1. Nxabega Okavango Tented Camp

&Beyond Nxabega Okavango Tented Camp is an intimate luxury safari lodge located on a 25,000-hectare (61,775-acre) private concession in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, bordering the Moremi Game Reserve.

The &Beyond Nxabega Okavango Tented Camp in Botswana is renowned for its luxurious lodging and breathtaking views of the surrounding Okavango Delta. Nxabega offers its visitors a unique and exclusive African safari experience together with some of the best game drives and birding possibilities in the region.

2. Duba Plains Camp | Okavango Delta

Duba Plains Camp is one of Botswana’s best luxury camps, located in one of the most scenic corners of the Okavango. This excellent camp is situated on the enormous, and beautifully diverse, 33,000 hectare private concession in the north of the Delta. This intense game viewing has been caught in a number of great Nat Geo programs by founders Derek and Beverley Joubert. Top Camp in a Stunning Area with a Top Safari Experience.

Duba Plains Camp is a small camp located in the remote northern region of the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Duba Plains Camp is surrounded by vast grasslands that are abundant in the game and seasonal floodplains. The camp, which can only be reached by light aircraft, is well known for its resident lion pride and their never-ending conflicts with the numerous buffalo that roam the area.

3. Sanctuary Chief’s Camp | Moremi Game Reserve

Located on Chief’s Island, in the exclusive Mombo Concession of the Moremi wildlife Reserve, Chief’s Camp offers some of the best wildlife watching in Africa, as well as one of the most opulent safaris. A very spoiling safari experience on this magnificent camp. Incredible accomodation, an incredible environment and amazing wildlife all combining to the ultimate luxury safari experience. Okavango property, flagship with good cause.

Sanctuary Chief’s Camp is a super-luxurious bush lodge situated on Chief’s Island in the exclusive Mombo Concession of the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. The indisputable “predator capital of Africa” is the Moremi Game Reserve, a part of the Okavango Delta that has been walled off. The wild dog, lion, cheetah, and leopard all inhabit this region.

4. Vumbura Plains | Okavango Delta

Vumbura Plains Camp is a top Okavango camp with chic contemporary style. There are 14 luxury stilted rooms, in two camps, joined by wooden pathways. From the spacious lounge there are breath-taking panoramic views over the floodplains. There is an intriguing diversity of wildlife sightings that illustrate the variety and density of animal species here. Delicious meals and sumptuous surroundings, combined with high levels of service, give travellers safari experiences that are sure to last in the memory.

In the far north of the Okavango Delta, Vumbura Plains is a wonderful camp that is located in a private concession that borders the Moremi Game Reserve. The Vumbura Reserve has a huge crossing area of about 24,000 hectares with a wide range of habitats and species.

5. Chobe Game Lodge

Chobe Game Lodge is the only permanent lodge in Botswana’s famous Chobe National Park, a place distinguished by dramatic wildlife encounters and views. A world-renowned safari resort and peaceful and exclusive to allow the wildlife to roam free.Each day the distant rumble of elephants wading over the water just outside the lodge.

Chobe Game Lodge is the only permanent five-star safari lodge located inside Chobe National Park in Botswana, set right on the banks of the Chobe River.

6. Gomoti Plains

The Gomoti tree, called locally as the water fig, is a little tree that can sometimes grow no bigger than a shrub and is found near streams in the Okavango Delta. Gomoti trees flank the rivers and provide great cover for nesting aquatic birds such as herons and storks. The Gomoti Plains Camp is situated on the fringe of the Gomoti river system.

7. Machaba Camp

Next to the Moremi Game Reserve in the game-rich 180,000ha Khwai concession of the Okavango Delta lies a low-key, ‘50s-inspired Machaba Camp. The camp is named after the Machaba trees that grow in abundance in the Delta and are famed for their prolific fruit that feeds a broad variety of animals from elephants and baboons to bushbuck and green pigeons.

8. Wilderness Vumbura Plains

Wilderness Vumbura Plains is a premier 5-star luxury safari camp located in the extreme northern reaches of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Situated within a massive 60,000-hectare private concession that borders the Moremi Game Reserve, this camp is celebrated for its striking modern design, immaculate service, and unique geographical positioning that offers both land- and water-based safari activities.

