Savuti Camp

Gregory Fox

Sitting in the woodpile hide at the waterhole in front of the camp watching the elephants when they don't know you are there is amazing. Game drives through the savute channel is a highlight, it is one of the most beautiful areas in the Linyanti.

  • Gregory Fox

Savuti Camp is situated in an isolated part of the Linyanti Concession along the Savute Channel in northern Botswana. In the 1980s, the Savute Channel, deep, clear and harbouring hundreds of hippo and aquatic life, dried up, due to shifts in the Linyanti Fault system. What remains is an unusual and productive ribbon of grassland that serves as a corridor and feeding ground in the surrounding woodland for a wide variety of herbivores. An exciting development has been that in recent years the Channel has 'flowed' along varying distances of its length. The Savute Channel stopped flowing in 1980 and what was a hippo-filled river, is now wide, open grasslands, although in recent years the Channel has 'flowed' along varying distances of its length. This area is a legendary predators' enclave and Savuti Camp is ideally situated along this Channel - its waterhole the only source of water for both quantities and varieties of wildlife.

Location

Savuti is an approximately 45 minute flight from Maun and 45 minute flight to Kasane. The camp is a 35 minute drive from the airstrip.

Highlights

  • Woodpile hide located at the waterhole in front of the camp
  • Elephant viewing is amongst the best anywhere especially in winter
  • Night drives on the channel are superb
  • There is excellent birding in the area

Facilities

Facilities available at Savuti Camp include a thatched dining area and pub, curio shop, a plunge pool and large viewing area with fire pit extending outwards on raised wooden decks towards the Channel, providing a wonderful view of the waterhole.

Activities

Activities at Savuti Camp include day and night game drives, game walks & game viewing at the hides (including a woodpile hide located at the waterhole in front of the camp).

Meal Basis

Fully inclusive accommodation including all meals, drinks (excluding premium brand drinks) and activities.

Child Policy

Children over the age of 8 years are welcome. Private activities need to be booked for families with children.

Accommodation:

Savuti Camp offers 7 large en-suite walk-in tents that are raised off the ground and face onto the Savute Channel's grasslands.

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Customer Review

Holiday to Botswana during February 2011

Botswana Review

All I really know about Botswana is the camps I stayed in and the bush apart from a brief visit to Maun which can probably best be described as a "frontier" town but it seemed to me to be clean and orderly

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Bill Passmore

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