Botswana Guided Camping Safari

Day 1 — Maun to Xakanaxa. Travel day. 30minute charter flight
Your welcome to Africa begins at Johannesburg International Airport where you’ll be assisted to connect with a scheduled flight to Maun where you will be met by Mack Air and be flown by charter plane into the Xakanaxa airstrip in Moremi Game Reserve where you will be met by your guide.
Spending our first three nights camping in the Xakanaxa region, we explore the surrounding wilderness on game drives during the day.
Accommodation: Mobile Tented Camp. Activities: Game Drives

Day 2, 3 — Xakanaxa Exploration
Days Moremi Game Reserve Moremi lies on the eastern extremity of the Okavango Delta. Habitats here range from wide-open floodplains, marshes, lagoons, papyrus fringed channels, vast reed-beds of Miscanthus and Phragmites, woodland and savannah. As a result of the extremely variable habitat the diversity of both wildlife and birdlife is excellent.
Accommodation: Mobile Tented Camp. Activities: Game Drives and Boating

Day 4 — Xakanaxa to Khwai. Travel day. 60km. 3-4 hours
Following and early morning breakfast you take a slow drive through Moremi Game Reserve North-East towards the Khwai Community Area.  The day’s journey follows the Manuchira Channel also known as the Khwai River, with the track weaving from the riverside and floodplains into the mopane veld and the woodlands that make Khwai one of the most scenic areas of the Okavango. We pass the magnificent Dombo Hippo Pools in the morning stopping to enjoy the scenery and the antics of the resident hippo.
Accommodation: Mobile Tented Camp. Activities: Game Drives

Day 5, 6 — Khwai Exploration days
The Khwai River forms a boundary between the reserve and the community area. We spend the following two nights camping at an exclusive campsite in the community area, exploring the Khwai floodplains on game drives both during the day and at night. Exploring after dark with spotlights offers you an opportunity to experience some of the nocturnal animals that are rarely encountered during the day. We will also have the opportunity to explore the surrounding wilderness on foot and enjoy an up close and personal encounter with Botswana’s flora and fauna. It is important to note that night drives and guided walks are not permitted within the national parks and reserves. These activities are conducted outside the boundaries of the Moremi Game Reserve in the Khwai community area.
Accommodation: Letaka Tented Camp. Activities: Game Drive, Walking Safaris and Night Drive

Day 7 — Khwai to Savuti. Travel day. 100km. 4-5 hours
We head further north en-route to Chobe National Park, were we spend the following three nights camping in an exclusive wilderness campsite in the Savuti region, exploring the dessert-like landscape of game drives.
A fascinating day’s drive looking at some of the evidence of the Paleo-Lake Makgadikgadi that dried up some ten thousand years ago. The most challenging part of the trip is crossing the Magwikwe Sand-ridge that formed the shoreline for this massive inland sea. During the rainy season the depression is impassable due to the “cotton soil” and alternative routes must be used.
Accommodation: Mobile Tented Camp. Activities: Game Drive

Day 8, 9 — Savuti (Chobe National Park) Exploration days
Unlike the vast majority of the country, Savuti is not flat landscape. Large outcrops of volcanic rock reach up out of the Kalahari sands, towering over the endless savannah. These hills provide habitat for a completely different array of small wildlife, birds and plants. The Savuti Marsh has been the stage for many of the most dramatic wildlife documentaries in Africa. The wide open country, good ungulate populations and particularly strong prides of lion and hyaena clans make for dramatic wildlife interaction and excellent viewing opportunities. The now dry Savuti Channel runs through this landscape linking the dry sand-veld, the waterholes, the hills and the grassland that was the Savuti Marsh.
Accommodation: Letaka Tented Camp. Activities: Game Drive and Bushman Painting Walks

Day 10 — Savuti to Chobe River. Travel day 170km (5 hours)
On your final day on safari you will leave Savuti to travel along the Chobe River arriving at Chobe Safari Lodge where you will stop for lunch before taking a leisurely afternoon boat cruise to end your safari. Return to the Lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Chobe Safari Lodge. Activities: Game Drive and Boat Cruise

Day 11 — Departure
Enjoy breakfast at your Lodge. Thereafter, you’ll be transferred to Kasane Airport to connect with scheduled flight back to Johannesburg to connect with onward flight.
For clients wishing to visit Victoria Falls, a two night stay in Livingstone can be added to this itinerary. Please enquire for prices.
 

This itinerary is based on scheduled departures and it runs from Maun to Kasane or vice versa. There are four to seven departures per month year round and in some a window seat can be guaranteed. Please enquire for departure dates.
 

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