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Comfortable mobile camps in exclusive wilderness sites provide your bases for exploring Botswana’s uniquely
fascinating Okavango Delta and the extraordinary wildlife experiences of Chobe National Park,
Savuti and Moremi Game Reserve. On this Roller Safari you will spend time drifting down
crystal-clear papyrus channels in traditional mekoros (dug-out canoes), watching Savuti’s prolific seasonal
game from your safari vehicle, and give crossing elephants the right of way whilst cruising on the Chobe
River. The dramatic finale to your trip is a tour of the magnificent Victoria Falls, viewing the
thundering cascade from the renowned Zimbabwe side.
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Lilac-breasted Roller Safari Summary:
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Flight to Botswana |
| Day 2 |
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Maun, lodge |
| Day 3 & 4 |
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Okavango Delta, mobile camp |
| Day 5 & 6 |
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Moremi Game Reserve, mobile camp |
| Day 7 & 8 |
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Savuti, mobile camp |
| Day 9 & 10 |
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Chobe, mobile camp |
| Day 11 |
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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, lodge |
| Day 12 |
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Flight to London |
| Day 13 |
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Arrive in London |
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DETAILED ITINERARY:
Day 1 – Flight to Botswana
Your holiday to Botswana begins with a scheduled overnight flight from London, via Johannesburg, to Maun: the
gateway to the Okavango Delta.
Day 2 – Maun
On arrival you are met and driven to Motsentsela Tree Lodge where you can relax after your flight. This
delightful tented lodge is situated on a small private game farm on the outskirts of Maun. You can spend the
afternoon by the pool, or stroll around some of the property’s marked nature trails. The reserve is home to game
species including springbok, kudu, zebra and giraffe.
Day 3 & 4 – Okavango Delta
After a leisurely breakfast at Motsentsela you transfer back to Maun to meet your guide and the rest of the
group. From here you take a light aircraft for the flight into the Okavango Delta to begin the safari part of
your holiday to Botswana.
Spend two nights at a mobile safari camp located within Nxabega, an exclusive 70km2 private wildlife reserve.
Nxabega boasts a variety of wildlife. Spend your time here exploring the area on safari drives, gliding through
the papyrus-edged waterways by mekoro and boat, and enjoy investigating the small, vegetated islands on foot.
Day 5 & 6 – Moremi Game Reserve
Continue by light aircraft to Khwai, the North Gate region of Moremi Game Reserve. Set aside for protection in
1962 by the BaTawana tribe, the Reserve is considered to be Africa's most beautiful wildlife sanctuary.
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The Okavango Delta is a unique ecosystem, an inland delta situated in the middle of the largest stretch of
continuous sand in the world – the Kalahari basin. Moremi encompasses a large area of the Okavango Delta’s
eastern wetlands. Near the north-eastern edge of Moremi Game Reserve, the waterways of the Okavango gradually
narrow and are spanned by a wooden pole-bridge. The tracks that run beside the river and around the floodplains
here are often stunning in their beauty and prolific in their wildlife.
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Day 7 & 8 – Savuti
A 5 to 6-hour game drive takes you to Savuti – excellent for viewing lion and other predators – where you will
spend two nights camping in a private mobile camp next to the dry Savuti Channel. Depending on the time of the
year, huge animal concentrations are attracted to this area.
Savuti is one of Africa’s most famous big-game areas, with an atmosphere all of its own. Key to this area is the
Savuti Channel, which sometimes flows from the Linyanti’s waterways and into the heart of the Chobe National
Park, 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. The marsh has been dry since 1981 and is now a vast, open grassland
dotted with the skeletons of drowned trees. Attracted by the area’s particularly nutritious grasses, much game
passes through Savuti on annual migrations between Botswana’s dry interior and the rivers of the north and west.
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Day 9 & 10 – Chobe National Park
It’s a 4 to 5-hour game drive from Savuti to northern Chobe. Chobe National Park encompasses 11,700km2 of
wilderness, bordered in the north by the Chobe River, and buffered on all sides by private concessions and forest
reserves allowing for the free movement of game. You will spend two nights of your Botswana holiday here at a
private mobile safari camp in the Serondela area of the national park.
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 and on game 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 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.
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Day 11 – Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
From Chobe National Park it is just a short drive to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, where you stay overnight at
Matetsi Water Lodge in twin-bedded rooms with private facilities with dinner, breakfast, scheduled activities,
refreshments on game drives and laundry all included. The Lodge is situated on the banks of the Zambezi River in
a 450km2 wildlife concession, and, after a tour of the spectacular Victoria Falls, you are free to enjoy its
varied entertainments and facilities.
Day 12 – Flight to London
After breakfast, you will be transferred to Victoria Falls Airport where your holiday to Botswana and Zimbabwe
ends.
Day 13 – Arrive in London
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Departures:
Cost is per person sharing, departing and returning UK
There is a single supplement of £1040.
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