Chobe’s Mopane Woodlands

Whilst the Chobe National Park is best known for its eastern floodplains; the park comprises many different vegetation types.  These habitats to the south of the A33 transit road support diverse species not often seen on the floodplains including the shy roan antelope.  Often overlooked these areas are vast, diverse, unspoiled and very rewarding for the intrepid traveler.  The Mopane …

Nogatsaa Pans

Eighty kilometers from the Chobe riverfront lies the recently opened Nogatsaa Pans Lodge.  With panoramic views of the enormous Kwikamba Pan in the heart of the Chobe National Park.  This permanent pan draws animals from the surrounding area. Game drives explore the dry Ngwezumba River valley and the surrounding  Mopane woodlands.  This is a remote area and guests might go a …

Hyena Pan – Getting closer

Seen from the air, elephant gather around the hide at Natural Selection’s Hyena Pan.  This new camp situated in the Khwai Private Reserve is also home to buffalo, lion, leopard and wild dog, as well as kudu and red lechwe. The simply decorated camp itself is sent in a grove of cathedral mopane trees overlooking the pan and comprises just …

Ker & Downey Botswana’s Dinaka – A new dawn

Recently reopened by Ker & Downey Botswana, Dinaka in the northern Kalahari is eliciting rave reviews.  Situated in a private reserve on the northern boundary of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve guests explore the region’s rich bio-diversity with regular sightings of  Kalahari lion, springbok, Oryx and brown hyena. Guests are accommodated in eight spacious tents, seven standard and one family, that …