Absolute Botswana

Company: Kalahari Skies

Price: $270 USD/per person and up

Duration: 12 Days

Location: Maun, Botswana

About Kalahari Skies :

Kalahari Skies are specialists in customized safaris. The company uses a unique approach, as well as offering the standard wilderness venues. Kalahari Skies provides a range of “off the beaten track” destinations.

The company employs some of the most knowledgeable guides in the industry, who are able to educate guests on wildlife, cultural traditions and the stars of the southern hemisphere. Vehicles are specially extended and fitted with pop-up roofs and fold down windows making them virtually “all weather and all terrain” vehicles.

Absolute Botswana (12 days):

(optional extra trip to Vic Falls can be added in)

Route: Kasane to Kasane
Accommodation: 9 nights camping; 2 nights lodge + 2 nights pre-departure ex Livingstone
Minimum pax: 4
Booking Code: AB + date

Areas visited

Nxai Pan National Park
Chobe River front
Chobe National Park (Savuti)
Moremi Game Reserve
Maun
Livingstone, Zambia Optional Extra as pre-departure

Tour itinerary:

Day 1&2 ( pre-safari ) – Livingstone – Victoria Falls
Arrival at Livingstone or Victoria Falls where you stay in a luxury hotel for 2 nights. During the day there is ample time to visit the famous falls and marketplaces. There is also possibility for a flight over the falls, plenty activities to choose from or a visit to a local village.

Day 3 (day 1 safari) – Kasane – Lodge
First Day of Mobile Safari
Your guide will meet you at the Kazungula border where you arrive into Botswana.
After a relaxing brunch or lunch and a short briefing by your guide we head for a boat trip on the Chobe River where large amounts of wildlife come to drink in the late afternoon.
You will have the time to shower and relax with a drink before dinner is served.
During dinner you’ll have a complete explanation by your guide about the rest of the tour and you can ask all you want to know about the country and its people.

Day 4 – Nxai Pan
After breakfast we head South to our first camping spot in Nxai Pan National Park where we make a sundowner trip onto the pans
Dinner at the campfire, incredible stars are an optional extra.

Day 5 -Nxai Pan
We take game drives on which we can view the Kalahari species: black mane lions, suricate, honey badger, springbok, oryx,…
We also visit the famous Baines Baobabs, a natural cathedral at the edge of a large saltpan.

Day 6 – Maun – Lodge
We leave after a last short game-drive and arrive for lunch in Maun, the gateway to the Okavango Delta.
For those who wish, a flight over the Okavango Delta can be organized at their own expense.
Time to relax and shower before dinner in the lodge

Day 7, 8 & 9 – Moremi Game Reserve
We rise early and after coffee/tea and a healthy snack we board our game viewing vehicle.
A game drive takes us to the Khwai River, famous for its big concentration of game, where we set up camp for the next 3 nights in the Khwai River wilderness area.
An extensive lunch is served en route to or in camp. Early mornings and late afternoons are set aside for game viewing until sunset, when we head back to camp.
After dinner is served, there is time to chat and relax around the campfire.
During our stay we venture out on a night drive to view of the nocturnal life of the bush

Day 10 & 11 – Chobe National Park Savuti area.
An interesting game drive takes us away of Moremi, traveling north via the Mababe Depression to the Savuti area, and our camp for the next 2 nights.
The Savuti marshes with wide open grassy plains and scattered rocky outcrops is the perfect area for large herds of elephants, zebra and wildebeest and giraffe families, not forgetting the many predators that follow them.
Early morning and afternoon game drives are planned for the day with lunch in camp or on a picnic.

Day 12 & 13 – Chobe National Park, Chobe River front.
We have our last drive in the area before heading North through the Mopane and Teak bush from the Chobe Forest Reserve to the Chobe River Area where we set up camp for the next 2 nights.
Our time here is spent game viewing along the banks of the Chobe River, the drinking station for large herds of elephants and buffalo. The area has one of the densest animal populations in Africa.

Day 14 – Kasane
After an early breakfast we game drive out of the Park.
We will part from you at the airport for all further transfers, at your hotel or other chosen destination in Kasane or bring you to the Kazungula border.

Included: