Compare 9-Day Makgadikgadi, Moremi, Okavango + Chobe Luxventure by Ker & Downey Africa vs Botswana Africa Adventure Safari Trip by Walking Connection

Day 1-2: Makgadikgadi Pan

Meals: Breakfast and Dinner

Accommodation: Nata Lodge

Mid-range lodge located outside Okavango Delta

Main Destination: Makgadikgadi Pans National Park

After arriving in Maun you will transfer to Nata Lodge where you will spend the next 2 nights. This is a road transfer 3 hours 30 minutes. Surrounded by the desert sands of the Kalahari, the Makgadikgadi salt pans are dry most of the year but are sometimes seasonally covered with water and grasslands. These lush green belts become a yearly refuge for birds and animals travelling across the desert landscape. Migrating wildebeest and Africa's biggest zebra population rely on this area, as well as the large predators that prey on them, making the Makgadikgadi a wonderful safari destination. We have included a 3 hour pan drive with a transfer into the Salt Plans and 1 sundowner so departure at 4.30 pm for this tour. Your rate includes a stay in a luxury chalet at Nata Lodge.

Day 3-4: Moremi Game Reserve

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Moremi Crossing

All drinks (Premium wines & liquors might be excluded)

Main Destination: Moremi Game Reserve

This morning you will have an Air Transfer from the Makgadikgadi Pans to Moremi Game Reserve. Moremi Crossing is a new 16 tent camp built on a palm fringed island surrounded by the Moremi's game-rich seasonal floodplains and overlooking Chief's Island. Moremi Crossing is a new style safari camp combining luxury with simplicity. This is a 100% eco-friendly development featuring the latest in solar and waste disposal technology. Accommodation consists of 16 en suite and spacious tents on raised decks, each with their own veranda overlooking Chief's Island. Tents have their own eco-friendly outdoor shower heated by solar power. Bush walks, boat cruise (seasonal), birding and mokoros (water level seasonal activity) is included.

Day 5-6: Okavango Delta

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Rra Dinare

Mid-range tented camp located inside Okavango Delta

Main Destination: Okavango Delta

On day five, an air transfer will take you to Rra Dinare which is a new camp. Adjacent to Moremi Game reserve on south eastern side of the Delta, overlooking the Gomoti River and its flood plains, the camps are located in a private concession of 272 km2 and have been designed to embrace the natural surroundings of the riverine forest. Game drives (day & night) in a private concession adjacent to Moremi Game reserve, on & off road, 6 passengers per vehicle, driver & tracker (on night game drives). Seasonal water activities on Gomoti river and game walks available depending on local conditions.

Day 7-8: Chobe National Park

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Chobe Safari Lodge

Mid-range lodge located just outside Chobe NP

Main Destination: Chobe National Park

Chobe River area which is next door to Chobe National park will be your last stop on this fabulous itinerary. Chobe is an exceptional place if seeing the Big 5 is top on your bucket list. Spend your days on a classic safari along the Chobe River- a major watering spot for elephant herds as well as giraffe, sable, and buffalo in the dry season. If you're a bird lover, this is also a place you need to visit. Bird viewing is excellent year round and you can hope to spot rare spoon-billed storks, European bee-eaters, and hovering kingfishers looking for their next meal. As an added bonus, Chobe is located near the magnificent Victoria Falls. 1 game drive per day is included which is 3 hours long into Chobe National Park.

Day 9: End of tour

Meals: Breakfast

Main Destination: Kasane Airport

After breakfast at Chobe Safari Lodge, you will take a road transfer to Kasane Airport for your onward journey.

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.)