Boat safari in the Okavango Delta
Travel through the waterways of the Okavango Delta on a boat safari, exploring the papyrus reeds and hippo habitats with your guide. The smooth ride offers a soothing alternative to time spent in a vehicle. Always subject to water levels.
Area
Okavango Delta and Moremi
Type
Wildlife & Nature
Grade
Standard
Who
Adults
Teens
Difficulty
Moderate
Duration
Half Day
The permanent and semi-permanent waterways of the Delta offer a superb experience when explored by boat and allow you to cover greater distances than when in a mokoro. Your guide will lead you through the waterways, watching wildlife on the islands from a different perspective. Often, you'll encounter animals such as elephants, which come to the shore to drink, offering endless photographic opportunities.
Tours Featuring This Experience
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View TourLimitless Botswana
This is the ultimate luxury safari experience. Travel by private jet to Botswana’s most luxurious lodges in incredible first-class game viewing areas, all with immaculate service, prestigious game drives and expert private guides. This, along with an abundance of beautiful scenery and the immense diversity of wildlife, you will be awe-struck by the stunning Okavango Delta, Selinda Reserve and unique eco-system of the Moremi, offering the most magical experience for your family and friends.
Recommended Hotels Nearby
A selection of luxury hotel options in the area, handpicked and recommended by our travel specialists.
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View AccommodationDuba Explorers
A charming, luxury tented camp in the Duba Concession of the Okavango Delta, Duba Explorer is a superb base for your safari. Combining game drives and water activities, you'll be accompanied by some of the best guides in the country.
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View AccommodationTubu Tree Camp
Tubu Tree Camp is a small intimate camp situated in the Jao concession bordering the Moremi Game Reserve. There are just eight traditional style tents built on raised wooden platforms, all with incredible views over the surrounding floodplains and game.
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View AccommodationOkuti
Okuti offers a unique kind of accommodation for your safari in the Moremi Game Reserve, in the heart of the Okavango Delta. Set right on the water, it is an ideal base for exploring this wildlife-rich region and is a really family-friendly camp.
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View AccommodationLetaka Mobile Camp - Moremi
Located on the eastern side of the Okavango Delta in the Moremi Game Reserve, this is a fully-serviced mobile camp, located in the heart of the action for game-viewing. Explore floodplains and savannahs with your Letaka guide on a mobile safari journey.
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View Accommodation4 Rivers
4 Rivers is a brand new camp from Kwando opening in June 2023. Overlooking a permanent lagoon in Botswana's Okavango Delta and scattered under the shade of ancient trees, guests can relish in the joy of a truly wild safari on this huge private concession.
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View AccommodationZarafa Camp
Situated in The Selinda, a 1,350km private reserve that straddles the Selinda Spillway, Zarafa Camp (which was Zibalianja) offers just four vast and airy luxury tented rooms all set on polished, raised wooden decks with en-suite, open air bathrooms.
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View AccommodationDumaTau
Located on raised wooden decks overlooking a lagoon filled with hippos, DumaTau is a luxury 10-room tented camp set in the heart of a natural haven. This is a perfect place in which to experience the diverse sights and sounds of the game-rich Linyanti.
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View AccommodationShinde Footsteps
Footsteps camp is located on the edge of a beautiful lagoon in the north of Botswana's Okavango Delta, where highly vocal hippos wallow. The three traditional safari tents are shaded by magnificent evergreen trees including Africa ebony and mangosteen.
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View AccommodationKwando Lagoon Camp
Kwando Lagoon Camp is a eight-room camp, lying on the shady banks of the Kwando River and set among tall and ancient African ebony and marula trees, overlooking the Kwando River with its resident pods of hippo, perfect for exploring by boat.
More Experiences in This Area
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View ExperienceGame Drives in Botswana
Viewing wildlife from a vehicle is the best way to get up close to big game. Allow your professional safari guide to cover ground to guarantee you some unforgettable sightings in Africa's premier safari destination.
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View ExperienceFishing in the Okavango
Fishing trips offer visitors to Botswana an opportunity to enjoy a different safari experience. In many areas the fishing is fantastic, you'll also enjoy fantastic wildlife and birdlife over your time on the water. NB not available within national parks.
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View ExperienceActivities at Tuludi
Located in the game rich Mababe Private Reserve, the perfect destination for those seeking to explore the Delta in search of game and some beautiful scenery.
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View ExperienceGame drives in the Okavango
One of the best ways to see the big game of Botswana's Okavango Delta is on a game drive with a knowledgeable guide. Explore in open-sided vehicles to maximize your viewing opportunities, this is a truly wildlife rich environment.
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