9 DAY BEST PART OF BOTSWANA

Encounter the supreme best-in-class of what Botswana will grace you with in relation to wildlife and wilderness

Day 1: Chobe

You are met at any location convenient to you in Johannesburg or Pretoria and shuttle transferred to O R Tambo International for a flight to Victoria Falls, where they will be met on arrival by our tourAfrika guide. Firstly, we visit the Victoria Falls, one of the world’s seven natural wonders, before traveling on to Chobe in Botswana. The park is named after this majestic river that protects 10.700 km² of the northern Kalahari Desert, providing ensuing wilderness and a game density that is steadily remarkable. Famed for its massive elephant populations, big herds of buffalo and incredible birdlife. The late afternoon is dedicated to your first open four-wheel drive safari.

Overnight: Chobe Game Lodge
Meals: Dinner

Day 2: Chobe

Visitors will experience two safari activities in the Chobe National Park on this day. The activities interchange between water-based game viewing from a boat and land-based open four-wheel game drives and on the Chobe River. Flout and Fauna are bountiful of different areas in one park. When the dry season begins, large herds of elephant and buffalo seek the permanent waters of the Chobe and Linyanti Rivers. Imagine thousands of them, coming sometimes all the way from Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park. The park offers some of the best game viewing in Africa.

Overnight: Chobe Game Lodge
Meals: Full Board

Day 3 : Chobe

A morning safari game drive is performed in the Chobe National Park. The insight of the resident trackers and rangers will augment your safari activities, offering the opportunity to learn more about this exhilarating environment and the astonishing species you may encounter. Cruise and witness the abundant wildlife on the banks of the Chobe National Park on the Chobe River Sunset Cruise. Sunset is the best time of day to view the abundant wildlife on the banks of the Chobe River. As the temperature cools, large herds of buffalo, zebra, giraffe and impala can be seen making their way down to the river. Hippos and crocodiles are also common sightings on the Chobe River Sunset Cruise. Elephants frequently cross the river to the islands where lush green grass is available year-round.

Overnight: Chobe Game Lodge
Meals: Full Board

Day 4 : Savute

The final morning game drive in the north-eastern point of the Chobe National Park is followed by breakfast, after which guests are transferred to Kasane for a brief charter flight to the Savute section of Chobe. The Savute safari area is part of the Chobe National Park. In the wet season droves of herds of plains game and the predators that prey on them are drawn to the area. The late afternoon is dedicated to your first open four-wheel safari drive in Savute.

Overnight: Savute Elephant Lodge
Meals: Full Board

Day 5 : Savute

The day is dedicated to early morning and late afternoon open four-wheel drive safaris. Coupled to the immense numbers of savannah game like wildebeest and zebra, the region is blessed with abundant bird life, which can be viewed around the Savute Marsh throughout the year. These cover Kori bustards, secretary birds, and red-billed francolins, with the summer migrants including Abdim’s storks and Carmine bee-eaters. Bird watchers may be fortunate enough to come across the gathering of Quelea finches – a single herd may comprise tens of thousands of these small birds.

Overnight: Savute Elephant Lodge
Meals: Full Board

Day 6 : Okavango

The final morning safari in Savute is followed by a transfer to a local airstrip from where visitors take a brief flight to the Okavango Delta. The Okavango Delta offers visitors the opportunity to develop an intimate relationship with the wilderness during their stay. From meeting water-dwellers like hippo and crocodile up close in a mokoro to following the spoor of a herd on foot, the lodge’s experienced team of rangers and trackers will ensure you do not leave disappointed.

Overnight:  Xugana Island Lodge
Meals: Full Board

Day 7 : Okavango

The day is spent enjoying safari activities like motorized boat rides and bush walks. The opportunities to view game and the delta’s astonishing bird life are unsurpassed. The professional rangers share their knowledge and insight into the habits and behaviour of the different species are certainly to add the intrigue of your Botswana safari experience. The Okavango Delta, one of the most incredible wilderness sanctuaries in Africa, is 15 000 square kilometres of water channels, lagoons and islands. Each year, floodwaters flow from the central African highlands over 1 000 km away into the Delta to create this wondrous wetland within a desert. It is home to large numbers of wildlife from common mammals and birdlife to those that are not often seen elsewhere, such as sitatunga, wild dog, and wattled crane.

Overnight: Xugana Island Lodge
Meals: Full Board

Day 8 : Okavango

Depending on the water levels in the Okavango Delta, activities vary from mokoro excursions, motorised boat trips, game drives in open safari vehicles or walking safaris. The Okavango Delta is famous for its aquatic wildlife and diversity of birds so make the most of this experience. The beautiful Okavango Delta is an inland waterway with a most unusual environment comprising of diverse habitats, where many species of mammals, birds and fish reside. Elephant, hippo and crocodile occur in abundance in the delta’s reed-lined waterways. Learn more about this unique ecosystem and the creatures that dwell within while in the company of the lodge’s skilled trackers and rangers.

Overnight: Xugana Island Lodge
Meals: Full Board

Day 9 : Departure

After final morning game activity followed by breakfast visitors are transferred to the airstrip for a charter flight to Maun and from there a connecting flight to Johannesburg. You will be met on arrival by tourAfrika representative at O R Tambo International Airport and transferred to any convenient location in Johannesburg or Pretoria and this concludes your 9 Day Best Part of Botswana.

Overnight: None
Meals: Breakfast