Chobe is Botswana’s oldest national park, and it is perhaps best known for its booming elephant population, the game-filled floodplains at the Chobe River, and the notorious Savute Marsh. Chobe is located in the north of the country and occupies a very large area with a changing terrain and the greatest concentration of game in Africa, making it an unmissable destination for safari.
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The Okavango Delta is world renowned as one of the greatest, most unique ecosystems on the planet. This vast mosaic of waterways and lagoons in the north of semi-arid Botswana is the 1000th UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the 7 Wonders of Africa. An inland Delta fed by the Okavango River and flowing into the Moremi Game Reserve, the Delta is home to masses of hippo, crocodile, elephant, buffalo, water-adapted antelope, and specialised lion populations.
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The Makgadikgadi Pans are Botswana’s famous salt pans, and includes one of the largest salt flats in the world. The Makgadikgadi is a massive area of stark, mostly uninhabited land that stretches for 12 000 square km in the Kalahari Basin, between Chobe National Park and the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. After good rains, this arid land fills with a layer of water and grass, inviting the migration of a large population of zebra and wildebeest.
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Named after Chief Moremi, this is one of Botswana’s most well known game reserves. It is located on the eastern side of the Okavango Delta, incorporating much of the Delta itself. It is an area of contrasts, combining permanent wetland with dry savannah, which provides a home for a diverse array of wildlife species. The mixed terrain incorporates thickets, swamps, rivers, acacia, and grassland savannahs.
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Making up almost 10% of Botswana’s total surface area at 52 800 square km, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve is the second largest game reserve in the world, after Tanzania’s Selous. It is a vast, semi-arid tract of the Kalahari, which morphs into a rolling grassland during the rainy summer months, and is home to special desert-adapted species, such as the bat-eared fox, brown hyena, meerkat, and most famously, the black-maned lion.
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