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15 Days Rediscovered Botswana

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Duration

15 Days 14 Nights

Tour Type

Daily Tour

Group Size

10 people

Languages

English

The tour covers Zimbabwe (Victoria Falls) and Botswana (Chobe, Makgadikgadi, Okavango Delta, Kalahari Desert and Khama Rhino Sanctuary.)

Highlights

  • • Dinner cruise.
  • • Victoria Falls guided tour.
  • • Chobe game viewing-Game drives and afternoon boat cruise.
  • • Makgadikgadi- viewing the pans, meerkats and San people.
  • • Okavango Delta- Mokoro ride and nature walk.
  • • Moremi, Central Kalahari Game Reserve and Khama Rhino Sanctuary - Game drives.

Day 1. Victoria Falls.
Day 1. Victoria Falls.

Is also known as Mosi-OA-Tunya which means “The smoke That Thunders” in the local language, highlighting the powerful mist and noise created by the falls. The mist from the falls creates a unique micro-climate, supporting a rainforest ecosystem on the surrounding. The tour starts the moment you get picked by Go Wild Tours representative from either airport or your accommodation. Our tour guide we will take you to our overnight accommodation then brief you the program for the tour, then you prepare for the dinner cruise departure.

Accommodation: Kabakwe Lodge or similar.

Meals: LDB.

Facilities: Single/ Twin/ Double/ Triple and Family Room.

Highlights included: Dinner cruise.

Optional Activities: Bridge tour, village tour, city tour and many more.

Day 2. Victoria Falls.
Day 2. Victoria Falls.

It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and considered one of the largest and famous waterfall system in the world. The area around Victoria Falls is known for various adrenaline pumping activities such as Bungee jumping, white water rafting, gorge swing, zipline and many more. The day have included Victoria Falls guided tour; the rest of the day is flexible to do optional activities around.

Accommodation: Kabakwe Lodge or similar.

Meals: LDB. Facilities: Single/ Twin/ Double/ Triple and Family Room.

Highlights included: Victoria Falls guided tour.

Optional Activities: Helicopter flight, rafting, gorge swing and many more

Day 3. Chobe National Park.

Chobe national park is renowned for its high population of migratory elephants. The Chobe River provides a very broad habitat for bird life and it is possible to see many beautiful species. Sunset boat cruise is one of the most not miss activity in Chobe national park since it has got a say to your safari. We depart Victoria Falls after breakfast heading to Chobe national park for game viewing. The afternoon we have boat cruise from afternoon to sunset in Chobe River that’s when a lot of animals visit to drink water and also bath or cool down the body temperatures by swimming.

Route: Victoria Falls to Kasane-90km-2hours.

Accommodation: Tlou Safari Lodge or similar.

Meals: LDB.

Facilities: Single/ Twin/ Double/ Triple and Family Room.

Highlights included: Afternoon boat cruise.

Optional Activities: Kazungula bridge tour and night game drive.

Day 4. Chobe National Park.
Day 4. Chobe National Park.

Experience abundant of wildlife in Chobe national park. African largest concentration of elephants, buffalos, impalas, legendary fish eagle and many more birds lives along the river. As we continue searching for wildlife by doing morning and afternoon game drives will meander along the banks of the Chobe River.

Accommodation: Tlou Safari Lodge or similar.

Meals: LDB.

Facilities: Single/Twin/ Double/ Triple and Family Room.

Highlights included: Morning and afternoon game drive.

Optional Activities: Impalila/ Kasika village tour, Kazungula bridge tour, night game drive and many more.

Day 5. Elephant Sands.
Day 5. Elephant Sands.

Elephant Sands is a conservancy in Botswana, drills boreholes to provide supplemental water for the animals as they traverse the land escaping threats of human-wildlife conflict poaching and drought. Mostly elephants and buffalos we will be migrating from either Hwange or Botswana going opposite direction in between no rivers but natural waterholes which they added with man-made waterholes to supplement when the natural waterholes dry up. Elephants congregate at the natural waterhole right in front of the lodge which was modified to man-made waterhole to sustain during the dry season.

