Savuti

Savuti, frequently described as one of the best wildlife viewing areas in Botswana, is approx. 5,000 km2 and is located in the south west corner of the Chobe National Park. It is also an area that is described as enigmatic with one of it great baffles being the Savuti Channel. In the last century, this channel has puzzlingly dried up and resumed its flow several times, although many associate this with tectonic activity in the past. It currently hasn't flowed since 1982. Savuti is now vast open grassland with granite hills bordered by acacia and mopane forest.

Despite this, Savuti is highly populated with concentrations of wildlife all year round particularly predators such as its native lions and hyenas (the latter of which can sometimes be found pillaging through campsites), as well as zebra, giraffe, elephants and many more.

Savuti has five distinct areas to it, being the Savuti Marsh, the Magwikhwe Sand Ridge, the Savuti Channel, the Mababe Depression and the Rocky Outcrops, which were formed by volcanic movements 980 million years ago.