If you’re after a large body of open water with an abundant food supply then you’re a fish eagle. Or a tourist trying to find your way to Audi Camp. Keep going. 12km out of Maun, through the bushes, by the river, it’s there. The eagle has landed. It’s got a restaurant, a bar and the same name as Namibia’s national bird. In the local lingo.

Baines' Camp is the last word in luxury and intimacy in the Okavango Delta. Situated in a private concession, the game viewing activities are on offer cover the range of possibilities in the delta with the addition of a unique and essential experience: the elephant safari where three orphans take you on a safari of their native land.

On the outer edge of the Okavango delta, on the edge of a forest, overlooking a river. The Khwai River. Belmond Khwai River Lodge is here and just outside Moremi Game Reserve. You're in the wild. You're in their home. No fences, no kidding. Be alert. You could well be making eye contact with a wandering elephant. Or hippo.

The Big 5 Chobe Lodge is an affordable lodge in Kazangula near Kasane and Chobe Game Reserve.

The Boteti River Camp is on the edge of Khumaga Village, 140 km south east of Maun. Close to the Khumaga entrance gate of Makgadikgadi National Park and within easy reach of Nxai Pan National Park and Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

One of the very first camps in Botswana owned and run by the Bukakwe Clan, it comes as no surprise that it's on a heritage site of the first people who lived there, or shall we say the first people in history. Ahem. That's right if you want to camp like a champ, do so in 370,000 acres of wildlife and vegetation with the people who know it best.

Calm, relaxed and oh so understated, Camp Kalahari is on the edge of the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans on Hyena Island. This lunar landscape of the Kalahari is one for the books, especially over summer (from January to April) when all the birds swarm in and the zebra and wildebeest start to migrate.

In an area famous for lion prides and elephant herds, Camp Linyanti is the kind of glamping we approve of: a basic tent setup with a comfortable bed, en suite bathroom and air conditioning. In an area as wild as this it's good to 'camp' indoors with some creature comforts.

Camp Moremi is a small and welcoming safari lodge in the Okavango Delta's Moremi Game Reserve on the edge of a large palm-infringed lagoon.

Camp Okavango is a small and comfortable safari lodge deep in the Okavango Delta, surrounded by lagoons and permanent waterways dotted with islands.

Did you expect a whirlpool tub in your tent? What about elephants roaming through your safari lodge? Camp Savuti has one of the highest densities of wildlife in Africa and is only 40 minutes from the Savuti Airport, in the Chobe National Park.

Pronounced KA-ka-na-ka, this tented camp overlooking its namesake lagoon has one of the best locations of all the safari lodges in the Okavango Delta. With equal measure of permanent water and dry land, the game viewing activities are excellent all year round.

Chiawa Camp was one of the first safari lodges to set up camp in the once-lawless-now-thriving Lower Zambezi National Park. Today, the family-run camp retains its pioneering African safari ethos with a charming old-world safari tent accommodation beneath massive thatched gazebos.

Here is an Okavango Delta game viewing safari at its best. Chief's Camp is a five-star luxury safari lodge on Chief's Island in a beautiful, serene and game-rich private concession.

Chobe Bakwena Lodge sits right on the edge of the Chobe River just before it joins the Zambezi en route to Victoria Falls; where Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe meet; where mighty game reserves surround you; where untouched African bush disappears into yet another sensational sunset.

Anything "Chobe" is always a good idea if amazing game viewing and beautiful settings are your goal. With three airports nearby, getting there is a cinch and the cream on top? Victoria Falls is an easy day trip or overnight away so you've no excuse to not experience that awesome spectacle.

With a view over the Chobe River, Chobe Chilwero (pronounced chee-LAIR-o) is a plush African luxury lodge with a sublime setting.

In the vast flatness that is Botswana any vantage point is like gold and Chobe Elephant Camp has struck the mother lode. On a rocky hilltop with the Chobe River below, the endless plains of the Kalahari Basin disappear into the horizon: the sense of timeless space is worth a pocketful of gold any day.

Chobe Game Lodge is a rough-clad vaulted maze of courtyards, passages and verandahs that face the Chobe River and its great flood plain.

River views, warthogs and dodgy TV signals. Don’t rely on technology but do count on wildlife aplenty: elephant, buffalo, hippo, crocodiles. And that's just on your front lawn.

There are 3 Chobe Princess Houseboats. They’re not big, in fact if there’s a group of you, book it out and have your own floating villa. They take you down the river, just kilometres from the meeting point of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. You don’t travel far, you travel chilled. Although you still go 50km along the Chobe River. Breathe in that African bush.

Under One Botswana Sky comprises eight safari lodges and camps and one of the lucky winners is Chobe Safari Lodge, in Kasane, Botswana.

A top choice for a campsite if you are thinking to camp while exploring the game-rich Chobe National Park. From Chobe Safari Lodge, you’re only 10 minutes from the entrance into the park and the campsites are scattered beneath large trees on the banks of the Chobe River. This is arguably the best place in Kasane to take in the sunset.

