Arrival
Arrival
Day 1
Maun-Moremi Game Reserve
Maun-Moremi Game Reserve
You will be picked up in the morning today to start your journey northwards to Moremi Game Reserve for a 2-night stay.
Moremi is situated in the central and eastern areas of the Okavango Delta and covers about a third of the total land area of the Okavango Delta. At about 3900 square kilometers, Moremi as a reserve is unfenced. This allows for the free movement of animals within the Delta according to their seasonal migrations. Moremi boasts diverse ecosystems ranging from floodplains, lagoons, grasslands, and riverine to mopane woodland. Thus, with such a wide variety of vegetation comes a diverse spectrum of wildlife.
You will enjoy your breakfast at Moremi's South Gate. This breakfast typically consists of coffee, tea, juice, cereals, rusks, fruits, etc.
Thereafter, you will enter into game drive mode and spend the day searching for the wide variety of wildlife and birds that this area is famous for before being taken to your campsite where you will stay for 2 nights.
- Main Destination:
- Moremi Game Reserve (Okavango Delta, Botswana)
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
Wildlife in Moremi GR
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Exploring Moremi Game Reserve
Exploring Moremi Game Reserve
Today, you will wake up to enjoy an early breakfast. Shortly after breakfast, you will go for a morning game drive. On this safari drive, you should therefore, look out for the large herds of African elephants in the Mophane scrub, and keep an eye on the elusive African wild dogs, lions, leopards, etc.
You might also encounter birds of prey on this safari drive such as the mighty martial eagle, tawny eagle, the majestic African fish eagle, and that incredible aviator —the bateleur and many others.
You will return to your camp around noon for lunch and a much-needed rest. In the afternoon, you will set off once again in your safari vehicle for more birding and wildlife viewing.
You'll go back to your camp just after sunset to have a shower. Thereafter, you'll enjoy a campfire-cooked dinner. You'll have two (2) nights at a wilderness campsite to marvel at this exceedingly diverse reserve that offers an untouched wildlife experience.
- Main Destination:
- Moremi Game Reserve (Okavango Delta, Botswana)
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Khwai Concession (Moremi Game Reserve)
Khwai Concession (Moremi Game Reserve)
Today, after breakfast you will take a slow game drive through Moremi Game Reserve —a game drive that provides farewell to the area’s magnificent landscapes and mammals.
Finally, you will head northeast towards the Khwai Concession for a 2-night stay.
At about 1800–square kilometers large, the Khwai is situated in the northeastern Okavango next to Moremi. It is a wildlife–prolific and varied ecosystem dominated by a patchwork of lagoons, grasslands, permanent flood plains, and large areas of Mopane woodland forests. Khwai has a marvelous selection of predators such as lions, leopards, wild dogs, cheetahs, servals, and African wild cats.
In the afternoon, you will go for your game drive and possibly watch the sunset unfold over the Khwai River.
- Main Destination:
- Khwai Concession (Okavango Delta, Botswana)
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
Wildlife in Khwai Concession
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Exploring the Khwai Concession in Style
Exploring the Khwai Concession in Style
Today after an early breakfast, you will go for your usual morning game drive. Your journey will follow the Khwai River’s watercourse weaving from the riverside and floodplains into the mopane veld and woodlands that make Khwai one of the most scenic areas of the Okavango.
The Khwai area boasts an excellent population of African elephants, both solitary bulls and breeding herds. The swampy areas are home to red lechwe. Other resident species include the Southern giraffes, buffalo, Burchell’s zebra, tsessebe, the greater kudu, impalas, and various other nocturnal species. Khwai is also one of Botswana’s birding Mecca’s. As such the raptors and water birds are particularly abundant and make for some great photography.
The highlight today is a mokoro excursion along the Khwai River-part of the Okavango Delta system. During this mokoro excursion, you should have some great encounters with aquatic birds and several species of mammals.
- Main Destination:
- Khwai Concession (Okavango Delta, Botswana)
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Khwai Concession to Savuti
Khwai Concession to Savuti
You will rise very early this morning and greet the fresh African morning with coffee and some light breakfast. Thereafter, you will head out on your last safari drive in the Khwai Concession.
Eventually, you will leave the Khwai Concession and travel northeastwards to Savuti for a 2-night stay.
Savuti is best known for its predators, both big cats (lion, leopard, and cheetah) and birds of prey —raptors, vultures, and all manner of birds of prey that soar over Savuti’s landscape in search of food. Perhaps the strangest phenomenon of all about Savuti is the 100 kilometers of Savuti Channel. At times, it will stop flowing and remain dry for years at a stretch. When the channel recommences its flow, it changes the entire ecosystem, transforming the Savuti Marsh and Mababe Depression into wetlands. This creates an oasis that provides water for thirsty wildlife herds and acts as a magnet for a profusion of water birds.
