Category: Parks and Reserves

Savuti is the western section of Chobe National Park, built around a channel that has flowed and dried repeatedly over the past century and a half for reasons nobody has fully explained. It is where lions were first recorded killing…

The Central Kalahari Game Reserve covers 52,800 square kilometres of Botswana's Ghanzi District, making it the second largest wildlife reserve in the world and roughly a tenth of the country. It was created to protect the hunter-gatherer way of life…

Chobe Forest Reserve is the largest of six gazetted forest reserves in Botswana's Chobe District, covering somewhere between 1,545 and 1,740 square kilometres of teak and mopane woodland east and south of Chobe National Park. These reserves were set aside…

Chobe National Park is Botswana's first national park and its most biologically diverse, covering roughly 11,700 square kilometres in the far north and holding one of the largest elephant populations on the continent. It divides into four distinct ecosystems: the…

Khutse Game Reserve covers around 2,500 square kilometres on the southern boundary of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, with no fence between the two, and it is the closest true Kalahari wilderness to Gaborone at roughly 240 kilometres. It was…

The Khwai Community Concession runs along the Khwai River between Moremi Game Reserve and Chobe National Park, and it is owned and managed by Khwai Village through a community trust, with lodge revenue flowing directly to residents. Because it sits…

The Kwando Concession covers roughly 2,300 square kilometres of northern Botswana along the Kwando River, and it is shared between only two camps, which makes it one of the emptiest safari areas in the country. It has a long-standing reputation…

Linyanti is a band of private concession country along the southern bank of the Linyanti River in northern Botswana, bordering Chobe National Park to the east and Namibia across the water to the north. It holds one of Africa's highest…

Mabuasehube covers roughly 2,000 square kilometres in the northeastern corner of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, entirely inside Botswana, and it is one of the few places in Africa where lions routinely walk through occupied campsites. Its campsites sit on rises…

Makgadikgadi Pans National Park protects roughly 3,900 to 4,900 square kilometres on the western edge of an ancient lake bed, bounded by the Boteti River to the west and reaching Ntwetwe Pan in the east. The name notwithstanding, most of…