Itinerary

1. Day 1: Maun - Okavango Delta (Mokoro Excursions)

   • Meet the tour guide, who will pick you up from your lodge in the morning and head for the southern tip of the Okavango Delta to meet with experienced mokoro polers (riders).
   • Spend the next few hours gliding silently in a mokoro along the Okavango Delta’s papyrus–fringed waterways to one of its many islands, where you are going to set up camp for one night. On your way, expect to be rewarded with splendid sightings of a variety of bird life among the more than 400 species that occur in this watery wonderland.
   • Reach the island and set off on foot on your first guided safari walk within the Okavango Delta. Expect to encounter a fantastic variety of large games during these safari walks, such as elephants, hippos, giraffes, zebras, etc.
   • Arrive back from your safari walk shortly before dusk to a warm shower and a bowl of soup to refresh you before dinner is served.

   Main Destination: Okavango Delta 

   Accomodation; In lodges or tented camps

   Meal plan: Lunch and dinner

2. Day 2: Okavango Delta - Moremi Game Reserve

   • Wake up early morning for a light breakfast. After breakfast, you will go for your last morning safari walk in the Okavango Delta. As we explore the Okavango Delta on foot, you will again be searching for the game as the Okavango is world famous for its rich biodiversity.
   • Return to camp after your safari walk to wrap up your mokoro excursion in the Okavango Delta. Thereafter, you are poled back to the mokoro station for a pick up by your safari guide to make the journey northwards to Moremi for a two-night stay full of activities.
   • Enjoy game-watching the roaming wildlife enroute as we drive to the north-western tip of Moremi Game Reserve, to our camp that would be our home for the next two nights exploring this fascinating wildlife spectacle.
   • Arrive at our selected tented safari camp, freshen up and enjoy some light snacks and drinks before embarking on our first game drive in Moremi. The game drive is conducted in a purpose-built safari vehicle with an open roof for ease of game-watching and photo-taking inside the renowned Moremi Game Reserve. This is the only official protected area in the Okavango Delta hosting abundant wildlife across its diverse habitats. The area near the safari camp is known for its abundance of lions and other big cats, so keep your eyes open and fingers crossed for the timeless wild experience. 
   • See other wild animals in the area, including wild dogs, elephants, buffalos, hyenas, and more. After sunset, we make our way back to the safari camp, looking out for nocturnal animals as we drive into the night for a night game drive experience, when most of the Big Cats are active and come out from their habitats.
   • Reach back at camp to wine and dine; welcome to a hearty and tasty dinner at the dining tent. We then assemble at the campfire as we take stock of the day's activities, what we missed and what to focus on as we map out the next day's game drive and day activities. Having done our introductory game viewing, sit back around the flickering campfire under the stars - the perfect way to end your day on safari in the bush. 

   Main destination; Moremi Game Reserve

   Accomodation available and proposed;- in lodges or tented camps

   Meal plan: (FB) Breakfast, lunch and dinner

3. Day 3: Moremi Game Reserve

   • Wake up early in the morning for dawn game drive when the animals are very active before most go into hiding from the scorching sun. Therefore, this is the best moment. We can spot a real-time big cat hunting experience. 
   • Leave at 0600hrs before breakfast and return back at 0900 hrs to the camp for a full breakfast. (Tea/coffee with some snacks is served to wake you up for the morning activities.)
   • Pack your lunches, and we will embark on a full-day exclusive game drive in this vast game reserve, Moremi, situated in the central and eastern areas of the Okavango Delta and boasts of diverse ecosystems ranging from floodplains, lagoons, grasslands and riverine to Mopane woodlands. Therefore, with this wide variety of vegetation comes a diverse spectrum of wildlife. Your day will be spent searching for the wide variety of wildlife and birds that this area is renowned for, in the midst of this spectacular wild side of Botswana, absorbing the sounds and beauty of the African wilderness at its best indigenous state.
   • Encounter huge herds of buffaloes and elephants in the Mophane scrub, and keep an eye on the elusive African wild dogs, lions, and leopards, among others. You're also certain to encounter birds of prey on this safari drive, such as the mighty Martial Eagle, Tawny Eagle, the majestic African Fish Eagle and that incredible aviator–the Bateleur and many others.

