An archive of Desert & Delta Safaris latest press features and accolades.
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In The Press

Daily Travel News
Desert & Delta Safaris announces its brand-new Okavango Awakening Wellness Retreat
An exclusive four-night experience which launches on November 28th 2025. Designed for guests seeking profound connection and restoration, this immersive journey promises to blend movement, mindfulness, and cultural exploration in Botswana’s awe-inspiring Okavango Panhandle.

Travel + Leisure
Nxamaseri Island Lodge: The Best of Green Season
Visit Botswana’s indigenous San people and learn how they survive off the land during this season of abundance, or what they call the "happy time." Camps like Nxamaseri Island Lodge can also take visitors to observe traditional rituals or visit Tsodilo Hills for ancient San rock art.

ROBB REPORT
The Best Private Guides, from Caviar Connoisseurs to Safari Savants
Isaac Mpuchane has been a private guide for nearly a decade, specializing in wildlife in Botswana and photography tours. His passion for wildlife, patience, and photography know-how is truly unmatched. Bookable via Desert & Delta, he’s hosted British Royals, celebrities, and plenty of VIPs on their quest to get the perfect shot.

LRAVEL + LEISURE
Beyond the idyllic setting and refreshed amenities, Xugana’s genuine hospitality is a draw in itself.
I Was the First to Stay at This Safari Lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta—Which Just Reopened With an Overwater Firepit, Private Floating Dinners, and Only 12 Suites. Beyond the idyllic setting and refreshed amenities, Xugana’s genuine hospitality is a draw in itself.

IX MAGAZINE
Back in Time to The Garden of Eden & Dancing in the Desert - A Luxury Safari With Desert & Delta
Nxamaseri Island Lodge On The Okavango Delta. Rocking The Trance Dance In The Bush - Staring A Hippopotamus In The Eyes - Crocodiles On Every Side - Flat Bottomed Boats You Make The Rocking World Go Round. Plus Flying Across The Okavango Panhandle. Read on below or listen to the podcast here:

SUITCASE
Hippos And Helicopter Rides At Botswana’s Nxamaseri Island Lodge
Want to fall asleep to the snuffles of hippopotamuses and a lullaby sung by frogs? At Botswana’s most remote safari lodge, in the panhandle of the Okavango Delta, guests can expect up-close wildlife encounters from dawn ’til dusk

Salt Pans Ultra
Desert & Delta Safaris Teams Up with Salt Pans Ultra 2025 for an Epic Experience + Exclusive Post-Race Packages
This unique collaboration between Desert & Delta Safaris and the Salt Pans Ultra 2025 is a true celebration of Botswana’s natural beauty, offering both a physical challenge and a once-in-a-lifetime safari experience that blends luxury, adventure, and personal achievement. Don’t miss out on this Epic Experience—the ultimate challenge and reward awaits!

Natural Habitat Adventures
Meet the Pioneering Women Changing the Face of the African Safari Industry
In 2004, Botswana’s Chobe Game Lodge spearheaded a campaign to recruit female guides. The guiding team now consists entirely of women who take guests on the all-electric boats and vehicles in Chobe National Park.

Global Travel Media
Sustainable Innovation And Conservation Lead The Way With Its Electric Fleet Of Vehicles And Boats
Desert & Delta Safaris celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2022 and is changing the face – and the sound – of African safaris with its fleet of four game drive vehicles and five solar-powered safari boats. Fully converted from diesel power, the safari vehicles pack a serious performance punch while displaying quiet and unobtrusive behaviour.

Selamta (Ethiopian Airlines)
Africa’s safaris have gone high tech
A few pioneering safari camps are implementing cutting-edge technology in some of the world’s most challenging and remote landscapes to deliver an experience that’s better for their guests and the planet. Here, we look at the future-facing innovations being used by the forerunners with the hopes that others will follow suit.

Mmegi Times
Chobe women make their mark in tourism’s ‘Great Reset’
As the tourism industry reopens after the pandemic freeze, more women are finding space for themselves beyond “traditional” roles in laundry and housekeeping. Chobe Holdings, one of the country’s largest tourism groups, is reaping the dividends of a policy to empower women all the way to being guides in the field and executives in the boardroom.

Hollywood Reporter
The Most Beautiful, Hollywood-Loved Safari Camps in Africa
On the banks of the Chobe River in the famed national park, Chobe Game Lodge is where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were married and Steve Harvey as well as royals have since safari’ed.

Go World Travel Magazine
ON SAFARI WITH THE ALL-WOMAN GUIDE TEAM AT BOTSWANA’S CHOBE GAME LODGE
It wasn’t driving the truck or identifying dozens of wildlife species with barely a glimpse that was the most challenging aspect of safari guide training school for Tshepiso (Vivian) Diphupu.

