Okavango Delta Photo Safari
This Okavango Delta Photo Safari takes you to Africa’s number 1 wilderness safari destination, the Okavango Delta. Extend your Botswana photo safari by adding a 3 night Salt Pans extension or a Mashatu green season experience (details at end of this page). Scroll down to see a portfolio from this photo safari in Botswana.
Scroll down to see the guest testimonials at the bottom of this page and watch this fun YouTube video from this safari, made with my iPhone.
Book your spot now by filling in the form at the end of this page. Space for only 3 photographers.
An Okavango Delta photo safari experience
Introduction from your host:
I am very proud to add yet another UNESCO World Heritage Site to my safari offering and this time on a Botswana photo safari! As a professional wildlife photographer, based full-time in Africa, the question I am asked the most often is, “Where is the best place to go on an African photo safari?” This is a tough question because Africa has so many fine photographic safari destinations, but if you really press me for an answer then I will say an Okavango Delta photo safari is Africa’s top wilderness safari experience. Keep reading to find out why this Botswana photography tour is the one to do…
The Okavango is not only one of Africa’s last great wildernesses and the jewel in the crown of any photo safari in Botswana; it is also totally unique, a place where the water, desert and sky meet. It feels like the furthest place from civilisation and yet, the safari camps are luxurious and intimate. The area consists of private wildlife concessions, each the size of the game reserves and parks that you find in other African countries. There are only one or two camps per concession, making this Botswana photography tour an exclusive experience. On this Okavango Delta photo safari you will search for your wildlife subjects in splendid isolation, driving for hours without seeing any other vehicles.
Not only is Botswana’s Okavango breathtakingly beautiful with big skies, lots of water, lush bush and beautiful birds; it is also the ultimate location in Africa to combine African wild dog and big cat photography. All of this unites to make a Botswana photo safari one of the finest safaris in Africa.
For this ultimate Okavango Delta photo safari we have secured bookings at two different camps in prime concessions. The first camp is a wilderness oasis located on a beautiful floodplain. The second camp is located close to the heart of the Okavango Delta, adjacent to the Moremi Game Reserve, and is absolutely the wildlife mecca of the Okavango. By spreading ourselves across two incredible concessions, we drastically increase our chances of seeing the big cats and especially the African wild dogs and cheetah, whose home ranges are larger.
There is a very special 3 night ‘Botswana Salt Pan’ extension to this Botswana photography tour: The Makgadikgadi Salt Pans are just a short flight away and this extension offers everything from Meerkats and Bushman cultural photography, through to zebra aerial photography over what are believed to be the largest salt pans in the world. What could be better than photographing the watery delta and desert pans all on one photo safari in Botswana?
Sign up now for your ultimate Botswana photo safari by completing the form at the bottom of this page.
OKAVANGO DELTA PHOTO SAFARI DETAILS
This is a 8 night (9 day) Okavango Delta photo safari with the exciting option of doing a 3 night Botswana Salt Pan or Mashatu green season extension.
- Ultimate Okavango Delta Safari 2026
- US$19,536
- 17 - 25 January 2026 SPACE FOR ONLY 3
- * Dates are provisional.
- * NO SINGLE SUPPLEMENT.
- * Cost based on 3 participating photographers.
- * This tour can be booked any time as a private safari.
- * Rates are estimated 2026 rates and may need to be adjusted later.
Cost for this Okavango Delta photo safari includes all internal flights from Maun Airport (Botswana); meet and greet services; 3 nights’ accommodation in the 1st safari camp and 5 nights’ accommodation in the 2nd safari camp, both located in the Okavango’s most productive wildlife areas; meals; laundry; house drinks; conservation/community fees; additional luggage allowance; private safari drives with exclusive vehicle use; photographic tuition and guiding services of professional African wildlife photographer Greg du Toit.
