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The inaugural photographic workshop in conjunction with Pangolin Photo Safaris quite literally got off to a flying start. Pangolin’s custom-built photographic boat together with the Chobe River’s impressive birdlife gave us the ideal combination to brush up on some basic technical aspects of wil...

We are very pleased to announce the publication of a feature article on Botswana in which Letaka Safaris features very prominently. Last year we hosted American author and travel writer, Christopher Cox, on a safari here in the the Okavango. His article in the Audubon magazine which reaches an estim...

Just a few days into July and the daily rate of rise on the Thamalakane River continues to increase slowly towards the 2cm per day mark. Towards the third week of June the we saw an increase of over 100% from around 7mm per day to just over 1.5cm per day here at the Letaka Safaris base in Maun. This...

I have been trying to get to Hwange National Park for about 3 years and finally got the opportunity at the end of my honeymoon to visit this iconic park and it didn’t disappoint. Camp Hwange is a new 16 bed lodge in the centre of the park and is ideally situated for both game drives and walking...

Our safari got off to a cracking start with mating lions near Third Bridge in Moremi Game Reserve. The mating pair were joined later by another male lion and the trio then moved south towards the wild dog den where the wild dogs have just had their pups. We were fairly certain that something was goi...