When you’ve been to the top-rated safari hotspots and fallen in love with Africa hook, line, and sinker, you begin to search for the hidden gems. The locations that are more remote, more raw, and more wild are found in Botswana’s swampland paradise just north-west of Chobe. Read what 2 bloggers had to say about…
Chobe National Park’s Linyanti Marsh region is one of the country’s most phenomenal game viewing locations. It is an untamed wilderness adjacent to the Linyanti River where riverine woodlands and lagoons surround the saturated areas close to the water, creating characteristic marshland, where the likelihood of spotting rarities, such as the red lechwe and sitatunga…
The lions of the Okavango Delta have been documented many times with special focus tuning to their unbelievable strength and learned ability to hunt in water. In Dereck and Beverly Joubert’s film for National Geographic – The Last Lions – a lone mother lioness has to learn to take down buffalo alone. It is an…
What stands out most about Mapula Lodge is its prime location in the Delta. The lodge determinedly makes the most of this with a structure that is open and airy, inviting the natural surroundings in through the large, mesh windows and onto the wooden decks. From the bedrooms, the private bathrooms, the lounge, the dining…
Whether you are spotting an infinitely diverse number of bird species from the depths of a dugout canoe, or trundling along in an open 4×4 Land Rover while admiring leopard, lion, elephant and wild dog with staggering frequency, one’s love of Botswana can only be renewed after a visit to Mapula Lodge. This exquisite setting…
This is something special, especially for people who have not had the experience of a safari from a boat, or a water-based safari. It is something quite unexpected to be in the wild region of the Kruger Park and add a river cruise to your safari experience, but at Nokana Safari Camp, it is a…
There’s no other way to describe Nokana Safari Camp other than as ‘an experience’. It is quite unique in the sense that guests go on game drives, bush walks and river cruises in a number of different areas; in 27 000 hectares of private game reserve, and in the endless extent of the Kruger National Park….
At which other safari camp are you transported to not only the Kruger National Park, but 3 different private reserves in the Kruger region? A week spent at Nokana Safari Camp introduces guests to 3 different game viewing experiences in reserves all within an hour of Nokana’s peaceful home-base. Never have I been so close…
As a part of Nokana Safari Camp’s exceptional line-up of activities, guests are taken on full day trips to the Kruger National Park twice a week. Not only is the Kruger South Africa’s most famous wildlife kingdom, it is also brimming with game activity and its surface area is compared to the size of Wales!…
To be where the wild things roam is to be in remotest Botswana. Settling at a secluded safari lodge is one thing, but being on the move and keeping your profile as low as possible is what really invites Africa in. Afrika Ecco Mobile Safaris takes its adventurous guests deep into some of the most…