Not included in the cost of this Okavango Delta photo safari are visas you might need (depending on your nationality); purchases of a personal nature (like curios); staff gratuities (at your discretion); personal travel and medical insurance (Global Rescue Medical Evacuation Insurance is included); your international flights and any adhoc activities not included on the itinerary. The Salt Pan or Mashatu green season extension is a separate charge and booked on a per request basis.
30% deposit confirms your booking on this Okavango Delta photo safari. Please note: the above cost applies only when 3 photographers are booked. If there are more or less photographers joining the safari, the cost will be adjusted accordingly.
Your Ultimate Okavango Delta Photo Safari Itinerary
Into the Okavango
To commence your Okavango Delta photo safari, you will be met at Maun Airport in Botswana by your personal photographic tutor and safari host, Greg du Toit. For those of you needing to overnight in Johannesburg the night before (depending on where in the world you are coming from), this can be arranged for you with the necessary meet and greet transfers. The Ultimate Okavango Delta Photo Safari however officially starts in Maun where we will check in at the Wilderness Air desk at the airport and get our luggage weighed. Don’t worry, an extra luggage allowance has been booked and is included in the cost of your Botswana photography tour. We take to the skies and leave all remnants of civilisation behind.
Flying east for 20 minutes, into one of the largest inland deltas in the world, you will land at a small dirt airstrip close to the camp that will be your home for the next 4 nights. To be more specific, your home on this Okavango Delta photo safari will be a large canvas tent built on a raised wooden deck under a tree and overlooking the vast floodplains of the Okavango Delta. Although you are in a tent, you will enjoy fine safari luxury with hot water and electricity.
Your first camp on this Botswana photography tour lies in one of the most wildlife rich parts of the Okavango Delta. Here you are not in the public reserve but in a gigantic private concession (the size of the Masai Mara), where you can photograph African wildlife with exclusivity and freedom (we the only camp in the entire place). After settling in to your tent, we will meet in the lounge area for tea. During this time we will check your camera settings and prepare for the afternoon safari drive, where photography will commence with immediate effect.
After your first afternoon safari drive on your Botswana photography tour, you will return to camp where after a campfire and scrumptious dinner, you will turn in for the night. The camp is located in one of the wildest concessions, offering a pure wilderness experience, and as such you will be lulled to sleep by the wild sounds of Africa.
Okavango Delta photo safari exploration part 1
Waking early on your Okavango Delta photo safari, when the nightjars and owls are still calling, you will meet around the fire for a cup of coffee or tea. It will still be dark and just as the faintest blue and orange hues appear in the East, you will head out on a full morning safari drive.
The concession you will be photographing in on this Botswana photography tour is simply sublime and offers a mosaic of habitats ranging from palm-fringed floodplains through to beautiful woodlands. Surrounded by water, you will explore and photograph the Okavango Delta. The green season is also the Okavango’s best kept secret because it is a true delta oasis at this time of year, teaming with life of all kinds and offering a plethora of green shades – the perfect backdrop to your photographs. The mammals have babies as this time and all the migrant birds have arrived. All this is yours to explore for the next 2 full days. The floodwaters are also low at this time as the rainwaters from Angola have not yet reached the delta, allowing you to penetrate the heart of the Okavango Delta and to photograph the wild creatures that call the Okavango home.
The good news is that almost every type of African animal calls the Okavango home. All the big cats like lion, cheetah and leopard can be seen as well as spotted hyenas and even honey badger and bat-eared fox sightings are a possibility. It is also rich in general game, including Cape Buffalo; giraffe; lechwe; tsessebe; warthog and zebra. This concession is especially famous for big male lions and large breeding herds of elephant and buffalo (scroll down to see a portfolio of photographs from this concession).
The other good news is that you are on a small group Botswana photo safari (only three photographers) and this means that not only do you have a professional wildlife photographer directing the guide in front, so as to be best positioned for light and animal behaviour, but you have an entire row in the safari truck to yourself. There is therefore lots of space to have your gear next to you and you can shoot out the left and the right.