   Main Destination: Moremi Game Reserve (Okavango Delta)

   Accomodation available and proposed;- in lodges or tented camps

   Meal plan: (FB) Breakfast, lunch and dinner

4. Day 4: Moremi Game Reserve - Khwai Concession

   • Wake up today to enjoy an early morning breakfast. Shortly after breakfast, we will take a short game drive through Moremi Game Reserve - as we exit Moremi, recapture our moments in these magnificent landscapes and mammals.
   • Pack our lunches, and we will embark on a journey to visit the local tribe as we get ready to explore Kazinkini, a private concession next to Moremi Game Reserve and usually a stunning place in the rainy season, when wildlife moves from the Moremi towards Kazinkini. Being allowed to go off-road makes life on safari much easier in Kazinkini. The Bayei tribe are excellent basket weavers and carvers. The villagers will provide us with their early lifestyle up to the present centuries with traditional dances, demonstrations on the traditional doctor, the old style of hunting, basket weaving, the carving of wooden curios and the granaries where the grain is stored, an area that has earned its place among the world's top conservation areas thanks to its role in providing a safe home for Botswana’s endangered rhinos. 
   • Enjoy this reserve wildlife and culture diversity pieced together with waterways that attract habitat for remarkable number of bird species; we will have our time until late afternoon before we eventually head northeast towards a short drive to the Khwai Concession for a two-night stay exploring the vast ecosystem with an abundance of wildlife and birdlife, beautiful scenery, a place the makes you want to stay some more. (Suggestively, we can factor in a night here in this private reserve for more time with the locals. That's subject to discussion afterwards when the main itinerary is agreed upon since it doesn't change the dynamics of the program coordinator.)
     • The Khwai Concession, about 1800–square kilometres large, is situated in the northeastern Okavango next to Moremi Game Reserve. It is a prolific and varied wildlife ecosystem dominated by a patchwork of lagoons, grasslands, permanent flood plains and large Mopane woodland forests. Therefore, Khwai is undoubtedly one of the most scenic areas of the Okavango. It is a predator–rich area and, as such, has a marvellous selection of predators such as lions, leopards, cheetahs, serval cats and African wild cats. 
   • Arrive at our camp/lodge in time for lunch. Lunches are served, and take some rest before embarking on afternoon introductory game drives to enable you to familiarize yourself with this vast land full of breathtaking encounters. 
   • Go for the game drive for the rest of the afternoon till dusk with the possibility of watching the sunset unfold over the Khwai River, a rare experience that's worth a perfect shot from your cameras as a memorable experience of Khwai.

   Main Destination: Khwai Concession (Okavango Delta)

   Accomodation available and proposed;- in lodges or tented camps

   Meal plan: (FB) Breakfast, lunch and dinner

5. Day 5: Explore the Khwai Concession

   • Have an early breakfast, and you will go for your usual morning game drive. Your journey will follow the Khwai River’s watercourse weaving from the riverside and floodplains into the mopane veld and woodlands that make Khwai one of the most scenic areas of the Okavango. The Khwai area boasts an excellent population of African elephants, both solitary bulls and breeding herds. The swampy areas are home to Red Lechwe. Other resident species include the Southern Giraffe, Burchell’s Zebra, Tsessebe, the Greater Kudu, Impalas, etc. The whole of Khwai is also one of Botswana’s birding Mecca’s. As such, the raptors and water birds are particularly abundant and make for some great photography. You will leave again in the afternoon to explore other areas of the Khwai Concession.
   • Return back to camp in the evening, refresh and then dinner is served; enjoy a mouthwatering dinner prepared by our safari chef.

   Main Destination: Khwai Concession (Okavango Delta)

   Accomodation available and proposed;- in lodges or tented camps

   Meal plan: (FB) Breakfast, lunch and dinner

6. Day 6: Khwai Concession - Savuti

   • Rise up very early and begin our daily activities in the bushland before breakfast, but a cup of coffee/ tea with snacks is served to wake your minds. 
   • Embark on this dawn game drive, with a high chance of capturing that adventurous moment when most animals are active and the nocturnal animals are heading back to their hideout. Animals are mostly active at this moment before scorching sends them to hide in bushes for cover. Therefore, this is your moment to get the most. 
   • Return to the camp for a full breakfast and to freshen up in readiness to exit Khwai Concession; we check out and proceed for an enroute game drive as we leave Khwai Concession and travel northeastwards to Savuti for a two-night stay, arriving. 
   • Get to your camp in time for lunch. After lunch, with a short rest, we begin to explore the expansive Savuti ecosystem till late in the evening, and we head back to our camp for dinner and overnight. We'll explore the wilds of Savuti, where the big game roam, in the stunning Okavango Delta and the abundant wildlife and birdlife found there. Savuti is best known for its predators, both big cats (lion, leopard and cheetah) and birds of prey–raptors, vultures and all manner of birds of prey that soar over Savuti's landscape in search of food. Perhaps the strangest phenomenon of all about Savuti is the 100–kilometres of Savuti Channel. At times it will stop flowing and remain dry for years at a stretch. When the Channel recommences its flow, it changes the entire ecosystem, transforming the Savuti marsh and Mababe Depression into wetlands and thus creating an oasis that provides water for thirsty wildlife herds and acts as a magnet for a profusion of water birds and habitats for large herds of elephants, buffaloes and other plain games, we spend the while you get up close and personal with spectacular landscapes and remarkable animals. In the evening, after dinner is served and we're refreshed, we assemble at the campfire, a time to sit back and listen to locals' tales of their land, as we exchange notes of the day's activities as we plan for the next day's targets.

