Botswana's Wild Side

Your Botswana camping safari starts very early in Johannesburg. The drive heads north to Khama Rhino Sanctuary in Botswana. Located on the edge of the Kalahari, this reserve has natural waterholes and is home to white rhinos, zebras and wildebeest. Khama Rhino Sanctuary was founded in 1992 to protect the endangered rhinos. Here you go on your first game drive. Overnight stay in a tent at a campsite.

Today you drive through the Kalahari to Maun, the starting point for all trips into the Okavango Delta. Depending on your arrival time in Maun, and once supplies have been topped up and the tents pitched, you will have time to relax by the camp's pool.

Today you change vehicles and travel into the Okavango Delta by four-wheel-drive vehicle. An incomparable adventure in one of Africa's most beautiful wetlands – the Okavango Delta – awaits you. Local guides take you by mokoro deep into the heart of the delta. The Okavango Delta is home to various antelope species, elephants, African wild dogs and lions, to name just a few, and is a true paradise for bird lovers. For the next two nights you camp on an uninhabited island in the midst of nature. During the day you take mokoro trips and go on walking safaris to track wild animals, read tracks or learn more about the Okavango Delta habitat from the local guides. In the late afternoon of day 5 you return to Maun. If you wish, you can book a scenic flight over the delta (optional) and get an overview of its vast scale from the air. For dinner you go to a restaurant (at your own expense).

Among Africa connoisseurs, Moremi Game Reserve is considered one of the best nature reserves for watching lions, leopards or cheetahs. You drive straight into the reserve in an open four-wheel-drive vehicle. The varied vegetation of grasslands, flooded plains, small woodlands and winding waterways is home to elephants, hippos, buffalo, lions and many other wild animals. The otherwise very shy African wild dogs are also not infrequently seen in Moremi Game Reserve. You camp for two nights in the midst of the wilderness within the reserve.

Your Botswana camping safari continues through rough terrain that can only be tackled with a four-wheel-drive vehicle. You will find that this is exactly what makes this safari so appealing. The open grassland of the Savuti region is home to herds of zebras and wildebeest, which in turn attract the large lion prides for which Savuti is so famous. You camp for two nights in the wilderness in the Savuti or Zwei-Zwei region in the southern part of Chobe National Park.

The Chobe River flows leisurely along the northern border of Chobe National Park and is a magnet for large herds of elephants that come to the river to quench their thirst. You spend your time in the northern part of Chobe National Park on game drives. In the early morning hours you explore the floodplain along the Chobe – look forward to exciting wildlife viewing! In the late afternoon of day 11 you take a boat safari on the Chobe River to watch the animals in the water and on the bank. You camp one night in the wilderness and spend the second night at a campsite near Kasane. In the evening you go for dinner at a restaurant in Kasane (at your own expense).

Today you cross the border into Zambia and drive to Livingstone. A little outside the town you set up your camp for the next two days. You visit the impressive Victoria Falls together, or “the smoke that thunders”, as the falls are called in the Lozi language. Livingstone offers a wide range of activities: you can fly over Victoria Falls in a microlight aircraft, dare a bungee jump from Victoria Falls Bridge or take part in white-water rafting on the Zambezi (all optional). You spend two nights in a lodge near Livingstone.

After breakfast the tour ends in Livingstone. On request you will either be taken to Livingstone airport or stay on for a further stay in Zambia.

Breakfast

Note: Solo travellers are welcome to share a tent/room with other solo travellers of the same sex at no extra charge.