Safari Quick Facts

We get up early this morning for a morning game walk with the local guide. The emphases this morning is to try and spot some of the African game on foot and to learn about the environment. We return to camp for a well deserved brunch and some time to relax. In the afternoon we take a short mokoro trip on the river to view the sunset before returning to camp.

This morning we board our mokoro's for the trip back to the polers station. We meet our vehicle and transfer back into Maun for a quick stop and an opportunity to purchase supplies for the days ahead. We leave Maun after lunch and head for the drier region of the Kalahari and the Nxai Pan National Park. In the late afternoon we go on a game drive looking for the herds of Springbok that live in this area.

We start out day with an early morning game drive with a good chance to see zebra, wildebeest, gemsbok, and eland and if we are lucky we might come across some of the more unusual animals, such as the bat-eared fox and brown hyena. After a late brunch we transfer out of the park and further east to the vast Magadigadi saltpan. Depending on the season or if the pans are wet, we will camp wild on the pan or one of the campsites nearby. The Magadigadi saltpan covers an area over 16000 square kilometres and forms the bed of the ancient lake now dried up. The sunsets on the pan are truly spectacular.

Today we head north to Kazangula and the border with Zambia. We use the ferry to cross over into Zambia. Please note that there are sometimes delays at the ferry crossing depending on the number of vehicles wanting to cross. The border here is the meeting point of four countries, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Once we have crossed into Zambia we drive directly to our campsite and have the chance to book on all the optional activities available in Livingstone for the next day

Free day in Livingston for optional activities such as white water rafting, elephant back safari or a helicopter flight over the falls.

This morning there is an opportunity to visit the world famous Victoria Falls (own expense) before we drive back to the Kazangula border, where we take the ferry and cross back into Botswana. We set up camp on the banks of the Thebe River and the afternoon is free to go on the Chobe river game cruise (own expense). This is widely regarded as one of the best river cruisers in Africa with a very good chance of seeing the elephant herds coming down to the river to drink.

We drive into the Chobe National park to the Savuti section of the park. The Savuti Channel that alternately flows and then dries for years at a time. The channel bisects the Chobe National Park and empties into the Savuti Marsh. This area is also home to large numbers of elephant that walk enormous distance to find fodder.

Full day of game drives on the Savuti Marsh. There is a good chance to see lion, cheetah and hyena that follow the seasonal zebra migration through this area. Large secretary birds and kori bustards are often seen strutting around the Savuti marsh and small redbilled francolins provide a noisy morning wake up call

After breaking own camp we game drive all the way to Moremi game reserve. We drive through a variety of habitats including the Mbabe depression, Mopani forest and past great Acacia trees before arriving at the Khwai village and the North Gate entrance of Moremi Game Reserve. We enter the park over the Khwai River bridge and game drive to our campsite.

We spend a full day game driving through this beautiful National Park trying to find the large variety of animals that live here. Moremi is home to elephants, buffalo, giraffe, lion, leopard, cheetah, wild dog, hyena, jackal and a full range of antelope can be seen. Bird life is also prolific in this region

We enjoy our last morning game drive before driving out of the park and back into Maun. We set up camp on the banks of the Thamalakane River. We can enjoy the swimming pool before enjoying our last dinner at the campsite restaurant, own expense

End Maun.