This is what you'd have seen.

Not stock photography, and not bought in. Every picture was taken on one of our own safaris, from the same seats you would be sitting in.

Real sightings, real trips

127 moments from Botswana.

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Two guests and their armed walking guide on a bush walk

Leopard resting on a fallen log in green riverine forest

Bare acacia silhouetted against a burning orange Botswana sunset

Male lion and lioness greeting on an open slope

Woodland kingfisher perched in green shade

Elephant's head and tusk in black and white

Impala leaping across a shallow flooded plain

African wild dog running straight at the camera, black and white

Cheetah sitting tall on a fallen log

Open game-drive vehicle heading out under delta palms

Leopard watching from the fork of a shady fig tree

Palm-fringed sunset reflected in still delta water

Lioness sitting upright in golden light, scanning the bush

Red-billed francolin foraging on white sand

Elephant feeding beside a clear delta channel

Hippo yawning in a shallow Okavango channel

African wild dog picking its way through tall grass

Cheetah on a log against open blue sky

Line of walkers crossing golden grassland between baobabs at dawn

Leopard mother resting while her small cub plays nearby

Sunrise over a flooded Okavango plain

Male lion holding a buffalo kill, close up

Ostrich striding through green grass

Close portrait of an elephant's eye and folded ear

Pangolin moving across the leaf litter, a rare sighting

Pack of wild dogs playing in open grassland

Two cheetahs in the shade of a big tree

Guide showing guests an elephant skull and tusk at sunset

Leopard lying along a marula branch with the remains of a kill

Elephant silhouetted beneath palms at sunset

Portrait of a scarred male lion's face in black and white

Swallow-tailed bee-eater on a bare twig

Bull elephant head on, tusks lowered

Greater kudu bull and cow in thick bush

Close portrait of an African wild dog resting in grass

Cheetah on a log against a glowing sunset

Guests and their guide scanning the bush together

Leopard striding through pale winter grass

Still blue lagoon fringed with riverine bush

Black-maned lion walking a green flooded plain

Saddle-billed stork lifting off a shallow lagoon

Bull elephant feeding in golden grass

Spotted hyena with her cubs at the den

Wild dogs running together through the bush

Guide watching a bull elephant from the vehicle

Leopard and cub sharing a horizontal branch high in a tree

Fan palms silhouetted against an orange sunset

Lion pride resting in classic Okavango woodland

Saddle-billed stork catching a fish in the shallows

Hippo surfacing among water lilies

Wild dog nursing a litter of pups at the den

Guests and guide at sundowners beside the vehicle

Leopard with an impala kill hoisted into the fork of a tree

Cluster of fan palms with the moon rising behind

Male lion standing among fan palms

Southern red-billed hornbill against a blue sky

Zebra herd grazing under a fan palm

Guide silhouetted at the wheel as the sun goes down

Leopard resting against a tree trunk, looking into the lens

Giraffe crossing in front of the setting sun

Profile of a big male lion in low golden light

African hoopoe on a bare stump, crest raised

White rhino grazing at last light

Guide explaining a termite mound on a walking safari

Leopard standing in tall golden grass at eye level

Elephants beneath tall palms on an open plain

Lioness with three small cubs at a kill

Southern ground hornbill perched in the open

Guests and guide on a game drive across an open plain

Leopardess and cub on a termite mound

Male lion yawning beside a sleeping lioness

Lilac-breasted roller in full colour on a branch

Guide with the sundowner table set up in the bush

Leopard cub framed in the hollow of an old tree

Lioness and cubs tucked into a grassy mound

Saddle-billed stork with wings spread over water

Guide glassing the treeline with binoculars

Leopard draped along a bare branch against blue sky

Lioness leading her cubs across open ground

Guide and guest talking on a morning game drive

Young leopard resting in a green-leafed tree

Male lion and lioness standing together in open bush

Guests and their poler out on a mokoro

Leopard silhouetted on a dead log at dusk

Lioness walking a sand road toward the camera

Guide and guest on a bush walk

Leopard resting in a leadwood against a pale sky

Male lion snarling in the shade

Guests with their guide beside an Okavango lagoon

Leopard alert on a branch, turning toward the sound

Mating pair of lions, the male roaring

Leopard climbing a tree, tail hanging below

Three lions on a mound against a burning sunset

Leopard stretched along the limbs of a bare dead tree

Pride male passing the lioness and cubs

Close portrait of a blue-eyed leopard cub

Alert lioness portrait in warm afternoon light

Leopard lying on a log with a kill wedged above

Male lion resting on a green floodplain

Frame-filling portrait of a leopard's face

Male lion standing beneath the palms

Leopard walking directly toward the vehicle

Portrait of a young lion in crisp morning light

Leopard resting along a smooth fallen log

Lioness and cub, faces together

Leopard carrying a kill through dry grass

Lions charging and interacting on open ground

Leopard portrait against a bright white sky

Leopard peering through branches, black and white

Leopard cub standing on a rock in green grass

Leopardess and cub side by side on a termite mound

Leopard sprawled in a bleached leadwood tree

Leopard poised on a branch against deep blue sky

Leopard on a dead log in soft dusk light

Leopard crouched low along a thick branch

Leopard with a kill high in a tree

Leopard in profile on a pale fallen log

Leopard sitting on a termite mound, looking back

Leopard hauling an impala kill up a curving branch

Leopard walking toward the camera through grass

Leopard relaxed along a broad branch above the palms

Leopard sitting upright in a green-leafed tree

Leopard with a kill draped over a curved branch

Leopard walking head-on down a game path

Leopard sitting in a tree in full green leaf

Leopard lying along a branch against clear blue sky

Two leopard cubs peering out of the grass

None of this was luck.

A guide who knows where to be, a group small enough that you get the angle, and the time to sit with a sighting until it turns into something.