After lunch you will have time to download your memory cards before heading out again after tea, to photograph the great afternoon light. This ultimate Okavango Delta photo safari is specifically designed for photographers and everything will revolve around getting you the very best photographs possible. Finding subjects in great light and in action will be our focus. Taking in the sights, sounds and smells of one of Africa’s last great wildernesses, will happen by osmosis. For this day and the next on your Botswana photo safari, you will immerse yourself in the Okavango Delta and with a professional photographer on-board to give recommendations and to answer any of your questions, the big African sky is the only limit.
Returning to camp in the dark, you will enjoy a fire and delectable dinner before turning in. The good news is that you wake up the next day only to do it all over again, except with different sightings and photo opportunities. No two days on a Botswana photography tour are ever the same.
Transfer to new spectacular concession
There is no need to pack your camera away as we take a safari drive to your next camp. That’s right, no need to pack bags and wait at airstrips on this Okavango Delta photo safari – this safari has been designed to maximise your shooting time. Your home for the next four nights is traditionally the best for wild dogs and leopard in the entire Okavango Delta, so make sure you have fresh batteries and empty memory cards.
This private concession is situated in a high-density game area and in the green season it simply teams with life. Your luxurious tent is set under a grow of ebony tress and comes complete with a deck and outdoor shower. The camp overlooks a wetland and is impressively 100% solar powered. Arriving for lunch you will settle in to your new home and meeting at tea again, you will set out to explore our new concession and the absolute wildlife mecca of the Okavango. By now we have ironed out your photographic creases and the photography on your Okavango Delta photo safari goes up a gear!
Your afternoon safari drive will end back at the campfire. After dinner, you turn in with the excitement of being able to explore further afield the following day on your Botswana photography tour.
Okavango Delta photo safari exploration part 2
With the same routine as in your previous camp, you will set out each morning before sunrise, in search of photographic subjects. This concession is very diverse, as place where giraffe-filled acacia savannahs give way to zebra-filled floodplains and riverine forests and groves of palms await, all filled with an abundance of birdlife.
This is a concession where you never know what is around the next corner. It could be a cheetah, a lion, a leopard or all three! A big lion pride calls the concession home as do all other predators and giraffe; kudu; waterbuck; reedbuck; buffalo and hippo. Don’t forget about the smaller predators, like dwarf mongooses and side-striped jackals.
Breaking for lunch before heading out on the afternoon safari, you will search for any predators that you missed when at our previous camp. This concession is the best concession in the Okavango for African wild dogs and leopards.
Day 5, 6, 7 and 8 on your Okavango Delta photo safari will be spent exploring and photographing one of the Okavango’s most exciting and dynamic concessions, especially legendary for its incredible wildlife sightings. The Okavango Delta will penetrate your heart and soul, and your memory cards too! You will experience real, wild and wonderful Africa on this Okavango Delta photo safari as you photograph one of the most exclusive concessions in Africa’s most exclusive safari destination.
End of Okavango Delta photo safari and on to the salt pans
After a last morning safari drive, you will say goodbye to the Okavango Delta from the air as you catch your 30 minute flight back to Maun. This is sadly the end of the official safari itinerary and you will commence your onward travel home from Maun.
The great news though, is that if you want your Botswana photo safari to continue, you can sign up for the Botswana Salt Pan or Mashatu green season extension. You can read more about this dynamic extension at the bottom of this page.
See the Okavango Delta photo safari portfolio below and click on any image to enlarge.
Photographic possibilities on this Okavango Delta photo safari
Why this Ultimate Okavango Delta Photo Safari is the safari for you…
– The concessions we base ourselves in on this Okavango Delta photo safari have consistently, for the past decade, provided the very best wildlife sightings of all the concessions in the Okavango Delta.
