Botswana-an unspoilt garden in the heart of Africa
Botswana-an untouched garden in the centre of Africa
Why Botswana is worth travelling with Skyship Adventure
Customised safari tours to Botswana
One of the top safari destinations, and definitely the most exclusive, Botswana is a land of dramatic landscapes and teeming life.
Described as “Africa’s last Eden”, the Okavango Delta is one of the richest ecosystems on our planet. Here you can easily see a lion chasing its prey through the shallow waters, raising sheaves of spray. In the delta, swap your safari jeep for a leisurely boat and cruise the lily-laden canals, enjoying the cool breeze and flocking birds.
Elephants roam the Chobe National Park like huge flotillas of ships. There are so many of them here that they could make up the population of a major European city. Add to this exotic birds (more than four hundred species!), lions, leopards, giraffes, buffaloes, hippos and you will understand why Chobe is considered one of the most interesting reserves in Africa.
These two regions alone would be enough for a whole trip, but with us you’ll also see the famous Kalahari Desert with its red sand, and the Tsodilo Hills with prehistoric stone drawings: you saw them as a child in a history book, but it turns out they exist!
In the Makgadikgadi salt marshes we will be amazed at how blue the sky can be over cracked earth, and in the Nxai Pan National Park you can admire classic African landscapes with zebras and baobabs.
By the way, Botswana is one of Prince Harry’s favourite countries: it is here that their romance with Meghan Markle began, and the engagement ring the prince gave to the actress had a Botswana diamond in it. And Harry is known to be a great connoisseur of Africa, and his taste can certainly be trusted.
Visa: not required
Air temperature: +23C – + 28C
Season: April – October; December – January
Duration: 3 – 7 days
Currency: Botswana pula
Flight duration: 18 hours with 2 connections
Vaccinations: immunisation against yellow fever is recommended
With us, you'll see
Okavango Delta
We will introduce you to one of the largest national parks located in the channel-dotted delta of the "disappearing" Okavango River, which does not flow anywhere; we will show thickets of sedges and papyrus, in which elephants, hippos and other large animals have trodden paths; we will organize a safari or an exciting water trip on a "mokoro" — hollowed out of a single tree trunk canoe.
Moremi Nature Reserve
We will take you to Moremi — the only place in the mysterious and little-known Okavango Delta that can be reached by land from the nearest tourist center. We will show comfortable campsites with runways for light aircraft; we will organize safaris on motorboats or local canoes so that you can meet and photograph a family of baboons at breakfast, puppies of a hyena-like dog or elephants, black and white rhinos, antelopes, lions, giraffes and other animals at a watering hole.
Chobe National Park
We will introduce you to the oldest and most beautiful corner of the country with a surprisingly diverse landscape — Chobe National Park, which is home to a huge population of large African elephants, lions, rhinos, buffaloes and many species of antelope, including black antelope; we will advise where at this time of year it is most likely to meet a herd of buffalo, a family of baboons, a tongued monitor lizard and other animals.
Kalahari Desert
We will take you through the capital of the Kalahari desert — the city of Ganzi; introduce you to representatives of the Bushmen — a mysterious people of hunters and gatherers who have not changed their way of life for more than 30,000 years and still hunt with a bow and poisonous arrows; show shops where they sell their household items; tell you about the most valuable artifact — a meteorite-a mask discovered by a local resident and kept in the city ever since.
Makkhadikhadi and Nksai-Pan National Parks
We will show you the desert and harsh salt marshes — a huge plateau-basin, which was once the largest lake in Africa, but now has turned into a flat, covered with a hard salt crust plain; introduce you to the locals; tell you in which of the villages it is best to observe the annual migration of wildebeest or zebras.
