Savuti Camp

Highlights

• The Linyanti Wildlife Reserve offers one of Africa's most exhilarating wildlife experiences.
• Elephants are one of the reserves' prime attractions.
• Space and privacy are what sets this reserve aside.
• Waterhole close to camp - attracts large numbers of animals that guests can view from the camp.
• Brilliant wildlife concentrations.
• Experienced, trained and accredited guides.

Camp Description

Savuti Camp is a comfortable camp providing accommodation in 7 walk-in tented rooms with en-suite facilities. Each room is raised off the ground on wooden decks. The camp has a thatched dining area, bar and plunge pool, all on raised wooden decks. There is a waterhole close to camp and this attracts large numbers of animals that guests can view from the camp.

• Dining room and bar under thatch.
• Extended deck for star lit dinners next to the fire.
• Evening fire side.
• Plunge pool overlooking water hole.
• 7 tents on raised decks sleeping a total of 14 guests.
• 1 family tent.
• All tents with en-suite facilities and outside showers.

Game Viewing

Game concentrations here are high, especially in our winter months. Besides your normal plains game, the area has good sightings of Roan, Sable and Giraffe. All the predators occur in the area - Lion, Leopard, Cheetah and Wild Dog. Two different prides of Lion have been identified along the channel around the camp. The Chobe/Linyanti area is renowned for its dense Elephant population and for some of the best Elephant viewing anywhere in Africa in the winter months. As the waterhole in front of the camp is the only supply of water for a large area in the dry winter months, one of the highlights for Savuti Camp is the fantastic wildlife viewing directly from the camp. Hides at other waterholes are also a special feature.

Elephants are one of the area's biggest attractions, especially in the dry winter months, along with red lechwe, zebra, wildebeest, impala, waterbuck, sable, roan, eland, giraffe, baboon, vervet monkey, warthog, crocodile and buffalo.

Then there are the predators - lion, leopard, cheetah, wild dog and hyaena - and the nocturnal animals - bushbabies, spring hare, aardwolf, serval, genet, pangolin and the smaller predators. Birding is great here, from the Okavango "specials", such as Slaty Egret, White-rumped Babblers and Wattled Cranes, to the bushveld species.

Wildlife Activities

Savuti offers land activities only. Activities include game drives in open 4x4 Land Rovers, hides (including a woodpile hide located at the waterhole in front of the camp). Night drives and walks with an armed guide. Wildlife in the area includes all of Botswana's big animals and is one of the best areas in the country to see predators. There are also good concentrations of plains animals in the area.

• Game Drives
  
  • All game activities are lead by a professional guide.
  • 5 water holes nearby, some with hides.
  • Night drives.
• Walking Safaris
  
  • Game walks & game viewing at hides.
• Water Activities
  
  • It is possible to use boats at DumaTau on request only, provided the group has booked out the entire camp.

How to Get there

ExpertBotswana can arrange flights to Botswana from Johannesburg or Cape Town into Maun or Kasane, where most safaris start and end. Transfers from Maun/Kasane are done by light aircraft into the camps Inter-camp transfers are done by light aircraft, road, boat or mekoro.

Child Policy

Children over the age of 8 years are welcome.

Electricity

• Camp has a 220v generator. Electricity is run in the kitchen and main areas when guests are not in camp.
• When guests return from daily activities, generators generally switched off (for peace in camp).
• 12v battery power (charged by the generator) is used for lighting and fans in each guest tent 24hrs a day.
• Hairdryers etc cannot work here.
• Video battery can be charged by the generator when guests on game drives. Hence bring spare battery and charging unit.

Malaria

Malaria is found in the central, western and northern areas of Botswana.