Category: Okavango and Concessions

The Selinda Reserve is a private concession of roughly 130,000 hectares in northern Botswana, sitting between the Kwando concession to the north and Linyanti to the east, and built around a fossil channel that connects the Okavango Delta to the…

The Kalahari is a semi-arid sandy savanna covering roughly 900,000 square kilometres across Botswana, eastern Namibia and South Africa's Northern Cape, and it is not a true desert at all, receiving between 200 and 500 millimetres of rain a year.…

The Okavango Delta is an inland river delta in northern Botswana that never reaches the sea, spreading across the flat Kalahari sands until it evaporates and soaks away. It swells to somewhere between 15,000 and 22,000 square kilometres at peak…

Most of the Okavango Delta outside Moremi Game Reserve is divided into numbered concessions leased to safari operators or held by community trusts, and the distinction matters because concessions permit off-road driving, night drives and guided walking that the reserve…