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| Viewing: Botswana Moremi Classic Semi-Luxury Safari |
Package ID: 1981 |
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| Botswana Moremi Classic Semi-Luxury Safari |
Discover and explore the gems of Botswana, Moremi Game Reserve & Okavango Delta camping in the wild, but with comfort.
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Routing: Maun to Moremi return
Access: Maun (MUB)
Accommodation: Camping On an Authentic Mobile Tented Safari
Highlights: Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta
Note: We can arrange accommodation the night before the safari commences if need be.
Itinerary
3 nights camping in Xakanaxa, Moremi Game Reserve.
Activity guide: Delta scenic flight, game drives, Okavango boat cruise
3 nights camping in the Khwai Community Area bordering Moremi Game Reserve
Activity guide: game drives, night drives, guided walks
Optional Safari Extensions: Popular requests include Victoria Falls
DETAILED ITINERARY:
Day 1: Maun to Xakanaxa.
Travel Day > 30minute charter flight from Maun
You will arrive from Johannesburg at midday and be flown by charter plane into the Xakanaxa airstrip in Moremi Game Reserve where you will be met by your safari team.
Habitat: The flight takes you from Maun over the southern Okavango Delta and gives a wonderful aerial perspective of the habitat where we will spend the next 3 nights.
Accommodation: Tented Camp
Activities: Scenic Flight, Game Drive
Meal Planner: L D
Days 2 & 3: Xakanaxa, Moremi Game Reserve
Habitat: 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: Tented Camp
Activities: Game Drives and Boating
Meal Planner: B L D
Day 4: Xakanaxa to Khwai.
Travel Day > 60km. 3-4 hours
Habitat: The Manuchira Channel is known as the Khwai River at it's eastern most extremity. The day's journey follows this water course, 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: Tented Camp
Activities: Game Drive
Meal Planner: B L D
Day 5 & 6: Khwai, Moremi Game Reserve
Habitat: We spend our time between the dry-land habitats of the lead-wood and camel-thorn woodlands and savannahs and the riverside and marshy back-waters of the Khwai. Time permitting we may visit the lagoons and waterways of Xakanaxa where the largest heronry in southern Africa exists.
Accommodation: Tented Camp
Activities: Game Drives, Walking & Night Drive
Meal Planner: B L D
Day 7: Khwai to Maun.
Travel Day > 30 minute Charter Flight
After breakfast we take a game-drive to the airstrip where you will be met by your charter flight back to Maun. This marks the end of your Safari.
Includes:
- Spacious and comfortable tented accommodation, including beds and bed linen, with a private en-suite toilet.
- Camp shower
- Services of a professional guide and safari team, including a safari chef and camp assistants, complete with a supply vehicle
- Game drives and local transfers in customised safari vehicles
- Exclusive camping in private campsites within the national parks and reserves
- All entrance and camping fees within the national parks and reserves
- All meals and drinks (mineral water, soft drinks, beer, wine and spirits)
- All activities as specified in the itinerary
- Medical Evacuation Insurance
- 10% Vat
Excludes:
- International & domestic flights
- Travel and medical insurance
- Visas
- Optional safari extensions
- Items of a personal nature.
Departure Dates 2009:- from Maun
24 May 2009
25 June 2009
04 July 2009
13 July 2009
25 July 2009
27 Aug 2009
28 Aug 2009
22 Sept 2009
24 Sept 2009
25 Oct 2009
31 Oct 2009
02 Dec 2009
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