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These three reserves offer the visitor more exclusive, remote safaris than the more often visited traditional national parks and allow walking, night drives and off-road driving. All three reserves are totally fence free; the animals are at liberty to roam between the reserves and the national parks giving the visitor an opportunity to accidentally stumble across a pride of lion, bathing hippo or family of impala at every twist and turn.
The Selinda Reserve protects the Selinda Spillway linking the Okavango and Linyanti River systems. There is a high concentration of hippo in Selinda and it is the only place in the world where lion hunt hippo! Game viewing is superb and it offers some of the best walking safaris in Botswana.
The Linyanti Reserve is sandwiched between the Linyanti River and Chobe National Park. This is an enormous reserve in one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of Botswana. It offers abundant wildlife and a very small number of camps, making it a very private and exclusive destination.
The Kwando Reserve is a huge private reserve covering some 1,400 hundred square miles. The western area is covered in dense forest, while the area along the banks of the Kwando River is lush riverine forest with expansive plains, offering very high concentrations of game and endless herds of elephant