Botswana luxury safari: In with the wild bunch

By John Huxley
Updated August 4 2015 - 11:23am, first published August 2 2015 - 12:15am
Wake up to see the elephants at Khwai River Lodge.
Wake up to see the elephants at Khwai River Lodge.
Khwai River Lodge, Botswana.
Khwai River Lodge, Botswana.
Wake up to see the elephants at Khwai River Lodge.
Wake up to see the elephants at Khwai River Lodge.
A suite at the Khwai River Lodge
A suite at the Khwai River Lodge
Eye to eye with a hippopotamus.
Eye to eye with a hippopotamus.
Relax and watch the parade of animals passing by.
Relax and watch the parade of animals passing by.
Wake up to see the elephants at Khwai River Lodge.
Wake up to see the elephants at Khwai River Lodge.
Wake up to see the elephants at Khwai River Lodge.
Wake up to see the elephants at Khwai River Lodge.

Stop, start, stop, start. One moment, sitting in silence, listening, looking, willing something to happen, something to appear; the next, throwing a U-turn and dashing across dried-out floodplain, fringed with dead trees, to check out a crackling radio report of a sighting.

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