African Bush Camps, with luxury camps and lodges in Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, has trained 15 female guides. Aiming to make the safari industry more accessible and inclusive for women, the African Bush Camps Foundation (ABCF) has welcomed these motivated women from communities in Botswana. They have been trained in the ins and outs of gu...

Nxamaseri Island Lodge, located on a private island in the permanent waters of Botswana's Okavango Delta, will reopen in May 2024 following a complete revamp. This includes the first Wellness SPA in the Desert & Delta Safaris portfolio, and with guests arriving for their treatments by traditional mokoro (dug-out canoe. It will be situated in th...

Ker & Downey Botswana have become the first Southern Africa safari operator to adopt the pangolin viewing guidelines, published by nonprofit conservation organisation Pangolin.Africa. Pangolins are also known as scaly anteaters, and the Pangolin Guardians Program educates people about the pangolins as a species as well as what you should (or sh...

Chobe Game Lodge, in the Chobe National Park, Botswana will be celebrating 50 years of operation in 2024. Owned and operated by Desert & Delta Safaris, the lodge is set on the banks of the Chobe River among the world's highest concentration of elephants. Two years after opening, in 1973, it welcomed Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in a whir...

Karangoma, which is Wild Expeditions newest camp, will open in May 2024. The 6 tented rooms are located in the Okavango Delta and will provide opportunities for land and water-based safaris amid large herds of wildlife, with excellent sightings of predators. (Images : www.wildexpeditions.info) The new camp is a partnership with local elder Olatotse...

Wilderness is to rebuild is Wilderness Tubu Tree and Wilderness Little Tubu camps, which, are located in the wildlife-rich Jao Reserve in Botswana's Okavango Delta. The two camps will reopen in June 2024, with a 'modern look and feel, while still paying homage to their long history and beautiful natural surrounds'. Owned by the Kays family for over...