Boteti River – Makgadikgadi Pans National Park
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1479716932793{padding-top: 33px !important;}"][vc_column][mkdf_section_title title_text_transform="" title_text_align="" title_size="medium" title="Boteti River - Makgadikgadi Pans National Park" margin_bottom="4"][mkdf_section_subtitle text_align="" text=" The Makgadikgadi National Park is where the Okavango Delta finally fades into desert. The Boteti River draws a line in the sand, separating the dry Makgadikgadi from the thirst lands of the Kalahari beyond. This is the ultimate last chance for hundreds of zebras and wildebeest that crowd the water’s edge to quench a desert-drawn thirst. "][vc_empty_space height="12"][vc_column_text] The Boteti is the last finger of the Okavango Delta, reaching down to the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans. Years...
Shorobe
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1479716932793{padding-top: 33px !important;}"][vc_column][mkdf_section_title title_text_transform="" title_text_align="" title_size="medium" title="Shorobe" margin_bottom="4"][mkdf_section_subtitle text_align="" text="Shorobe is a sizeable village about 26km north of Maun, and 53km south of South Gate, Moremi. Drive slowly through here as you can usually expect plenty of goats and people wandering on the road. On the south side of the village you'll see Shorobe Primary School, and dotted throughout are a few small, local shops which sell soft drinks and very basic supplies."][vc_empty_space height="12"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="45px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1461323098314{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"][vc_column][mkdf_image_gallery type="image_grid" column_number="2" spacing="small" hover_click_action="pretty_photo" grayscale="no" images="8221,8222" image_size="477x322"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1461323207497{padding-bottom: 60px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text] The...
Kasane
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1479716932793{padding-top: 33px !important;}"][vc_column][mkdf_section_title title_text_transform="" title_text_align="" title_size="medium" title="Kasane" margin_bottom="4"][mkdf_section_subtitle text_align="" text=" "][vc_empty_space height="12"][vc_column_text] Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Botswana, on the banks of the famous Chobe River, the quaint little town of Kasane rests on the doorstep of the spectacular Chobe National Park. There are no boundary fences separating the village from the park and game such as elephant and warthog are often spotted roaming around the town and hippos at times come onto land to help themselves to the lush grass of manicured lawns. Wildlife such as the elusive...
Deception Valley Private Reserve
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1479716932793{padding-top: 33px !important;}"][vc_column][mkdf_section_title title_text_transform="" title_text_align="" title_size="medium" title="Deception Valley Private" margin_bottom="4"][mkdf_section_subtitle text_align="" text="The Deception Valley Private Reserve provides a soft introduction to the harsh expanses of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve next door. This is also one of the best places in Botswana to get a glimpse into the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of the San people, who have survived in the arid desert for tens of thousands of years."][vc_empty_space height="12"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="45px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1461323098314{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"][vc_column][mkdf_image_gallery type="image_grid" column_number="2" spacing="small" hover_click_action="pretty_photo" grayscale="no" images="8221,8222" image_size="477x322"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1461323207497{padding-bottom: 60px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text] This private reserve contains desert-adapted wildlife from...
Moremi Game Reserve
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1479716932793{padding-top: 33px !important;}"][vc_column][mkdf_section_title title_text_transform="" title_text_align="" title_size="medium" title="Moremi Game Reserve" margin_bottom="4"][mkdf_section_subtitle text_align="" text="The Moremi Game Reserve is all about searching for big game; where the habitats are as diverse as the wildlife itself. Water-adapted antelopes and wary-eyed buffaloes spill out into floodplains, behind towering woodlands where leopards hide on the high branches. Dead trees cast silhouettes over elephant-filled savannas a stone’s throw from papyrus-fringed channels stretching out to the delta beyond."][vc_empty_space height="12"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="45px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1461323098314{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}"][vc_column][mkdf_image_gallery type="image_grid" column_number="2" spacing="small" hover_click_action="pretty_photo" grayscale="no" images="8200,8201" image_size="477x322"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1461323207497{padding-bottom: 60px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="20px"][vc_column_text] When you arrive in...
Khwai Community Area
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1479716932793{padding-top: 33px !important;}"][vc_column][mkdf_section_title title_text_transform="" title_text_align="" title_size="medium" title="Khwai Community Area" margin_bottom="4"][mkdf_section_subtitle text_align="" text="Looking at a map of Botswana, you’d miss Khwai completely if you didn’t know it was there. Wedged between the big-ticket attractions of Chobe National Park to the east and Moremi Game Reserve to the south, Khwai exists as a significant big game destination of its own. Lying on the eastern fringes of the Okavango Delta with a rich wildlife population and no borders drawn around it on the map, Khwai is often overlooked in favour of its...
Okavango Pan Handle
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1479716932793{padding-top: 33px !important;}"][vc_column][mkdf_section_title title_text_transform="" title_text_align="" title_size="medium" title="Okavango Pan Handle" margin_bottom="4"][mkdf_section_subtitle text_align="" text="Before the Okavango River fans out into its familiar delta shape, its waters are channelled between parallel fault lines, this channel is commonly known as the Pan Handle, as the Delta takes on the appearance of a giant frying pan in the heart of the Kalahari. Permanent deep water has encouraged the growth of villages along the river on the western side, these communities are mainly fishermen and cattle farmers, offering a true glimpse of village life rarely...
Nxai Pan National Park
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1479716932793{padding-top: 33px !important;}"][vc_column][mkdf_section_title title_text_transform="" title_text_align="" title_size="medium" title="Nxai Pan National Park" margin_bottom="4"][mkdf_section_subtitle text_align="" text="Modestly sized and largely under-visited, Nxai Pan is one of Botswana’s best-kept secrets for a desert safari. The action takes place around Nxai Pan itself and the park’s two waterholes, which keep wildlife in the area year-round. "][vc_empty_space height="12"][vc_column_text] In Nxai Pan the landscape is dominated by short, yellow grasses, which turn green with the summer rains; worn down to white soil where zebras have made paths across the pan. This is the finish line for Africa’s little-known but...
Gweta
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1479716932793{padding-top: 33px !important;}"][vc_column][mkdf_section_title title_text_transform="" title_text_align="" title_size="medium" title="Gweta" margin_bottom="4"][mkdf_section_subtitle text_align="" text=" The quirky village of Gweta doesn’t offer the traveller a lot as a destination in its own right and is best visited as a jumping off point for the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans further south. For travellers interested in exploring Gweta, there are a few traditionally painted rondavels to be found on the village’s sandy back roads and village tours can be organised to see the local school, kgotla (traditional court), cattle posts and to sample traditional village fare. "][vc_empty_space height="9"][vc_column_text] The Makgadikgadi...
Chobe National Park & River Front
[vc_row css=".vc_custom_1479716932793{padding-top: 33px !important;}"][vc_column][mkdf_section_title title_text_transform="" title_text_align="" title_size="medium" title="Chobe National Park & River Front" margin_bottom="4"][mkdf_section_subtitle text_align="" text=" The Chobe area is an elephant mecca; home to the largest density of African elephants in the world. Travel here during winter and you’ll fast run out of fingers and toes while you count them drinking at the riverbanks and socialising out on the floodplains. Thanks to its ease of access from Victoria Falls, the Chobe Riverfront is the busiest part of Botswana (though still a much quieter affair than most South or East African...