Moremi National Park Botswana

Making up one third of the Okavango Delta is the Moremi Game Reserve, offering some of the best game viewing in Africa, with sand tracks wending their way among (and sometimes across) floodplains, mopane forests, pans and waterholes punctuate the landscape and the animals and birdlife move freely around one of the worlds last real wildernesses. It is the great diversity of plant and animal life that makes Moremi so well known.

Access into the park is by 4wd only as all the roads are sandy and often waterlogged, there are several luxury lodges on the north river of the park, several unfenced camping grounds in the park (with very restricted numbers) and a handful of places just outside the park from where you can make daytrips into the park.

Wildlife
Birdlife is prolific and varied, ranging from water birds to shy forest dwellers. There are many species of ducks end geese, as well as an amazing variety of heron. Elephants are numerous, particularly during the dry season, as well as a range of other wildlife species from buffalo, giraffe, lion, leopard, cheetah, wild dog, hyaena, jackal and the full range of antelope, large and small, including the red lechwe. Wild dog, whose numbers are so rapidly dwindling elsewhere, are regularly sighted in the Moremi and have been subject to a project being run in the area since 1989.

Moremi is best visited in the dry season and game viewing is at its peak from July to October, when seasonal pans dry up and the wildlife concentrates on the permanent water. At any time of the year, game is prolific (although what is seen obviously varies with the season).

Mosquitoes are prevalent throughout the reserve and it is strongly recommended that visitors should take an anti-malarial prophylactic.