Photo overview of Botswana as a traveller

Botswana is safari/game drive heaven—the place to go for nature and animal lovers. You can visit the Okavango Delta and witness the mighty hippo. Go to Chobe National Park to encounter the kind elephant. Or maybe visit Savuti National Park and look for the strong lion.

Botswana is a very photogenic country. Many places are great for taking photos of animals and other natural objects. In this blog post, I would like to present you with a photo overview of my trip to Botswana.

The People of Botswana in pictures

Going on a trip means you also will meet a lot of new people. People that are there for an entire trip and people that are there for a couple of hours. This is a collection of photos I made of all those people.

  • The San People explaining everything about fire making, collecting berries and hunting animals.
  • The Mokoro drivers bringing us all around the Okavango Delta by boat
  • Boston the animal-spotter. A quiet but oh so friendly man.
  • Ghali the tracker. Bringing us close to animals with safety always on his mind
  • Johnson the driver. Finding animals easily and giving us plenty of time and angels to photograph.


The Okavango Delta in Botswana

My first stop in nature was the Okavango Delta. After a boat ride that took us about three hours, we finally arrived at our camp on Peperi Island. There, we stayed in tents for three nights. Each night, we heard animals nearby, especially the roaring of lions.

During the day, we did walking safaris and sometimes took the Mokoro to go to other islands. It was an adventure full of running from hippo’s, enjoying boats, and soaring through the sky in helicopters.

Moremi National Park in Botswana

The second stop in a big nature reserve was Moremi National Park. We stayed in small tents for two nights. A wild hyena visited our camp, just to show you how wild the campsites are. It’s a good thing that getting close to nature also means experiencing nature to its fullest.

Savuti National Park in Botswana

Back-to-back with Moremi, we visited Savuti, a region where we spotted loads of lions, hyena babies, and elephants. We then spent another two nights camping in the wild, this time too close to a hyena den to my taste. It was still a couple of kilometers, but still.

A collection of the elephants of Botswana

Although I’ve seen many of them, and after a while, you wish you saw other animals too, elephant spotting is so intense.

Babies seeking safety near their mothers, bulls walking around alone with power, or herds of elephants roaming around and observing you—I thought a collection of all the elephant pictures would be a nice tribute to these immense and powerful animals.

My favorite Botswana pictures

It’s not in any previous categories, but I must share it. This photo was made during a lightning storm in the Makgadikgadi salt pan. We were camping in the open air at One-tree Island, right in the middle of the immense salt pans. There were kilometers of nothing to all sides. We had an awesome view of the lightning bolts in the distance and the vastness of space right above us.

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