Route: Kasane to Elephant Sands-270km-4hours.

Accommodation: Elephant Sands Lodge or similar.

Meals: LDB.

Facilities: Single/ Twin/ Double/Triple and Family Room.

Highlights included: Afternoon game drive.

Day 6. Central Makgadikgadi
Day 6. Central Makgadikgadi

Gweta is indeed a gateway to the central Makgadikgadi Salt Pans in Botswana, particularly for accessing the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park. Meerkats are popular attraction, Ntwetwe Pans and also inhabited for millennia by San (Bushmen). These habituated meerkat families allows for close-up and intimate wildlife encounters, offering aunique opportunity to observe their natural behaviours. Today we have opportunity to see meerkats, Ntwetwe pans and experience the San walking tour.

Route: Elephant Sands to Gweta-150km-3hours.

Accommodation: Planet Baobab Lodge or similar.

Meals: LDB.

Facilities: Single/ Twin/ Double/ Triple and Family Room.

Highlights included: Bushman/San Walk tour and meerkats.

Optional Activities: Quadbikes hire

Day 7. Okavango Delta.
Day 7. Okavango Delta.

The Okavango Delta is one of the largest inland deltas in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage site. The best places for wildlife viewing and birdwatching in the world. Okavango River has no outlet to the sea, so it empties into the sand of the Kalahari Desert, covers 16 000 square kilometers area. It is a truly spectacular and unforgettable experience where wild animals are not familiar with people. This a true wilderness area where both animals and people co-exist. In the morning, we drove heading to Maun, where we get into 4x4s to the edges of the Okavango Delta. Then we use mokoro modes of transport into the delta. The afternoon we venture into nature walk experiencing the bush life. Overnight in the middle of the bush, where we camp, hearing different sounds of animals, insects, birds and other living things. Also watching stars if the sky is clear.

Route: Gweta to Okavango Delta -240km-6hours.

Camping: Bush camp.

Meals: LDB.

Facilities: Single or twin tent.

Highlights included: Mokoro ride and sunset nature walk.

Day 8. Moremi Game Reserve
Day 8. Moremi Game Reserve

Moremi Game Reserve is a protected area in Botswana. It lies on the eastern side of the Okavango Delta and was named after Chief Moremi of the BaTawana tribe. Moremi was designated as a game reserve, rather than a national park, when it was created. This designation meant that the BaSarwa or Bushmen that lived there were allowed to stay in reserve. Proclaimed a reserve in 1963. We do an afternoon game driving en-route to our overnight camp.

Route: Okavango Delta to Moremi.

Camping: Bush camp in public campsites.

Meals: LDB.

Facilities: Single and twin tent.

Highlights included: Morning nature walk, mokoro ride and afternoon game drive.

Day 9. Moremi Game Reserve
Day 9. Moremi Game Reserve

The Moremi Game Reserve is a nearly 3900 square kilometers, where land and Delta meet and natural park in the eastern area of Okavango Delta. It is the oldest national paark in Botswana and first reserve in Africa to be established by local residents. Moremi Game Reserve is a profoundly picturesque preserve of seasonal and perennial floodplains. The landscape includes waterways, lagoons, pools, pans, grasslands and forest. This terrain makes driving Moremi's many tracks and trails delightful and exceptionally inspiring. Today we have more time to explore the game reserve in search of wildlife.

Camping: Bush camp in public campsites.

Meals: LDB.

Facilities: Single and twin tent.

Highlights included: Full day game drive.

Day 10. Maun.
Day 10. Maun.

Maun is tourism capital and administrative Centre of Ngamiland district and the seat of power of the Batawana people of Botswana. It is the gateway into the Okavango Delta, Moremi and Kalahari for main tourists in Botswana. After morning game drive, we drove the Maun for overnight preparing for Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Opportunity to do optional activity of scenic or helicopter flight over the Okavango Delta.

