How do Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, South Africa and Zimbabwe compare (with east Africa) for game viewing?
You could go on safari to any of these countries and see enough game to last you a life-time. The trick is in selecting the right venues, time & operator. BOTSWANA is the place to go for excellent game-viewing and remarkably diverse scenery, especially if you really want to ‘get away from it all’; most of the lodges there are on private concessions where there are few other visitors. Conventional wisdom has it that the best time to visit Botswana is in the dry season (June through October) and while that generally holds true, there is much to be said for the “Green Season” between December and March, and for the shoulder season from April to June. From April through May, the annual flood moves into Botswana’s Okavango Delta. It is an amazing sight to see the ribbons of water from the air, and to observe the changes on the ground, where a particular spot may be dry one day, only to be covered by a thin sheet of water the next. The Okavango Delta rates very high in my personal “Travel Ha
