Everyone here at Knighton Reeve has been lucky enough to have visited Botswana, so we asked them to try and pick out some favourite memories:

Katherine

Arriving at Savute Elephant Lodge to witness an entire herd of elephants at the watering hole in the dried up Savute Channel. Throughout my stay there was a steady flow of elephants, coming and going – even throughout the night. Elephants come from miles and miles to drink from this area. A few years later I returned to find the Savute had started flowing again. To experience the difference in this area with and without water was amazing.

David H

Baines Camp, Okavango Delta – watching a herd of elephants in the lagoon before they came out and walked into camp and, as it is all on raised stilts, under the very walkway I was standing on. Leisurely browsing and munching as they went, it was an amazing sight as we were looking down on the elephants from our vantage point with a chilled glass in hand.

Suzanne

Botswana’s offered me so many incredible moments and it’s a toss up between meerkats and lions as to who wins my top moment. The lions just tip the scales. We spent well over an hour just watching a lioness and her 2 very, very young cubs. She had made a very safe home for them in a thick cluster of bushes on a delta island. As the water level was rising, it was touch and go as to whether we would make it across, but we did. 

We watched as the youngsters played with each other and used their mum as a climbing post, chasing her ever-twitching tail. Mum went off to look for dinner and miraculously the cubs knew to retreat into the bush and stay hidden until she returned and called them out again. The water levels continued to rise and a couple of days later, the little family headed off to drier land, mum leading the way and the little cubs swimming behind her. Mothering at its finest.