Where the Kalahari floods and the wild comes to drink

Okavango Delta: Full-Day Mokoro/Canoe Tour All-Inclusive

The classic delta day and the most-reviewed Okavango experience on GetYourGuide. Members of the local polers’ community take you out along the reed-lined waterways in a mokoro, you stop for lunch on an island and then walk with your guide to read tracks and look for plains game. Transfers from Maun and meals are included.

• Poled through the channels in a traditional mokoro
• Lunch on an island in the delta
• Guided nature walk to look for game on foot

Maun: 45-Minute Doors-Off Scenic Flight

The delta only makes sense from the air: a maze of channels, lagoons and palm islands that no road can show you. This private helicopter flight leaves from Maun with the doors removed, so nothing sits between your lens and the herds wading below.

• Private doors-off helicopter over the delta
• Unobstructed views for photographers
• Elephants, buffalo and hippo seen from above

Okavango: Moremi Game Reserve Guided Safari Adventure

The best-rated way to see Moremi without committing to a camping safari. You leave Maun early, drive to the reserve’s South Gate and spend the day on the tracks around the floodplains and mopane woodland, with lunch in the bush. It is a long day — but Moremi is one of the finest game reserves in Africa.

• Full day of game driving in Moremi Game Reserve
• Open 4x4 vehicle with a local guide
• Chance of lion, leopard, elephant and wild dog

From Kasane: Chobe National Park Full Day Wildlife Safari

The full Chobe riverfront day at a very fair price. A boat cruise puts you at water level with hippos, crocodiles and elephants swimming between the islands, lunch is served at a lodge in Kasane, and the afternoon game drive follows the riverfront where the park’s famous elephant herds come down to drink.

• Morning boat cruise on the Chobe River
• Buffet lunch at a riverside lodge
• Afternoon open-vehicle game drive in the park

Chobe Day Trip from Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

The most-booked way to add a Botswana safari to a Victoria Falls stay. You are driven to the Kazungula border, handed over to a Botswana operator, and spend the day on the Chobe River by boat and in the park by open vehicle. Border formalities are handled with you; bring your passport.

• Cross into Botswana at Kazungula with a guide
• Chobe River boat trip and game drive
• Lunch at a lodge in Kasane

From Maun: 3-Day Moremi Game Reserve Safari Tour

Three days is the minimum we would give Moremi, and sleeping in the reserve is what makes it work: you are on the tracks at first light when the predators are moving, and back at camp for the sounds of the night. A mobile camping safari from Maun with guide, vehicle and camp.

• Two nights camping in Moremi
• Early-morning and late-afternoon game drives
• Over 400 bird species in the region

Zimbabwe & Zambia: Guided Tour of the Falls from Both Sides

Most visitors see the falls from one country. This guided tour walks the rainforest trail on the Zimbabwean side, then crosses to see the falls from Zambia — the only way to understand how long the curtain of water really is. Check your visa arrangements before you go.

• Viewpoints in Zimbabwe and in Zambia
• Cross the border at the Victoria Falls Bridge
• Rainforest trail in the spray

Maun: 6-Day Okavango, Savuti, Chobe & Victoria Falls Tour

The great northern Botswana overland in under a week: from Maun into the delta country, north through the predator territory of Savuti, along the Chobe River and out to Victoria Falls. It solves the logistics of linking the three big sights in one go, which on your own means flights or very long self-drive days.

• Okavango Delta, Savuti and the Chobe riverfront
• Finishes at Victoria Falls
• Camping with a guide and support crew

Okavango Delta

The river that never reaches the sea

The Okavango rises in the Angolan highlands and spills into the Kalahari sand instead of the ocean, spreading into a fan of channels, lagoons and islands the size of a small country. UNESCO listed it in 2014 as the world’s 1,000th World Heritage Site. Explore it by mokoro, by boat, on foot and from the air.

Moremi Game Reserve

The delta’s protected heart

Covering much of the eastern delta, Moremi combines permanent swamp, seasonal floodplain and dry mopane woodland — which is why it holds such a range of wildlife. It is one of the best places in Africa to see African wild dog, alongside lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and hundreds of bird species. Reachable by road from Maun.

Khwai

Moremi’s wilder neighbour

The Khwai River forms the northern boundary of Moremi, and the community-run concession on its far bank offers the same wildlife with more freedom: night drives, bush walks and off-road tracking are all possible here. Famous for leopard, wild dog and big elephant herds in the dry season.

Maun

Gateway to the delta

A spread-out frontier town on the Thamalakane River, Maun is where almost every Okavango safari begins: the airport handles a steady stream of light aircraft into the camps, and the town has the supermarkets, 4x4 hire, mokoro operators and riverside lodges you need before heading out.

Chobe National Park

Elephant country

Botswana’s first national park stretches from the Chobe River at Kasane down to the predator plains of Savuti. In the dry season the riverfront hosts one of the greatest concentrations of elephant on earth, and the boat cruises here are among the best wildlife experiences in Africa.

Victoria Falls

The smoke that thunders

About 80 km from Kasane, the Zambezi drops more than 100 metres into a basalt gorge along a front of around 1.7 kilometres — the largest curtain of falling water in the world. A UNESCO site shared by Zimbabwe and Zambia, and the natural start or finish for a Botswana safari.