Savuti Camp
Linyanti Wildlife Reserve, Botswana
SAVUTI CAMP - LINYANTI WILDLIFE
RESERVE, BOTSWANA
Savuti Camp is situated within the private Linyanti
Wildlife Reserve, well away from the public. The camp is located along
the Savuti Channel, a legendary wildlife region that is best known for
its large numbers of predators - especially Lions and Hyenas. When the
channel has flowed in the past (it is currently not flowing), water travels
from the Linyanti marshes into the interior of the Chobe National Park.
The channel most recently stopped flowing in 1980 and what was then a
hippo-filled river is now wide open grasslands. To read more about the
Savuti channel go to: More Linyanti.
If you are looking for that Savuti experience of old, Savuti Camp should
not be missed. Savuti Camp is owned and managed by Wilderness Safaris.
Note: Savuti Camp was given a complete renovation in early 2007 and it is looking spectacular. Check the camp images for details!
Accommodation 
For images of Savuti, click Savuti
Images For Layout map of Savuti Camp, click Savuti
Map
Savuti Camp is a small and
intimate camp in an isolated area, far from any other people. Accommodation
at Savuti is in seven large comfortable walk in tents with en-suite facilities.
Each tent is raised off the ground on platforms and has its own bathroom
with a shower, hand basin and flush toilet. There is a separate dining
room and pub under reed and thatch, also on raised platforms, as well
as a plunge pool. All of the new tented rooms have indoor showers and loos and the tents all provide views of the famous Savuti waterhole. One of the seven tents is a family room, configured using two tents side-by-side, each with its own separate en-suite facilities. Complimentary laundry services are provided.
Activities
Savuti Camp is situated within
the private Linyanti Wildlife Reserve and as such, activities are not
limited to the rules and regulations of Chobe. They can therefore offer
game drives, night drives and walks with an armed guide. There are also
a number of elevated hides where guests can view animals quietly
and safely away from vehicles. Most of the time will be spent exploring
the now dry Savuti Channel - a wide open grassland which is favored by
plains game and the predators which rely upon them.
The Woodpile Hide
Situated directly in front
of camp is a small water hole which utilizes a solar powered pump to replenish
the water. During the dry season (May through November) this pan
is rarely without wildlife visitors coming to quench their thirst. The
pan is especially popular with elephants. Savuti has constructed
a "woodpile hide" directly adjacent to the water hole which a
fabulous for viewing and photographing the animals that come to visit. The
hide is made with huge and incredibly heavy leadwood trees that are even
too heavy for elephants to budge, so it is quite safe inside the hide. The
best time for photography is in the morning hours up until about 0930
when the sun becomes a bit too harsh. Plan to be in the hide at least
once when you visit Savuti, it is amazing!
Wildlife
Game concentrations here are high, especially in
the winter months. Besides your normal plains game, the area has good
concentrations of Roan, Sable and Giraffe. All the predators occur in
the area - Lion, Leopard, Cheetah, Wild Dog and Hyena. We have already
identified 40 different Lion along the Savuti channel around the camp.
The Chobe/Linyanti area is renowned for its dense Elephant population
and for some of the best Elephant viewing anywhere in Africa in the winter
months. As the waterhole in front of the camp is the only supply of water
for a large area in the dry winter months, one of the highlights for
Savuti
Camp is the fantastic wildlife viewing directly from the camp. Hides
at other waterhole's are also a special feature.
Rock Pan
For images of my recent day at Rock Pan, click Rock
Pan Images
On my recent trip to Savuti in June of 2002, I had some of the most
memorable and productive Elephant viewing ever while sitting at Rock
Pan in the Savuti Channel. This pan has an elevated position looking
down onto a small pan of water which is fed by a bore hole and pump.
Because the next nearest water is quite a ways off, all the animals in
this vicinity use Rock Pan to drink daily. We spent about 5 hours at
Rock Pan, off of our vehicle, sitting at the elevated position above
the pan as herd after herd of Elephant came to drink and cool off before
moving off for another herd. The pan was also visited by a large herd
of Buffalo, several herds of Zebra, Impalas, Warthogs and Baboons as
well as numerous bird species. We took roll after roll of photos (Rock
Pan Images), had lunch, experienced the occasional adrenaline rush
from the Elephants and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Make sure to visit
rock pan if you are at Savuti Camp.
Hunting and Conservation
The Linyanti Wildlife Reserve
is a multi-purpose reserve where photographic safaris are conducted and
where hunting is technically allowed. Wilderness Safaris (which owns and
operates four camps within the reserve) have decided not to hunt anywhere
in this area and as a result, they forfeit well over US$300,000 in revenue
per annum. Wilderness Safaris strives to ensure that the animals that
live in and around their concessions are not negatively impacted by tourism.
Eyes On Africa actively support only operators like Wilderness
Safaris, which do not allow any hunting.
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