Grand Botswana - 10 Days

(Luxury Mobile Camping Safari)

Luxury camping in Botswana, wine and lanterns

"Exquisite - this was the most luxurious way I can imagine experiencing the very best of Africa. We were so spoilt by the most incredible wildlife as well as passionate and superb guides and hosts!"

This is your chance to explore wildlife rich landscapes on magical game drives whilst camping in style in the heart of remote Botswana. Enjoy deluxe mobile tents with beds, linen, and towels, featuring a private en-suite bathroom on this small group luxury mobile safari. Your team includes a skilled professional guide, safari chef, and camp assistants who will look after your every need.

Maun - Moremi Game Reserve - Khwai Community Area - Savuti, Chobe National Park - Kasane

Itinerary also available in reverse

Tour Departures (South to North):
Set departure dates 2024
August 23, 27; September 3, 10, 17, 24; October 1, 8, 18, 22; November 5, 19, 26; December 4, 8

Set departure dates 2025
January 19; February 2, 9, 23; March 9, 16, 23, 30; April 13, 27; May 11, 18, 25; June 15, 22, 25; July 6, 13, 20,23, 27; August 3, 10, 17, 20, 24, 31; September 7, 14, 17, 21, 28; October 5, 19, 26; November 2, 16, 23, 30; December 7

Tour Start: Maun
Tour End: Kasane

Tour Departures (North to South):
Set departure dates 2024
August 2, 10, 16, 24, 31; September 3, 21, 28; October 5, 12, 19, 26, 29; November 16, 23, December 15

Set departure dates 2025
January 26; February 13, 20; March 6, 20, 27; April 3, 10, 17, 24; May 1, 8, 15, 29; June 5, 12, 19, 26; July 3, 6, 10, 17, 24, 31; August 3, 7, 14, 21, 28, 31; September 4, 18, 25; October 9, 16, 23, 30; November 6, 13, 20, 27, December 11

Tour Start: Kasane
Tour End: Maun

Travel Africa can also add on an extension to include Victoria Falls if you'd like.

January, February, March, December (Low Season)
From AUD$5,950 per person twin share
From AUD$5,950 per person single

April, May, November (Shoulder Season)
From AUD$8,525 per person twin share
From AUD$10,625 per person single

June, July, August, September, October (High Season)
From AUD$9,725 per person twin share
From AUD$12,125 per person single

1) Tour will depart with a minimum of 2 passengers.
2) Maximum group size - 7 passengers.

Tents:

The tents are 4 x 3m Sahara style tents with high roof with a 2 x 3m en-suite bathroom and a 2 x 3m covered area in front of the tent. The tents are fitted with solid base camp beds made up with mattresses, sheets, duvets and pillows. The tents have en-suite long drop toilet facilities and a bucket shower at the rear of the tent. Showers can be ordered as hot, cold or warm and the water is heated in a bucket on the fire. Showers may be taken at any time. Both hand towels and bath towels are supplied.

Each tent has an oil/paraffin lamp on the veranda and in the bathroom and within the tent itself, a LED rechargeable camp light is supplied along with a side table in the sleeping area and in the bathroom. Although each tent has lighting and there are lamps strategically around the camp for navigation, an essential tool for your safari is a headlamp which lets you read a book at night in your tent or catch up with your safari journal as you listen to the sounds of the wild outside!

For families travelling with younger children on private trips, Letaka Safaris have designed a family safari tent, ensuring the children’s safety and their parent’s peace of mind. A family tent is a two-bedroom unit with an adjoining bathroom and lockable exit/entrance with each tent taking 2 people in each.

Vehicle: Custom-built 4x4 safari vehicles and trailers.

Spacious and comfortable tented accommodation, including beds, bed linen and towels, with a private bathroom en-suite.
Services of a professional guide, safari chef and camp assistants, complete with a supply vehicle.
Game drives and local transfers in customised safari vehicles
Exclusive camping in private campsites within the national parks and reserves
All entrance and camping fees within the national parks and reserves
All meals and drinks (mineral water, soft drinks, beer, wine and G&T)
All activities as specified in the itinerary
12% Value Added Tax

Detailed itinerary

You luxury mobile camping safari starts at Maun International Airport where your early afternoon charter flight will take you over the breath-taking landscapes of the Eastern Okavango Delta to Xakanaxa airstrip in Moremi Game Reserve. Here, you will be met by your guide.

Your first three nights are spent in the Xakanaxa region where your will explore the surrounding wilderness on morning and afternoon game drives.

