Compare Botswana Africa Adventure Safari Trip by Walking Connection
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5 | Excellent
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| Duration | 9 days |
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| Price Per Day | Check price |
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| Trip Style | Self-guided tour |
| Lodging Level | Standard |
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| Flights & Transport | Ground transport included |
| Activities | N/A |
| Meals Included |
9 Breakfasts, 8 Lunches and 8 Dinners |
| Description |
If you have been to Africa once, you will understand…Africa gets in your soul. You long to go back. Images of the tawny landscape stretching deep into the hazy distance draw you in. You crave the anticipation of what gift from nature a new day will bring. Elephants wallowing in the mud around a reed-fringed waterhole as a warning cry echoes across the water. A herd of waterbuck crash through the shallows at the sight of a wandering lion. You have to go back… |
Day 1-3: Moremi Game Reserve
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Overnight 1 of 3 Nights: Safari Lodging Of Distinction: Camp Xakanaxa
Trip starts in Maun, Botswana where you will be met and assisted to your light aircraft flight to our first location in the Moremi Game Reserve.
The Moremi Game Reserve is situated in the eastern part of the Okavango Delta, on the south-western border of the Chobe National Park. Covering almost one-third of the Delta it is considered one of the finest reserves in Africa.
The ancient riverine forests, open savannah, serpentine channels and seasonal floodplains that surround this area will make for a varied habitat of exceptional fauna and flora.
You will have the opportunity for both land and water game-viewing experiences, in open 4×4 safari vehicles or powerboats. The diverse habitat ensures prolific sightings of Elephant, Buffalo, Hyena, Giraffe, Hippo, Wildebeest, Kudu, Lechwe, Lion and Leopard, among many others.
The prime location of Camp Xakanaxa (pronounced Ka-ka-na-ka) on the banks of the Khwai River on the Xakanaxa Lagoon, in the heart of the Moremi Game Reserve, makes it one of the very few safari camps that offer guests an authentic, year-round Okavango Delta land and water safari experience.
With only twelve spacious all-canvas, classic Meru-style luxury safari tents, with en-suite showers, hand basins, and toilet facilities, it is one of the few camps in Botswana which still offers the essence of a classic tented camp.
Situated on the fringe of the lagoon, every tent has a private viewing deck with comfortable loungers.
Day 4-5: Okavango Delta
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Overnight 1 of 2 Nights: Safari Lodging of Distinction: Camp Okavango
An early morning game drive, return for breakfast transfer by light aircraft to Camp Okavango for two days of fully escorted game viewing by mokoro (traditional canoe), motor boat or tracking wildlife on foot on a nearby island. Fishing is also an available optional activity.
Botswana’s magnificent Okavango Delta situated within the heart of the newly declared World Heritage site is the world’s largest inland delta and is a maze of deep lagoons, large lakes, and hidden, meandering channels.
During the annual flood season, the Delta covers a vast area of over 16 000 km² before shrinking to less than 9 000 km² in the dry season. Trapped in a basin of parched Kalahari Desert sand, the freshwater oasis attracts wildlife that depends on the permanent waters of this unique environment.
This unique and exclusive African safari camp is situated on the remote Nxaragha Island. This hidden treasure, in the heart of the permanent Okavango Delta, assures our guests of an unparalleled water wilderness experience.
Day 6-8: Chobe National Park
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Overnight 1 of 3 Nights: Savute Safari Lodge
Stretching from the Linyanti River all the way to Savute Marsh, the winding waterways of the Savute Channel have pumped life into the western section of Chobe National Park for many thousands of generations. However, this fickle and unpredictable channel, which has a fascinating history of flooding and drying up, independently of good rainy seasons and flood levels elsewhere, has mystified local inhabitants, geologists and others for many years.
The Unexplained
When David Livingstone, the first European to visit the area, saw the Savute Channel in 1851 it was flowing. Thirty years later it had disappeared and the Savute Marsh had dried out, remaining this way for almost 80 years. It flowed again from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, when it again receded, hence its reputation as ‘the river that flows in both directions’.
In 2009, after another extended hiatus, the channel began flowing again and by January 2010 had spilled into the Savute Marsh for the first time in three decades, but for how long – no one knows …
There are only eleven private thatched chalets built of local timber. The chalets, which have been elegantly furnished in calm neutral tones to blend with the natural environment, feature expansive private viewing decks, a combined bedroom and lounge area and en-suite facilities.
Day 9: Departure
Meals: Breakfast
A final early morning of game viewing activity. Breakfast and return flight to Maun or Kasane. (Kasane is preferred for those traveling on to Victoria Falls.)
