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Botswana

Vast and untamed, a landlocked country with thousands of square miles of exquisite wilderness, Botswana offers exceptional game viewing as well as a varied safari experience across its broad and flat expanses of savannah, desert, salt pan and wetland.

Blessed with both diamonds and water, Botswana is an economic success story. Over 80% of this landlocked country is made up of the Kalahari Desert, the vast sponge into which the swollen Okavango River disappears each year, creating the largest inland delta in the world - the Okavango Delta. This miraculously fertile flood plain with its crystal-clear lagoons and reed-fringed channels supports a rich and colourful wildlife.

Botswana

In the country's north west, on the border with Namibia, immense teak forests grow and it is here, in Chobe National Park, that the largest population of elephants in the world live a protected and secure existence. Lions, leopards and rare wild dogs roam the broad plains that shrink and grow with the change of the seasons as the rivers and streams flood.

All Sanctuary Retreats’ properties in Botswana are set far into the wilderness for the best game viewing, but are also well-served by all-weather airstrips so that you spend more time in the bush and less time in transit.