Top 10 Family Activities in Botswana

We can arrange a guide and support team to take your family on a private camping safari. Each day, decide with your guide what your family would like to do, then set off on foot or by vehicle or mokoro. Explore plains and waterways in search of elephant, antelope and giraffe. Enjoy the freedom! Then walk into your comfortable little camp, set up in a beautiful spot by your smiling support team.

Safari guides are often expert photographers too. They can get you into the ideal position to take amazing photographs of animals. The non-threatening profile of the vehicle means you can approach close and capture an expression or action shot that tells a story and portrays the true essence of the animal. Hippo, giraffe, leopard - every creature is a unique character.

In a ground-breaking conservation effort, endangered rhinoceros have been relocated from South Africa to the safety of the vast Chief’s Island reserve in Botswana. The rich habitat surrounding Mombo and Chief’s Camp has always been a great place to see the rest of the Big Five as well; lion, buffalo, elephant and leopard. Your guide’s tracking skills should make finding a rhino on the reserve a little easier than a needle in a haystack. And the joy of finding it will be enhanced knowing that the rhino is free at last to roam in safety.

Slowly, the red sun sinks and a thousand elephant emerge from the baked plain to plunge thankfully into the Chobe River. It happens every day, gathering in intensity from August to November. The best vantage point is the river itself, as sounds of sploshing, trumpeting elephantine joy carry across the water. Any animal in need of a drink gathers here too, as a long, hot day on the Chobe plains draws to a close.

On the twelfth day of Christmas my parents gave to me—twelve lechwe leaping. Next Christmas Day your family could be gazing up at a gloriously beautiful leopard snoozing on the branch of a sausage tree. Christmas is a great time to safari in the Okavango, and it’s the lowest season pricewise. Perhaps you could spend a week on safari then head down to sunny Cape Town for a sublime combination holiday.

As a special treat we can give your family an eagle’s eye view of the Okavango from a helicopter. See filigree fingers of blue water creating islands of green and ochre. Watch herds of buffalo, giraffe and elephant from the sky. Your helicopter can fly on to the “panhandle” where farming communities live. Elephants can destroy their crops and you will see innovative projects, where people are taught to protect crops without harming elephants.