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Botswana
Meerkats on sentinel duty, elephants in the Okavango, and some of Africa's wildest dry-country wildlife.
Wildlife overview
Botswana is southern Africa at its most pristine — a country of Kalahari desert, salt pans, and the Okavango Delta flooding into the sands. Wildlife here is adapted to arid beauty: meerkat mobs at burrow entrances, elephants wading delta channels, and lions on the Savuti marsh.
For collectors, Botswana offers intimate desert encounters — habituated meerkat groups that film crews have made famous, and vast unfenced wilderness that feels like Africa before fences.
Species to spot here
Popular discoveries
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Meerkat — The desert sentinel — a small mongoose that stands upright on hind legs, scanning the Kalahari sky while its family digs for scorpions below.
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Hippopotamus — The river horse — a two-tonne wall of muscle that spends its days submerged and its nights grazing on land.
Best places to spot wildlife
Kalahari Desert
Central Botswana
Red sand and sparse scrub — home to meerkat mobs, gemsbok, and brown hyenas at burrow entrances at dawn.
Okavango Delta
Northern Botswana
A river that never reaches the sea — mokoro trips through papyrus channels with elephants, hippos, and painted dogs.
Chobe National Park
Northern Botswana
One of Africa's greatest elephant concentrations along the Chobe River at sunset.
Makgadikgadi Pans
Northeast Botswana
Vast salt flats that flood seasonally — flamingos, zebra migrations, and meerkats on the pan edges.
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