Discover Botswana: An Unforgettable Wildlife Photography Experience

The Okavango Delta and Chobe National Park Photo Workshops Begins

The Botswana photography tour begins in Johannesburg, South Africa. A shuttle driver will pick you up in a central area outside of customs and transport you to a pleasant guesthouse nearby. That evening, we’ll have a group dinner, answer questions, and go over the trip to come!

(Note the description below implies a northward (Maun to Kasane Route), but the trip may be run in reverse (Kasane to Maun.))

Okavango Delta Exploration

The following morning, we’ll depart for the airport and fly to Maun, Botswana where our safari begins. Our local safari guides will meet us at the airport in Maun and we’ll quickly load up the safari vehicles and hit the road for the Okavango Delta!

It’s a couple of hours on the road to our first camp, but we’ll take most of the afternoon to get there, as we experience our first Okavango Delta wildlife photography as we game drive in the vast Moremi Preserve.

With abundant elephants, many species of antelope, wildebeest, Cape buffalo, predatory lions, leopards, hyenas, and African painted dogs, the Okavango is a playground for wildlife photographers. We’ll spend three nights at our first camp from which we will explore the Xakanaka and Xini areas on morning and evening game drives.

On Botswana wildlife safaris we start early

Early each morning, before dawn, we will wake to hot wash water being poured into the basins outside our tent door and the friendly wake-up call of the camp staff. It sounds hard to rise before dawn each morning, and yet the songs of birds, distant roars of lions, and the abundance of life in Botswana makes it easy.

Before the sun cracks the horizon we’ll head out in the vehicles for a few hours of African safari photography. Mid-morning we’ll stop for tea and coffee at some scenic spot before making our way back to camp before the mid-day heat. After lunch and a siesta in the shade, we’ll venture back out in the vehicles for the evening photo session. The sweet light is brief in the tropics of Botswana and we will make the most of each moment!

On our fourth day, we’ll relocate to the northern part of Moremi near the San village of Khwai, for our final two nights in the Okavango. Water levels permitting, in Khwai, we will have the opportunity to get out in pole-driven mokoro canoes, the traditional transportation through the Okavango. Mokoro canoe photography offers a rare chance to see wildlife and birds from outside the vehicle and provides outstanding photo opportunities.

Chobe National Park Wildlife Encounters

On the last day, we’ll have the morning to pack and do some local sightseeing in Kasane before catching an early afternoon flight back to Johannesburg from the surprisingly modern airport. Back at the guesthouse in Joburg we’ll wrap up our trip with dinner, drinks, stories, and a comfortable night at the Sunrock Guesthouse.