In Botswana’s Okavango Delta, luxury safari lodges offer a seamless blend of wild adventure and refined comfort. Guests spend days gliding through papyrus‑lined waterways or tracking wildlife across ...

The Zaha Hadid-designed Boma lounge and dining area resembles a massive weaver bird’s nest, with its façade constructed almost entirely of thatch. At nearly 2,000 square feet, the camp's standard ...

Partway through our first afternoon game drive at North Island Okavango, a new luxury camp in northwestern Botswana, our guide, Diesel Tshosa, said, “I can be quiet because I can get lost in the ...

This riding skill, required by Okavango Horse Safaris to join their horseback tours through Botswana's Okavango Delta, gave me pause. I'd spent thousands of hours in the saddle since childhood, but ...

Guests welcomed with a guide from andBeyond. Our guide, Dux Mareja, threw out his left arm like a shield. “Step around,” he warned, ushering my family down the main pathway of andBeyond Sandibe ...

2002-12-15 04:00:00 PDT Okavango Delta, Botswana-- 'The best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse." -- Lord Palmerston, 1784-1865 . "Petit galop!" John Sobey shouts, and we're off.

Experience some of Africa’s great wilderness areas while staying in one of the recently opened or soon-to-launch safari lodges and camps capturing luxury travellers’ attention. 2023 saw the launch of ...

“We’ll give it a go,” says my guide Des, as he turns our four-wheel drive around in one smooth swerve, looking for a male lion. We hurtle through long grasses towards the open plains, led by its ...

In Botswana, safaris combine extraordinary wildlife viewing with eco-conscious luxury. From the Okavango Delta to Moremi Game Reserve, select lodges offer game drives, water safaris, and activities ...

The Okavango Delta is probably the closest any of us will get to the Garden of Eden. It was here in northern Botswana, about 200,000 years ago, that the first modern humans were born. They lived on ...