Vumbura Plains is a great camp in a private concession just north of the Moremi Game Reserve in the far north of the Okavango Delta. The Vumbura Reserve has a fantastic mix of ecosystems, high species diversity and a huge traversing area of around 24,000 hectares.

9. Jao Camp

Jao Camp is an ultra-luxury safari retreat hidden on a private island in the heart of Botswana’s Okavango Delta.

Jao Camp is located on an isolated island in the middle of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, where canals, lagoons and floodplains repaint the map with the seasons. It is situated in a private concession to the east of Moremi Game Reserve and is a safari defined by water and light. Visit by boat during the flooding of the Delta and glide over reed-lined rivers in a mokoro. Return in the drier months and the environment morphs into wide grasslands with species congregating around the remaining water, making classic game drives the order of the day.

10. Zarafa Camp

Zarafa Camp is an exclusive, eco-friendly luxury safari camp located on the private 130,000-hectare Selinda Reserve in northern Botswana.

Zarafa Camp is one of the few Relais & Châteaux safari camps in Botswana, and overlooks a vast expanse of the Zibadianja Lagoon. From first light the river sets a stage. Hippos surface in the shallows, African skimmers call from above and elephants wade chest deep to munch on papyrus. The camp is located under the tall black trees and has amazing views of a year-round water course that attracts wildlife.

11. Sable Alley

Sable Alley is beside to a lily-filled lagoon in Khwai Private Reserve, where hippos grunt under the camp and elephants and buffalo often come down to drink. The reserve is 200,000 hectares of privately owned wilderness to the northeast of the Okavango Delta, adjacent to Moremi Game Reserve and Chobe National Park. It is a partnership with the local people and your stay here helps fund the conservation and Khwai Village programs, whilst offering you access to one of Botswana’s most rewarding private safari areas.

12. Camp Xakanaxa

Camp Xakanaxa is a luxury, classic safari camp located on the banks of the Khwai River and Xakanaxa Lagoon within the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana’s Okavango Delta.

Camp Xakanaxa is located on the edge of Botswana’s famed Okavango Delta, on the banks of the Khwai River and Xakanaxa Lagoon, a setting that represents the Delta at its most alive. One of the few lodges providing year-round land and water safaris, it is located right in the heart of Moremi Game Reserve, surrounded by reed-lined waterways, mopane forests and the endless movement of wildlife. Mornings start with the sounds of fish eagles, evenings end with the crackling of firelight above the river.

13. Savute Safari Lodge

Savute Safari Lodge is a luxury safari camp located on the banks of the dry Savute Channel in the western region of Chobe National Park, Botswana.

Overlooking Chobe’s vibrant Savute habitat, famed for its enormous concentration of elephant and flourishing lion prides, Savute Safari Lodge is nestled between old camelthorn trees on the banks of the Savute canal.

14. Chief’s Camp, an A&K Sanctuary

Chief’s Camp, an A&K Sanctuary, takes you to Chief’s Island in Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana, one of the most wildlife-rich locations of the Okavango Delta. Formerly the royal hunting field of a Batawana chief, the island currently conserves an amazing concentration of wildlife in mopane woodland, acacia forest, floodplains and seasonal streams. As the year passes the water rises and falls, bringing elephants, buffalo, giraffe, red lechwe and impala to higher ground, while lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas and African wild dogs keep this area of the Delta thrillingly alive.

15. Stanley’s Camp, an A&K Sanctuary

Sanctuary Stanley’s Camp is a luxurious, classic safari property managed by Sanctuary Retreats (an Abercrombie & Kent company). It is nestled on a 260,000-acre private concession that borders the southern section of the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana’s UNESCO-listed Okavango Delta.

The Okavango Delta is at your feet at Stanley’s Camp, an A&K Sanctuary. Look out across floodplains in the shade of ebony and sausage trees, where giraffe and elephant often pass by and herds of buffalo may assemble. Lion, leopard and wild dog roam the broader area so your safari starts before you’ve even unpacked. The journey in from the airfield itself takes you through this game-rich terrain, and every bend is another cause to keep your camera close.

