Botswana Explorer Safari
9 night/ 10 day Botswana Explorer - The mobile camping portion of this Safari spends eight nights in comfortable domed tents with private bathrooms, each featuring an en suite flush W.C. and al fresco bucket shower. The remaining night of this adventure is spent at The Elephant Camp, within sight of the breath-taking Victoria Falls.
Your highlights:
Fully-serviced wilderness camping at private campsites
En suite Expedition safari tents
Maximum of six guests per mobile safari and guaranteed window seats
Mokoro and boat cruise in the Okavango Delta
Exhilarating game drives
Guided walking safari (only in the Delta)
Chobe boat cruise
DAY 01 & 02: Okavango Delta
Upon arrival at Maun International Airport your dedicated guide for this adventure is waiting to welcome you and discuss your interests and expectations for your safari. Once you have become acquainted with your guide, a light aircraft flight takes the Safari group to Nxabega Airstrip, where a safari vehicle is waiting to drive you to your campsite in the Okavango Delta.
A maze of sparkling lagoons, meandering channels and overgrown islands, the Okavango Delta is the world’s largest inland delta. Elegant red lechwe and shy sitatunga are found here, while lion and leopard share the floodplains with giraffe and elephant. Hippo inhabit the deeper channels and lagoons, where darting dragonflies, minute frogs, and jewel-like kingfishers live in the lush banks.
Spend two nights at a campsite in a private concession area bordering the Moremi Wildlife Reserve, with a complement of camp staff to cater for your needs. Explore the crystal- clear channels, islands and waterways by mokoro (dug-out canoe) and enjoy game-viewing walks on the islands.
DAY 03 & 04: Moremi Game Reserve
A short flight in a light aircraft takes you to Khwai in the North Gate region of Moremi Wildlife Reserve. Adjacent to the Moremi Wildlife Reserve, the only proclaimed wildlife area in the Okavango Delta, the Khwai concession delights with its diverse beauty, comprising a stunning landscape of forests, lagoons, floodplains and islands, with rich wildlife. Game viewing is excellent year- round and resident species include lion, cheetah, leopard, elephant, wild dog, zebra, red lechwe and many more.
Spend two nights camping on the concession, whilst enjoying extensive game drives.
DAY 05 & 06: Chobe National Park – Savute
A long game drive today (5 – 6 hours) takes you to the Savute region of Chobe National Park, where you will spend two nights camping in this haunting and magnificent landscape.
Renowned for lion and other predator viewing, the landscape around Savute is starkly beautiful. Mopane forest gives way to acacia savannah with rocky outcrops. The mysterious Savute Channel, which dries up periodically, has recently begun to flow for the first time in more than two decades and has proved an irresistible attraction for a high concentration of wildlife.
DAY 07 & 08: Northern Chobe National Park
From Savute, move up to northern Chobe (4 – 5 hours of game viewing), where you camp for two nights.
This is the heart of elephant country and you spend many hours watching the huge herds in and around the Chobe River on game drives or private boat cruises. Northern Chobe is renowned for its large variety of bird and animal life, beautiful scenery and magnificent sunsets.
DAY 09: Victoria Falls
You travel be driven from Chobe National Park to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, where you meet your representative for the last day of your adventure, who will escort you to The Elephant Camp and on your Victoria Falls activities.
One of the world’s greatest natural spectacles, Victoria Falls is the stuff of legends, romance and myth. Enjoy a fascinating tour of the Falls (entrance fee to the Falls is included in the safari fare). At The Elephant Camp, the dedicated team take over from your guide and enthral you with up-close and personal interactions with wildlife – in particular, the elephants at the Wild Horizons Wildlife Sanctuary.
DAY 10: Departure
After a scrumptious breakfast at The Elephant Camp, you are taken to Victoria Falls International Airport by road, for your onward flight/ arrangements.
