Chief's Island

Chief's Island is the crown jewel of the Okavango Delta — its largest island and the area with the highest concentration of wildlife. Rising above the surrounding floodplains in the heart of Moremi Game Reserve, the island's mix of mopane woodland, grassland, and palm-fringed floodplain edges attracts massive herds of buffalo, elephant, and their predators.

A handful of exclusive camps on and around Chief's Island offer what many consider the ultimate Botswana safari experience: morning game drives tracking lion and wild dog, afternoon mokoro excursions through lily-pad channels, and sundowners overlooking floodplains where elephants wade through the shallows as the sun sets.