Category: Accommodation

Botswana safari lodges are small by design, typically holding between five and twenty rooms, and almost all are legally required to be non-permanent structures that could be dismantled within a day leaving no trace. Rates are fully inclusive of meals,…

Campsites inside Botswana's national parks must be booked well in advance, and the booking process is genuinely awkward because most sites were transferred from the Department of Wildlife and National Parks to a patchwork of private operators, each taking reservations…

Botswana runs a national ecotourism certification system administered by Botswana Tourism, with the top grade awarded to camps meeting the highest standards for conservation, environmental management and community involvement. Most safari camps here run on solar, treat and recycle their…

Family safari lodges in Botswana usually set a minimum age of six, with many activities restricted to twelve and above, and most camps require families with children aged six to twelve to book a private vehicle. Family suites of two…

Hotels and guesthouses in Botswana cluster in Maun, Kasane, Gaborone and Francistown, serving as arrival and departure nights either side of a safari rather than destinations in themselves. Maun in particular has grown from a stopover into a place worth…

Luxury safari lodges in Botswana are defined less by thread count than by access, with the top camps holding four to eight suites inside private concessions of tens or hundreds of thousands of hectares, where off-road driving, night drives and…

Mobile safaris in Botswana move a tented camp with you every few days, with a crew travelling ahead to pitch and strike while you are out on a game drive. They range from participation trips where guests put up their…