Botswana · Okavango Delta
Botswana’s Okavango Delta: private-concession wildlife, Santantadibe Channel light, and andBeyond Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge.
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Botswana · Okavango Delta
The Okavango Delta is Botswana’s inland floodplain world: channels, reed beds, and private concessions that border Moremi Game Reserve. Our house here is andBeyond Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge: twelve suites raised above papyrus on a private wildlife concession with exclusive traversing over roughly 22,500 hectares, for travelers who want land-based safari with real privacy.
Days move between guided game drives and walking safari when conditions allow; evenings return to decks that face the Santantadibe Channel. We arrange the light aircraft via Chitabe with the suite and confirm availability with the lodge. Pair with Namibia’s desert when a year wants both registers, or let this remain Botswana’s Delta stay.
The Delta is a World Heritage Site and one of Africa’s great wilderness areas: rain that falls in the Angolan highlands reaches Botswana months later, so the floods peak in the dry winter, from about June to August, just as game gathers along the water. Elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard and wild dog are all found on the concessions around Moremi.
Sandibe suits couples on a first safari, families who want the linked family suite, and returning travelers who want land-based game viewing with privacy. Read more on our Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge page. It is part of our Wild Frontiers collection, and our Journal piece on private safari camps in East and Southern Africa sets it beside the Maasai Mara and the Namib Desert. See our Botswana guide for the wider country.
Why visit
Featured properties
Houses we know by name, the ones we would open for this landscape.
When and how
Each season keeps its own calendar. We plan the transfer around it.
Best time to visit
June to October is the classic dry season: cooler days, thinner bush and animals drawn to the water, with the floods at their height in mid winter. November to March is the green season, with rain, newborn animals, migrant birds and fewer visitors.
Seasonality
July to September books first and lodges in the Delta are small, so dates are best reserved well ahead. Water activities depend on flood levels each year.
Airport / logistics
Maun (MUB) is the usual gateway, with regional flights from Johannesburg and Cape Town; Kasane serves the north. From Maun, a light aircraft reaches the Chitabe airstrip in a short flight, followed by a game drive to the lodge of about forty-five minutes to an hour. Soft bags of modest weight are required on the small aircraft.
Month by month
Seasons follow the notes above. Average daily high and monthly rainfall for 2015 to 2024 from ERA5 reanalysis, via Open-Meteo.
Luxury experiences
Traveler questions
Ways of traveling
Begin with the collection that holds these houses and shores.
From the Journal
Where we write about this place: the seasons, the houses and how the days are best arranged.
Related destinations
Landscapes that sit well beside this one.
Destination
Okavango Delta floodplains, private concessions bordering Moremi, and Exclusive Villa Collection’s Botswana stay through andBeyond Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge.
Destination
Two private reserves, Tswalu in the red dunes of the Kalahari and Samara in the mountains of the Great Karoo, both malaria free.
Destination
Kenya with Exclusive Villa Collection: Olderkesi conservancy safari in the Maasai Mara with Cottar’s, and Sirai House, a private home on Laikipia’s Borana.
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