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Tell Us About The Botswana Safari You Have In Mind
Every Botswana safari we plan starts with a conversation. Use the form below to tell us what you'd love to see, when you can travel, who is coming and roughly what you'd like to spend. We'll come back to you with a suggested route and the camps we would choose, then fine-tune it with you until it feels exactly right. Uyaphi.com is owner-run from Cape Town and has been planning tailor-made African safaris since 1999.
Botswana's safari country falls into strikingly different regions, and most itineraries combine two or three of them:
- Okavango Delta: one of the world's largest inland deltas and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with mokoro and boat trips alongside game drives.
- Moremi Game Reserve: the eastern side of the Delta, including Chief's Island.
- Chobe National Park: the Chobe riverfront near Kasane, the Savuti Marsh and the Linyanti region on the park's western edge. Kasane is 82 km by road from Victoria Falls, so Chobe pairs naturally with the falls.
- Khwai and Linyanti: private reserves bordering Moremi and Chobe.
- Makgadikgadi Pans: one of the largest salt flats in the world, with the baobabs of Kubu Island on Sua Pan.
- Central Kalahari Game Reserve: open desert country centred on Deception Valley.
- Mashatu: the Northern Tuli Game Reserve in the far east, where Botswana meets South Africa and Zimbabwe at the Limpopo–Shashe confluence.
Tell us how you like to travel. You might choose a fly-in safari between camps, a luxury tented safari, a mobile safari or camping safari that moves through the parks by road, or a family safari. You can browse the full range of Botswana safaris first.
Your dates shape everything in Botswana, from the Okavango flood to where the elephants gather. See when to visit Botswana before you choose, or tick "Not sure on dates" and we'll suggest what fits. Much of northern Botswana, including the Okavango Delta and Chobe, carries a seasonal malaria risk; see malaria in Botswana and malaria in Africa.
Botswana's camps are priced as part of the whole itinerary. A budget per person, even a rough one, lets us match lodges, flights and routing to what you have in mind.
Tell Us About Your Botswana Safari
Map of Lodges in and around Botswana
Botswana Travel Topics
10 Reasons To Visit Botswana
Ten reasons, from the Okavango's flood and Chobe's elephant herds to the Makgadikgadi salt pans, Kalahari lions and San trackers, wild dogs in the Linyanti, mokoro trips, and a low-volume tourism policy that keeps vehicle numbers down.
Best Botswana Safari Lodges
Our pick of Botswana's safari lodges, region by region: Mombo and Xigera in the Delta, Chobe Game Lodge on the river, Jack's Camp on the pans and Savute Elephant Lodge, plus how to choose between them.
Botswana Chobe National Park
A practical guide to Chobe: getting there from Kasane, river cruises versus game drives, where the elephants come down to drink, the lodges we use, and how to add Victoria Falls on the way in or out.
The Perfect Okavango Delta Honeymoon Safari
Planning a honeymoon in the Okavango Delta: the camps that suit couples, from Camp Okavango to Mombo, with sunrise boat cruises, mokoro trips, and private dinners and helicopter flights where the camp offers them.
10 Reasons To Visit The Savuti
Ten reasons to put Savuti on your route: bull elephants, big lion prides, wild dogs, the Savuti Marsh, San rock art in the Gubatsa Hills, and a channel with a habit of drying up for years at a time.
5 Best Lodges In The Chobe National Park
Five lodges in and around Chobe National Park that we would happily send you to: Chobe Game Lodge with its all-female guiding team, Ngoma, Muchenje, Chobe Chilwero, and &Beyond Chobe Under Canvas, which moves camp to follow the game.
How Much Does It Cost to Go on a Safari in Botswana?
What a Botswana safari actually costs, and why: camping versus mobile versus lodge, the season you travel, flights between camps, park fees and tips, and where a few honest savings can be made.
10 Best Lodges In Okavango Delta
Ten Okavango Delta camps we rate, from Eagle Island and Xigera to Jao, Jacana and Duba Plains, with what each does best, from mokoro trips on the water to family suites and walking safaris.