Category: Botswana

Bushlore Review – Botswana Overland Vehicle Rental: Solid, But Not Flawless

Here’s a detailed review based on a recent experience with one of their Toyota Hilux’s.
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Botswana Self-drive Safari – All You Need to Know

FAQs, tips and tricks, basics, and inspiration. All you need to know for your self-drive safari trip to Botswana (and Africa in general)!
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Botswana Self-Drive 4×4 interactive map, info and inspiration

This is the start of a three- week self-drive trip through Botswana, with a huge diversity in landscapes and a wealth of wildlife. Part one is about the border and the first camp near Gaborone. Let’s go!
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Khama Rhino Sanctuary

This small community-based conservation project has big ideas. Come and support their efforts in rhino conservation.
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Kubu Island, Makgadigadi

It’s very hard to describe just how breath-taking and magical the salt pans are, but let’s give it a go!
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Nxai Pan – Perhaps The Most Underrated Park In Botswana

Nxai Pan National Park might not be on your radar when you plan a Botswana trip, but it should be!
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Elephant Sands Lodge – still relevant?

If you want to study elephant behaviour and the herd dynamic a little closer, this is where you come to. Very happy to see that Elephant Sands is still going strong and maintaining its charm
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Chobe Safari Lodge – The Kasane Magic

Sometimes we just need a little more comfort. Things like running water, an electrical socket, or a shower(!). Chobe Safari Lodge has all that – and much more!
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Chobe National Park and Savuti Camp

Chobe National Park, Botswana’s oldest game reserve, offers quite a bit of diversity. It stretches from the Chobe River in the north, with thick woodlands and large herds of animals attracted by the water, to the Savuti marshlands—which are pretty dry these days.
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The Subtle Magic of Mbudi (Khwai)

Water is the buzzword here, right in front of the campsite. A laidback mokoro trip, hippos nearby and elephants grazing just add to the charm.
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Moremi Game Reserve & Third Bridge Camp

A little bit of rain goes a long way to spotting some game! And some noisy neighbours in camp
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DOWNTOWN Maun Tour & Okavango SCENIC Flight

Maun is the centre of the universe when you are in the Okavango region. This is the place to be for a helicopter flight over the Okavango, or a fascinating Cultural Tour
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CKGR – why we head for The Exit

It was all going so well. The Kalahari, man what a fascinating place! Until we need to find the exit…
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Welcome to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve!

Welcome to the CKGR! A dry, hot, dusty, and inhospitable place. So why come here at all?
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Botswana Self Drive 4X4 Tips & Observations – Africa at its best

You need three senses and some faith to survive a solo self-drive 4×4 in remote Africa!
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African Ranches River Camp

The whole campsite, in its entirety, is not much more than the size of our single pitch in Savute Camp in Chobe. I think that there is room for about five or six vehicles here. What a contrast…
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Chobe River Cruise & the history of Sedudu Island

Departing from the dock at the splendid Chobe River Lodge this three hour cruise takes us out into the very wide Chobe River, along the border with Namibia and around Sedudu Island.
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Elephant Sands Bush Lodge & Campsite

The clue is in the name. But you only realise it when you get there. A herd of elephants and a lot of sand. Oh, and no fences at all!
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Chobe Safari Lodge – Kasane

A very pleasant shock awaits us as we trade the dry, dusty and hot conditions in Chobe for the oasis in Kasane.
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Chobe National Park – Savute Camp

The first time I heard of Chobe was as a kid a long time ago. It had the same status as Serengeti or Etosha for me. An unreachable destination somewhere in central Africa.
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Moremi Game Reserve – Third Bridge Camp

An unfiltered experience, of being on your own, in your own time and ungoverned by an itinerary. This is a magnificent, privileged experience which I challenge you to put a monetary value on.
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The Road from Gweta to Maun (and some fuel for our trouble)

After an hour of appreciating the countryside at a sedate 80 km/h, and at roughly 150 km from Maun, we saw a vehicle off the road against the game fence, bonnet up and a guy lying under the vehicle…
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Okavango River Lodge – Maun, Botswana

Maun is a strange place. But in a good way. It is both a small town and a big ‘hub’ for the game park tourism industry. It has two faces…
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Makgadigadi Salt Pans | Solo Self-Drive Botswana

There’s no vegetation, no wildlife, and no connection. It makes you feel small and insignificant yet quite alive. There’s an energy that you can’t quite put your finger on…
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