Letaka Safaris – Savuti
Letaka Safaris is run by Grant and Brent Reed, brothers who were brought up in Botswana and therefore know and understand the area and its wildlife extremely well. If you love Africa and the truly wild regions, then your ideal safari is probably a small private camp away from the well-trodden tourist routes, which you can do with Letaka with a private guide included. Letaka offer private trips and group set-departure trips and will take you to some of Botswana’s most beautiful and remote areas. Children from 12 years are welcome on scheduled departures, there is no minimum age limit for private trips.
Accommodation & Facilities
Chobe National Park is the largest in Botswana, and Letaka Safaris use a private camp site in the Savuti region of the park. Your camp will be set up on arrival, and consists of 4x3m walk-in sahara style tents with en-suite bathrooms . The family tent is two standard twin tents interlinked via the bathroom. The tent is arranged so that two adults sleep in the front tent in a double / twin bed and two children in the back tent on beds. The back tent where the children sleep is ‘lockable’ so the exit is only through the parent’s tent. Three children can be accommodated in the back tent if required but in that case they would sleep on mattresses on the ground. The bathrooms feature a safari loo and a bucket shower. The camp also has a dining tent, should it be needed, although mostly you’ll eat outside. Meals are prepared over a camp fire, and there’s always a good supply of cold drinks, tea and coffee, and water to keep thirst at bay.
Eating & Sleeping
Children can have separate meal times and the chefs will happily cater based around individual needs. Parents can chat to the chefs on arrival and discuss what would suit the kids. Options include chicken, pasta, omelettes etc. If there are specific dietary requirements please advise prior to travel. The tents are positioned close enough to the main area so that parents can hear their children and as such a babysitting or a listening service is not required. Please note that whilst on a mobile safari and the camps are set in wilderness sites and the safety and responsibility of the children falls to the parent.
Wildlife & Activities
The activities offered in the Chobe region include a boat cruise on the Chobe River and game drives in the Savuti region. The boat trip gives guests a wonderful opportunity to get really close to elephant while they cross the river or bath and play in its water, while game drives are the ideal way to explore the vast, open grasslands surrounding the Savuti marshes, a place where you could see some of the rarer species such as cheetah, leopard, and wild dog. Savuti is known for having numerous prides of lion and large clans of hyena, giving exciting wildlife interactions and excellent game viewing. Savuti is also famous for its large population of resident bull elephant, as well as plentiful breeding herds during the wetter months.
Specifically for children …
All the guides are parents themselves and are great with children. The guiding is tailored to suit the individual family wishes and the staff will happily set up football games, organise impala poo spitting contests and a lot of other fun activities.
