And Tourism Accolades

Okavango to Tsodilo Ultra-Trail

From Botswana’s famed wild wetlands to its rarely visited World Heritage Site hills, Kate Humble runs off the beaten path in the Okavango to Tsodilo Ultra-Trail, an Epic Experience by Desert & Delta Safaris.

We at Desert & Delta Safaris are proud to share that Xugana Island Lodge has been named one of Travel + Leisure’s Top 100 Hotels in the World for 2026. Read more here.

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Vlog: Safari in Okavango Delta, Chobe National Park

The Best Mother-Daughter Trips for Every Travel Style

Desert & Delta Safaris offers a seamless multi-stop journey through Botswana’s top reserves, with scenic bush flights in between. For a meaningful twist, the 10-night Empowering Women Epic Experience includes...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

Empowering Botswana Through Tourism

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