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By using camps situated largely in private concessions, our Kingfisher Safaris to Botswana offer you a
near-exclusive travel experience in unspoilt wilderness areas.
Each safari takes a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 8 guests and is led and hosted by a professional guide with
extensive knowledge of Botswana and its flora and fauna.
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The routes have been chosen so as to provide you with
a variety of experiences in prime locations. However, as the landscape and wildlife movements in Moremi Game
Reserve, Chobe National Park, the Okavango Delta and the Central Kalahari areas
change with the seasons, the safari retains an element of flexibility, and it is the guide’s know-how and
experience that will determine the best locations for wildlife viewing during your holiday to Botswana.
A variety of travel modes are used on each of these mobile safaris. The combination of light-aircraft flights
and overland transfers gives you both a birds-eye view and a close-up experience of the beautiful and
contrasting landscapes.
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The Pygmy Kingfisher Safari, Woodland Kingfisher Safari and Striped Kingfisher Safari
each utilise exclusive Adventurer Camps. Accommodation is in spacious 3 x 3 metre walk-in dome tents, each
with a small veranda. The simply styled interior is made up of comfortable camp stretchers with a canvas
bedroll, cotton bed linen and duvet, towels, small side table, luggage rack and small reading lamp. The tents
are large enough to stand and move in easily. Hot water bottles and blankets are offered during the winter
months.
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Private hand basins are set up outside each tent. For every four guests there is one spacious shower
enclosure with a tin bucket shower and a large toilet enclosure with a ‘bush’ toilet. Each enclosure has a
table with hand basin, mirror, soaps and toiletries.
At the camp’s central area a 5 x 5 metre marquee tent with metal and canvas camp chairs is set up to provide
shade and sheltered dining in the unlikely event of rain. Tasty, fresh meals are prepared over the campfire
by the chef and served at a table set with stainless steel tableware under a shady tree or the open night
sky. There are two camp assistants who take on all the camp chores, allowing the guide to spend his/her time
exploring the area with you. All of this combines to provide guests with serviced camping of understated
quality in a natural ambience.
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The relatively luxurious Malachite Kingfisher Safari utilises Discoverer Camps with specially designed,
hexagonal, walk-in Meru tents, each of which is sited so as to make the most of the spectacular panoramic
views offered by the camp’s location. Full-size beds with pure cotton linen and soft down duvets raise the
comfort of camping to a new level.
Each tent has an en-suite bathroom with flush toilet, bucket shower, hand basins, water jugs, mirror, towels,
soaps and other toiletries. Bedside lanterns and ‘old brass’ finishes create style and comfort rivalling
those in some of Botswana’s most elegant lodges.
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At Discoverer Camps the central area comprises a generously sized 7 x 5 metre marquee tent, with dark teak
camp chairs, a full bar table and basic library, provides a cool, shady and relaxing area where you can chill
out during the heat of the day. Delicious three-course meals are prepared by the camp chef and served on a
beautifully laid dining table in the open, allowing you to enjoy dinner under the stars. When night falls,
paraffin hurricane lanterns and a crackling campfire set the evening ambience.
While at a Discoverer camp you are hosted by your safari guide, chef and at least two camp hands who will
make sure that you want for nothing. In most camps a complimentary laundry service is available.
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Although ‘Discoverer’ is a luxurious form of camping it also aims to give its guests a true back-to-nature
experience, through the location of the tents and atmospheric touches such as the nightly campfire and
lanterns.
You will be transported overland in custom-built, extended 4WD Land Rovers or Landcruisers. Each of the eight
passenger seats is a window seat. The sides and top of the vehicle are canvas, which can be rolled back to
give excellent all-round visibility during game drives. Each vehicle contains a fridge and a small
field-guide library, as well as a supply of blankets during the winter months (June–August).
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The Striped Kingfisher Safari does not include the cost of air travel to/from the UK. Although you can
make this your only holiday experience in Botswana, this safari is best added on to the Pygmy Kingfisher
Safari. It can also be combined with a fly-in safari - see our
Expert Africa brochure
and talk to us for more information on this.
There is no single supplement on the Woodland Kingfisher Safari and Striped Kingfisher Safari.
If you are a single traveller you may be asked to share with another person of the same sex. On the Pygmy
Kingfisher Safari, there will be no single supplement for the first two travellers in your party
requiring a single tent. Any additional single travellers in your party would be levied with the single
supplement. Each of the Kingfisher Safaris requires a minimum of two passengers to run. If you are a solo
traveller, contact us to find out if others have already booked on the safari you wish to join.
For practical reasons, Kingfisher Safaris have a minimum age limit of 12 years and maximum age limit of 75
years. An exception may be made for travellers over the age of 75 provided a medical certificate stating you
are fit to travel is produced.
Because of the light aircraft flight transfers between mobile safari camps on the Kingfisher Safaris there
is a luggage limit of 20kg per person. This limit includes camera bag and photographic equipment. A soft
carry-all (rather than a suitcase) is preferred, with maximum dimensions of 80cm long by 30cm wide. Please
bear in mind that the baggage compartments on some of these aircraft are only 25cm high, so bags must be of
a shape that can be manipulated into this space.
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