Botswana, a gem in Southern Africa, offers an extraordinary safari experience with its diverse, unspoiled landscapes. The dry season is ideal for game viewing as wildlife gather around water sources, while the wet season brings lush greenery and migratory birds. The Okavango Delta, Botswana’s crown jewel, invites visitors to glide through lily-covered channels in a traditional mokoro canoe or enjoy aerial views on a helicopter flight. For a different adventure, the vast Makgadikgadi Pans offer salt flats perfect for quad biking and meerkat encounters. In the Kalahari Desert, explore traditional survival skills with the San Bushmen or embark on a riverboat safari on the Chobe River to see elephants and buffalo up close. From the lush delta to the arid desert, Botswana provides a journey into the heart of the wild.
Travelling to Botswana with True
Our team have lived, travelled and guided extensively across Botswana, managing lodges and curating a network of Africa’s best guides to lead a range of luxury tours.
Our travel design process starts with you and your ideas, each trip created from a blank piece of paper.
Our Africa specialist’s have created a selection of example itineraries to provide a sense of what can be crafted for you in Botswana.
10 Day Itinerary
Guide Price: £11,000pp
Visit Botswana to experience two unique types of safari to witness the best wildlife of the region, between a tranquil riverboat safari and a thrilling walking safari.
10 Day Itinerary
Guide Price: £15,400pp
Embark on an extraordinary adventure in Botswana, exploring diverse landscapes via mokoro canoe, spending time with the San Bushmen and tracing the paths of majestic elephants through the wilderness.
13 Day Itinerary
Guide Price: £10,700pp
Embark on a unique safari adventure through Botswana’s Okavango Delta and Namibia’s secluded desert lodges. Blend a range of wildlife, cultural and outdoor activities to explore the diverse terrain.
10 Day Itinerary
Guide Price: £16,800pp
Embark on the ultimate African adventure, exploring diverse landscapes such as Victoria Falls, the Okavango Delta and the salt pans whilst uncovering a wide range of wildlife on river and walking safaris.
Duration: 10 Days
Guide Price: £11,000pp
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Visit Botswana to experience two unique types of safari to witness the best wildlife of the region, between a tranquil riverboat safari and a thrilling walking safari.
Duration: 10 Days
Guide Price: £15,400pp
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Embark on an extraordinary adventure in Botswana, exploring diverse landscapes via mokoro canoe, spending time with the San Bushmen and tracing the paths of majestic elephants through the wilderness.
Duration: 10 Days
Guide Price: £10,700pp
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Embark on a remarkable Southern African journey, discovering the highlights of South Africa, Botswana and Zambia. Explore culturally vibrant cities and become immersed in breathtaking natural landscapes with unique features, teeming with diverse wildlife.
A lodge surrounded by picturesque papyrus swamps and wooded islands and is renowned for its remarkable mammal sightings.
Jack’s Camp is situated in this prehistoric setting offering just ten bedouin-style canvas tents with en-suite bathrooms and spacious bedrooms with persian rugs and cool cotton sheets.
Only accessible by boat, the island safari camp creates an exclusive and private atmosphere.
Botswana boasts some of the finest camps and lodges in Africa and True Travel partners with the very best.
Each trip True Travel curate is based on the experience you are looking for and as an independent travel operator, we are not obliged or committed to any properties. You can rest safe in the knowledge that the accommodation we recommend for your stay has been chosen based on your interests, not ours.
Unlike many of Africa’s other safari orientated destinations, Botswana remains a destination that can be visited throughout the year.
The summer rainy season a viable time to travel, thanks largely to how well the rains drain through the sands of the Kalahari Desert that covers much of the country. This, coupled with amazing wildlife viewing and prices that can be less than half of what they are in the drier winter months, it is an incredible time to visit for those that don’t mind the heat and some rain storms.
That said, the traditional dry season months are still incredibly popular and offer some of the finest game viewing anywhere in Africa.
Local Time: GMT+2
Local Currency: Botswana Pula
Capital: Gaborone
Undoubtedly one of Africa’s most beautiful rivers, the Chobe supports a diversity and concentration of wildlife unparalled anywhere else in the country. Established in 1968, the park covers approximately 11,700 sq kms, encompassing floodplains, swamps and woodland. There are four distinct geographical areas in the park: the Chobe Riverfront, the Ngwezumba pans, Savuti and Linyanti.
The most accessible and frequently visited of Botswana’s big game country, the Chobe Riverfront is most famous for its large herds of elephants and Cape Buffalo, which during the dry winter months converge upon the river to drink.
As one of the most sought after wilderness destinations in the world, the Okavango Delta gives entrance to the wild Africa that dreams are made of; the heart-stopping excitement of big game viewing, the supreme tranquility and serenity of an untouched delta.
The Okavango Delta is situated deep within the Kalahari Basin, and is often referred to as the jewel of the Kalahari.
Our Africa specialist, Felix has over 20 years of experience selling Africa holidays, so you can be assured you will be in the best hands when planning your trip. He will look after you start to finish using his expert knowledge to give you a holiday to remember.
Felix has over 20 years experience designing trips to Africa and has travelled to many far-flung regions in the continent; visiting at least twice a year since his career began.
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