These are UK-based tour operators and specialist travel agencies featuring holidays, safaris and travel in Botswana. Most operators will feature safaris, lodges and camps in the key game parks and reserves: Chobe, Okavango Delta, the Kalahari and the salt pans at Nxai and Makgadikgadi. |
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| Aardvark Safaris |
01980 849160 |
 Special interest safaris, family safaris, honeymoons, based on a comprehensive selection of camps and lodges. |
| Acacia Africa |
020 7706 4700 |
Mobile safaris, lodge stays, and adventure trips in Chobe & the Okavango. |
| Africa Archipelago |
020 7471 8780 |
Tailormade safaris, holidays and honeymoons to Botswana. Sister company to Tanzania Odyssey and Indian Ocean Odyssey. |
| Africa Exclusive |
01604 628979 |
John Burdett & Warwick Hoffman offer upmarket, individually tailored, safari programmes Botswana. |
| African Odyssey |
01242 224482 |
Fly-in safaris combining the Okavango Delta, Linyanti & Chobe National Park, and to Jack's camp in the Makgadikgadi National Park in the Kalahari Desert. |
| African Pride |
01904 541000 |
Classic safari itineraries for independent travellers to the Moremi Game reserve (Okavango Delta) the Linyanti Game Reserve, Chobe National Park and Mashutu Game Reserve. |
| African Safari Roots |
01736 367 635 |
Specialist operator set up in 2004 by Rob McDowell to meet the needs of real wildlife enthusiasts and amateur photographers. The emphasis is on private guiding and creating unusual tailormade safaris. |
| Africa Select |
01670 787646 |
Good range of safari itineraries and lodge/camp options in Botswana. |
| Africa Sky |
0870 9040 925 |
Tailor-made tours and safaris. Africa Sky is a specialist sub-brand of long-haul operator, Tropical Sky, launched by three well-known travel industry characters, Steve Garley, Mike Collins and Jake Grieves-Cook, the latter two formerly with Tropical Places, which was bought by Thomson. |
| Africa Travel Centre |
0845 450 1541 |
Tailormade safaris based on a small range of itineraries. |
| Bailey Robinson |
01488 689700 |
Specialises in luxury and tailor-made holidays worldwide, but particularly luxury safaris in Africa. |
| Bobcat Safaris |
020 8987 6074 |
Small specialist operator offering safari holidays in Botswana. Their speciality is mobile tented safaris. |
| Botswana Travel |
020 7226 1004 |
Dedicated Botswana brand from Rainbow Tours who specialise in environmentally sensitive tailor-made tours & safaris using locally-owned hotels lodges & resorts for small-groups, families and individuals. Botswana Travel has a wide range of birding safaris, family safaris, air safaries, walking safaris, riding safaris, etc. |
| Carrier Africa |
01625 547010 |
Tailor-made luxury resort and safari lodge holidays based on a selection of around a dozen camps throughout Bostwana. |
| Cazenove & Loyd |
020 7384 2332 |
Upmarket safari operator to most countries in Southern Africa including Botswana. |
| Cedarberg Travel Africa |
020 8941 1717 |
Good range of tailormade tours and safaris in Botswana. |
| Definitive Africa |
0161 929 5151 |
Tailor-made luxury safaris to Botswana based on a good selection of suggested itineraries including flying safari and mobile camping safaris. |
| Discovery Initiatives |
01285 643333 |
Conservation-focused operator offering an 'African Lions' study tour in the Okavango Delta. |
| Experience Holidays |
01323 416699 |
Small tailor-made programme into Botswana’s Okavango Delta and Kalahari. |
| Expert Africa |
020 8232 9777 |
Tailor-made travel and safaris in Botswana. Formerly called Sunvil Africa, the new (Nov 05) name is intended to highlight the expertise of their staff. All of them have lived, worked or travelled extensively in Africa, and Managing Director Chris McIntyre is himself an author of four Bradt guidebooks on Africa (Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and soon-to-be-published Zanzibar). |
| Explore Worldwide |
0870 333 4001 |
Wide selection of small group adventure tours, overland tours, safaris and excursions in Botswana, Zambia and either side of the border in both. Also their new (Dec 04) programme of Explore 'In-Style' safari holidays offer a more luxurious standard of accommodation and touring than normal, aimed at more discerning clients. |
| Farside Africa |
0131 315 2464 |
Small specialist operator offering tailor made safari holidays in Botswana based on personal experience. |
| Footprint Adventures |
01522 804929 |
Conservation and community-friendly operator offering overland, adventure and camping safaris in the Okavango Delta. |
| Gane & Marshall |
020 8441 9592 |