Chobe Savanna Lodge is an intimate luxury safari lodge with all its attention on the Chobe River on the edge of the Chobe National Park

While everyone in and around Chobe flaunts their 5-star trumpets and jingles their bells and whistles, Chobe Under Canvas lets the place speak for itself with nothing but clean simplicity and a really good view.

Chobe meets Zambezi and right there on the river’s edge, at the tip of the Caprivi Strip you find the luxurious Chobe Water Villas. All suites, all inclusive, all encompassing.

Cresta Thapama is a three-star 96-roomed hotel in Francistown, Botswana. It is within walking distance of major business centres, shopping malls and the city’s attractions. The hotel is surrounded by lush gardens and swimming pools.

Deception Valley Lodge is a luxury, 5-star lodge in a game reserve in Botswana. Here traditional African themes carry the experience along with game drives and a day with the bushmen.

Veering towards the rustic end of the luxury safari continuum, Delta Camp is a small, remote and characterful safari lodge in a permanent channel in Botswana's Okavango Delta.

Some places are a little "too safari", you know? Too many features to remind you, you are amongst the animals and to few to remind you that you are on holiday. Dinaka Safari Lodge is elegant, soft even and just enough "safari".

Ideal as a stopover and even better for a few nights' downtime, Drotsky's is a home-grown institution in north-western Botswana on the Okavango River near the Namibia border.

In the north of the Okavango Delta and just outside of the Moremi Game Reserve you will find the hidden gem in 77,000 acres. We say gem, since it is inaccessible for most of the year if you are not flying in.

Up in the north there is a water-loving Okavango Delta Safari waiting to create a romantic setting. Eagle Island Lodge in the land of the honeymooners. Days are spent by the water (or in the water) and wrap the evenings up with treats and drinks while you forget about the real world.

For now Edo's Camp is closed and there's no set date for it to re-open.

While you lounge about with your feet in the pool, you can look over to the watering hole to see the elephants swaying around by the water in between sips. Situated in the dry Manyeleti riverbed, Elephant Sands Lodge is a home under Jackalberry trees, and not just for you, but also to animals such as the Big Five.

Elephant Valley Lodge, on the edge of the Chobe National Park, is an affordable and comfortable safari lodge alternative to the premium-priced options elsewhere in the Chobe area.

This is true Kalahari wilderness. Deep sand roads disappearing on the horizon, dry savannah plains and endless grasslands. It’s vast, isolated and immense. Scrub and brush, empty pans and bright night skies. There on the northern border of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve lies your thatch and timber lodge – Evolve Back Gham Dhao Lodge.

Remote, steep, spectacular. High on the hills in the middle of nowhere, imagine you're a bateleur eagle in a mopane tree, steeling glances at the waterhole below. By the way, you have to be 6 or older so pre-schoolers should stop reading now.

Beneath the canopy of acacia trees, up in the Okavango Delta on the edge of the Gomoti River lies a classic safari camp experience with a bit of extra luxury. Known for its extremely concentrated wildlife, fauna and flora, you are sure to find yourself in paradise. Welcome, you made a good choice.

Water, water everywhere. Originating from the tropics of Angola. And yet, this lush spillage is part of the Kalahari Desert. It’s an oasis, the world’s largest inland delta and it empties all over the open land, flooding the savannah. This, is the Okavango Delta. And this is where your camp is.

From the moment you touch down on Ntswi Island in Botswana's Moremi Game Reserve you'll feel something magical, mysterious, timeless and ultimately the very thing you've come to Africa to experience. Gunn's Camp is that special something.

Island Safari Lodge is a 300 acre private island reserve on the banks of the Thamalakane River in Maun.

Jack's Camp, in the middle of the Makgadikgadi, is a luxury safari lodge with a dramatic location in a palm grove on the salt pans of the Kalahari.

In the far north of the Okavango Delta on a secluded peninsula and surrounded by the Eden-like paradise of floodplains, channels and the great big African sky, Kadizora Camp is a plush safari camp that ticks all the luxury boxes and then some more.

If you want remote, Kalahari Plains Camp is about as far from anywhere as you can get. The ultimate middle-of-nowhere experience, Kalahari Plains Camp is situated near the centre of one of the world's largest games reserves, itself in the centre of Botswana - one of the world's most sparsely populated countries.

Kana Kara is a small, authentic safari camp on a tiny island in Botswana's iconic Okavango Delta where the handle meets the pan in a land far, far away.

Kanana Camp is a water and land-based safari lodge in the Okavango Delta. A private concession on the Xudum River, where game viewing delivers year round and guarantees a true Delta experience.

Stone walls and thatched roofs from the outside but glance in and you’ll be wowed. Classic old world safari meets contemporary, modern and industrial. Pure mastery of “less is more”. In style that is, certainly not in offering or level of service.

Khwai Tented Camp is a back-to-the-bush safari camp in a community concession on the edge of Botswana's Moremi Game Reserve.

Kubu Lodge, on the banks of the Chobe River, is a homegrown, home-made, home-from-home safari lodge near Kasane in northwest Botswana.

The campsite is between Botswana’s northern towns of Kazungula and Kasane and opposite the Chobe River. It’s an hour from Victoria Falls and one kilometre away from where four countries meet Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana.

