If you thought that Botswana's national parks were badly signposted, the tracks through private concessions are even worse. Basically, they've not been set up for private vehicles to drive through them. A few specified 'transit routes', set up for use by occasional supply vehicles, are the only tracks on which you can legally drive. Venturing off these is illegal, as is camping anywhere at all here. It's effectively private land.

Many visitors here are lost – accidentally finding themselves off the main tracks in the national parks. One story, told by the team at Selinda, is of a party of apparently 'experienced' travellers in a 4WD from South Africa who arrived in the dead of night one year. They'd got lost driving from North Gate to Savuti, and been slowed down by an expensive new trailer which got stuck in every patch of sand on the way. Eventually they abandoned their expensive trailer at Selinda – swearing that they'd never return to Botswana's bush again.

So the only way to use these routes is with the permission from the reserves. You'll then need your GPS, all the maps you can find, bags of common sense ... and then you can still expect to get lost!