It was late November, and I was with a small group on my first safari in the Savute region of Botswana’s Chobe National Park. The primal spectacle we were about to witness was in line with what ...

With more than 40 percent of its land dedicated to conservation, it’s difficult to beat Botswana as a safari destination ... with a vigilant mother giraffe on foot, and paused to let a ...

Safari encounters are, in a word, exceptional here. While you won’t see the full Big Five (rhinos have been extinct in Botswana since ... feels like it stops. Giraffe, pods of hippos, a Nile ...