Day 1 - Flight to Botswana
Begin your adventure with a scheduled flight from the UK, via Johannesburg, to Botswana with British Airways.
Includes dinner on the flight.
Day 2 - Maun
Upon arrival, you are met and transferred to a lodge, situated on the outskirts of Maun. With comfortable chalet accommodation, a swimming pool and nice views, this is the perfect place to kick back, relax and get over your long flight. Lunch and dinner has not been included in the price today as there is a restaurant and bar here serving tasty food and offering refreshing drinks to enjoy as you watch your first African sunset.
Includes breakfast on the flight.
Days 3 & 4 - Xakanaxa, Moremi Game Reserve
Enjoy a leisurely morning before you are transferred back to Maun to meet the rest of the safari group. Board a light aircraft for a 20-minute flight over Botswana's Okavango Delta to Xakanaxa airstrip. Seeing this vast inland Delta from the air is a magical experience that helps you understand the layout of this fascinating ecosystem.
Xakanaxa is a wildlife-rich area of the Moremi Game Reserve where a diverse habitat of grasslands, riverine woodlands, pans and shallow lagoons is home to an array of animals and birds. A wide variety of antelope and other herbivores can be seen here, including impala, waterbuck, zebra and giraffe, whilst predators like lion, leopard and wild dog are spotted regularly. As well as exploring this productive area in your open-sided 4WD vehicle, you will spend time wending your way through the crystal-clear channels of the Okavango Delta on a boat excursion. This gives you the chance to spot smaller wildlife not easily seen from a safari vehicle, including basking crocodiles and darting kingfishers.
Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Days 5 & 6 - North Gate, Moremi Game Reserve
A full morning game drive takes you from your campsite at Xakanaxa to North Gate, in the northeast region of Moremi Game Reserve. This is where the northernmost waterways of the Okavango gradually narrow and end, making it one of the only water sources for wildlife in the reserves to the north. Whilst game viewing is good here all year round, it can be especially impressive in the drier months (typically Jul to Oct). The game-drive routes that run beside the Khwai River and around the floodplains are often stunning in their beauty, and prolific in their wildlife.
Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Days - 7 & 8 Savuti
You'll take a final game drive along the banks of the Khwai River before turning northwards to Savuti in Chobe National Park. It's a long day's drive via the Mababe Depression to your next campsite and you stop for a picnic lunch in the shade along the way.
Spend two day's exploring Savuti, one of Africa's most famous areas for big-game safaris, and you will spend two days exploring it. Key to this area is the mysterious Savuti Channel, which in 2008 flowed from the Linyanti's waterways in the north for the first time in quarter of a century. At the end of the channel is the vast, open Savuti Marsh. It is currently dry grassland dotted with the skeletons of drowned trees but this may change if the river continues to flow. Much wildlife passes through Savuti on annual migrations between Botswana's dry interior and the rivers of the north and west, attracted by the region's particularly nutritious grasses. Some animal species are found here year round such as the leopards that make the granite kopjes their territory, packs of spotted hyena, and notoriously large prides of lion that are renowned for hunting sub-adult elephants during the dry season (typically Sep and Oct).
Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Days 9 & 10 - Chobe Riverfront
Travel northeast from Savuti to the lush riverfront region of Chobe National Park. Animals converge on this stretch of water in the dry season and this area of Chobe is especially renowned for its large herds of elephant and buffalo. You arrive at your comfortable mobile camp in the Chobe Riverfront region of the park during the late afternoon. Spend your time here driving parallel to the Chobe River, watching as animals make their way to the banks to slake their thirst. As well as big game, this area of Chobe is known for its population of puku, an antelope found only in a few pockets of Africa, and the diminutive Chobe bushbuck.
The Chobe River divides Namibia and Botswana, meandering around occasional flat, lush islands which attract high densities of game to feed. You have the opportunity of an afternoon cruise along the river, where you will see a multitude of colourful water birds and may spot elephant crossing. The boat trip is an optional extra, costing about £20 and payable locally.
Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 11 - Victoria Falls, Zambia
After breakfast your guide takes you to the Kazangula border post where you leave Botswana, takings a ferry across the confluence of the Zambezi and Chobe rivers to Zambia. Once across, it's about an hour's drive to Livingstone and your accommodation at the Zambezi Waterfront, overlooking the wide Zambezi River. A multitude of activities are offered around Livingstone and the Victoria Falls and you have a free afternoon to experience some of these. Alternatively, you can spend the afternoon viewing Victoria Fall's spectacular cascades from various viewpoints. Entrance to the Falls park costs about US$20 and is payable upon arrival.
Includes breakfast.
Day 12 - Flight to London
After a leisurely breakfast you are transferred to Livingstone Airport in time for your departing flight, via Johannesburg, to London.
Includes breakfast. Dinner is on the flight.
Day 13 - Arrive in London
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