Kwalape Safari Lodge is on the Chobe River between the towns Kazungula and Kasane in northern Botswana. Close to the entrance of the Chobe National Park and 70km from Victoria Falls. It's a laid back place and a good base camp.

An intimate and comfortable tented camp in Botswana's Okavango Delta, Kwara Camp ticks all the boxes for an incredible safari experience: on a private concession; land- and water-based safari activities; year round access; exclusive wildlife experiences and plenty of them.

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Leroo La Tau, meaning lion spoor, is a small safari lodge in Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, on the edge of the Central Kalahari.

Linyanti Ebony Camp is a small, luxurious offshoot of Linyanti Bush Camp in a private reserve deep inside Chobe National Park in north-eastern Botswana.

For a taste of luxury under canvas in the African bush, Machaba Camp offers a glorious location under the trees next to the River Khwai on the edge of Botswana's famous Okavango Delta.

With handmade chalets with adobe walls, thatched roofs and rough-hewn timber furniture aboard a large deck hovering above the Delta marshland, Mapula is a well-camouflaged eccentric safari lodge.

It has no beginning, no end. Like infinity, or a circle, perhaps a doughnut? Ooh, yes please. Warm. With extra sugar. Thanks. That's what people say about the Thamalakane River.

Meno a Kwena Tented Camp is a rustic safari camp on the edge of the Boteti River overlooking the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park in Botswana.

Mamma mia means 'my mother' and that's what this place is. To buffalo babies. This is Mma Dinare. Mother buffalo. In the heart of the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana.

Moremi Crossing, built in 2009, is a modern and eco-friendly safari lodge in the Okavango Delta overlooking the Boro River and Chief's Island.

River views and roaming elephants. A hair salon in a tree house and a golf course. This is the Mowana Safari Resort & Spa. Lying on the banks of the Chobe River, it’s in a small town called Kasane in Botswana.

Nata Lodge, 10km south of the eponymous crossroads town is a rare find: a convenient and comfortable overnight stop and a unique destination.

Ngoma Safari Lodge feels like you're a million miles from anywhere but in fact you're less than an hour from Kasane International Airport in Botswana's northeast corner. The lodge is built high on a ridge above the Chobe River.

Tip-toeing along that delicate line between a five-star pampering and an exciting wilderness adventure, Nxabenga Okavango Tented Camp makes it look easy.

Nxai Pan National Park is a fascinating chunk of Kalahari bush between the greater Chobe National Park to the north and the endless Makgadikgadi Pans National Park to the south. Nxai Pan is also the name of a Kwando safari lodge inside the park.

Unlike most safari lodges in Botswana's Okavango Delta, Oddballs' is a dressed-down rustic tented camp that pours its heart and soul into creating a fun and rewarding Delta experience rather than trying to blow you away with fine dining and lavish accommodation.

Okuti makes stylish use of traditional design and adds a generous dollop of luxury in the Moremi Game Reserve inside the famous Okavango Delta of Botswana.

Old Bridge Backpackers is a campsite in a riverine forest on the banks of the Thamalakane River.

You're in the heart of the wild here, the Chobe National Park boundary is only a few hundred metres away. Consequently, you'll probably be the first through the gate for game drives. Every day. The hotel boats are ready to go too. Moored below, you'll be in the park before you've sat down.

Binoculars? Check. Sunglasses? Check. Hat? Check. Good. You’re ready to board.

Planet Baobab is a quirky camp in a thicket of baobab trees on the edge of the Makgadikgadi. Comfortable and well-positioned, the camp is a good base from which to explore Botswana's other side - the Kalahari.

Planet Baobab, like an authentic Kalanga style village, is one of few respites along a long stretch between Nata and Maun. African chic meets the simplicity of the Kalahari Desert. The campsites are shaded and the swimming pool is, by a long shot, the best in these parts.

Being in a private concession in the Okavango Delta means Pom Pom Camp and its (maximum) 18 guests have exclusive access to Africa's most pristine and unspoilt wilderness area.

For those long haul flights when the last thing you want is to step onto another plane and fly to your safari camp, Royal Tree Lodge, just outside Maun is a convenient safari-lite overnight stop.

Its funky name means "father buffalo", and this place is indeed the buffalo's eyebrows. So drenched in wildlife, in the heart of all the action, it's almost ridiculous. Perched upon stilts, overlooking the flood plains of the Gomoti River. A room with a view, submerged into nature. Get lost in the surrounding bush and pure wilderness.

Built upon the belief of Greg and Kelly Butler that a safari should revolve around freedom and privacy, Sable Alley offers an intimate experience of this pristine private reserve: The Khwai Private Reserve. At 2000 square kilometres, it is three times the size of the popular Sabi Sands in South Africa and infinitely more private. The diverse landscape of this area means great wildlife and for you, that means exceptional game viewing and sightings.

Sango Safari Camp is a classic tented safari lodge in northern Botswana sandwiched between the Delta and the Khwai Community Concession.

If the Savuti Channel is one of the finest game-viewing areas in Botswana, and Botswana is one of the finest game viewing countries in Africa, then Savute Elephant Lodge is the finest luxury safari lodge in the finest game-viewing area in Africa.