Botswana: Kalahari, the Delta & Beyond

On This Green Season Safari, Fresh Grass Draws Desert Wildlife & New Babies Abound
Botswana’s lush summer, its most productive and colorful time, offers natural spectacles most travelers miss. Sporadic light rains in the Kalahari Desert mark a time of dramatic change, signaling a great influx of migrating wildlife and plains animal births..."bush babies" are everywhere! From January to April, witness Africa’s second-largest migration, with 50,000 zebra and wildebeest passing through the Kalahari. Meet the San people, the earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa whose culture dates back more than 30,000 years. In the Okavango Delta, water levels are typically low during this season, and the drier region of the delta bordering the Moremi Game Reserve offers superb wildlife viewing, with stable populations of lion, leopard, wild dog and much more. A special highlight is a visit with a predator researcher at Gomoti Camp, plus exclusive private stays at intimate luxury camps.
Nat Hab guest photographs white rhino, Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, Zambia.
Court Whelan
Nat Hab guest photographs white rhino, Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, Zambia.
African lions and Nat Hab
Matt de Bruyn
African lions and Nat Hab's Electric Safari Vehicle, Santawani Private Reserve, Botswana.
Nat Hab guests, Makgadikgadi Pans, Kalahari Desert, Botswana.
Nick Grossman
Nat Hab guests, Makgadikgadi Pans, Kalahari Desert, Botswana.
Leopards, Santawani Private Concession, Botswana.
David Luck
Leopards, Santawani Private Concession, Botswana.
African elephant at Nat Hab
Kerry de Bruyn
African elephant at Nat Hab's Gomoti Camp - Okavango South, Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Lions and safari vehicle, Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Dana Allen
Lions and safari vehicle, Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Nat Hab guest and meerkat, Makgadikgadi Pans, Kalahari Desert, Botswana.
Tom Saxton
Nat Hab guest and meerkat, Makgadikgadi Pans, Kalahari Desert, Botswana.
Campfire at Nat Hab
Kerry de Bruyn
Campfire at Nat Hab's Gomoti Camp - Okavango South, Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Springbok, Eastern Kalahari, Botswana.
Caroline Culbert
Springbok, Eastern Kalahari, Botswana.
Nat Hab guests, Kalahari Desert, Botswana.
Linda Janger
Nat Hab guests, Kalahari Desert, Botswana.
Southern carmine bee-eater, Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Grant Atkinson
Southern carmine bee-eater, Okavango Delta, Botswana.
African wild dogs, Santawani Private Concession, Botswana.
Court Whelan
African wild dogs, Santawani Private Concession, Botswana.
Nat Hab
Kerry de Bruyn
Nat Hab's Gomoti Camp - Okavango South, Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Victoria Falls, Zambia.
Victoria Falls, Zambia.
Zebra migration, Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Zebra migration, Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, Okavango Delta, Botswana.

Trip Highlights

Rare Green Season Immersion

Experience intimate animal encounters at a quiet time of year, and capture stunning landscape photos against a backdrop of dramatic skies

New Animal Babies Abound

On 4x4 game drives and guided bush walks, enjoy unsurpassed wildlife photography at the time of year when new births fill the plains

Victoria Falls at Peak Volume

Witness Victoria Falls during its mightiest seasonal flow, producing enough spray to create a rain forest microclimate on the rim

Photo Departures Available

Our green season photo itinerary features evocative skies, the delta at its most verdant, and grass sprouting in the desert, drawing grazing herds. A highlight is a doors-off helicopter flight over the Okavango, offering an aerial perspective of wildlife on the move. Safari with an Expedition Leader who is an expert naturalist and a photography pro, helping you attain your best wildlife and landscape images through personalized coaching. With just four guests per vehicle, you'll have room to navigate for the perfect shot—plus there's extra baggage allowance on internal flights to accommodate all your gear. 
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The Best Southern Summer Safari You'll Find

Experiencing the Kalahari Desert and Botswana’s Okavango Delta during the green season is a distinctive nature adventure in its own right. But to do it the way we do it—maximizing seclusion, with close-up wildlife encounters in especially remote areas—takes this safari experience to a whole different level. Read on!

