Description
12 Days Botswana’s Premium Safari Tour
- Explore the waterways of the Okavango Delta
- Discover Chobe’s elephant herds & wildlife
- Comfortable accommodation including houseboat & tented camp
A safari through Botswana and Zambia, exploring Chobe National Park, visiting the thundering Victoria Falls and sleeping aboard a houseboat in the vast Okavango Delta Panhandle. Spend time searching for wildlife including elephant, hippos and lions within remote wilderness. Premium Lodges – The finest game viewing from comfortable hand-picked lodges Okavango Delta Panhandle – Explore the most prolific inland delta of Africa Chobe National Park – Discover the stunning wildlife, including some of Africa’s largest elephants herds.
Our trip begins at Maun Airport (MUB) at If you would like to join the complimentary airport transfer today, the latest your flight can land is 3pm. We will travel together as a group by 4WD safari vehicles into the Okavango Delta, which will be our base for the next three nights.
- Dinner
- Premium tented camp
Day2. Full Days of Game Drives
- Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day3. Okavango Delta – Search for Marine life huge variety
Today we will head out on game drives to explore the diverse scenery and wildlife of the Delta. We will have the chance to see hippo, crocodile, red lechwe, and a great variety of birds are easy to spot. Bird lovers may spot fish eagle, jacana, kingfisher, heron, stork, egret, weaver and bee-eater – just some of the magnificent species found here.
- Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
- Premium tented camp
Day4. Morning Game Drives Afternoon Head to Maun
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This morning we take a slow drive out of the concession and should arrive back into Maun around lunch time. The afternoon is free for you to explore the town or relax in the hotel surroundings. Tonight we go to a cultural evening where we’ll meet young people from a grass roots project. There will be folklore music around a fire and a traditional dinner provided.MEALS
- Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
ACCOMMODATION- Comfortable hotel
Day 5. Okavango Delta Panhandle House Boat
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Today we drive to the west side of the Okavango Delta Panhandle to meet our specially chartered houseboat. Due to the seasonal variations in the level and strength of the river, fed by rainfall in the Upper Zambezi basin, please be aware that for much of the year the houseboat itself remains securely moored and we explore the river by smaller launches. Our itinerary is very flexible. A typical day involves a morning on the houseboat launch followed by a stop on the houseboat for lunch. Then another optional trip in the afternoon and back to the houseboat for the night. During our time on the river there may be a good possibility of seeing a variety of game. On our launch, we may cruise past submerging pods of hippos, while crocodiles bask in the shallows and on the riverbanks. Bird life in the area is also prolific and you may care to try your hand at fishing. Local fishermen are often seen aboard their traditional dugout canoes, known locally as mokoros.MEALS
- Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
ACCOMMODATION- Comfortable boat
Day6. Optional Visit To boat Tsodilo Hills, Visit Thousands san Bushman Rocks Paintings
- Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
- Comfortable
Day7. Drive To casana Chobe National Park
This morning we make our way into the Serondela area of Chobe National Park and base ourselves just outside the park near the riverside town of Kasane. A variety of habitats of flooded grassland, thicket, salt pan and particularly the banks of the Chobe River, one of the Zambezi’s main tributaries, is home to an abundance of wildlife. A major feature of Chobe is its elephant population and is considered to be the largest surviving continuous elephant population and is currently estimated at 120 000 strong! This population covers most of northern Botswana plus northwestern Zimbabwe and has been built up steadily from a few thousand since the early 1900s when massive poaching at the height of the illegal ivory trade decimated other populations in the 1970s and 1980s. The Chobe elephants in this area have the distinction of being the largest in body size of all living elephants, but the ivory is brittle and there are no more of the huge tuskers from a by gone era. Our lodge here is home for the next three nights and is a magical introduction into the heart of Africa.
- Breakfast & Lunch
Comfortable
Day8. Game Drives in Chobe National Park
Premium lodge The northern Chobe area of Serondela is the heart of elephant country. We’ll take the opportunity to spend many hours hopefully watching huge trumpeting herds in and around the river. In the river are hippo and crocodile and the waters teem with bream, barbel and tiger fish. During our stay we will spend our time on morning and afternoon game drives, for those interested, to enjoy an optional late afternoon boat safari on the Chobe River. You may also try your hand at some fishing or even take a guided nature walk.
- Breakfast
- Premium lodge
- Breakfast
Day10. Drives To Livingstone Views Victoria Falls
the abyss below. Like David Livingstone before us, we become aware of the awesome cataract long before seeing it. Plumes of water vapour rise like smoke into the sky accompanied by a deafening roar: a fact which inspired the natives to call the waterfall, Mosi-oa-Tunya, The Smoke that Thunders. This afternoon you could take an optional afternoon game drive into Mosi-oa- Tunya National Park to search for white rhino.
- Breakfast
Day11. In Livingstone Free Time for Many Options Activities
- Breakfast
- Premium lodge
WHAT’S INCLUDED
- 11 Breakfasts, 6 Lunches, 6 Dinners
- Mogotlho Lodge (3 nights)
- Maun Lodge (1 night)
- Okavango Spirit House Boat (2 nights)
- Chobe Safari Lodge (3 nights)
- Avani Victoria Falls Hotel (2 nights)
- Driver(s)
- 4WD
- Boat
- Explore Tour Leader
- Boat Crew
WHAT’S EXCLUDED
- Any international flights to Maun and from Livingstone are not included in this price. We always recommend that you arrive 1 day prior to your tour starting date.
- Travel insurance is not included in this Botswana’s Premium Safari tour. Travel insurance is mandatory to buy. We recommend purchasing it from World Nomads.
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