game viewing from the river is a spectacular showcase of the vast diversity of Chobe's wildlife. It is hard to describe the feeling you get as you glide past hippos and crocodiles while elephants, zebras, buffaloes and even lions have an evening drink against the backdrop of a sunset sky painted in rich colours.
Over 460 bird species have been recorded in the park, making it one of Africa's premier venues for bird safaris. Common species include the sacred ibis, Egyptian geese, the ubiquitous cormorants and darters, spur-winged geese, Pel's fishing owl, carmine bee-eaters, most members of the kingfisher family, all the rollers, fish eagles, the martial eagle and many members of the stork family.

NXAI PAN NATIONAL PARK

Nxai Pan is one of the pans of the greater Makgadikgadi and covers around 2000 square kilometres. Much of it is covered in grass, and Acacia trees can be scattered throughout the landscape. The main attraction of Nxai National Park is the Baines Baobabs, located near the salt and dry lakes of Kudiakam. These baobabs were named after the artist and explorer Thomas Baines, who first painted them in 1862 while travelling in this deserted part of Botswana. The highlight of visiting the park is the Zebra Migration. This area's rich and nutritious grass attracts more than 30,000 zebras and wildebeests from as far as 500km away, followed by many predators. Nxai Pan National Park is one of the best places to experience the migration, which moves from Namibia to the Nxai Pan area over 1000 kilometres. Permanent residents include the black-maned Kalahari lions, giraffes, kudus, springboks, impalas, ostriches, desert-adapted elephants (known as the "ghosts of Nxai Pan"), jackals, bat-eared foxes, and numerous smaller creatures.

MOREMI GAME RESERVE

Moremi Game Reserve, named after Chief Moremi of the BaTawana tribe, was established in 1963, but its history of exploration and adventure dates back more than a hundred years. The area had been a favourite hunting ground of the Chief, and today is a favourite photographic destination for adventurous travellers. It covers about 5,000 km2, encompassing about a quarter of the Okavango Delta, one of the world's largest inland deltas. The northeast portion borders the Chobe National Park and the Khwai river. The prominent mainland of Chiefs Island and its drier habitats, along with multiple lagoons, create an incredibly diverse ecosystem of riverine woodlands, acacia thickets, grasslands, dry pans, palm-fringed islands, and hippo-filled waterways that offer excellent game viewing. The area offers all-round exceptional game viewing.

OKAVANGO DELTA

The Okavango is a unique ecosystem of papyrus-lined waterways, knee-deep floodplains, water-lily lagoons, shady forest glades and rich savannah grasslands. All this lushness lies in the middle of the most extensive world's continuous stretch of sand - the Kalahari Desert Basin. Seen from space as an emerald swirl surrounded by a parched landscape, the Okavango Delta is an incredible source of life in a country that is 80% arid. The Okavango region contains the Moremi Game Reserve, surrounded by several strictly controlled, privately managed wildlife concessions. Game viewing in all these areas is outstanding, and activities can be undertaken on foot, in a game-viewing vehicle, in a mokoro (dug-out canoe) or in a motorised boat. Such varied opportunities in a beautiful and diverse range of habitats make the Okavango the best all-encompassing safari destination in the world. The Okavango Delta is formed by the inflow of the Okavango River (or the Kavango River as it is known in Namibia) into the arid sands of the Kalahari desert.

CENTRAL KALAHARI GAME RESERVE

The Central Kalahari Game Reserve is the world's largest game reserve and sand basin. Situated in the centre of Botswana, it has no permanent surface water. Unlike most deserts, the Kalahari is well-vegetated, with a wide variety of habitats, including flat grasslands stretching forever. The reserve is mainly scrubland but has woodland and forests with many species adapted to this harsh landscape.
In the dry winter, many grasses and shrubs die back to their roots while waiting for the summer rains. Trees have developed deep roots in the water table, and shrubs have leaves and pods that keep evapotranspiration to a minimum. In summer, the rains transform the area, and the reserve's northern section is dotted with varying-sized pans, which fill and sustain the wildlife. The Kalahari is most beautiful in summer, particularly as many desert species drop their young at this time of year. Generally, you do not see large herds of game in the desert but rather a variety of desert-adapted species in smaller numbers. Animals found in the region include gemsbok, springboks, hartebeests, giraffes, wildebeest, kudus, cheetahs, brown hyenas, mongeese, meerkats and the large Kalahari lions.

MAKGADIKGADI PANS NATIONAL PARK

The Makgadikgadi Pans National Park stretches away from the Boteti River's banks through its scrubland and grasslands interior. The western boundary has mineral-rich grasslands and the Boteti River, which supplies the much-needed sustenance for the herds that inhabit the park. The Makgadikgadi is a series of pans, the largest of which are Sowa and Ntwetwe, surrounded by many smaller pans. The zebra and wildebeest herds graze on the rich grass plains and migrate to the river at winter's end to access the seeps' water. The Makgadikgadi is a harsh, dry environment suited to gemsbok and kudu. Still, the river provides a life-giving water source for the zebra and wildebeest by utilising the eastern grass plains. This reserve offers excellent wildlife viewing in the wet season, particularly when large herds of zebra and wildebeest embark on their westward migration to the Boteti region. Other species include gemsbok, eland and red hartebeest, as well as kudu, bushbuck, duiker, giraffe, springbok, steenbok and even elephants, with all the accompanying predators, as well as the rare brown hyena. When water is in the pans, thousands of flamingos, pelicans, ducks and geese congregate, and the scene is awe-inspiring. One of the most popular destinations in the Makgadikgadi is Kubu Island, a rocky outcrop near the southwestern shore of Sowa Pan. This crescent-shaped island is about one kilometre long, and its slopes are covered with fossil beaches of rounded pebbles, indicating the prehistoric lake's former water levels. The fantastically shaped baobab perch on the island is surrounded by the white salt surface of the pan, creating a unique, otherworldly atmosphere.

Botswana SAFARIS

3 NIGHTS
Botswana

Chobe Elephant Valley Lodge

Group Tours
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SA Residents
Guide price ZAR 29,915 pps
Return flights included (OR Tambo)
31 Dec ‘26
3 NIGHTS
Botswana

Chobe Savanna Lodge

Private Safaris
Guide price ZAR TBC pps
Return flights included (OR Tambo)
2026
6 NIGHTS
Botswana

Botswana Explorer Safari

Private Safaris
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SA Residents
Guide price ZAR R56,126 pps
Return flights included (OR Tambo)
Until: 31 May '26
6 NIGHTS
Botswana

Botswana Highlight Group Safari

Group Tours
Guide price ZAR 45,958 pps
Return flights included (OR Tambo)
04 – 10 March ‘26
7 NIGHTS
Botswana

Ultimate Botswana Safari

Private Safaris
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SA Residents
Guide price ZAR To be advised pps
Return flights included (OR Tambo)
To be advised
5 NIGHTS
Botswana

Moremi & Okavango Delta Safari

Group Tours
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SA Residents
Guide price ZAR 58,713 pps
Return flights included (OR Tambo)
Date: 1 Jan – 31 Dec 2026
2/3 NIGHTS
Botswana
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Namibia

Chobe Houseboat Safari

Private Safaris
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SA Residents
Guide price ZAR 13,285 pps
Included
Until 28 Feb ‘27

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