The largest wildlife reserve in the northeastern Namibian Caprivi Strip is the West Caprivi National Park, which was merged with the Mahango Game Reserve in 2007 and is now called the Bwabwata National Park. However, amidst this area dedicated to wildlife and plant protection, approximately 5,500 inhabitants also reside, posing a significant challenge for park management – after all, this entails balancing conservation efforts with human settlement. Covering an area of 6,274 square kilometers, the national park is the second-largest in Namibia.

The Bwabwata National Park is ideal for wildlife safaris due to its lack of fencing, which allows for constant wildlife movement and numerous opportunities to observe various species in their natural habitat.

In the Bwabwata National Park, you can encounter Namibia's last wild dogs, hippos, crocodiles, and numerous water birds. Some members of the "Big Five" are frequently spotted along the riverbanks: lions, elephants, buffaloes, and leopards – only rhinos are not found here. Instead, expect to encounter roan and sable antelopes, bushbucks, wildebeests, impalas, kudus, oryxes, elands, red lechwes, reedbucks, sitatungas, as well as smaller antelope and mammal species, which you can discover while they search for water.