On September 23, 2025, it was time once again: The TRAVELBOOK AWARDs were presented in Berlin. One of the categories: the most sustainable safari destinations in the world. Among the nominees was a ...

The Zaha Hadid-designed Boma lounge and dining area resembles a massive weaver bird’s nest, with its façade constructed almost entirely of thatch. At nearly 2,000 square feet, the camp's standard ...

The hot African sun is turning cool and big and a deep soft orange, and the impala are getting mighty jumpy. They ought to be. A half-kilometer across the grassy bush, we’re watching a pack of eight ...

Celebrating its first birthday this month, Atzaró Okavango–a singular newcomer to Botswana’s incomparable Okavango Delta–is setting a new standard for luxury safari experiences in a country widely ...

Botswana has unveiled a blue diamond whose value could outstrip that of the storied Hope Diamond: the 20.46-carat, close-to-flawless Okavango Blue. The diamond was presented in Gaborone, Botswana by ...

The Okavango Delta in Botswana is a beautifully balanced ecosystem that supports diverse and abundant life. Plants, animals, and insects have their role to play, everyone lives in the now, ...

Botswana’s Okavango Delta, a mazelike series of freshwater lagoons in the middle of the Kalahari Desert, swells to some 6,200 square miles during the wet season of March to September, before shrinking ...

Bouncing with the updrafts in the back of a single-engine Cessna, I watch the slim shadow of our aeroplane dance across the marbled expanse of the Okavango Delta, some 500ft below. “If we go down out ...

By Gloria Dickie The lions that roamed the plains of northern Botswana were dying. One by one, the big cats were succumbing ...

When is a diamond more than just a diamond? That question might be best answered by the Okavango Diamond Company (ODC). The Botswana-based firm, which is recognized as one of the world’s premier rough ...