Category: Linyanti

Best Botswana game reserves for a wildlife safari

22/7/2020

Best Botswana game reserves for Botswana holidays

By Roxanne Reid
As anyone who carefully plans their Botswana holidays will know, a safari is one of the top Botswana tourist attractions. With an abundance of wildlife and a diversity of landscapes and habitats, the country is a delight for wildlife enthusiasts and photographers. Here are some of the best Botswana game reserves for a wildlife safari.

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Selinda Camp, Linyanti: why to add it to a Botswana safari

24/7/2019

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Lion cub on the Selinda Reserve, Linyanti Botswana

By Roxanne Reid
We had stayed at Selinda Camp, Linyanti, before but now it had been re-imagined and rebuilt so it was like visiting a completely different camp. It lies in a remote wilderness on the Selinda Reserve, surrounded by big game and imbued with the authentic spirit of Africa. Here’s why to add it to a Botswana safari.

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Voices of Botswana: the jovial host

8/12/2016

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By Roxanne Reid
When you arrive on the main deck of DumaTau Camp in Botswana’s Linyanti, you’ll be blown away by the fresh, neutral-toned spaces and the sweeping views over a lagoon. The next thing you’ll notice is a skinny man peering at you from behind thick glasses, a broad grin on his face. He’s the front of house supervisor affectionately known as Mr B.

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An explosion of wild dogs at Selinda, Botswana

27/9/2016

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By Roxanne Reid
We’re flying, bouncing off-road over grass, avoiding aardvark holes and driving over a small mopane bush here or round a Kalahari apple-leaf there. We’re at Selinda in the Linyanti, Botswana, and we’re following an explosion of wild dogs.

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Lions and their cubs at Selinda in Botswana

23/8/2016

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Lion cub, Selinda Camp, Great Plains Conservation, Botswana

By Roxanne Reid
The Selinda Spillway in the Linyanti gets water from both the Okavango in the south and the Linyanti wetlands in the west. Here you’ll find large herds of elephant and buffalo, as well as a healthy population of wild dogs. But our first day at Selinda Camp in this wilderness in northern Botswana was all about lions and their cubs.

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Why to visit DumaTau in the Linyanti, Botswana

9/8/2016

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By Roxanne Reid
To the west of Botswana’s Chobe National Park lies the Linyanti, where there’s a geological fault line. It makes the Kwando River that flows south from Namibia change direction as it becomes the Linyanti River, turning 90 degrees to flow north again towards the Chobe. Among this enchanting mix of waterways, marshes, riverine forest and dry woodland is DumaTau Camp.

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Voices of Botswana: guide and photographer

14/7/2016

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By Roxanne Reid
If you’re really keen on wildlife photography, especially in Botswana, you may have heard of Wilderness Safaris guide and photographer Ona Basimane. His photos have appeared in publications like Peolwane, Discover Botswana and Travel Ideas, and he was a guest speaker at the Wild Shots Wildlife Photography Symposium in South Africa in 2013 and 2015.

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Highlights of the Linyanti, Botswana

28/6/2016

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By Roxanne Reid
In a previous post I shared highlights of Chobe in northern Botswana. Although it’s one of the four ecosystems of Chobe, I’ve chosen to tackle highlights of the Linyanti separately. Here you’ll find the incomparable Savute Channel, Selinda Spillway and Linyanti River, a remote area of floodplain and woodland that offers memorable predator activity.

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