Botswana Delta Guide
11 min read · Botswana · 5 topics
Topics covered
- Okavango Delta
- Chobe River
- Makgadikgadi
- Fly-in vs Self-Drive
- Entry & Visa
Okavango Delta
The Okavango is one of the world's great natural phenomena — an inland river system that pours down from the Angolan highlands and fans out into a shallow alluvial delta covering up to 22,000km² in the northern Kalahari basin. There is no outlet to the sea; the water evaporates…
Chobe River
Chobe National Park in northern Botswana is famous above all for elephant — herds of 500 or more have been documented here during the dry season, making it Africa's highest-density elephant range. The Chobe Riverfront provides exceptional and easily accessible game viewing;…
Makgadikgadi
The Makgadikgadi Pans stretch across northeastern Botswana as one of the world's largest salt flats — a remnant of an ancient super-lake that once covered most of the Kalahari basin. In the dry season (April–September), the pans are crispy, blindingly white, and completely flat…
Fly-in vs Self-Drive
Botswana's premier wilderness areas — the deep Okavango Delta, Linyanti, and Selinda — are accessible only by small charter aircraft or after many hours on 4x4-only sandy tracks. The fly-in versus self-drive question comes down to time, budget, and experience. Fly-in safaris…
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