All of our arrangements have been specially designed to incorporate a reason to travel and, for ease of choice, these have been categorised under the titles shown below.
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£7995
To create an authentic, ‘up-close’ experience of Botswana’s wildlife, this safari visits three reserves, each very different but all with a ‘life in the slow lane’ aura. Lauded as ‘the experience of a lifetime’, our first destination is the fly-in camp of Nxai Pan (pronounced Nai Pan). A desert in the dry season, it burgeons with greenery in the November-April rains, when animals come in their thousands in Southern Africa’s second-largest migration. Beside the salt pan, seven baobab trees stand as giant sentinels, immortalised in paintings by Thomas Baines, a member of Livingstone’s 1862 expedition. 160 years later, the ancient trees look unchanged, and are known as ‘Baines Baobabs’. From here, we fly to the wet and wonderful Okavango Delta, for land-based game drives, river cruises, and ‘mokoro’ canoe safaris. With its highest number of animals in May to October, when the delta is flooded by the Kavango River, Moremi National Park was created by local people to preserve the wildlife in their ancestral lands, and is now a birdlife paradise, and a Big Five and Big Cats reserve; while intimate Pom Pom Island, accessible only by air, accepts very few visitors, and has virtually none of the traffic or inevitable regulations of the large parks.
Some travel is on unmade, bumpy roads and it is sometimes necessary to ‘climb’ into the safari vehicle.
A luggage allowance of 20kg per person in soft or small bags is applicable for internal flights.
Enhance your safari experience at Tau Pan Camp, the first semi-permanent camp inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve with incredible views overlooking the beautiful Tau Pan. Kalahari species include oryx, desert-adapted springbok, jackals, hyena and wildebeest. Includes two activities per day and full board.
Air travel and taxes, transfers, 8 nights’ accommodation, breakfast daily, 8 lunches and 8 dinners, park fees, itinerary as described, services of guides and local representatives. If our specially negotiated airfares are unavailable at the time of booking, a supplement may apply.
Travel insurance, overseas airport taxes, optional excursions, visa procurement, tipping, any government taxes or compulsory charges introduced after publication.
World’s Best Wildlife Viewing
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Wild Namibia
Wilderness, woodlands and wildlife are the backdrop for this superb safari, from Namibia’s famous National Parks to its lush, less travelled Zambezi strip, to huge herds of elephants by Botswana’s Chobe River, and the fabulous finale of Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls
Highlights of Zimbabwe & Botswana
A week of natural wonders begins at the widest cascade of water on earth, Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls; seeks out Africa’s ‘Big Five’ on safaris in Hwange National Park; and crosses to Botswana for the huge herds of elephants in ‘the Land of Giants’, Chobe National Park
Victoria Falls to the Okavango
From the widest cascade of water on Earth, Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls; to the pools, pans, and plains of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, and mahogany forests of Chobe National Park
