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Savute Elephant Lodge

Lying at the heart of the Chobe National Park, the Savute area has long been the destination of choice for wildlife film-makers and safari aficionados.

 

Lying at the heart of the Chobe National Park, the Savute area has long been the destination of choice for wildlife film-makers and safari aficionados. Nourished by the now-flowing waters of the Savute Channel, Savute is home to both a wide diversity and density of animals, and has acquired a reputation for excellent close-up images of elephants and predators.

With its twelve tented suites set overlooking the channel, Savute Elephant Lodge is an ideally placed accommodation from which to explore this remote but ever-rewarding destination. The emphasis is on heavyweight game viewing by open-sided 4X4 but your guide will also show you ochre-coloured rock paintings and point out Savute’s smaller and more unusual animals. Specialist birding guides are available to take advantage of the area’s extraordinary summer birdlife.

Accessible by private air charter and road, Savute Elephant Lodge is one of the most well-appointed and luxurious lodges in the Savute area. Capable of wildlife drama all year round but even more so in the late dry season, Savute is a perfect addition to a wildlife-focussed itinerary that also takes in the Okavango Delta and Chobe River.

Lodge Highlights:

  • Great position overlooking permanent water
  • Superb predator & up-close elephant sightings
  • Grand, air-conditioned tented suites
  • Pool, Wi-Fi & private dining

About Savute Elephant Lodge

Luxury Chalets

  • Luxurious Canvas & Thatch Chalets
  • Viewing Deck with Chairs & Hammock
  • Air Conditioning & Netted 4-Poster Bed
  • Lavish En Suite Bathroom

Savute Elephant Lodge offers some of the grandest and most luxurious tented suites in Chobe National Park. Air conditioning, a ceiling fan and draped mosquito nets assure a good night’s sleep, and the suite’s well-stocked mini bar and tea and coffee-making facilities mean you won’t want for much. Each suite has a full en suite bathroom with bath, double vanities and private outdoor showers. Complete with its ever-attendant elephants, the flowing Savute Channel is the view that greets guests as they step onto their suite’s broad wooden deck, home to easy chairs and a hammock – ideal for armchair game viewing and star-lit private suppers

Lodge Facilities

  • Swimming Pool & Curio Shop
  • Dining Area, Bar & Outdoor Boma
  • Lounge, Viewing Deck & Spotting Scope
  • Wi-Fi & Satellite Phones
  • Private Dining Available
  • Wildlife Reference Library

Savute Elephant Lodge has a contemporary African style of traditional timber, canvas and thatch blended with clean lines, Wi-Fi and satellite phones. Few other Savute lodges can rival its generous facilities. Flowing onto a huge viewing deck equipped with spotting scopes, the shaded dining area and lounge overlook a 20 metre swimming pool, boasting views of Savute Channel. Comfortable sofas invite guests to sit a while with a book from the carefully stocked reference library, a drink from the bar, and perhaps a purchase from the curio shop.

Meals are served in a variety of locations at Savute Elephant Lodge: you may enjoy an alfresco breakfast followed by lunch back at camp with waterhole views; the day ends with convivial open-air dining in the fire-lit boma or a table for two on your private deck.

Activities at Savute Elephant Lodge

  • Morning Game Drives
  • Afternoon Game Drives
  • Rock Painting Excursions
  • Bird Watching

With its main buildings and tented suites all looking out over the flowing Savute Channel, Savute Elephant Lodge offers heavyweight game viewing from the comfort of its viewing decks, thoughtfully provisioned with easy chairs and hammocks. But more drama lies beyond camp and experienced guides lead early morning and late afternoon drives in search of Savute’s prolific wildlife.

It’s a destination most famous for elephants – both docile bulls and the shyer breeding herds – as well as Africa’s big predators. The eternal conflict between Savute’s lions and spotted hyenas grabs the headlines but the area delivers regular sightings of cheetah, leopard and wild dog. Summer grazing attracts great herds of buffalo and zebra to Savute as well as a host of migrant birds, including dazzling carmine bee-eaters and many raptors. You’ll also enjoy a guided walk to rock art sites and have the chance to view several of Savute’s monstrously large baobab trees.

