Botswana Safari Holiday

There's a wide choice of Botswana safari holiday accommodation to match your wildlife experience - including our selection of best Botswana luxury lodges - but availability is often limited so you need to book in advance.

You'll also need to think about when to go to Botswana as there are 2 simple but distinctive seasons each with their own personality.

Peak season falls during the dry winter months between May and October, offering great game viewing as the wildlife becomes increasingly concentrated around water sources. Don't discount the rainy summer months between November and April though: the green season offers fantastic bird watching, lots of new-born animals and a whole load of special deals from lodges.

One of the best ways to appreciate what a Botswana safari holiday has to offer is on one of our recommended Botswana journeys. Experience the essence of the country on our Migration Routes mobile safari, a fabulous itinerary taking in all the wildlife hotspots or cut out the driving on a superb fly-in lodge-based safari like the Best of Botswana Sanctuary Safari or Chobe & Okavango Safari.

What makes Botswana such a special destination is that it offers travellers a wonderfully varied range of natural, unspoilt environments and classic safari adventures that will convince you that there really are wild places still left in the world today.

Have a look at our Botswana Travel section for inspirational top experiences and don't forget that its idyllic scenery and sumptuous, remote lodges are custom-built for a perfectly romantic Botswana honeymoon.

Areas like Chobe's Savuti, the Linyanti/Kwando Swamps and the unpolished Kalahari gems of the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, Central Kalahari Game Reserve and Nxai Pan National Park will delight the safari holiday-goer with their rugged, yet accessible, remoteness and are creaking at the seams with wildlife.

A safe, clean and sunshine-filled country, landlocked Botswana has been described as "Africa's success story" since its independence in 1966 - and is a peaceful, well-tempered country.

It is also a land of the starkest contrasts.

Modern, technology-driven urban areas are a short flight from the bows and arrows of San Bushmen hunting parties deep in the burning Kalahari; crystal-clear floodwaters attract massive concentrations of wildlife in parched, bone-dry savannas and woodlands; simple starlight reflects off the cut crystal of candle-lit dining tables.

Most of Botswana's tiny population is concentrated in the kinder, more fertile southeast, leaving enormous tracts of uninhabited central and northern wilderness for you to experience a safari holiday that will live on in your memory long after you've shaken the Kalahari sand out of your boots.

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