Botswana

The Okavango Delta, the Chobe elephants and camps so remote you arrive by light aircraft.

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Flight timeAround 14 hours via Johannesburg

Time differenceGMT +2

CurrencyBotswana pula

Best monthsMay to October

Ideal trip length8 to 12 days

Overview

Why go to Botswana

Botswana chose quality over quantity. Low visitor numbers, high standards and vast private concessions where your vehicle is often the only one for miles. The Okavango Delta floods each year into a maze of channels and islands, and you explore it by mokoro canoe, on foot and by open vehicle.

Chobe has the largest elephant population in Africa. The Makgadikgadi pans have meerkats and, in the wet season, a zebra migration. Most trips fly camp to camp, and we’ll build a circuit that gives you water, dry land and big game in the right order.

Highlights

A mokoro canoe through the Okavango channels
Elephants in their hundreds on the Chobe riverfront
Walking safaris with the guides at Moremi
Meerkats at Makgadikgadi
Lions on the Savuti marsh
A fly-camp night under the stars

Where to go

Tailor-made holidays in Botswana

Suggested journeys to use as a starting point. Pick one, mix them together or ask us to build something completely different.

13 days

Tailor-made holiday

Botswana camping safari in the Okavango Delta

13 days, from £5,205 ppFlights included

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Things to do

What you'll remember about Botswana

The experiences worth building a trip around, chosen by consultants who've done them.

Mokoro in the OkavangoWind through the reeds by mokoro canoe in search of bathing hippos.

Elephants of ChobeChobe National Park has the largest elephant concentration in Africa.

Tsodilo rock paintingsThousands of etchings of animals and people, over 24,000 years old.

Explore the Central KalahariAngolan giraffes wander among the acacia trees of the desert reserve.

Go with a group

Small group tours in Botswana

Travel with a small group and a local leader, with the route and experiences already brought together for you.

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Make it yours

Love the experiences, but want your own trip?

Use these group tours as inspiration. We can take the routes, activities and places you like and build a private tailor-made Botswana holiday around you.

Design my Botswana holiday

Plan Botswana with Gray

After spending a year travelling abroad, I started my travel career at Trailfinders, where I spent six and a half years, the last part putting together bespoke touring itineraries, including Business Class.

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Why Travel Nation for Botswana

We've been building tailor-made trips from our Brighton office since 2001. Here's what travelling to Botswana with us actually means.

One person, start to finish

You'll be matched with a consultant who knows Botswana and stays with you for your entire booking. No call centres and no repeating yourself.

Independent since 2001

We're an independent travel company based in Brighton. Over 25 years of building trips our own way, with no airline or hotel ties.

Your booking is protected

Your trip is ATOL 9828 protected and ABTOT bonded, so your money is safe from the moment you book.

With you while you travel

24hr support while you're away. If anything changes mid trip, your consultant is one call away.

Pairs well with

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