  1. A Small Group—Just 7 or 8 Guests—Ensures a More Authentic Safari
    Encounters with the natural world are more meaningful in smaller groups—that's why we limit this safari to a maximum of seven guests on regular departures and eight guests (divided into two vehicles of four travelers each) on photo departures. This very small group size ensures the most personalized experience possible, in exceptionally secluded locations.
  2. A Diverse Summer Season Itinerary 
    Our less-conventional itinerary offers an experience of Botswana's prolific wildlife during a season when new life abounds but visitors are few. In tandem with World Wildlife Fund, we’ve designed it to maximize a diverse array of habitats and settings, for the best range of wildlife viewing—including Africa's second-largest migration of zebra and wildebeest from January to April.
  3. Stay in Solitude on Private Reserves 
    In contrast to more heavily visited national parks, we stay in seclusion on Botswana’s premier private reserves, including a coveted location next to Makgadikgaki Pans National Park, where we have easy access to all the activities the area has to offer. At this time of year, floodwaters are receding in some areas of the Okavango Delta, opening up vast areas for wildlife viewing on land. In addition to regular daytime game drives, we also do exciting night drives, not allowed in the public parks, in search of nocturnal wildlife. 
  4. Intimate Luxury Camps
    A stand-apart element of this safari is our exceptionally small and secluded camps. Within the privately owned Santawani Concession, Gomoti Tented Camp is for us alone, offering an encounter with the African wilderness evocative of a century ago—which very few safari-goers get to experience. 
  5. Chartered Flights Maximize Your Time on Safari
    We book seats on chartered light aircraft for transfers between safari locations, enhancing your time with wildlife and maximizing comfort by eliminating long drives over rough dirt roads. Our photo safaris provide an additional baggage allowance for all your camera gear, too—a real plus when you start comparing operators and options.
  6. Explore from Our New Electric Safari Vehicle
    From our private Gomoti Camp in the southern Okavango Delta, experience quiet game drives in our new fully electric safari vehicle. Operating from our off-grid camp and powered by the sun, this retrofitted Toyota Land Cruiser marks a new era in more sustainable safari transportation.
  7. An Open "Window" Seat for Everyone
    The top-quality safari vehicles we charter have open sides (no glass to interfere with your view) and 10 cushioned passenger seats—one in front next to the driver followed by three rows of three seats each. Yet we limit our capacity to just seven travelers per vehicle on wildlife drives—and only four guests per vehicle on photo safaris! Furthermore, the three rows of seats are tiered—those in the rear sit up higher so no one’s forward view is impaired.This ensures maximum comfort, viewing, space for gear, and easy photo opportunities. 
  8. Private Verandas for Personal Wildlife Viewing 
    Our luxury tented safari camps have private verandas so you never miss a chance to encounter animals that may wander past—and enjoy the view from your own secluded space.
  9. A Photo Safari Exclusive: Helicopter Flightseeing
    Anyone who's ever flown over Africa's wild terrain will tell you there's nothing like an aerial view of wildlife on the move. That's why our photo safaris include a thrilling helicopter flight—with doors off for the best photography access. Soar over the vast wetlands of the Okavango Delta, one of the richest wildlife enclaves in all Africa. The year-round water supports an abundance of animals, and the mosaic of habitats we survey from the sky provides ample food for a large array of grazing species and the predators that pursue them.
  10. The World's Finest Naturalist Guides 
    We’re proud to work with the best-trained, most experienced naturalist guides in Africa—and those who lead our photo departures are also among the finest photographers on the continent. A Nat Hab Safari Expedition Leader accompanies your group from start to finish, ensuring highly personalized service. Our Expedition Leaders are among the most qualified guides in Africa, averaging 15 years' guiding experience, with additional training resources provided by WWF scientists. Our philosophy is simple: an African safari is only as good as the guide, so we must provide the very best! See Expedition Leader bios with traveler comments regarding the quality of our leaders.
  11. Our Quality-Value Guarantee Ensures Your Outstanding Safari 
    Every traveler receives Natural Habitat’s exclusive guarantee, which clearly states that we will meet the lofty expectations we set in our promotional materials. To our knowledge, this is the most ambitious guarantee made by any adventure travel company. Read our important promise. 
  12. Feel Good About Your Carbon-Neutral Journey
    We care deeply about our planet, as we know you do. When you travel with us, the carbon emissions from your trip are 100% offset—including your round-trip flights from home. Natural Habitat Adventures has been the world’s first carbon-neutral travel company since 2007.
  13. Natural Habitat Adventures is WWF's Travel Partner
    Because of our commitment to environmentally friendly travel, as well as the exceptional quality of our adventures, World Wildlife Fund—the world's leading environmental conservation organization—has named Natural Habitat Adventures as its worldwide travel partner, a designation that makes us exceedingly proud.

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