Travel Tales
By Nat Hab traveler Rick Whitson | Secluded Botswana Safari It was day seven of our 10-day Secluded Botswana Safari, and we were staying at a remote tent camp in the Okavango Delta that we had accessed via a bush flight. We enjoyed high tea at camp and were headed out to a new area for our evening bush ride.
Travel Tales
“It’s difficult to pick out a single highlight, as the entire Botswana safari was filled with highlights.
Travel Tales
Deep within Botswana’s vast Okavango Delta, the 445,000-acre private Abu Concession shelters Abu Camp, a six-tent safari camp tucked into the unspoiled African wilderness. As the original elephant safari experience in Africa, Abu gives travelers the intimate opportunity to immerse themselves within the camp’s resident herd of rescued elephants.
News & More
Polar bears struggling to find the ice floes they need for hunting and survival became the icon of climate change and our rapidly warming planet decades ago. And we’ve often heard how hotter temperatures are affecting the globe’s north and south poles and their oceans.
Travel Tales
“This was our third trip to Africa, and our first African safari with Nat Hab. It was by far our best experience in Africa, and our favorite trip any place in the world, because of the guides. And we have seriously been around the world, from Europe to South America to Nepal to China to India, etc.
Travel Tales
“My favorite moment of my Secluded Botswana Safari was watching a grandmom lioness finishing off her latest meal with her grandkids.
Travel Tales
“After looking for this leopard in for two days during our Botswana safari, we finally found him very early on the third morning. He was laying in the grass sunning himself in the newly rising sun.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a herd of wildebeests at sunset in Botswana. Photographer Deborah Carter captured this stunning moment while out on a drive as a herd passed by her vehicle.
Videos
Traveler Bobby Jacobsen produced this video documenting a custom Botswana Safari with Natural Habitat Adventures. Be sure to watch the whole film—there’s a phenomenal wildlife sighting at the end!
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected impalas lined up at a water hole. Photographer Patricia Rosen took this photo while on safari in the Okavango Delta. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Travel Tales
Like many people I have always dreamt of traveling to Africa. After spending the last 15 years working in international development and conservation, I’ve had the wonderful opportunities to travel extensively in the Americas and in Asia, but never to Africa.
Nature & Wildlife
WWF Senior Writer, Deborah Ackerman had a rare and thrilling sight while accompanying a Nat Hab trip through Botswana: a mother leopard carrying her newborn cubs across the KAZA landscape during green season—the time of year when most animals in Botswana’s Okavango Delta give birth.