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Lodge Rates

Luxury Tented Chalets

Season & Year
Per person sharing
Low Season: 15.11.19 - 23.12.19
ZAR 887
Shoulder Season: 23.12.19 - 31.12.19
ZAR 1113
Low Season: 01.01.20 - 31.03.20
ZAR 960
Shoulder Season: 01.04.20 - 30.06.20
ZAR 1200
High Season: 01.07.20 - 30.09.20
ZAR 1635
Shoulder Season: 01.10.20 - 14.11.20
ZAR 1200
Low Season: 15.11.20 - 23.12.20
ZAR 960
Shoulder Season: 24.12.20 - 31.12.20
ZAR 1200
Included in your stay
  • Accommodation in twin-bedded tented rooms with air conditioning
  • Botswana National park fees
  • Emergency medical evacuation insurance
  • Government levied General Sales Tax
  • All meals: breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner
  • All drinks, teas, coffees, soft drinks, house wines, local beer and spirits including premium brands
  • Daily laundry services
  • 2 game viewing activities per day

 

Excluded in your stay
  • Scheduled and / or private inter-camp flight costs from Maun, other camps, Kasane or Livingstone
  • VSOP Spirits, South African Reserve Wines and imported Champagne
  • Tips
  • Gratuities
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Hands-on Expertise

  • We’re based in Africa
  • We regularly do site inspections
  • Knowledgeable team
  • Expect great customer service

Accredited & Bonded

  • SATSA – Bonded Membership (2061)
  • Travel Safe Certificate
  • Fully Independent & Owner Run
  • Travel Support from Start to Finish

Reviews

They kept us fully informed and updated throughout planning, travel, etc.

It was excellent all around. Everything worked out well. An experience of a lifetime! The game viewing rides were fun and very informative.

Karen
Perfect

We are six older but experienced travellers who usually do our own planning. Luck led us to Safari Online and Walter. His ideas proved spot on. Throughout our planning Safari Online have been helpful, always answering emailed questions, no matter how basic, straightaway. We’ve had probably our best ever holiday in years of travel, everything went smoothly. Pickups and transfers were on time. Staff in all the places we stayed were friendly and helpful. I can’t think of one adverse remark except maybe seeing a lion that wasn’t asleep, though I think if it could have been arranged Walter would have done so.

Jennifer
Excellent service and support for our Africa vacation

Working with Walter was a great experience. He listened to us and helped us build a vacation that exceeded all of our expectations. We really appreciated his professionalism and attention to detail.

Dan
A great tour operator that was a pleasure to deal with.

We used Safari Online to put together a mid-range Botswana trip for a group of four going to three different camps and then onto Vic Falls. We asked several operators to provide options (through this great safari bookings website) and Walter Kohrs from Safari Online was easily the most responsive and quickest to provide different but realistic options and at good prices. In the end it was a no brainer to go with Safari Online. Walter always responded to my queries quickly, with honest and valuable responses that were clear and made sense. From our perspective he tailored a good mix of places for both our budget and standard of facilities that suited us perfectly, with enough information and links to help us make our decisions. In the end each camp was different and had different aspects and strengths that made each unique. We loved it.

Shane
Professional, patient, efficient and responsive. Met all our travel needs and requirements spot on

Communication was excellent – I asked A LOT of questions and did a ton of research myself and Walter was extremely patient with me and very responsive. he was straight forward and extremely professional.  Tour itself was excellent – an incredible experience and one never to be forgotten. Everything was spot on.

Neena
Karina was absolutely instrumental to our safari success.

Our experience with Safari Online was excellent. After becoming very frustrated trying to search for a safari destination on our own, we turned to Karina for help and she was a lifesaver. She responded to our requests promptly and gave us several options with links to each option; we ultimately chose Lukimbi. She then coordinated our flights to and from the property, arranged the drivers necessary to get us from the airport to the lodge and back again, and sent the appropriate paperwork to each of us to verify each step of the process. We had an amazing safari adventure at the lodge–the experience of a lifetime–and are so grateful for her help. We literally couldn’t have done it without her!

Chris
Above expectations

Excellent communications and service. We dealt with Sabrina and she is awesome. The safari tour was amazing, i can highly recommend going to Elephant Plains. Its a very special place run by awesome people.

Werner