An authentic mobile camp with every creature comfort, moving between sites in Chobe National Park’s Savute region
A cosy mess tent with dining area, lounge and bar, bush dinners outside, and a butler service
Five guest tents, each with a hot-water bucket shower and a private veranda
Game drives, San art nature walks, and birding
Activities at &Beyond Savuti Under Canvas focus predominantly on game drives within Botswana’s wild and remote Savuti region. However, short walks are possible depending on the camp’s location, and the guides can tailor game viewing to specific interests.
Morning and afternoon game drives are the main activity at Savuti Under Canvas, exploring the vast Savute terrain, which covers more than 10,000 square kilometres from the northern boundary of Chobe National Park all the way to the Linyanti river. This is a mysterious, desert-like landscape interspersed with enormous baobab trees, grasslands, mopane woodland, and the lifeless camelthorn trees of the Savute Channel – keep an eye open for lion, leopard, elephant, and buffalo, as well as smaller predators such as cheetah, hyena, and wild dog. You’ll likely encounter plenty of giraffe, wildebeest, zebra, and a fine assortment of antelopes.
If your stay coincides with the camp’s location near Gubatsa Hills, you can take a short guided walk to see some ancient San rock paintings of elephant, giraffe, eland, and sable. Not far from the site, there’s an avenue of enormous baobab trees – a sight to behold!
The Savute region supports more than 450 land and aquatic bird species, including the secretary bird, kori bustard, red-billed francolin, and, in April, impressive flocks of quelea finch. Different seasons bring various migration patterns, but ornithologists may well catch sight of a soaring bateleur eagle, a vibrantly coloured carmine bee-eater, or a gregarious pin-tailed whydah.
*This property is unfenced and located in a wildlife area, so large and potentially dangerous animals do pass through. If you opt to stay here, always be alert when walking around the camp and request for a member of staff to escort you if you have any concerns. Any guest is escorted after dark as a matter of course.
Savute Under Canvas moves between several different sites close to the Savute Channel within the Savute region of Chobe National Park . The camp is accessed by light aircraft to Savuti airstrip (approximately 50 minutes’ flying time from Maun or just over half an hour from Kasane), followed by a game drive of 30 minutes to an hour.
The camp’s mess tent has a dining area where everyone tucks into hearty meals together, with dishes cooked over an open fire.
There’s a help-yourself bar table, though friendly staff are always on hand to assist, and atmospheric bush dinners are frequently served outside beneath the stars, close to the campfire. Savute Under Canvas prides itself on its light sustainability footprint, which includes solar lights, bucket showers, and no electricity. Guests should be prepared to disappear off-radar for a while as there is no Wi-Fi connection at the camp and no plug sockets. Having said that, all 4×4 safari game vehicles are custom-built with 12V charging units and USB ports, so you won’t have any problem charging electronic devices.
Savute Under Canvas has just five Meru-style guest tents with mesh windows, fly sheets, and verandas arranged with a couple of safari chairs, ideal for an early-morning coffee surrounded by the sounds of nature.
Inside, you’ll find a simple but extremely comfortable sleeping area with zip-up mesh covering the front of the tent, insect-proof windows with canvas flaps to keep the light out at night, a double or twin beds, bedside stands with battery-powered hurricane lamps, huge sisal rugs, storage trunks, and hanging storage space with a few useful items such as insect repellent, a laundry bag, and dressing gowns. Each tent has a pair of Swarovski Optik CL Companion 8×30 binoculars for use during your stay. The en-suite facilities of each unit, accessed through a canvas partition behind the bedroom area, include a flush toilet, a jug-and-basin on top of a wooden vanity unit, and a classic bucket shower filled every evening (or on request).
Savute Safari Lodge offers homely, elegantly designed accommodation on the banks of Chobe National Park’s remote, wildlife-rich Savuti Channel. The camp provides a great location to explore the Savuti marshlands and encounter the huge elephant herds for which…
This property is no longer part of our current portfolio. Our specialists would be happy to suggest alternative lodges or camps that offer a similar experience. &Beyond Savute Under Canvas is an excellent mobile camp in a wild, hauntingly beautiful corner…