Route: Moremi to Maun.

Accommodation: Sedia Hotel or similar.

Meals: LDB.

Facilities: Single/ Twin/ Double/ Triple and Family Room.

Highlights included: Morning game drive enroute to Maun.

Optional Activities: Scenic / Helicopter flight over the Okavango Delta.

Day 11. Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Day 11. Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

The Central Kalahari Game Reserve is the largest, most remotely situated reserve in Southern Africa and the second largest wildlife reserve in world encompassing 52 800 square kilometers. The Kalahari Desert covers much of the country, providing a unique ecosystem for wildlife. Initially, established in 1961 to serve as a sanctuary for the San people in the heart of Kalahari, the CKGR provides space for traditional lifeways without intrusion or influence from the outside world. We do game drive enroute to our campsite for the night.

Route: Maun to Central Kalahari.

Camping: Bush camping in the public campsite.

Meals: LDB.

Facilities: Single and twin tent.

Highlights included: Afternoon game drive.

Day 12. Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Day 12. Central Kalahari Game Reserve

CKGR its wild and mysterious beauty. There is the immediate impression of unending space, which gives the impression of having the entire reserve to yourself. Waist-high golden grasses stretch to the horizon, wide and empty pans appear as vast white stretches of pancake-flat earth, meeting a soft, blue-white sky. We have a full day enjoy the game drive.

Route: Central Kalahari to Rakops.

Accommodation: Rakops River Lodge or similar.

Meals: LDB.

Facilities: Single/ Twin/ Double/ Triple and Family Room.

Highlights included: Full day game drive.

Day 13. Khama Rhino Sanctuary.
Day 13. Khama Rhino Sanctuary.

Khama Rhino Sanctuary is community-based wildlife project, established in 1992 to assist in saving the vanishing rhinoceros. A home to endangered black and white rhino, once abundant in Botswana, these peaceful giants were the brink of local extinction in the early 1980, despite being granted protected status since 1922. Established in 1989 due to growing concern over the then escalating prevalence of rhino poaching in Botswana. This community tourism project, managed and staffed by local village residents, offers game drives, birding, bush walks any many more. They are also some other animal species found there on game drives. In the afternoon we do afternoon game drive in search of rhinos.

Route: Rakops to Khama Rhino Sanctuary.

Accommodation: Cresta Botsalo or similar.

Meals: LDB.

Facilities: Single/ Twin/ Double/ Triple and Family Room.

Highlights included: Game drive in search of rhinos.

Day 14. Makgadikgadi Salt Pans.
Day 14. Makgadikgadi Salt Pans.

The largest Salt Pans in the world and display a unique expanse of landscape with fascinating natural scenic beauty with expanse of flat white featureless surface. It covers 30 000 square kilometers total area. Afternoon we visit the salt pans for sunset were its best time for viewing it.

Route: Palapye to Nata.

Accommodation: Nata Lodge or similar.

Meals: LDB.

Facilities: Single/ Twin/ Double/ Triple and Family Room.

Highlights included: Makgadikgadi pan drive at sunset.

Day 15. Victoria Falls.
Day 15. Victoria Falls.

Victoria Falls serves as a natural border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, with approximately two-thirds of the falls located in Zimbabwe. After breakfast we depart Nata heading to Victoria Falls Zimbabwe to mark the end of the safari.

Route: Nata to Victoria Falls-390km-7hours.

Accommodation: Own Arrangements.

Meals: L.

Optional Activities: Sunrise pan drive, sunset boat cruise, Boma dinner.

Tour ends after lunch in Victoria Falls.

  • • Accommodation and camping as stated.
  • • Meals as stated.
  • • Transport.
  • • Highlights included Activities.
  • • Professional guides.
  • • Water/ Bottled mineral water.
  • • Visas.
  • • Tips and gratitude.
  • • Optional Activities.
  • • Alcohol and soft drinks.

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