Moremi lies on the eastern extremity of the Okavango Delta with habitats ranging from wide-open floodplains, marshes, lagoons, papyrus fringed channels, woodland and savannah. As a result of the extremely variable habitat the diversity of both wildlife and birdlife is excellent. Indeed, Moremi is amongst the best game reserves in Africa for viewing endangered African wild dog and Xakanaxa is home to a resident herd of several hundred buffalo whose range covers the territories of at least 4 prides of lion which may often be seen flanking the ever moving herd. Breeding herds of elephant move between their browsing areas in the mopane forests and the fresh water of the Okavango. Red lechwe are one of the more unusual antelope species and commonly found in this area.

Stay at:
Private Mobile Tented Camp, Moremi Game Reserve

Following an early morning breakfast you will spend the full day doing an extended game drive from Moremi Game Reserve to the Khwai Community Area, stopping for a picnic lunch between camps. On the way you will pass the magnificent Dombo Hippo Pools, stopping to enjoy the scenery and the antics of the resident hippo.

The Khwai River forms a boundary between Moremi Game Reserve and the community area. You spend the following three nights camping at an exclusive campsite in the community area, exploring the Khwai floodplains on game drives during the day and at night. Exploring after dark with spotlights offers you an opportunity to experience some of the nocturnal animals that are rarely encountered during the day.

You will also have the opportunity to explore the surrounding wilderness on foot (this is a seasonal activity based on rains and grass height) and mokoro and enjoy an up close and personal encounter with Botswana’s flora and fauna. These activities are conducted outside the boundaries of the Moremi Game Reserve in the Khwai community area.

The Khwai region boasts excellent populations of elephant. Lion, leopard, serval and African wildcat are common predators of the region with wild dog and cheetah being less common. Buffalo use this area seasonally with large herds moving in during the summer rains. The swampy areas in the west are home to red lechwe. Other ungulates include tsesebe, blue wildebeest, giraffe, kudu, sable antelope, roan antelope and impala.

Stay at:
Private Mobile Tented Camp, Khwai Concession

You then head further north to Central Chobe, with a fascinating day's drive looking at evidence of the Paleo-Lake Makgadikgadi that dried up ten thousand years ago, including the Magwikwe Sand-ridge that formed the shoreline for this massive inland sea and see the old lake bed that is now the Mababe Depression. The dense clay floor of the depression results in high protein feed for wildlife and the area teams with game after the rains. On the way you will pass through excellent lion country and some of the best cheetah country in Botswana.

You will spend the next three nights experiencing the unique wonders of Savuti. Unlike the vast majority of the country, Savuti is not totally flat. Large outcrops of volcanic rock reach up out of the Kalahari sands, towering over the endless savannah. These hills provide habitat for a completely different array of small wildlife, birds and plants. The Savuti Marsh has been the stage for many of the most dramatic wildlife documentaries in Africa. The wide open country, good ungulate populations and particularly strong prides of lion and hyaena clans make for dramatic wildlife interaction and excellent viewing opportunities. The now dry Savuti Channel runs through this landscape linking the dry sand-veld, the waterholes, the hills and the grassland that was the Savuti Marsh.

Undoubtedly it is the interaction between lion and elephant that is the most interesting aspect of Savuti. The area is inhabited by a huge pride of lions with numbers fluctuating from 20-30 members. These remarkable lions have learned over the years how to hunt these massive pachyderms that are supposedly above predation. Launching their attack under darkness and using their numbers, they manage to kill adolescent and even young adult elephant. The marsh is prime cheetah country and in the wet season it is not unusual to have wild dog hunting in Central Chobe.

Stay at:
Private Mobile Tented Camp, Savuti, Central Chobe

On your final day on safari you will leave Central Chobe early and drive through the stunted mopane scrub of the Goha clay basin, across the sand-ridge and through the wonderful Zambezi teak woodlands of the Chobe Forest Reserve and along the Chobe River itself, arriving in Kasane where you stop for a picnic lunch before taking an afternoon boat cruise to end the safari. The Chobe floodplain is tens of kilometers wide and in years of exceptional rains the water stretches as far as the eye can see.

While there are community areas that you pass through are settled by local tribes, for the vast majority of the day’s drive you pass through wild country where wildlife moves un-inhibited.

Your safari officially ends after your boat cruise, around 3.30pm in Kasane.

Travel Africa is happy to arrange post-tour accommodation and activities in Kasane where you can enjoy more of Chobe Riverfront as well as transfers to Victoria Falls which is only a 2 hour drive across the border. There are a wide variety of activities on offer in Victoria Falls including whitewater rafting down the Zambezi Gorge, canoeing on the upper Zambezi, helicopter flights over the Victoria Falls and more - ask us for details and see our Victoria Falls Magic and Victoria Falls & Chobe Combo Packages for ideas.

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