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Savute Under Canvas
Savute Under Canvas is situated in the Savute region of the Chobe National Park which encompasses 11 700 km2 of wilderness, bordered in the north by the beautiful Chobe River, and buffered on all sides by wildlife management areas and forest reserves allowing for the free movement of game. A wildlife enthusiast’s dream, Chobe National Park is one of the top wilderness reserves in the world and is home to the largest single concentration of elephant.
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Savute holds many surprises. Its flat and can sometime look incredibly stark. However there is one section of Savute that constantly keeps surprising you. On morning game drive we had driven around the outskirts of the Marsh looking at the bird parties and ticking off species after species. While watching a kori bustard waks slowly through the grass while...
Posted: Savute Under Canvas by Savute Under Canvas Botswana, Date: 25 August 2009
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Water holes that have been holding the rain water from past rains has started to dry up and with that congregations of elephants have started to become larger. Each waiting their turn in anticipation of getting to the waters edge to take a refreshing drink. One would think that with so few water holes being available the intelegence of an elephant would...
Posted: Savute Under Canvas by Savute Under Canvas Botswana, Date: 3 August 2009
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 Sitting having afternoon tea with guests at Savute Under Canvas explaining the wilderness of Botswana and just how wild it can be we hear the cry of a distressed animal. And its close by. Sage calls out "something's being killed lets go". The guests jump up and trot to the nearest game viewer. All of 10 meters...
Posted: Savute Under Canvas by CC Africa, Date: 15 July 2008
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 Savute:-9th June'08.1750 hrs. Savute in Chobe is very different from the Delta or the Kalahari.Its more dry but has vast open grasslands.But it also has water pans all over.These water bodies serve as magnets for all kinds of game.Elephants are one of the most intelligent animals.They are know to smell water from some distance.And evenings are a good time...
Posted: Savute Under Canvas by Vrushal Pendharkar, Date: 9 June 2008
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 The previous night we had seen two wild dogs chase a leopard up a dead tree but the wild dogs were not successful and the leopard managed to get away - quite an exciting moment but it was too dark to take photographs. This morning we got to see 3 of the wild dogs and the one was badly hurt on the upper front leg area. The guides told us that they had...
Posted: Savute Under Canvas by Desray Rennison, Date: 4 April 2008
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 While stopped for morning coffee this loan Blue Wildebeest decided to come down to the water hole to take a mud bath and it moved all along the waters edge and at times stopped to roll in the mud.
Posted: Savute Under Canvas by Desray Rennison, Date: 4 April 2008
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 While enjoying sundowners, we were watching the last of the Zebra migration in the Savute. We then noticed this zebra and he was very lucky to have got away but was left with some very nasty wounds across his hind legs.
Posted: Savute Under Canvas by Desray Rennison, Date: 3 April 2008
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 While doing a bit of bird watching at a dam of water these two Elephant Bulls came charging at each other from behind the trees, lucky that we were sitting on the other side of the water!
Posted: Savute Under Canvas by Desray Rennison, Date: 3 April 2008
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