Fodor's Expert Review Savute Elephant Lodge

Situated in the thriving Savuti region famed for its elephants, this lodge, the most luxurious in the area, is 100% solar-powered, offers à la carte meals and features a ground-level hide to gawp at drinking pachyderms. Air-conditioned tented rooms are elegantly furnished with a natural wood desk, leather and cane chairs and plush navy-blue sofa, the color of which is complemented by the rest of the room's refreshing cobalt and aquamarine décor. Choose between an indoor or outdoor shower, and for cold winter mornings and evenings, the air-conditioning unit even features a built-in heater function. Beyond the wood and glass sliding doors lies your private viewing deck, with comfortable chairs and a canopied day-bed, overlooking the now-dry Savuti Channel, where pumped waterholes are a magnet for thirsty elephants in the dry season. As the camp is in Chobe National Park, night drives and walking are against regulations, but you'll still see plenty of animals and birds during the day; Savute is particularly well known for its predator populations. If you are here during full moon, the sight of masses of great, gray, elephantine shapes gleaming in the moonlight is truly unforgettable.