Savuti Camp
(Linyanti Wildlife Reserve - Botswana)
Savuti Camp - A Botswana Safari Lodge
Savuti Camp is situated in the Linyanti Reserve along the Savuti Channel in
northern Botswana. The camp is built about 17 kilometres 'downstream' from the
source of the Savuti. The channel stopped flowing in 1980 and what was a
Hippo-filled river, is now wide, open grasslands.
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 also a curio shop and a boma area. There is a waterhole
close to camp and this attracts large numbers of animals that guests can view
from the camp.
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.
The Linyanti Wildlife Reserve offers one of Africa's most exhilarating
wildlife experiences. The area covers 125,000 hectares (about 275,000 acres) of
prime wildlife country situated between the Okavango and Chobe regions. Yet,
there are only 26 rooms in 3 small camps that are allowed to access the game
drive areas of this reserve. To put this into perspective, the Linyanti Wildlife
Reserve is just about double the size of the Sabi Sands Reserve in South Africa.
The Sabi Sand Reserve successfully houses over a thousand beds in world famous
lodges like Singita, Londolozi, Mala Mala, Sabi Sabi and many others. Space and
privacy are what sets this reserve aside - as well as its brilliant wildlife
concentrations.
Elephants are one of the reserves prime attractions - especially in our winter
months when they are forced to congregate along the waterways and around the
waterholes of the area when the rainfall filled depressions and pans of the
interior dry up. At times the reserve must have several thousand elephants
roaming around. Red Lechwe, Zebra, Wildebeest, Impala, Waterbuck, Sable, Roan,
Eland, Giraffe, Baboon, Monkey, Warthog, Crocodile and Buffalo are some of the
other animals to be found here. Then there are the predators ~ Lion, Leopard,
Cheetah, Wild Dog and Hyena ~ 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, Whiterumped
Babblers and Wattled Cranes, to the bushveld species.
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