– This Botswana photo safari has been timed to coincide with the green season. This is the time of year when the Okavango is the most filled with life and offers photographers not only baby wildlife but sublime green backgrounds for their photos.
– This itinerary offers continuity and exposes you to two different top-class concessions.
– This Okavango Delta photo safari maximises your time in the wilderness photographing. The first camp is just a short 30 minute flight from Maun and you will not pack your camera away once, until you fly out of the delta at the very end of the safari. The transfer between camps is done in the safari truck, so you will not waste time in airports, traveling, packing and unpacking on your Botswana photo safari.
– You will receive expert personal tuition that larger group safaris cannot offer. Space for only 3 photographers on this Ultimate Okavango Delta photo safari.
– With our own private safari truck, you will spend quality time at each sighting. Off-road driving is allowed and having an entire row to yourself, you will have maximum freedom to capture exceptional wildlife images.
– No one wants to see loads of vehicles and masses of tourists on a photo safari in Botswana. That is why this Botswana photography tour plays out on two private concessions with a limited number of vehicles and at a time of year when others are not traveling.
– This Botswana photo safari offers a feast of unique photo opportunities and as such we cannot expect you to leave any of your equipment at home. We have booked an extra luggage seat for your flight in and out of the Okavango Delta.
– On this Okavango Delta photo safari you will receive help, guidance and advice on camera settings when it matters most – in the field, so that you go home with that award winning shot.
– Your photographic host is the author of a book titled ‘Getting it right in camera’ and if that title is exactly what you want to do, then this is the Botswana photography tour for you. With a complete photo workshop on his laptop, you can request lessons from Greg on any and every aspect of wildlife photography.
– The Okavango Delta is one of the best places in Africa to photograph big cats and painted wolves (wild dogs) making this Botswana photo safari one of the best on the continent.
– Besides the excellent photo opportunities, this photo safari in Botswana allows you to experience one of Africa’s most beautiful, unique and pristine wilderness wildlife areas.
– Professional African wildlife photographer, Greg du Toit, has spent the last decade exploring the Okavango and he will be your personal host and guide on this Botswana photo safari.
– Photographers of all levels are welcome and you will receive expert tuition based on your level of experience.
– The green season is the best kept secret in the Okavango. Not only does the delta offer a plethora of life at this time but the flood waters are low, allowing you to penetrate the floodplain. The green season rates are also lower, so get in touch now to book your Okavango delta photo safari as there is limited space.
– The Okavango delta is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is also one of the largest inland delta systems in the world. So, what are you waiting for? Book your place now on this Okavango Delta photo safari by filling out the form at the end of this page now.
* Still got questions? See the FAQ I wrote about African photographic safaris.
Botswana Salt Pans extension
This Kalahari photo safari exciting extension dovetails beautifully with your Okavango Delta photo safari to make this the ultimate Botswana photo safari. Once back in Maun, you will take a short flight to central Botswana, where you will stay in a camp on the edge of the famous salt pans. For the next 3 nights and with African wildlife photographer, Greg du Toit, as your expert guide, you will photograph one of Africa’s most unique wildlife settings.
To do this you will fly by helicopter over the salt pans where Zebras journey to the last remaining pans of water, making for dramatic wildlife imagery. You will also take a flight over one of the very few flamingo breeding sites in Africa. Other activities on this extension include photographing adorable meerkats as well as joining in on a Bushman cultural experience. The second half of this YouTube video will give you a good idea of what this extension is all about.
It makes all the sense in the world to add this unique extension on to your Okavango Delta photo safari, so just do it. Please mention when booking on the form below, if you are interested in doing this extension on your Botswana photo safari.
*With the salt pans extension, your Botswana photo safari is now a 11 night itinerary. Extend it and make it a 15 night odyssey by adding 3 nights searching for brown hyena, honey badger and black-maned lion in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and/or head down to Mashatu for more green season action. If you add all these extensions together what you have is a truly ‘Bespoke Best of Botswana‘ safari.
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