Southern Africa
Botswana
Low-volume, high-wilderness — the water world of the Okavango Delta and the elephant kingdoms of Chobe.
Botswana chose wilderness over volume decades ago, and it shows — this is the most exclusive safari country in Africa, where a camp might have eight tents and no neighbours for miles. The Okavango Delta is the wonder: a flood that arrives in the dry season and turns the Kalahari into a maze of channels you explore by mokoro. It isn’t cheap, but nowhere does remoteness this gracefully.
Field notes and lodge reviews for Botswana are below.
Main destinations
Okavango Delta
A UNESCO inland delta — mokoro, boating and peerless camps.
Explore →Chobe
The largest elephant population on earth along the river.
Explore →Moremi
The Delta's wildlife heart, rich in predators and birds.
Explore →Linyanti & Savute
Remote private concessions with exceptional dry-season game.
Explore →Makgadikgadi Pans
Surreal salt flats, meerkats and a zebra migration.
Explore →Central Kalahari
Desert-adapted lions and vast, silent space.
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Field notes on Botswana
Field notes on Botswana are on the way — I'm writing them as I travel.