News and Updates
Travel Butlers are delighted to announce that Chief’s Camp, in the exclusive Mombo Concession of the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana, will re-open next week on Wednesday 21st April. The lodge has been closed for a period while extensive upgrades were made to the camp, including extending the camp’s main lounge and dining area. Also, […] Read More
In the opening of Botswana’s Parliament and in the recent Botswana budget speech, it was announced that VAT (Value Added Tax) will be increased from 10% to 12%, effective from 01 April 2010, in that country.
Something momentous has just happened in Botswana! For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Okavango Delta system has joined with the game-rich floodplains of the Kwando / Linyanti river system. The joining point is the Selinda Spillway, a waterway which runs through the 320,000 acre Selinda Reserve.
Air Botswana has expanded its fleet and route network, to now enable guests to more easily access both the Okavango Delta, which is the world’s largest inland wetland area, comprising of nearly 16,000 square kilometres of lagoons, island and channels and the famous Chobe National Park, renowned for its large elephant population, where herds in […] Read More
Botswana has experienced abnormally heavy rains during its flood season this year, which has led to exceptionally high water levels in the Okavango Delta. The rain that fell was about 600 mm compared to the usual 400 mm, but it has been the distribution of the rain over the whole growing season which has made […] Read More