Included:
All meals – from dinner on day one to breakfast on day ten
A reasonable amount of bottled water, local wine, beer and soft drinks
Road transfers during your safari ending at Victoria Falls Airport on day 10
Seat on charter as specified: Maun / Nxabega / Khwai
Waterborne/game viewing activities while on safari
Elephant interaction during your stay at The Elephant Camp
Tour of Victoria Falls – including entrance fee
National Parks entrance fees while on safari
Soft drinks, house wine, local beer, teas and coffees at The Elephant Camp
Domestic airport tax within Botswana
Emergency medical evacuation insurance
Personal Travel Journal filled with the highlights of your itinerary
Services of guide throughout your adventure in Botswana
Not included:
Travel Insurance
Gratuities, items of a personal nature
Visas, related costs
Your highlights:
Fully-serviced wilderness camping at private campsites
En suite Expedition safari tents
Maximum of six guests per mobile safari and guaranteed window seats
Mokoro and boat cruise in the Okavango Delta
Exhilarating game drives
Guided walking safari (only in the Delta)
Chobe boat cruise
DAY 01 & 02: Okavango Delta
Upon arrival at Maun International Airport your dedicated guide for this adventure is waiting to welcome you and discuss your interests and expectations for your safari. Once you have become acquainted with your guide, a light aircraft flight takes the Safari group to Nxabega Airstrip, where a safari vehicle is waiting to drive you to your campsite in the Okavango Delta.
A maze of sparkling lagoons, meandering channels and overgrown islands, the Okavango Delta is the world’s largest inland delta. Elegant red lechwe and shy sitatunga are found here, while lion and leopard share the floodplains with giraffe and elephant. Hippo inhabit the deeper channels and lagoons, where darting dragonflies, minute frogs, and jewel-like kingfishers live in the lush banks.
Spend two nights at a campsite in a private concession area bordering the Moremi Wildlife Reserve, with a complement of camp staff to cater for your needs. Explore the crystal- clear channels, islands and waterways by mokoro (dug-out canoe) and enjoy game-viewing walks on the islands.
DAY 03 & 04: Moremi Game Reserve
A short flight in a light aircraft takes you to Khwai in the North Gate region of Moremi Wildlife Reserve. Adjacent to the Moremi Wildlife Reserve, the only proclaimed wildlife area in the Okavango Delta, the Khwai concession delights with its diverse beauty, comprising a stunning landscape of forests, lagoons, floodplains and islands, with rich wildlife. Game viewing is excellent year- round and resident species include lion, cheetah, leopard, elephant, wild dog, zebra, red lechwe and many more.
Spend two nights camping on the concession, whilst enjoying extensive game drives.
DAY 05 & 06: Chobe National Park – Savute
A long game drive today (5 – 6 hours) takes you to the Savute region of Chobe National Park, where you will spend two nights camping in this haunting and magnificent landscape.
Renowned for lion and other predator viewing, the landscape around Savute is starkly beautiful. Mopane forest gives way to acacia savannah with rocky outcrops. The mysterious Savute Channel, which dries up periodically, has recently begun to flow for the first time in more than two decades and has proved an irresistible attraction for a high concentration of wildlife.
DAY 07 & 08: Northern Chobe National Park
From Savute, move up to northern Chobe (4 – 5 hours of game viewing), where you camp for two nights.
This is the heart of elephant country and you spend many hours watching the huge herds in and around the Chobe River on game drives or private boat cruises. Northern Chobe is renowned for its large variety of bird and animal life, beautiful scenery and magnificent sunsets.
DAY 09: Victoria Falls
You travel be driven from Chobe National Park to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, where you meet your representative for the last day of your adventure, who will escort you to The Elephant Camp and on your Victoria Falls activities.
One of the world’s greatest natural spectacles, Victoria Falls is the stuff of legends, romance and myth. Enjoy a fascinating tour of the Falls (entrance fee to the Falls is included in the safari fare). At The Elephant Camp, the dedicated team take over from your guide and enthral you with up-close and personal interactions with wildlife – in particular, the elephants at the Wild Horizons Wildlife Sanctuary.
DAY 10: Departure
After a scrumptious breakfast at The Elephant Camp, you are taken to Victoria Falls International Airport by road, for your onward flight/ arrangements.
Included:
All meals – from dinner on day one to breakfast on day ten
A reasonable amount of bottled water, local wine, beer and soft drinks
Road transfers during your safari ending at Victoria Falls Airport on day 10
Seat on charter as specified: Maun / Nxabega / Khwai
Waterborne/game viewing activities while on safari
Elephant interaction during your stay at The Elephant Camp
Tour of Victoria Falls – including entrance fee
National Parks entrance fees while on safari
Soft drinks, house wine, local beer, teas and coffees at The Elephant Camp
Domestic airport tax within Botswana
Emergency medical evacuation insurance
Personal Travel Journal filled with the highlights of your itinerary
Services of guide throughout your adventure in Botswana
Not included:
Travel Insurance
Gratuities, items of a personal nature
Visas, related costs
