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Experience the very pinnacle of safari excellence in Botswana — a destination celebrated for its unrivalled blend of land and water‑based wildlife encounters.
Here, in some of the world’s most exclusive and remote wilderness areas, travellers are immersed in pristine ecosystems where nature unfolds in its purest form. From the serene waterways of the Okavango Delta to the vast, wildlife‑rich plains beyond, Botswana offers intimate, uncrowded safari experiences defined by exceptional guiding, luxury accommodations, and extraordinary proximity to Africa’s iconic species.
This is safari reimagined — refined, authentic, and truly unforgettable.
Best time to travel
Jun – Oct (peak Jul – Sep)
Peak safari coincides with the Okavango flood and the dry season, when wildlife concentrates on the water. Green season is lush, much quieter, and considerably better value. An indicative pattern rather than a forecast; conditions vary year to year.
Crafted for Botswana
An eight-day mid-range Botswana safari from Maun, in two private concessions on the edge of the Okavango Delta. Three nights in the Khwai Concession, with game drives into Moremi and a mokoro on the river, then four in the Mababe Concession beside Chobe National Park, where a guided walk joins the drives.
Explore more →A nine-day mid-range Botswana safari from Maun through three landscapes: the woodland and river of the Khwai Concession, the islands and lagoons of the Okavango Delta, and the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, where Naro San guides share tracking and foraging.
Explore more →An eleven-day luxury Botswana safari from Maun to Kasane. A private concession in the Okavango Delta, where the camp drives off-road and at night; four nights in the Khwai Concession; then a lodge on the Chobe River, looking across to Namibia.
Explore more →A nine-day luxury Botswana safari from Kasane to Maun. It opens on the Chobe River with game drives and a boat among the elephants, moves into the Okavango Delta by mokoro and motorboat, and ends in Moremi Game Reserve on Xakanaxa Lagoon.
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The guide
Botswana made a deliberate choice decades ago to sell low-volume, high-value tourism, and the country still runs that way. Camps are small, concessions are private and large, and vehicle numbers at a sighting are low — which is the reason Botswana costs what it does and why people who can afford it keep going back.
Its defining feature is water in a desert. The Okavango floods in the dry season, arriving from Angolan rain months earlier, and turns the northern Kalahari into a maze of channels and islands at exactly the time the surrounding country is at its driest.
The Okavango is an inland delta that never reaches the sea, and the flood arrives in the dry season rather than the wet one.
Chobe holds one of the largest elephant populations in Africa, concentrated along its river frontage in the dry months.
The Central Kalahari and the Makgadikgadi pans are the country's dry, spare, wide-horizon counterpoint to the Delta.
In pictures
Photo Maria Baltazzi / Unsplash
Photo Maria Baltazzi / Unsplash
Photo Ajeet Panesar / Unsplash
Planning Botswana
Jun – Oct (peak Jul – Sep). Peak safari coincides with the Okavango flood and the dry season, when wildlife concentrates on the water. Green season is lush, much quieter, and considerably better value.
Khwai and Mababe Safari, Khwai, the Delta and the Kalahari, Okavango, Khwai and Chobe, Chobe, Okavango and Moremi are journeys Famous Africa has designed around Botswana. Every itinerary is planned individually, so Botswana can also be combined with other countries or built from scratch.
Experience the very pinnacle of safari excellence in Botswana — a destination celebrated for its unrivalled blend of land and water‑based wildlife encounters. Conservation, Exclusivity, Rivers, Wildlife, Sustainability.
