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On this private Botswana Eagle Safari, led by your fantastic safari guide, you visit many of Botswana’s
best-known wildlife areas. You spend time at searching out cheetah and lion on the Savuti Marsh in Chobe
National Park, and looking for leopard and wild dog in Moremi Game Reserve in the Okavango
Delta. Your safari ends with three nights in Santantadibe Mobile Camp; this is situated in a private
concession, so that (unlike in Botswana’s national parks and reserves) you are allowed to off-road to reach
less accessible game and to go on guided walks and night drives.
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Tawny Eagle Safari Summary:
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Flight to Botswana |
| Day 2, 3 & 4 |
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Savuti, mobile camp |
| Day 5, 6 & 7 |
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Moremi, mobile camp |
| Day 8, 9 & 10 |
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Santantadibe, mobile camp |
| Day 11 |
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Flight to London |
| Day 12 |
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Arrive in London |
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DETAILED ITINERARY:
Day 1 – Flight to Botswana
Scheduled overnight flight from London, via Johannesburg, to Maun: the gateway to the Okavango Delta.
Day 2 – Savuti, Chobe National Park
On arrival in Maun you will transfer to a light aircraft for the flight to Savuti in Chobe National Park, where
you will meet your excellent guide, Grant Truthe. Alternatively, if you spent the previous night in Maun as part
of a longer holiday, you will be met at your accommodation after breakfast and transferred to Maun Airport.
At your mobile safari camp, you arrive in time to settle into your comfortable bow tent with fully made-up beds,
bedside table with chairs, and wash basin outside. Catering on your Botswana safari is excellent, and the
three-course evening meal is accompanied by superb South African wines.
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Day 3 & 4 – Savuti, Chobe National Park
Savuti is one of Africa’s most famous big-game areas, and you will spend two days exploring it with Grant. Key to
this area is the mysterious Savuti Channel, which sometimes flows from the Linyanti’s waterways and into the
heart of Chobe National Park, flooding the Savuti Marsh. Described by David Livingstone in around 1851 as a
‘dismal swamp’, the marsh has been dry since 1981, and what you will see now is a vast, open grassland dotted
with the skeletons of drowned trees. Much game (zebra, impala, wildebeest, giraffe, tsessebe, buffalo,
elephant...) passes through Savuti on annual migrations between Botswana’s dry interior and the rivers of the
north and west, attracted by the area’s particularly nutritious grasses.
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Day 5, 6 & 7 – Moremi Game Reserve
It is a full day’s game drive from Savuti to your next mobile camp, in Moremi Game Reserve. You will stop for a
picnic lunch under a shady tree during the heat of the day.
The Okavango River rises in the highlands of Angola, flows through the Caprivi and disperses in Ngamiland in an
immense floodplain, commonly known as the Okavango Delta. Covering 15,000km², this delta is truly one of the most
beautiful places in Africa, with its meandering waterways, islands of tall majestic trees and exotic range of
bird and animal life.
Situated in the north-eastern section of the delta, the fascinating Moremi Wildlife Reserve includes wide areas
of permanent swamp, floodplain, island and mopane forest, and your stay here allows you to explore its different
habitats.
Lechwe bound through the water from island to island and a large variety of stork nest along the waterways. The
lagoons are a mass of lily pads and pale-blue flowers across which the African jacana (also known as ‘lily
trotters’) run.
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Day 8, 9 & 10 – Santantadibe, Okavango Delta
The camp team will have travelled on ahead set up camp and have everything ready for your arrival. The tents are
pitched in the shade of tall jackalberry and sausage trees, overlooking open marshy plains and a natural
waterhole.
This Santantadibe area is dotted with palm-covered islands and river systems which fill with water after good
rains. Herds of buffalo and giraffe can be found here, along with lion, cheetah, leopard and occasionally, wild
dog.
Because this is a community area, it is home to people as well as wildlife, and offers you a real insight into
how local communities continue to live in harmony with the bush. For example, you may see villagers cutting reeds
for their huts, or fishing.
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This is the area Grant grew up in, so he knows it like the back of his hand and is immensely knowledgeable about
its wildlife and inhabitants. As you spend the next two days exploring it with him whilst on safari in Botswana,
you’ll glean a wealth of information. In addition to daytime game drives, off-roading, guided walks and night
drives, more relaxing options include gliding peacefully along the channels in a traditional mokoro (dug-out
canoe), and fishing.
Day 11 – Flight to London
After a leisurely breakfast, you begin your game drive back towards the veterinary cordon fence and the end of
the wildlife reserve. The length of the drive depends on what you stop to look at en route, but you will reach
Maun in time to catch your homeward flight and the end of your safari to Botswana.
Day 12 – Arrive in London
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Find out more about this safari on the general
Eagle Safaris
page.
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Departures:
Cost is per person sharing, departing and returning UK
There is no single supplement on this trip.
Children aged 2-11 years get discounts - contact us for details
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| 2 Pax | 3 Pax | 4 Pax | 5 Pax | 6 to 10 Pax | | 21/03/08 - 31/03/08 | £4535 | £3785 | £3410 | £3222 | £3035 | | 01/04/08 - 31/05/08 | £4735 | £3985 | £3610 | £3298 | £3173 | | 01/06/08 - 30/06/08 | £4298 | £3548 | £3173 | £2985 | £2798 | | 01/07/08 - 18/07/08 | £4757 | £4007 | £3632 | £3319 | £3194 | | 19/07/08 - 18/08/08 | £4972 | £4222 | £3847 | £3535 | £3410 | | 19/08/08 - 30/09/08 | £4859 | £4109 | £3734 | £3422 | £3297 | | 01/10/08 - 14/12/08 | £4422 | £3672 | £3297 | £3109 | £2922 | | 15/12/08 - 20/12/08 | £4769 | £4019 | £3644 | £3457 | £3269 |
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