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Package ID: 1469 |
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| Botswana Camping Safari - Authentic |
Explore the prime wildlife regions of Moremi, Okavango Delta and Chobe whilst relaxing in the wilderness surrounds of your fully serviced tented camp.
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These authentic mobile tented camps are exclusive to a maximum of 9 guests, comfortable and fully serviced, catering to our guests every need and providing the perfect balance between adventure and relation.
Guests are accommodated in spacious (3m x 3m), walk-in wilderness safari tents with large breezy windows, en-suite toilet and a shaded veranda. The tents are furnished with two single beds, complete with comfortable mattresses, duvets and pillows (quality bed and bath linen are provided), a bedside table, a luggage rack, a small carpet and a battery powered lamp. Guest tents are serviced daily.
The en-suite includes a chemical flush toilet, camp basin and on some of the itineraries a shower. (Some itineraries have a camp shower arrangment)
The central guest area is set out in the open wilderness, taking full advanatge of our natural surroundings, and is furnished with a dinning table and directors chairs.
Your Safari Team include a professional guide, camp manager, safari cook and camp staff, will accompany you on safari.
Length: 09 Nights / 10 Days
Routing: Maun to Kasane & Kasane to Maun
Access: Maun (MUB) / Livingstone (LIV) / Victoria Falls (VFA)
Accommodation: Camping On an Authentic Mobile Tented Safari + Fixed Lodge
Highlights: Moremi Game Reserve, Okavango Delta, Savuti & Chobe National Park
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
3 nights camping in Savuti, Chobe National Park
Activity guide: game drives
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 Savuti.
Travel Day > 100km. 4-5 hours
Habitat: A fascinating days 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. The winding track through this deep sand makes for interesting travel in the early summer! The old lake bed is now the Mababe Depression. The dense clay floor of the depression result in high protein feed for wildlife and the area teams with game after the rains. During the rain season the depression is impassable due to the cotton soil and alternative routes must be used.
Accommodation: Tented Camp
Activities: Game Drive
Meal Planner: B L D
Day: 8 & 9 Savuti ( Chobe National Park )
Habitat: 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 hyena 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: Tented Camp
Activities: Game Drives and Bushman Painting Walk
Meal Planner: B L D
Day 10: Savuti to Chobe River - Safari Ends
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 with us.
Habitat: The habitat on today's drive takes us through the stunted mopane scrub of the Goha clay basin, across the sand-ridge and through the wonderful Zambezi teak woodlands of the Chobe Forest Reserve and along the Chobe River itself. The Chobe floodplain is tens of kilometres wide and in years of exceptional rains the water stretches as far as the eye can see.
Activities: Game Drive , Boat Trip
Meal Planner: B L
Price per person sharing:
Standard 12 Seater Safari - $3505
Window Seat Only 9 Seater Safari - $4205
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
Drinks at Lodge
Items of a personal nature.
Departure Dates 2010 - DD/MM/YY - STANDARD SAFARI 12 SEATS
Maun to Kasane (Going North)
March 5/3/10, 31/3/10
May 4/5/10, 10/5/10
June 2/6/10, 4/6/10
July 7/7/10
August 7/8/10 , 11/8/10 ,23/8/10
September 7/9/10 , 13/9/10, 20/9/10
October 9/10/10 , 11/10/10
November 13/11/10
Kasane to Maun (Going South)
March 16/3/10
April 16/4/10 , 23/4/10
May 15/5/10 , 21/5/10
June 13/6/10 , 15/6/10
July 2/7/10, 23/7/10
August 6/8/10, 18/8/10 , 22/8/10
September 3/9/10, 18/9/10, 24/9/10
October 1/10/10, 13/10/10 , 20/10/10 , 22/10/10 , 23/10/10
November 24/11/10
Departure Dates 2010 - DD/MM/YY - WINDOW SEATS ONLY 9 SEATS
Maun to Kasane (Going North)
March - 15/3/10, 26/3/10
April - 2/4/10, 19/4/10
May - 2/5/10
June - 14/6/10, 25/6/10
July - 5/7/10, 19/7/10
September - 12/9/10, 21/9/10
October - 4/10/10, 18/10/10
November - 10/11/10
Kasane to Maun (Going South)
March - 26/3/10
April - 30/4/10
May - 13/5/10
July - 16/7/10, 30/7/10
August - 13/8/10, 27/8/10
September - 12/9/10, 21/9/10
October - 15/10/10,, 29/10/10
November - 21/10/10
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