16. Chobe Bakwena Lodge

The Chobe Bakwena Lodge is beautifully placed on the banks of the Chobe River giving guests a tranquil setting and peace of mind that their safari experience is for the greater good. This eco-luxury location is conveniently located a few minutes from the meeting point of four countries, namely Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia.

Chobe Bakwena Eco Lodge is an intimate, owner-run eco-luxury retreat situated on the banks of the Chobe River in Kasane, Botswana. Positioned roughly 10 to 20 minutes from the main gate of Chobe National Park, it blends responsible tourism with a highly personalized, boutique safari experience.

17. Ngoma Safari Lodge

Ngoma Safari Lodge is a luxurious, 5-star eco-conscious safari property managed by Machaba Safaris. It is perched on a high rocky escarpment within the Chobe Forest Reserve in Northern Botswana.

Ngoma Safari Lodge overlooks the Chobe River and its endless floodplains, elegantly blending into the environment in Botswana’s most prolific wildlife location – Chobe National Park. This remote lodge offers an intimate and rewarding safari in a wildlife sanctuary with some of the continent’s biggest concentrations of animals.

18. Belmond Savute Elephant Lodge

Belmond Savute Elephant Lodge sits on the banks of the Savute Channel in Botswana’s Chobe National Park, offering front-row seats to one of Africa’s most dramatic wildlife spectacles. Here, in this secluded eco-conscious sanctuary of shifting sands and ancient mysteries, elephants abound in their thousands and lions control the plains. The uncertainty of the location – represented in the Setswana name of the lodge, Savute, meaning “uncertain” – only adds to its allure, as the previously dry channel comes and goes with the movements of the earth.

19. Belmond Khwai River Lodge

In the heart of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, predators roam freely and a plethora of birds fly overhead in the skies above the first game reserve to be locally owned. Enjoy this experience firsthand from the decks of Belmond Khwai River Lodge, while at the same time indulging in full relaxation.

Belmond Khwai River Lodge was a legendary, 5-star luxury safari camp located on the edge of the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Historically operated by the prestigious hospitality brand Belmond (alongside sister properties Eagle Island Lodge and Savute Elephant Lodge), the camp has been taken over, renamed, and completely transformed into a new property called Sediba Sa Rona.

20. Mokete Camp

Wilderness Mokete is an ultra-exclusive, luxury tented safari camp operated by the renowned conservation-led hospitality group Wilderness. Opened in 2024, it stands as the only commercial lodge inside a massive, previously uncharted 193-square-mile (approx. 50,000-hectare) private concession.

Be one of the first – and few – to experience the intimate, limited edition of Mokete. This is an untouched patch of terrain, previously unknown, that sets the stage for prolific game viewing, located between two famed Botswana wilderness areas, Moremi Game Reserve and Chobe National Park.

21. North Island Okavango

North Island Okavango is an ultra-luxurious, hyper-exclusive safari camp operated by the conservation-led hospitality group Natural Selection. It is tucked away on a remote private island known locally as Xuxuga, situated inside the 77,000-acre semi-private NG23A concession (Sekwana Concession) on the northern fringes of Botswana’s Okavango Delta.

North Island Okavango is surrounded by a patchwork of other islands, tranquil lagoons and ever changing channels of the Okavango Delta, providing delightful relaxation and African-inspired sophistication. Enjoy a safari in the heart of what is definitely one of the most famous wildlife viewing places in the world.

22. Zambezi Queen

The Zambezi Queen is a 5-star luxury floating boutique hotel and safari houseboat that navigates the waters of the Chobe River. Managed under the Zambezi Queen Collection by Mantis (and frequently chartered as a premier extension for AmaWaterways safari packages), the 42-meter-long vessel glides between the borders of Namibia and Botswana.

Looking for something a little bit different? How about two nites on board a luxury five star houseboat moored on the Chobe River, exquisite dining on board, game drives, sunset cruises and suites with private decks? These are just a few of the joys on offer on the Zambezi Queen.

