Day 1 - Flight to Botswana
Begin your Botswana safari adventure with a scheduled overnight flight from London, via Johannesburg, to Maun: the gateway to the Okavango Delta.
Dinner is included on the flight.
Day 2 - Maun
On arrival at Maun Airport you are met and transferred to a small, comfortable lodge on the outskirts of town. Your afternoon is free to relax by the pool whilst enjoying a spot of bird watching. Your accommodation is in a spacious stone and thatch chalet and meals can be enjoyed in the open restaurant overlooking the Thamalakane River.
Includes breakfast on the flight.
Days 3 & 4 - Okavango Delta
After a leisurely breakfast you transfer back to Maun to meet your guide and the rest of the camping safari group. From here you take a light aircraft for the flight into the Okavango Delta. This experience is an adventure in itself; from the air, you'll begin to get an idea of the vastness of this unique and beautiful ecosystem, characterised by small palm islands that began as termite mounds, pools filled with basking hippos and the criss-crossing wildlife pathways.
Spend two nights at a mobile safari camp located within Nxabega, an exclusive 70km2 private reserve. Nxabega boasts a variety of wildlife. Spend your time here exploring this area of Botswana on safari drives, or by gliding through the papyrus-edged waterways of the Okavango Delta by mokoro (dug-out canoe) and motorboat, and on foot taking short walking safaris to investigate the small, vegetated islands.
Day 3 includes breakfast and dinner.
Day 4 includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Days 5 & 6 - Moremi Game Reserve
Continue by light aircraft to Khwai, the north-eastern region of Moremi Game Reserve. Set aside for protection in 1962 by Botswana's BaTawana tribe, Moremi Reserve is considered to be Africa's most beautiful wildlife sanctuary.
The Okavango Delta is a fascinating ecosystem, an inland delta situated in the middle of the largest stretch of continuous sand in the world - the Kalahari basin. Moremi Game Reserve encompasses a large area of the Okavango Delta's eastern wetlands and is considered one of the best safari areas in Botswana. Near the north-eastern edge, the waterways of the Okavango gradually narrow and are spanned by a wooden pole-bridge into the Khwai Reserve. The game-drive routes that run beside the 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
A full-day game drive of about six hours takes you from the Okavango Delta to Savuti where you will spend two nights in a private mobile camp in the vicinity of the Savuti Channel. Depending on the time of the year, huge animal concentrations are attracted to this area by its particularly nutritious grasses. It is an excellent region for viewing lion and other predators on a real wildlife adventure.
Savuti, within Chobe National Park, is one of Africa's most famous wildlife areas, with an atmosphere all of its own. It is especially renowned for the large prides of lion that hunt elephant during the dry season. Central to this area is the Savuti Channel, which occasionally flows from the Linyanti's waterways, flooding the Savuti Marsh. This channel's flow is unpredictable; it has appeared and then dried up again several times over the past few centuries. In 2008/9 the Savuti Channel and marsh began to flood again for the first time in quarter of a century creating a new and lush floodplain which attracts a myriad of bird and animal life.
Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Days 9 & 10 - Chobe National Park
A five-hour game drive takes you from Savuti to northern Botswana and the borders with Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Chobe National Park encompasses 11,700km2 of wilderness, bordered in the north by the Chobe River, and buffered on all sides by private safari concessions and forest reserves allowing for the free movement of game. You will spend two nights at a private mobile camp in the Serondela area of Chobe National Park, near the Chobe River.
As well as being renowned for its large variety of bird and animal life, beautiful scenery and magnificent sunsets, northern Chobe is the heart of elephant and buffalo country. On safari drives you may spend many hours watching the huge herds as they make their way to drink at Chobe River's edge. Two species of region-specific antelope occur here, the puku and the Chobe bushbuck, which cannot be seen in other parts of Botswana. There is also time to enjoy the adventure of a stunning boat cruise on the Chobe River: enjoy the coolness of being on the water while spotting the colourful water birds, from fish eagles to a multitude of herons and waders.
Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 11 - Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
From Chobe National Park it is a relatively short drive to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, where you stay overnight at the Elephant Camp. Accommodation here is in one of nice tented rooms, each with private facilities and a viewing deck. During your stay, meals, most drinks (excluding premium brands), scheduled activities and laundry are all included. The lodge is situated on a private wildlife reserve 10km from Victoria Falls town and has views of the Victoria Falls spray and the spectacular Masuwe River and Zambezi gorges which separate Zimbabwe and Zambia. After a tour of the spectacular Victoria Falls, you are free to enjoy its varied entertainments and facilities.
Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 12 - Flight to London
After breakfast, you will be transferred to Victoria Falls Airport where you meet your scheduled flight back to the UK, via Johannesburg.
Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 13 - Arrive in London
Arrive back in the UK after a truly memorable Botswana safari experience.
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