Botswana Safari Complete Guide 2026: Okavango Delta, Chobe Elephants, Kalahari Lions and Makgadikgadi Pans
Browse more guides: Botswana travel | Africa destinations Botswana Safari Complete Guide 2026: Okavango Delta, Chobe Elephants, Kalahari Lions and Makgadikgadi Pans TL;DR Botswana sits at the top of my African safari list, and I keep returning even though the trip rarely costs less than a serious car back home. The country deliberately runs a premium low-volume tourism model, which means fewer vehicles, more space, and animals that behave like animals rather than props. Most of the wildlife wealth lives in five places I keep recommending: the Okavango Delta, a 15,000 square kilometre inland delta that became the 1,000th UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014; Chobe National Park, where about 120,000 elephants form the largest population on Earth across 10,566 square kilometres; Moremi Game Reserve, a 3,900 square kilometre Big Five anchor inside the Delta; the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the second-largest reserve in the world at 52,800 square kilometres and home to San Bushmen her...