LAND JOURNEYS
Describing the entire country of Botswana as one big national park would be no exaggeration. Even the spaces and places between the country’s designated parks are wild and free and thriving in all of nature’s splendor.
With its wet and wild northern regions along the Chobe river, vast Central Kalahari and Makgadikgadi Pans, and its southern regions that spill over into South Africa, each corner of beautiful Botswana is unique in its own way and provide travelers with an unforgettable experience.
The world’;s most extensive unbroken stretch of sand, the Kalahari Desert, is home to the salt pans of Makgadikgadi and the world-renowned baobabs of Nxai Pans National Park. Complete with fossil river valleys, glistening, golden grasslands, and the echoes of the indigenous San people, the Kalahari is where travelers go to lose themselves and find their soul’s purpose.
From sumptuous lodges to remote tented camps, you’ll experience contemporary style and colonial nostalgia in one single adventure. Ready to explore a luxuriant wilderness of flood plains, forests, deserts, and lagoons? In Botswana, anything and everything is possible!
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Southern Africa, Botswana
Few places on earth offer the same combination of wildlife, scenery, and unspoiled wilderness as that found in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. Here, swamps are formed by annual floods of the Okavango River, breathing life into the country’s desert.
Few places on earth offer the same combination of wildlife, scenery, and unspoiled wilderness as that found in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. Here, swamps are formed by annual floods of the Okavango River, breathing life into the country’s desert.
With a wide variety of safari camps within the Okavango Delta, guests are spoilt for choice regarding land-and-water-based activities. Offering some of the best game viewing opportunities in Botswana’s most remote lodges, the Okavango Delta is one of the country’s most luxurious destinations that offers a rewarding and rejuvenating experience.
Southern Africa, Botswana
Chobe National Park is one of Botswana’s most popular game reserves and is situated in the far north of the country. The Savute and Linvati regions form part of the reserve, making it an ideal location to experience the majestic elephant herds that the area country is known for.Â
Chobe National Park is one of Botswana’s most popular game reserves and is situated in the far north of the country. The Savute and Linvati regions form part of the reserve, making it an ideal location to experience the majestic elephant herds that the area country is known for. The park is, however, best known for the Chobe River floodplain, where herds of animals as far as the eye can see gather between June and October to wait out the region’s dry season.
The Chobe River area is ideal for boat-based game viewing. Here, guests can cruise up and down the river as they watch herds of sable antelope, roan antelope, buffalo, elephant, and puku come down to the river. The birdlife here is prolific, and so is the sight of the river teeming with hippos and crocodiles.
Southern Africa, Botswana
Nxai Pan is a massive fossil pan located within the same national park known for its ancient Baines’ baobabs. Home to the annual zebra migration, second only to the Serengeti’s great migration, Nxai Pan offers one of the most unique wilderness experiences within Botswana.
Nxai Pan is a massive fossil pan located within the same national park known for its ancient Baines’ baobabs. Home to the annual zebra migration, second only to the Serengeti’s great migration, Nxai Pan offers one of the most unique wilderness experiences within Botswana.
This migration is one of the most prolonged migration events, which means that visitors to the Nxai National Park have a large window of opportunity to experience this magnificent event.
Luxury suites within the permanent camp in the national park were designed to bring guests as close to nature as possible. Guests can also enjoy nature walks with the indigenous San people, exploring an ancient and unique nomadic culture.
Southern Africa, Botswana
As the world’s second-largest game reserve, Botswana’s Central Kalahari is also the most remote game reserve in Southern Africa. Home to the indigenous San Bushmen, it is here where guests can soak up the locals’ knowledge on guided walks and tours.
As the world’s second-largest game reserve, Botswana’s Central Kalahari is also the most remote game reserve in Southern Africa. Home to the indigenous San Bushmen, it is here where guests can soak up the locals’ knowledge on guided walks and tours.
A visit to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve offers superb game viewing opportunities that include cheetah, wild dog, and leopard sightings. Adding an element of rustic sophistication, the tented camps within the park form the epitome of a safari getaway.
The park takes up around 80% of Botswana, which means the opportunities here are abundant. Guests can explore an unaltered landscape, filled to the brim with wildlife that roams the massive expanses of land from water pans to open, flat grasslands.
Southern Africa, Botswana
Surrounded by the Kalahari Desert, located just below the Chobe National Park, the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans offers endless silence, open space, and stillness. As some of the world’s largest salt pans, the Makgadikgadi Pans stretch across an area the size of Portugal.Â
Surrounded by the Kalahari Desert, located just below the Chobe National Park, the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans offers endless silence, open space, and stillness. As some of the world’s largest salt pans, the Makgadikgadi Pans stretch across an area the size of Portugal. Even though the landscape that stretches out towards the horizon where the sky and land meet might seem stark and uninviting at first glance, it is a popular tourist attraction during the dry season.
Adventurous tourists can drive out on quad bikes at full speed in any direction for miles and miles during the dry season. During the rainy season, the pans fill up with water, attracting all kinds of wildlife to the area and providing excellent game viewing and bird watching opportunities.
