Here’s our curated list of just some of Botswana’s best safari lodges. Our top 10 picks. Each one offering something special.
Luxury at its finest coupled with a five star wilderness experience in some of Botswana’s finest wildlife destinations.
These are the ones you have to look at including in your itinerary and there are more. Botswana easily has some of the most incredible luxury lodges in Africa offering the most wild, raw and intimate safari experiences with big five game sightings.
Explore the below to begin with. Let us know your preferences and we’ll tailor your safari to include the best of the best in Botswana for standard, location and experience. That’s what we do best. Contact a travel expert to start planning.
Besides being one of only two lodges inside the Chobe National Park, it’s also the most luxurious and upmarket lodge option with the very best location. It’s spectacular. You’re in the park on game drives before sunrise and after sunset. Guaranteed the best sightings. Explore the abundance of the Chobe River too. Stay in style.
Chief’s Camp offers a classic safari sanctuary of five star calibre in its luxury lodging and wildlife sightings. It’s unpretentious yet elegant and offers a real deal safari in the Mombo Concession on Chief’s Island, known to be one of the best locations for predators in the Okavango Delta.
In one of the finest game viewing areas of Botswana on the Savuti Channel, this could easily be one of the finest safari lodges in Africa. The lodge is ultimate luxury in a setting as wild as they come. You hardly need to leave the lodge to encounter great sightings. It is pure relaxation and an exhilarating big five safari in one.
This is the ultimate for an intimate and private safari in the Okavango Delta. With only five luxurious suites, offering top class service and excellent game viewing. Here you can explore doing land and water based activities on a private concession along the Boro River.
This is a tented safari lodge that offers luxury. A safari experience with all the creature comforts and then some, plus the views, incredible wildlife bordering on the Moremi Game Reserve on the Khwai River and the extras like in-room spa treatments and a private hide for birdwatching.
An understated camp on the edge of the Makgadikgadi Pans. The landscape here is surreal, birding is amazing and if you time it right, you can experience the zebra and wildebeest migration. It’s in a ginormous private wildlife reserve and the camp itself is traditional with its own character throughout.
Situated in the Moremi Game Reserve, the wildlife here is surreal and the camp equally so. The large spacious and luxurious suites are refined and elegant, the view is spectacular, the level of service is top notch and both the game drives and boat cruises yield an incredible delta experience.
Your very own luxury floating villa and houseboat on the Chobe River. A chance to experience wildlife from the peaceful water’s edge. Grand sundowners and an entirely different safari experience at a slower pace.
This is a safari camp that is both down to earth and elegantly luxurious offering what could easily be one of the best wildlife safaris in the delta. It’s on a private concession, the guides are incredible and the location is key. If you’re looking for the ultimate safari experience and wildlife encounter too good to be true, this is where it is at.
A very stylish and modern contemporary safari lodge in a wild setting. Views are spectacular as is the atmosphere and ambience here. Wildlife sightings are good year round bordering on the Moremi Game Reserve. Enjoy on-foot encounters, customised safari vehicles and helicopter transfers.
Compiling a list of this stature is by no means an easy task. Botswana flies the flag high when it comes to the standard and overall offering of safari lodges. Not only are the lodges of the highest calibre, the locations are some of the best for safari in Africa and the wildlife encounters don’t get much more real than this.
The above are just a few of our favourites, but there are plenty more to choose from and many that have a unique offering that may be just the right fit for you. Let us help you to pick not only the best safari lodges in Botswana, but the best experiences to ensure your Botswana safari exceeds your expectation.
Add a hot air balloon safari over the delta, a sundowner river cruise on the Chobe or a sleep-out experience under the dark night skies of the Kalahari. Options are limitless. We’ll combine experiences and tailor your safari to best suit what you have in mind. Talk to a travel expert today.
