The Makgadikgadi Pan is the world’s largest salt pan, formed on the bed of an ancient lake that began evaporating aeons ago. Visiting Makgadikgadi is a unique desert experience: in the dry season, this vast expanse of sun-baked salt glistens in the light and when the rains come, the pan is home to a cornucopia of flamingos and other waterbirds, as well as one of Africa's biggest zebra populations, whose annual migration is a wonder to behold.
Ancient floodplains intermingle with open grasslands and tree-covered islands at the Mombo Concession, aptly dubbed "the Place of Plenty", situated within the central Okavango Delta. The remarkable terrain encompasses a rich tapestry of landscapes, including mopane woodlands, Kalahari sand belts, acacia thickets, and seasonal floodplains adorned with wild date palm islands and riverine forests. The region is teeming with game, from giraffes, zebras, and red lechwes to elephants and buffalo. Predators like lions, spotted hyenas, and leopards thrive here, and it's the exclusive home of the Okavango Delta's sole population of white and black rhinos. Across the year, diverse wildlife is on full display, and the annual flooding cycle enables nature to fully utilize the diverse landscape, alluring numerous bird species, making it a birdwatcher's paradise.
Kwando, Selinda and Linyanti are private concessions in the northern region of Botswana, some of the most beautiful and remote destinations in the country, offering exceptional wildlife viewing, perhaps the best in the country. The area is also extremely diverse, with serpentine channels, lagoons, grass floodplains, papyrus stands, marshes, reed beds, savannah, riparian forest, mopane woodland, scrubland, palm groves and magnificent, towering trees Baobab trees.
These private concessions offer a very exclusive, authentic and remote safari experience. The camps here are small and private, isolated in the wild, with very few guests. The wildlife viewing is wonderful, but what stands out is that this is “the bush”, similar perhaps to what the early explorers may have found, the Africa one dreams of experiencing. With little connection to the outside world, visitors have the untamed wilderness, the incredible star-filled sky, and the sounds of the animals at night.