Stargazing at night in the Makgadikgadi Pans region offers one of the greatest shows on earth as guests are treated to the sight of falling stars and satellites skipping past in the pitch-black skies above.
Southern Africa, Botswana
Mashatu is lovingly referred to as the “Land of the Giants” thanks to its vast number of elephant inhabitants. Immersed in the wilderness of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve of Botswana, Mashatu shares unfenced borders with Zimbabwean and South African national parks…
Mashatu is lovingly referred to as the “Land of the Giants” thanks to its vast number of elephant inhabitants. Immersed in the wilderness of the Northern Tuli Game Reserve of Botswana, Mashatu shares unfenced borders with Zimbabwean and South African national parks, which makes it one of the most biodiverse conservation areas of its kind.
The textured landscape of Mashatu Game Reserve consists of dense riverine forest, towering sandstone ridges, sweeping savannah plains, and craggy hills. Enormous herds of elephants rule this terrain dotted with ancient baobab trees, but they share the space with leopard, lion, and spotted hyena.
Southern Africa, Botswana
The Savuti (also spelled Savute) river system is one of Botswana’s “miracle givers,” a name locals gave to the country’s many strange rivers. Flowing out of the Linyanti system, the Savuti Channel disappears into the Kalahari’s sands and has a habit of drying up for undisclosed periods.
The Savuti (also spelled Savute) river system is one of Botswana’s “miracle givers,” a name locals gave to the country’s many strange rivers. Flowing out of the Linyanti system, the Savuti Channel disappears into the Kalahari’s sands and has a habit of drying up for undisclosed periods.
The area’s spectacular landscapes covered with lush vegetation and marshlands make it an ideal base for safari tours in Botswana. Highlights here include the majestic zebra migration from Botswana’s northern regions.
Savuti is famous for its predators, more specifically its lion and spotted hyena populations. Guests can get up close and personal with the wildlife by means of day and nighttime game drives or observe the hippos at close range via a boat ride.
Southern Africa, Botswana
Moremi Game Reserve is one of Botswana’s best wildlife destinations for guests set on a Big Five experience. Captain’s Island, located deep in the Okavango Delta, is currently the only area in Moremi where guests can spot rhinos.Â
Moremi Game Reserve is one of Botswana’s best wildlife destinations for guests set on a Big Five experience. Captain’s Island, located deep in the Okavango Delta, is currently the only area in Moremi where guests can spot rhinos. Still, the remainder of the reserve is teeming with all kinds of wildlife, including buffalo, leopard, elephant, and lion.
Serving as the gateway to the incredible Okavango Delta, Moremi is home to several stunning safari lodges. With its impressive montage of lily-covered wetlands, sparkling floodplains, open grassland, and dappled forest, Moremi is home to some 500 species of birds and abundant wildlife varieties. Beautiful, wild, and remote, Moremi offers some of the /best game viewing experiences in Southern Africa.
Southern Africa, Botswana
At the Linyanti Floodplains, guests will come to truly understand Africa’s waterways and the part they play in the wildlife’s survival. Here, where the river forms a delta, it provides an oasis for many animals, including the African continent’s greatest elephant numbers.
At the Linyanti Floodplains, guests will come to truly understand Africa’s waterways and the part they play in the wildlife’s survival. Here, where the river forms a delta, it provides an oasis for many animals, including the African continent’s greatest elephant numbers.
With its woodlands, open floodplains, riverine forest, and dense mopane forest, the Linyanti Floodplains form one of Botswana’s most diverse ecosystems. Since Linyanti is made up of several private concessions, low visitor numbers are a fact of life, and an exclusive safari experience is always what travelers can expect.
Camps and lodges in Linyanti are some of the most sought-after accommodation options in Botswana, which means travelers that wish to explore this area must plan their safari in advance to ensure they do not miss out on everything this region has to offer.
Southern Africa, Botswana
The idea of the Kalahari Desert might bring up images of vast, arid mysterious wilderness in your mind. And indeed, that is what the Kalahari is known for. Covering parts of South Africa, Namibia, and the majority of Botswana, this desert is a place of legend.Â
The idea of the Kalahari Desert might bring up images of vast, arid mysterious wilderness in your mind. And indeed, that is what the Kalahari is known for. Covering parts of South Africa, Namibia, and the majority of Botswana, this desert is a place of legend. This fascinating and remote region of Botswana is all but forsaken. For guests willing to travel off the beaten track, it offers some of the most life-changing experiences on the African continent.
Once part of a great inland lake, the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, a vast wildlife preserve in the Kalahari Desert region of Botswana and South Africa, is characterized by red dunes and dry rivers. This amalgamation of Botswana’s Mabuasehube and Kalahari reserves and South Africa’s Gemsbok National Park are jointly administered by two countries. This region is recommended for viewing lion, hartebeest, and gemsbok, with game viewing activities peaking between June and August (winter months) when temperatures are milder.
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