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INTO THE AFRICAN WILDERNESS
Serene Mobile-Tented Safari |
| LOCATION:
Botswana, Zambia (Victoria Falls) |
| DAYS:
15 Days |
| FITNESS
LEVEL: Easy / Moderate |
| HIGHLIGHTS:
Limited Group Size * Moremi Game Reserve * Professional
English-Speaking Guide * Okavango Delta * Transfers
Included * Chobe National Park * Khwai Area * Island Camp * Internal Flights * Use of Mokoro * Park Fees * Private Mobile Camps
* Livingstone * Victoria Falls * 4x4 Open Land Cruisers |
Safari
Price | Contact Born Free |
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This serene safari take you away from the crowds, as professional guides take you to private mobile camps that offer top comfort and amenities in the great wildlife areas in Botswana. Professional guides take you through mystical mazes on the reed waterways of the Okavango Delta. Walks and open vehicle game drives are featured in the Chobe and Moremi Game Reserves. No comfort is left behind. Enjoy gourmet food, fine wines and comfortable tents with bathrooms en suite. |
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Day
1 - Depart U.S.A.
From your home in the USA, you'll board your flight to
Johannesburg, South Africa.
BOTSWANA
Day 2 - Okavango Delta - Moremi Game Reserve
Depart on an early morning flight from Johannesburg. Your safari begins on arrival to Maun and then onward to the Okavango Delta. Fly over the Okavango on a low-level flight which offers wonderful opportunity for aerial photography. The Okavango is the jewel in Botswana's crown. This unique freshwater system is born from the waters that flow down from the highlands and die in the sands of the Kalahari to create the world's largest inland delta. This seasonally flooded area consists of marshes and lagoons, dry woodlands and grassy savannas. On your way from the airstrip, enjoy a game drive during the drive to your camp.
Mobile Tented Camp (D)
Day 3-4 - Okavango Delta - Moremi Game Reserve
Swamps, islands, floodplains, forests and dry savannah support a great amount of wildlife in Moremi Game Reserve. Explore trails on game drives and the winding waterways by mokoro (traditonal cut-out canoes). The Okavango Delta has a great variety of wildlife and habitats. The animals on view are astonishing. All the major predators as well as elephant, buffalo, hippo, giraffe, waterbuck, red lechwe and many more. The habitats vary from cathedral mopane forests and ebony groves to open flood plains and palm fringed lagoons. Activities include game drives, boat rides and mokoro (traditional cut-out canoe) rides, which take you into the heart of the delta where one explores its many channels, waterways and islands. Bird life is abundant here with over 400 species recorded in the area. Also, as the sun sets, another world awaits as the sights and sounds of the nocturnal bush come alive.
Mobile Tented Camp (BLD)
Day 5 - Okavango Delta - Island
After three days exploring the Okavango Delta you will depart for your next camp, which is situated on an island in the heart of the Delta, where a boat takes you through lagoons and narrow channels lined with evergreen trees such as water figs, and African mangosteens and the ever present papyrus reed banks, stopping for lunch on a sand bank. The bird life is abundant and there’s the chance you may see elephants crossing the channels. After a day of exploring the lagoons and channels, you will arrive at the camp for your night under the stars.
Mobile Tented Camp (BLD)
Day 6 - Okavango / Khwai Concession
After exploring the Delta, you will depart on a game drive for your next camp, stopping on the way for a picnic lunch. The new camp is situated in the Eastern section of the Moremi called Khwai.
Mobile Tented Camp (BLD)
Day 7-8 - Khwai Concession
Here you go on game drives, and because our camp is on a private concession one is allowed to go on night drives and walks, which are not permitted in the National Parks or Game Reserves. The vegetation here is quite different with great stands of leadwood and mopane woodlands in close proximity to open grasslands and the Khwai River. Lion, cheetah, leopard, wild dog, as well as a multitude of other animals, including elephant, buffalo, zebra, hippo, giraffe can be found here.
Mobile Tented Camp (BLD)
Day 9-11 - Chobe National Park
From Khwai you will fly by light aircraft to your next camp in the Chobe National Park to overnight at Chobe Private Luxury Mobile Tented Camp. Chobe is famous for its huge herds of elephant congregating along the Chobe River to quench their thirsts. During the dry season, between July and November, this area has the largest concentration of elephant anywhere in Africa. Buffalo also gather here in their thousands as they are attracted by the water and the lush green grass of the fertile Caprivi Strip. With such great numbers of animals, which also include the rarely seen sable, roan antelope, puku, bushbuck, and many more, come the big predators, such as lion, leopard and hyena. There will be several game drives included along the Chobe River.
Chobe Private Luxury Mobile Tented Camp (BLD)
ZAMBIA
Day 12-13 - Chobe National Park / Victoria Falls, Zambia
After breakfast your guide will transfer you to Kasane to connect with your road transfer to Livingstone to overnight at Stanley Safari Lodge.
Livingstone is not a wildlife destination but an area that gives you access to the Victoria Falls area that has a number of exciting activities such as white water rafting and bunji jumping as well as visiting the fall. The lodge is the perfect getaway from the tourist crowds, safely hidden in a wild area. The open-sided design affords a unique view across the Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park to the mighty Zambezi River and the Victoria Falls – one of the Seven Natural Wonders Of The World. Spend your days enjoying the Victoria Falls area, or by the pool, spotting elephants at the nearby watering hole.
Stanley Safari Lodge (BLD)
Day
14-15 - Depature / Home
Late morning transfer to the Livingstone Airport for your return flight to Johannesburg where you board your continuing flight home. If the U.S. is your final destination arrive back on Day 15.
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