- Best for
- Predator tracking · Private concessions · Okavango combinations
- Best months
- May to October for drier tracks and concentrated wildlife; green-season travel brings colour and summer birding
- Ideal duration
- 3 nights, often paired with a more water-oriented Delta camp
- Getting there
- Maun by light aircraft to the concession airstrip
Introducing Chitabe
A landscape with no need to perform.
Chitabe is shaped by south-eastern okavango floodplains, wooded islands, grassland and seasonal channels. Its wildlife context includes wild dog, lion, leopard, cheetah, elephant, buffalo and plains game.
The strongest private journey is built around access, season and field rhythm rather than a guaranteed sighting list. Chitabe is a private concession reached by light aircraft. Water activities are not its defining feature and vary with local conditions. Early and late open-vehicle drives with flexible tracking time and a quiet middle of the day.
Field notes
Three ways to readChitabe.
A concise field guide to the landscape, its daily rhythm and the encounters that define it.
The landscape
Chitabe, read slowly.
South-eastern Okavango floodplains, wooded islands, grassland and seasonal channels
Photo journal
Chitabe,in frames.
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Your private journey
Make your own Chitabe plan.
Tell us what draws you here. We will shape the right season, access, pace and places into one coherent private journey.
Begin planningGood to know
Question, meet answer.
When is the best time to visit Chitabe?
May to October for drier tracks and concentrated wildlife; green-season travel brings colour and summer birding. The final timing should reflect wildlife, weather, comfort and the wider route rather than one universal peak month.
How long should I stay in Chitabe?
3 nights, often paired with a more water-oriented Delta camp. This allows a useful field rhythm without turning the stay into a rushed checklist.
How do I reach Chitabe?
Maun by light aircraft to the concession airstrip. Chitabe is a private concession reached by light aircraft. Water activities are not its defining feature and vary with local conditions.
What is a safari day like in Chitabe?
Early and late open-vehicle drives with flexible tracking time and a quiet middle of the day.
Is Chitabe suitable for photography?
Predator interaction across open floodplain and woodland edges; fast autofocus and a medium-long zoom suit changing distances.
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