Safaris4Africa, Africa safari tour and travel operator for Botswana

Botswana is Africa's true democracy, peaceful, honest, and a successful nation.
The area comprising Botswana is 581.730 km2, situated in the centre of Souhtern Africa and is landlocked between South Africa. Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
It lies on average 950 metres above sea level and is more tha 600km form the nearest ocean. Three quarters of the country is almost desert with the exception of summer rains. The majority of it's people live in the eastern part of the country.

Botswana is focused on authentic wildlife experiences, and mass tourism has been abandoned. Most of the countries most productive wildlife areas lies outside the parks, and this has been divided into private reserves. Almost forty percent of the country has been set aside for wildlife. Safari companies have to abide strictly by the guidelines to prevent overcrowding. Companies also have to train and employ local people and they are obliged to pay large amounts to the communities or the Government for being there. Whilst most of Botswana's best wildlife are in the private reserves, there are still has areas for the general public.

To reach the wildlife reserves are by daily flights into the city of Maun , gateway to the Okavango Delta, Moremi Reserve, Savute and the Kalahari. There are also regular flights into the town of Kasane, gateway to northern Chobe.

The Okavango delta, also known as "the Jewel of Africa" has to be Africa's most incredible wildlife sanctuary. This remarkable area is a wetland paradise located within the dry arid Kalahari Desert. It rests between shallow fault lines at the end of the Great Rift Valley. Each year floodwater flows into the Okavango from it's source in the central African highlands more than a thousand kilometres away. These waters flow southward into the Kalahari Desert, forming the unique wetland known as the Okavango Delta.

The heart of the Okavango Delta is the Moremi Game Reserve. All the major habitats of the Okavango are preserved here. Around the Moremi Game Reserve are the large private reserves leased to private safari companies. Varied activities are offered such as game drives in open safari vehicles, boating and canoeing, elephant safaris, and even hot-air ballooning trips.

To the north of the Okavango Delta are the Chobe and Linyanti game reserves. These areas are renowned for predators and large concentrations of game. There are many varied habitats within the Chobe and Linyanti parks, marshes, waterways, riverine forests, dry woodlands and the Savuti Channel, a waterway connecting the Linyanti river the Chobe National Park. The Savuti has dried up for the past twenty five years and today, it is open grassland, home to a variety of animal species. The Linyanti wildlife reserve is a 275 000 acre private reserve on Chobe's western boundary, very different from the Okavango.

The Kalahari grasslands and the lunar landscape of the Makgadikgadi Pans completes your Botswana safari. The Contrast of this area, to the green, game rich Okavango, Linyanti, and Chobe regions is remarkable. The desert experience focuses on species unique to the area, as well as the geology, anthropology and archaeology of the Kalahari. The Makgadikgadi is a relic of an ancient superlake, having dried up thousand of years ago. When the summer rains come, the pans are filled with water becoming the breeding ground for huge flocks of flamingos and other migratory birds. The rains also regenerate the last remaining migration of zebra and wildebeest in Southern Africa. For those who want an off the beaten track experience, the Kalahari should be included in your safari.