Okavango Chitabe BOTSWANA

Okavango Chitabe

As late as the 1990's the annual flood in the Okavango usually extended through into this concession and on into Maun. These days the flood is rarely so extensive and most of the Chitabe area should be considered to be a largely dry safari area.

Chitabe is renowned for having a broad range of game. Certainly we have had our share of unusual experiences here ... porcupine, aardwolf, honeybadger and even a caracal ... nice additions to the usual suspects.

We tend to use the camps here relatively rarely, partly because we prefer the more remote feeling of the western delta and partly because for solid dry game-viewing we tend to head first for the Linyanti area, but this remains a good area, especially November to March.

Chitabe Main Camp

Chitabe Main Camp is located on the relatively small Chitabe Concession to the southeast of the Okavango Delta, quite close to Maun.

Due to the unreliability of the flood here, for trip planning purposes this should be considered a dry camp.

Main Camp is high specification and relatively large, there being eight rooms here plus another four in the adjacent Chitabe Trails Camp.

When other harder hitting dry safari lodges are full, then we are happy to use this good solid camp as back-up.

Chitabe Trails Camp

Chitabe Trails is located on the relatively small Chitabe Concession to the southeast of the Okavango Delta, quite close to Maun.

Due to the unreliability of the flood here, for trip planning purposes this should be considered a dry camp.

Trails is a four room annexe to the adjacent eight room Chitabe Main Camp and is simpler and slightly cooler, but not so luxurious.

When other harder hitting dry safari lodges are full, then we are happy to use this good solid camp as back-up

Sandibe Camp

Sandibe is located on the relatively small Chitabe Concession to the southeast of the Okavango Delta, quite close to Maun.

The lodge is in a well watered area and can generally offer a range of wet and dry safari year round.

Sandibe is part of the CCA chain and as such is high specification and reliable.

We book Sandibe only rarely as we find that it falls between two stools, being neither raw enough for outdoorsy guests, nor luxurious enough for top-end guests.