Tailor made safaris in Botswana. |
| Hartley's Safaris |
01673 861600 |
Botswana specialists (they used to own & operate lodges in the Okovango Delta) offering tailormade safari holidays. |
| Island Safari |
0773 4038044 |
Tailor-made itineraries to the Okavango Delta, Kalahari Desert, Chobe and Moremi. Including air safaris, horse-back safaris and elephant-back safaris. |
| Journeys by Design |
01273 623 790 |
Specialise in stylish tailor-made itineraries to off-the-beaten-track safari camps, horse-back safaris, air safaris, air safaris and mobile tented safaris. |
| Migration Safaris |
0870 240 6305 |
Tailor-made safaris to Botswana, offering exclusive mobile tented safaris, horse-riding safaris and a number of special lodges & camps not in most operators' portfolios. Migration is a brand of Safari Drive (see below). |
| MagicGlobe |
0870 011 0270 |
A wide range of tailor-made safari itineraries throughout Botswana, where they also offer family safaris, photgraphic safaris, air safaris & horse-back safaris. |
| Natives Escapes |
020 8977 7034 |
New (Feb 08) southern Africa specialist offering small group trips, tailor made safari tours and self drive touring. |
| Nyanja Safaris |
01903 815846 |
Tailor-made "EcoSafaris" in Botswana. |
| Okavango Tours & Safaris |
020 8343 3283 |
The name gives it away. Longstanding specialists offering tailor-made tours to Bostwana, incorporating walking safaris, horseback safaris, elephant back safaris, canoe expeditions, special interest tours, and a range of other options. OT&S won the the 2006 AITO Travel Company of the Year award (small company category) which is based on quantified feedback from customers of over 150 Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO) member companies. |
| Preston Reid |
01347 822282 |
Tailor-made travel and safaris in Botswana. |
| Pulse Africa |
020 8995 5909 |
Customised Bostwana safaris combined with Vic Falls in Zambia. |
| Real Africa |
0870 7364757 |
Good selection of suggested itineraries for tailor-made tours and safaris to Botswana. |
| Safari Africa |
01995 67 97 76 |
Wide range of safari & tour itineraries in Botswana. |
| Safari Consultants |
01787 228494 |
Well-regarded safari specialists offering basic to luxury camping & lodges, elephant back, horse riding, walking safaris, boating safaris and fishing; in all the safari regions of Botswana. |
| Safari Drive |
0870 2406305 |
Self-drive safaris in landrovers through Botswana. |
| Steppes Africa |
012 8565 0011 |
Tailormade safaris all over Bostwana including the Makgadikgadi National Park, Linyanti & Chobe Rivers, Caprivi Strip (technically Namibia) & Okavango Delta. |
| Tana Travel |
01789 414200 |
Tailor made tours & safaris in Botswana. |
| Temple World |
020 8940 4114 |
Temple World specialise in culture, wildlife, archaeology, natural history and ecology tours in the Middle East and Mediterranean. In Botswana this translates into general tailor-made safaris, special interest safaris (eg birdwatching) and tours to the Kalahari to see the rock paintings of the bushmen. |
| Time for Africa |
01489 878593 |
Comprehensive range of safari destinations, lodges, and styles in Botswana. |
| To Escape To |
0871 711 5282 |
Tailormade safari holidays based on a selection of lodges and camps in Botswana. |
| Tribes Travel |
01728 685971 |
Tribes specialise in 'Fair Trade' travel creating tailor-made and small group tours to all the wildlife areas of Botswana. |
| Ultimate Safaris & Islands |
020 7589 8800 |
Small niche operator specialising exclusively in luxury tailor-made journeys to Africa and the Indian Ocean islands. |
| Visions of Africa |
0845 345 0065 |
Specialist AITO operator offering a range of safaris and tours in Botswana for the independent traveller. |
| Voyages Jules Verne |
0845 166 7035 |
VJV (a Kuoni brand) has launched (Jul 2005) its first ever 'Aspects of Africa' brochure, featuring escorted 12 and 9-night wildlife safaris around Botswana. |
| Wild and Exotic |
01439 748401 |
Tailor-made safari itineraries in Botswana. |
| Wilderness & River Safaris |
0845 644 9397 |
Lodge safaris, traditional mobile safaris and adventure camping safaris in Chobe National Park, Selinda, Kwando, Mashatu, the Kalahari, and the Makgadikgadi and Nxai Pans. |
| Wildlife & Wilderness |
01625 530035 |
An interesting range of sample itineraries for tailor-made upmarket safaris in Botswana. |
| Zambezi Safari & Travel Company |
01548 830059 |
Focused originally on Zambia & Zimbabwe, ZSTC now offer tailor-made safaris (walking, fly-in, mobile, self-drive, etc) in Botswana as well, and bolt-on holidays in Cape Town. |
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