Travel Africa Magazine
The Soul of Safari
Anyone who has stayed in a safari lodge or camp will appreciate what it takes to efficiently run such facilities. Sited in remote locations, the practicalities involved in building and maintaining the infrastructure, in sourcing fresh produce and other consumables and in looking after guests and protecting the environment are immense.

Luxury Safari Magazine
LUXURY SAFARI MAGAZINE INTERVIEWS MC ODUMETSE OF DESERT & DELTA
We interview the Managing Director Lempheditse Odumetse, or MC as he is know to his colleagues, of Desert & Delta to learn more.

The Telegraph
Welcome to the 'Louvre of the Desert', with no queues, but plenty of elephants
‘Lions,” whispered my guide, Lebo Kgoleng. “There. There. And over there, too.” Still lethargic from the 5am wakeup call, my bleary eyes struggled to keep up. Within seconds, the Land Cruiser was surrounded. Four, maybe five, lionesses and their dozen cubs, shimmering gold and burnished bronze.

Forbes
Tsodilo Hills Pictographs Centerpiece To Growing Cultural Tourism In Botswana
Tsodilo Hills in Botswana has often been referred to in the West by this catchy slogan. As is often the case with Eurocentric perspectives adhered to Indigenous cultures around the world, the metaphor misses the point entirely in its attempt to characterize what makes this place special.

Luxury Safari Magazine
Splendid Isolation And Quiet Solitude – Botswana's Tsodilo Hills And The Okavango Panhandle
Rising majestically from the flat Kgalagadi sands, near where it meets the Okavango wetlands, is one of Botswana’s little-visited, but greatest treasures, Tsodilo Hills.

Travel Awaits
7 Amazing Places To See Prehistoric Art Around The World
Sarah Kingdom shares seven sites around the world to see prehistoric art. She includes the unique Tsodilo Hills in the Okavango Panhandle off the back of her visit to Nxamaseri Island Lodge.

Conde Nast Traveler
A Local's Guide to Botswana
Conde Nast Traveler speaks to Chobe Game Lodge's Florence Kagiso on her experience working as a guide in the Chobe National Park and her love for Botswana.

National Geographic
Meet Florence Kagiso, the leader of Africa’s first all-female team of safari guides
When Florence Kagiso became one of Africa’s first female guides in 2004, she paved the way for a new generation to follow in her footsteps. Marking International Women’s Day, we discuss her career and her wild workplace, Botswana’s Chobe National Park.

Absolute Magazine
Desert & Delta Safaris Double Their Initial Target And Raise An Exceptional $20,000
Luxury Botswana safari operator Desert & Delta Safaris are thrilled to announce that they have doubled their initial target of $10,000 and raised an incredible amount of $20,000 for Elephants Without Borders, more than doubling their initial target!

Viestra Magazine
Desert & Delta Safaris Supports Elephants Without Borders
Luxury Botswana safari operator Desert & Delta Safaris have devised an exciting initiative called the CARES Movement. The initiative enables guests to book a safari at 2020 rates that they can take up to the 31st December 2022. Time is of the essence!

Luxurious Magazine
How Chobe Game Lodge's Solar-Powered Boats Set A New Benchmark
Luxurious Magazine featured Chobe Game Lodge's solar-powered boats and the impact the project has had on the Africa travel industry.

Luxuria Lifestyle International
Empowering Botswana Through Tourism
Luxuria Lifestyle International features the 10 exciting reasons why the Botswana is the ultimate destination to visit post-lockdown.
Accolades

WTTC Tourism For Tomorrow
People Award
Desert & Delta Safaris was a runner up in the 2017 World Travel & Tourism Council's Tourism For Tomorrow Awards under the people category for its local management program.

WTM Africa’s Responsible Tourism Awards
2020 Responsible Business (Chobe Game Lodge)
We have won our third award at WTM Africa’s Responsible Tourism Awards. This year Chobe Game Lodge won silver in responsible Business for our work in reducing carbon emissions and shaping the industry with our electric fleet of safari vehicles and boats, as well as our work in breaking the mold in guiding through Africa’s first all-female guiding team.

We Are Africa
2019 Shape Africa - Albert Ndereki (Chobe Game Lodge)
Albert Ndereki, one of Chobe Game Lodge's longest standing employees won the Shape Africa award at the 2019 We Are Africa trade show in Cape Town. The Shape Africa award recognises those individuals whose tireless passion and dedication to changing perceptions of the continent have shaped Africa’s future for the better.

We Are Africa
2019 Rise Africa Award - Gorata Nyame
Gorata Nyame, one of Savute Safari Lodge's managers won the 2019 Rise Africa award at the annual We Are Africa travel show. The award is for young professionals making waves in the African tourism industry.
“ As Botswana's top safari operator, Desert & Delta Safaris is proud to hold several Travel & Tourism Accolades and enjoy a variety of press features.”
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