Botswana boasts other protected areas like the Chobe National Park, renowned for its large elephant population, and the Kalahari Desert, where the elusive black-maned Kalahari lion roams.

lion, the white rhinoceros, and its even more endangered relative, the black rhinoceros. Botswana also supports the world’s largest population of elephants at around 130,000, making the Okavango ...

Camp Xakanaxa, Botswana. Photo: Supplied In other camps in more remote Zambia – without electric fencing – we hear the lions right up ... designed back in 1912, Kalahari bushman named Tao ...

and the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, home to predators like lions and cheetahs. The best time to travel to Botswana is during the dry season, from May to October, when weather conditions are ...