Botswana lodge choice
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Botswana lodge choice
I am hoping to go to Botswana next May and wasn't sure whether to go to Savuti or Chitabe. I have heard that the volume of animals especially elephants is less in the Savuti area that time of year. Anyone with experience please let me know. Thanks
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Hello,
I agree with Hari in that the two areas (Delta and Linyanti) are so different that they're almost impossible to compare -- they're apples and oranges.
You won't find large elephant herds in May in either location -- the herds only start to mass in the dry season as they are drawn down to the rivers after the pans in the mopane woodland dry out (as some shoulder season travellers found out this year, which was unusually wet).
If you want to see huge herds of ellies, I'd advise travelling to the Linyanti between mid-July and October to be safe. Any of the following camps will give you great ellie viewing:
Duma Tau
Savuti
Selinda
Zibalianja
Savuti does have the woodpile hide in front of the camp which enables you to get very close to the ellies.
Cheers,
Julian
I agree with Hari in that the two areas (Delta and Linyanti) are so different that they're almost impossible to compare -- they're apples and oranges.
You won't find large elephant herds in May in either location -- the herds only start to mass in the dry season as they are drawn down to the rivers after the pans in the mopane woodland dry out (as some shoulder season travellers found out this year, which was unusually wet).
If you want to see huge herds of ellies, I'd advise travelling to the Linyanti between mid-July and October to be safe. Any of the following camps will give you great ellie viewing:
Duma Tau
Savuti
Selinda
Zibalianja
Savuti does have the woodpile hide in front of the camp which enables you to get very close to the ellies.
Cheers,
Julian
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I'd surely agree with Hari about elephants at Lebala. I saw them while still in the camp on each of the 4 days I was there, and on 2 nights one or more jumbos passed just next to my tent. I saw several herds (or maybe the same herd multiple times, who knows?) while relaxing on my tent's veranda and from the camp's wonderful bird hide.
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