Long Botswana safari

Set to the northeast of South Africa, Johannesburg is the great commercial heart of the country and the main transport hub, a sprawling mess of a place, scarred through its heart by the gold mines. It is not somewhere safari travellers tend to linger too long, although the Cradle of Mankind may be worth a visit.

Set in the north of Botswana, the Sekwana Concession is an up-and-coming sector of the Okavango Delta, with guest accommodation in a handful of diverse camps and offering a range of wet and dry safari activities. Relatively well-priced.

Set in the north of Botswana, the Ranns Concession is a scenic private sector of the Okavango Delta, with guest accommodation in a handful of diverse camps and offering a range of wet and dry safari activities, especially renowned for leopards.

Set in the north of Botswana, the Khwai Concession is an enormous private sector of the Okavango Delta, with guest accommodation in a handful of interesting camps and offering a range of wet and dry safari activities. Relatively well-priced.

Set in the north of Botswana, Makgadikgadi is a vast and hypnotic open grassland, centred on a network of epic salt pans and dotted with isolated islands of palm and baobab trees. Guest accommodation is in a really interesting range of a dozen camps, offering a wide range of unusual safari activities, including habituated meerkats, Bushmen interaction, palaeontology and quad-biking.