23. Xugana Island Lodge

Xugana Island Lodge is an iconic, luxury water-based safari resort managed by the highly regarded portfolio Desert & Delta Safaris. Located on a remote private island within the exclusive Shinde Concession in the northern reaches of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, the property faces the expansive, deep waters of the pristine Xugana Lagoon.

It is generally accepted that Xugana Lagoon is the most amazing permanent water feature in the Okavango Delta. That makes Xugana Island Lodge, one could say, one of the most sought-after spots in the area, where tourists may enjoy the Delta at its most luxuriant.

24. Xigera Safari Lodge

Situated between two islands on the western fringe of Botswana’s Moremi Game Reserve, Xigera Safari Lodge provides floodplains, riverine woodland and papyrus-lined waterways that bring the Okavango Delta to your doorstep. Elephants roam past the decks, red lechwe traverse the wetlands while lion and wild dog roam the adjacent countryside. Xigera is a celebration of African ingenuity as much as the scenery surrounding it, with sculptural architecture and original works by more than 80 African artists and artisans making the lodge itself equally unique.

25. &Beyond Xaranna Okavango Delta Camp

&Beyond Xaranna Okavango Delta Camp offers elegant and personal accommodation and a fantastic choice of activities for wildlife viewing. Take a mokoro and glide down the waterways of the Delta. Walk accompanied by your tracker and watch as animals go about their stealthy movements through the bush. Hunt for predators and other nocturnal wildlife on an exciting nite drive or glimpse the Big 5 from your 4×4 in the day.

26. Tubu Tree Camp

Wilderness Tubu Tree Camp is an ultra-luxury, 4.8-star premier safari lodge tucked away on Hunda Island within the private 60,000-hectare Jao Concession in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Renowned for its traditional, elevated “treehouse” style, the camp sits on the border where permanent wetlands meet dry plains. This gives travelers a distinct advantage: because Hunda Island is the largest landmass in the area, it offers exceptional year-round, land-based game viewing, even when seasonal flooding forces other delta camps to rely strictly on water activities.

The largest permanent dry land feature in this part of the Okavango Delta, Hunda Island lies above an area of permanent wetlands with deep-water canals, seasonal floodplains and islands. Tubu Tree Camp is situated on an island of linked habitats and in the heart of big-game country to provide a diversity of thrilling wildlife experiences.

27. Shinde

For a lush palm island safari in northern Okavango Delta, look no further than Shinde Camp. This is one of the Delta’s original safari camps – rebuilt, yet still carrying the spirit of the early days of Botswana safaris. Positioned within the exclusive Shinde Concession, the camp’s combination of permanent waterways and dry-land habitats makes a wide range of safari activities possible year-round.

28. Selinda Explorers Camp

Selinda Explorers Camp allows you to experience the secluded Selinda Reserve in northern Botswana in canvas tents pitched on the banks of the Selinda Spillway. This is prime predator country, chosen by Dereck and Beverly Joubert after years of filming and research in the area. It’s a camp that is like an old safari field journal come to life, with sand below, riverine forest overhead, campaign-style furnishings and a relaxing, low impact style that keeps you close to the outdoors.

29. Selinda Camp

Selinda Camp sits on the banks of the Selinda Spillway, and plunges you into one of Botswana’s most inaccessible wildlife locations. The camp is sensitively built around the existing trees, inspired by elephants and things found in the earth. Elephants are integrated into the design, from the life-sized skull sculptures at the entryway, to the art, textures and stories that accompany you around the camp.

30. Seba Camp

Wilderness Seba Camp is a premier, 4.7-star eco-luxury safari camp situated in the massive, wildlife-rich Abu Concession on the western side of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Nestled within a secluded, ancient riverine forest of hardwood trees, the camp overlooks a sweeping, permanent lagoon known for its heavy elephant traffic and lively resident pods of hippos.

Ever wondered where the creators of wildlife documentaries stay while travelling across the Okavango Delta? Seba Camp. And one visit explains why.