- Main Destination:
- Savuti (Chobe NP, Botswana)
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
Wildlife in Chobe NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Exploring Savuti
Exploring Savuti
You'll wake up early in the morning to freshen up with some hot water in the face basin. This is followed by a light breakfast of some coffee, tea, rusks, cereals, bread, etc.
After breakfast, you'll head out for your morning game drive to explore the Savuti and its marsh. The Savuti Marsh is a vast expanse of grasslands dotted with dead acacia trees, creating an intriguing, almost ghost-like landscape. You will return to camp at around midday for lunch and some siesta time.
Another point of interest in Savuti is the bushman rock paintings, thought to be well over a thousand years old. These are paintings of giraffes, elephants, and elands. If time permits, you will visit these rock paintings.
In the afternoon, you'll head out again for your afternoon game drive and return to camp just before sunset. Dinner will follow before you turn in for the night to rest or as you hold some discussions about events of the day around the campfire.
- Main Destination:
- Savuti (Chobe NP, Botswana)
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Savuti to Chobe National Park
Savuti to Chobe National Park
You'll wake up early morning for some breakfast. Shortly thereafter, you'll leave in a slow game drive around Savuti, and travel northeastwards to Chobe National Park for a 2-night stay and more game drives.
Tucked up in Botswana’s far northeastern border with Namibia, Chobe National Park is one of the great wildlife destinations of Africa. At approximately 11,900 square kilometers, Chobe is made up of rich ecosystems and pristine landscapes consisting of savanna plains, rivers, swamps, and scrubs.
With such varied environments and habitats, Chobe provides a magnificent array of wildlife. It is the ultimate haven for vast herds of elephants —as many as 120,000 of the animals depend on the Chobe River’s life-sustaining waterways when the dry season kicks in. Other resident game species are large herds of buffalos, zebras, wildebeests, the rare puku, roan, and sable antelopes. These are normally trailed by the notoriously fearless lions of the Chobe, leopards, and cheetahs.
- Main Destination:
- Chobe National Park (Botswana)
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Exploring the Mighty Chobe National Park
Exploring the Mighty Chobe National Park
You'll wake up early in the morning to freshen up with some hot water in the face basin. This is followed by a light breakfast of some coffee, tea, rusks, cereals, bread, etc. before heading into Chobe National Park for your morning game drive.
Chobe is one of the best places to see and photograph roan and sable antelopes. Puku antelope occurs nowhere else in southern Africa, but only on the Chobe floodplains. On the other hand, the massive herds of African buffalos that inhabit the Chobe are constantly flanked by the ever–hungry lions of the Chobe.
You will return to your camp around noon for lunch. If desired, this is also the time to take a nap or to just sit and relax, or perhaps read a book and ready yourself for an afternoon safari drive.
You will head out again into Chobe National Park in the late afternoon for your game drive and return to your camp just after sunset.
- Main Destination:
- Chobe National Park (Botswana)
- Accommodation:
- Budget camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Chobe National Park to Victoria Falls(Zimbabwe)
Chobe National Park to Victoria Falls(Zimbabwe)
This morning you'll wake up very early and enjoy a cooked breakfast prepared by your chef before heading out of Chobe National Park in the form of a game drive.
The highlight today is a boat cruise in the Chobe River. This boat cruise gives you the chance to experience the animals of Chobe from a different perspective and therefore, you might get up close and personal with hippos, crocodiles, and a large number of water birds.
You'll transfer to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.
We will pick you up after your river cruise and transfer you across the border to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe where you will spend the last night of your safari vacation.
Note: The rest of the afternoon today is left for you to spend at leisure or to participate in some of the numerous activities (own cost) on offer in Victoria Falls.
- Main Destination:
- Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe)
- Accommodation:
- Shearwater Explorers Village
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 10
Departure
Departure
Today, after being well-rested and feeling refreshed, you will wake up to enjoy breakfast at your lodge in Victoria Falls.
The highlight after your breakfast today is a guided tour of the Victoria Falls locally known as “Mosi–oa– Thunya” and loosely translated “The Smoke that Thunders”. Victoria Falls is known as the largest sheet of falling water in the world.
On reaching the edge of Victoria Falls, you will explore the gorge through various views/vantage points. You will be returned to your lodge at the end of your tour of the Victoria Falls.
Your safari ends immediately upon reaching the lodge from a tour of Victoria Falls.
Note: Transfers to Victoria Falls Airport can be arranged for you at an extra cost.
- Main Destination:
- Victoria Falls Airport (Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