   Main Destination: Savuti (Chobe NP)

   Accomodation available and proposed;- in lodges or camps

   Meal plan: (FB) Breakfast, lunch and dinner

7. Day 7: Exploring Savuti Marshlands

   • Wake up early in the morning to freshen up with a cup of tea or coffee and some snacks. And at 0600hrs, leave for the dawn game drive, with the rare opportunities to spot most of the nocturnal animals, the big cats, lions, cheetahs, and leopards, amongst others, in real-time hunting for their prey. 
   • Return to the camp where full breakfast is served. With picnic lunch boxes, we head out for a full day exploring the Savuti and its marshlands. The Savuti marsh is a vast expanse of grasslands dotted with dead acacia trees, creating an intriguing, almost ghost-like landscape. Another point of interest in Savuti is the Bushman rock paintings, thought to be well over a thousand years old. These are paintings of giraffes, elephants and eland. If time permits, we will visit these rock paintings.
   • Proceed for the afternoon game drive that will take us till late afternoon, when we return to camp at sunset. Dinner will follow before you turn for the night to rest or as you hold some discussions about the day's events around the campfire.

   Main Destination: Savuti (Chobe NP)

   Accomodation available and proposed;- in lodges or camps

   Meal plan: (FB) Breakfast, lunch and dinner

8. Day 8: Savuti - Chobe National Park

   • Wake up early in the morning for a light breakfast. Shortly thereafter, we leave for an early morning game drive, an excellent moment to capture adventurous moments before the scorching sun scatters the animals into hiding in the bushland. The Savuti area, with wide open grassy plains and scattered rocky outcrops, is the perfect area for large herds of elephants, buffaloes, zebras and wildebeest and giraffe families, not forgetting the many predators that follow them. As the Savuti area is vast, we can opt for a full-day trip or a combined morning and afternoon drive, depending on where the animals are concentrated. The plains are always a highlight, and the area is known for its great concentration of predators. We can also do a short climb to see some Bushman rock paintings and beautiful vistas from the hill before exiting Savuti for the Chobe River.
   • Pass through some traditional villages along the road for a personal encounter with the local tribe, at their villages. 
   • Arrive in Chobe late afternoon in time to still make a short sundown game drive as we leisurely drive to the camp along the river, with plenty of wildlife to watch, especially huge herds of elephants as well as buffaloes and other plains games, with big cats hot in pursuit, completing the food chain. 

   Main Destination: Chobe National Park

   Accomodation available and proposed;- in lodges or camps

   Meal plan: (FB) Breakfast, lunch and dinner

9. Day 9: Chobe National Park

   • Explore the Chobe River and make an extensive game drive along its borders. The area really has one of the dense animal concentrations in Africa, and expect to watch many different species: roan antelope, sable antelope, puku, red lechwe, and giraffes, with the high possibility of seeing lions, leopards and wild dogs. Chobe never disappoints. There's always something out there to make every moment special and out of the ordinary. An action-packed scenery, with prolific wildlife and birdlife, is found in this spectacular place. Lunch is served in camp, or we can opt to have picnic lunch boxes to give us more time to see the most, especially in the afternoon when we make short drives along the Chobe riverbank, as this is the opportune time most animals come to the river to drink. Chobe National Park, tucked up in Botswana's far northeastern border with Namibia, is one of the great wildlife destinations of Africa. It is the ultimate haven for vast herds of elephants – as many as 120,000 of the animals depend on the Chobe River's life-sustaining waterways when the dry season kicks in. Other resident game species are large herds of buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, the rare puku, roan and sable antelopes. These are normally trailed by the notoriously fearless lions of the Chobe, leopard and cheetah, amongst other wildlife. 
   • Enjoy the boat cruise. Chobe River boat cruise is our highlight of the day activities. This boat cruise gives you a chance to experience the animals of Chobe NP from a different perspective, getting you up close and personal encounters with hippos, crocodiles and a mind-boggling array of water birds. 
   • Drive back to the camp with enroute game watching till dusk. After dinner, we enjoy our last campfire of this safari at Chobe, where we shall conclude our main adventure goals. We retire to our respective luxury tents, with our minds filled with action-packed memories replying to a sweet silent night in the African bush.

   Main Destination: Chobe National Park

   Accomodation available and proposed;- in lodges or camps

   Meal plan: (FB) Breakfast, lunch and dinner

10. Day 10: Last of Chobe & Botswana - Departure

    • Wake up very early to enjoy a breakfast prepared by our safari chef. After your breakfast, you will take our last enroute game drive through Chobe National Park as you head out to Kasane. Chobe is one of the best places to see and photograph Roan and Sable Antelopes. Puku Antelope occurs nowhere else in southern Africa but only on the Chobe floodplains. On the other hand, the massive herds of African Buffalo roaming the vast Chobe are constantly flanked by the ever–hungry lions of the Chobe. Our safari ends around mid-day upon reaching Kasane or Maun. 
    • Drop off at your hotel or at Kasane Airport for your onward travel. 

    Meal: Breakfast