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...

Eco-tourism company Great Plains has opened its Okavango Explorers Camp in northern Botswana. Botswana, a landlocked country in Southern Africa, has a landscape defined by the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango Delta. These become a lush animal habitat during the seasonal floods. The Okavango Explorers Camp is in the 160,000-hectare private Selinda R...

I had travelled by bus from Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe to the town of Kasane, Botswana, where I planned to enter the famous Chobe National Park. Kasane is at Africa's "four corners" where Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe all meet. Approaching the border, I stared in dismay at the long line of trucks waiting to complete the necessary customs c...

Great Plains Expeditions has introduced the Botswana Experience, as 'expeditions based on real discovery'. Botswana is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, that embraces the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango Delta, which becomes a lush animal habitat during the seasonal floods. Great Plains emphasises the 'seriousness of the Botswana Experience ...

The Makgadikgadi Pan, a salt pan situated in the middle of the dry savanna of north-eastern Botswana, is one of the largest salt flats in the world. The pan is all that remains of the formerly enormous Lake Makgadikgadi, which once covered an area larger than Switzerland, but dried up tens of thousands of years ago. Safari operator Desert & Del...

The Community & Conservation package lets guests experience the diversity of a Botswana safari through some of the country's most highly sought-after destinations. It includes the chance to witness Botswana's zebra migration (May to October). Due to the arid nature of the landscape, the best time to stay is in July through to August, when the n...