The last camp we stayed at in Botswana was Savuti.  We had been there before and returned because of the nice people and the excellent game.  As it turned out, the people were all new, but just as nice.  The new manager is Benson, considered to be one of the top fifteen rangers in southern Africa.

Our tent--actually our second tent.  They had to move us out of the first one because an elephant, thinking it was a water hose, had pulled out and broken the electric cables from the generator to that tent the first night we were there.  The second tent was in a better location, but was one of the many under attack from teeny ants.  All of this part of Botswana, including Maun, was having a very bad ant invasion.  It was a constant battle to keep them down.  We'd never encountered that in Botswana before.

Our guide was Jackson or KB--he used both names.  Here we are having morning tea.

And our sundowners in the late afternoon

The nice thing was that we were the only ones in our vehicle till the last morning so we were able to go wherever we wanted and stop and look at little things and take as many bird pictures as we wanted.  The others were scrambling around trying to find lions--we could yawn at lions after our stay at Duba Plains.

The Savuti area in Botswana is very interesting.  It was a flowing river until 1980--not very long ago--when some movement in the tectonic plates changed the way the river flowed and left this huge channel dry.  It is renowned for its wildlife.

Here are views of the channel from our tent.

Looking up--note the elephant just strolling across.

and looking down--a little zoomed.

Two more important parts of Savuti Camp are: the Linyanti River where Botswana meets the Caprivi Strip of Namibia..........that's Namibia on the left of the river and Botswana on the right.

And the lagoon.....another body of water, but I'm not sure what it is.  That's a hippo in the foreground.