Linyanti Campsite
Remote riverside public campsite · Linyanti section of the park, on the Linyanti River · SKL Group of Camps (DWNP concession)
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Budget
Inside the park
Park-run (DWNP)
Five sites on the Linyanti River on the park's north-western boundary, run by SKL Group of Camps on a DWNP award. This is the national park's own Linyanti section, a separate place from the private Linyanti concession next door, where the camps charge four figures a night. The campsite is remote: you reach it along the sandy Linyanti track from Savuti, and SKL lists ablution blocks with showers and little else. Bring everything, keep to the campground, as nothing is fenced, and plan your fuel for the round trip. SKL's rules apply here as at Savuti: no generators, no wood collecting inside the park and quiet from 18:00 to 06:00.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Only five sites, on the Linyanti River
- The cheapest way to sleep on the Linyanti
- Ablution blocks with showers, per SKL
- Pairs naturally with a stay at Savuti Campsite
Cons
- Remote, with a long sand track from Savuti
- Rate table is undated and probably older than 2022
- Unfenced, with very few facilities
- No published road report for the Linyanti track
What's here
- Campsite
Read from Linyanti Campsite's own website in July 2026. Anything not listed we could not confirm, which is not the same as it being absent.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Chobe National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryP270 a day for non-residents, roughly $20 at P13.5 to the dollar.
- $20per person, per day
- VehicleP115 a day for a foreign-registered vehicle, roughly $9 (P30 for a Botswana-registered or hired car).
- $9per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $147 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
The full fee schedule for Chobe National ParkRates at Linyanti Campsite
$50 per person (SKL table, undated). US$50 per adult (18 and over) per night, US$25 for children 8 to 17, US$10 for children 5 to 7 and free under 5, on SKL's own conditions-of-entry page, which covers Savuti and Linyanti alike. The table is undated and probably predates April 2022; a travel guide quoted US$70 for Savuti and Linyanti in July 2026. A P10 per person per day bed levy, park entry (P270 per non-resident per day) and vehicle fees come on top; ask SKL whether DWNP's P60 camping levy is included.
Self-catering. You cook. Nothing else is included unless the entry says so.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Rates checked on 4 October 2026, per person per night sharing, from each property's own website or rate sheet where one is published. Desert & Delta, Belmond, &Beyond, Bush Ways, Machaba and several Kasane lodges publish none, so those figures come from two resellers, chobe.com and the Siyabona network (safari.co.za), and are marked as a reseller rate; the houseboat and Ichingo figures from chobe.com are in South African rand. SKL's campsite table is undated. Kwando Safaris, African Bush Camps and several smaller lodges publish no rates at all. Park entry is P270 per non-resident per day for a private visitor and P190 on an operator's activity, and many Kasane packages leave it out, so check what your rate includes.
Questions about Linyanti Campsite
Is Linyanti Campsite the same as the Linyanti concession camps?
No. The campsite is in the national park's own Linyanti section, run by SKL on a DWNP award. King's Pool, DumaTau and the African Bush Camps properties are in the private Linyanti concession outside the park, where different rules allow night drives and walks.
How do you get to Linyanti Campsite?
By 4x4 from Savuti along the Linyanti track; there is also an approach from the west. DWNP publishes no road bulletin, so ask SKL about the state of the track before you set off, and carry fuel, water and firewood for the whole trip.
How much does it cost to camp at Linyanti?
SKL's own table gives US$50 per adult per night, US$25 for children 8 to 17 and US$10 for 5 to 7, the same as Savuti, but it is undated. A 2026 travel guide quoted US$70. Park entry at P270 per non-resident per day, the vehicle fee and a P10 bed levy are extra.