Arrive at Livingstone International Airport, where you will be met by a representative from Tongabezi and transferred to Tongabezi Lodge.
Here you will check in and be shown to your private houses for a two day stay.
Tongabezi Lodge is a stunningly stylish and ultra-luxurious lodge featuring individually designed houses and cottages that are situated on the banks of the majestic Zambezi River on the Zambian side of the infamous Victoria Falls.
Tongabezi Lodge places emphasis on exclusivity and romance with days spent relaxing in natural surroundings or enjoying numerous activities on offer. These include white water rafting, boating, fishing and game drives. The lodge is located upstream of the Victoria Falls making this an ideal destination to unwind at the start or end of a safari.
The accommodation offering at Tongabezi Lodge includes 4 River Cottages, 1 Nut House, 1 Tree House, 1 Bird House, 1 Honeymoon House, 1 Dog House, 1 Garden House & 1 Sindabezi Chalet. Each offering is individually designed to accentuate the natural surroundings with a touch of luxury. These stunning cottages and houses offer huge open-air bathrooms affording panoramic vistas across the river to the wilderness beyond. The stylishly decorated river cottages, each with a large double bed and en-suite bathroom as well as areas for relaxing, dining and enjoying the expansive river views. All apart from the Tree House have folding doors allowing you to sleep enclosed or with the cool breeze, depending on your preferences. The River Cottages are smaller but beautifully furnished, each with a lovely deck that stretches out over the river.
The Lookout was conceived as the ultimate chill-out zone next to the existing Tonga Lounge, dining, and cocktail decks. With its feet planted firmly in the Zambezi, the Lookout offers guests the chance to feel at one with the great river and the separate levels ensure extra privacy. The Hangout is located adjacent to the Lookout and offers the perfect location for total relaxation, private dining or simply kicking back with a book while enjoying the wonderful views out over the river. The lodge has a lovely swimming pool for guests to enjoy at any stage during their day.
Overnights: Tongabezi - 2 nights - All meals, scheduled activities, laundry and selected local beverages
This morning, after breakfast, you will be transferred back to the airport, in time for your charter flight to Maun Airport.
On arrival at Maun Airport, you are met and transferred to Elephant Haven for an hour-long tour of the facility.
Elephant Havens Orphanage is a non-profit organisation with a vision is to protect and preserve the African elephant. This is through habitat protection, community outreach, rescuing and hand-rearing of orphaned elephants. Elephant Havens provides a sanctuary and works closely with communities to reduce conflict between villagers and elephants. Through education, the organisation hopes to instil an understanding of the importance of conservation and habitat protection in future generations.
This outing is a beautiful way to support an organisation vital to the African elephant's long-term existence. It offers a rare opportunity to interact and spend time with these gentle giants.
You will then be transferred back to Maun Airport where you will meet your pilots, for your flight to Jack's Camp. This flight is about 50 minutes.
The new Jack’s pays homage to the much-loved 1940s campaign style of the existing camp. Adorned with a classic East African safari feel, the nine guest rooms, 7 twin tents featuring two queen-size beds and 2 double tents with extra-length king beds, have almost doubled in size. Whilst the iconic green canvas and muslin-draped walls remain, each tent is embellished with Persian and North African rugs, paraffin lamps, brass fittings, luxuriant textiles and mahogany campaign furniture.
There is a comfortable living area, with a sofa and day bed for expansive views of the Kalahari. You’ll discover Natural History Museum cabinets curated by Ralph Bousfield himself, an overhead bed cooling system to ward off the desert heat and an en-suite bathroom with indoor and outdoor showers. Outside, each veranda has a private deck with a sparkling plunge pool as well as several velvet-clad chairs overlooking the glittering ancient landscape.
The new, larger mess tent still houses the renowned Natural History Museum, library, vintage 36 seater dining table that served as an officer’s mess table in the 1820’s, well-stocked drinks cabinet and antique pool table. The iconic, nomadic Persian tea tent remains, now a little larger in size. Framed Peter Beard pictures sit alongside original posters from French taxidermist Deyrolle, both complemented by Bousfield family photos. The swimming pool pavilion is still the only one of its kind in Africa.
Located in Botswana’s Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, the remnants of an enormous super-lake that used to cover most of Southern Africa. The creator of Jack;s Camp, Jack Bousfield himself, described the area as the “savage beauty of a forgotten Africa”, and truly, the Makgadikgadi is like nowhere on earth. It’s a landscape of space and remoteness, and the spectacular, otherworldly vistas, unique desert wildlife, and old-world glamour of Jack’s Camp all come together to create an experience that is unlike any other on the continent.
The Makgadikgadi is full of elusive species and desert-adapted animals and the perfect complement to Botswana’s traditionally game-rich areas, like the Khwai Private Reserve and the Okavango Delta.
The brown hyena is a symbol of what’s to come in the Makgadikgadi. There are only 8000 of these special hunters left in the world, and there aren’t many other places you’ll encounter one. Other carnivores that know how to eke out their survival here include aardwolves and bat-eared foxes, honey badgers and black-maned Kalahari lion. Then there’s aardvark, gemsbok, springbok and black-backed jackals to look out for on game drives, and perhaps even an elephant or two. And last, but definitely not least, the meerkats. We’ve been busy pioneering a meerkat habituation project with some of the world’s pre-eminent researchers. The cheeky creatures are still very wild, but they do enjoy coming to say hello.
Overnights: Jack's Camp –3 Nights - All meals, scheduled activities, laundry and selected local beverages
This morning, you will be transferred from the lodge back to the airstrip for your flight to Maun.
Arrival in Maun, where you are met and transferred by sole use charter to the legendary Little Mombo.
From its position on Mombo island within Moremi Game Reserve, Little Mombo Camp overlooks a grassy sea of vast floodplains and tree islands forming part of the Okavango Delta. Not only does the camp place you in one of Africa’s finest game viewing areas, but with just three tents, it allows you to feel as if you have it practically to yourself.
Known as the “place of plenty”, the Mombo Concession is renowned for its abundance of wildlife comprising high concentrations of predators, including all the big cats and plains game. Large herds of buffalo, spotted hyenas, white rhinos, elephants, and giraffes roam these parts along with prolific birdlife. While reserve regulations limit safari activity to daytime game drives, there is so much to see that there is no great limitation.
Connected to its bigger sister, Mombo Camp, by a raised wooden walkway, Little Mombo is self-sufficient, with its own lounge, dining area, firepit, boma, bar and plunge pool. The three luxurious canvas rooms are spacious and beautifully furnished and include a private lounge, sala, verandah, and lavish en suite bathrooms, complete with outdoor showers and views.
Overnights: Little Mombo Camp - 3 nights - All meals, scheduled activities, laundry and selected local beverages
After a game activity and breakfast this morning, the whole party will be transferred to the airstrip for your sole use charter to Jao.
The balance of the party will fly by charter to Mombo Camp. Arrive at the camp and transfer to Little Mombo for your two-night stay.
In the heart of the Okavango, luxurious Jao is set amongst islands fringed with riverine forests and vast floodplains with prolific wildlife. The camp (rebuilt in 2019) offers a fresh and contemporary design in the exact picturesque location. The sense of adventure that Jao has always prized, continues in the ever-evolving sculptural and architectural language, adding an element of surprise and delight. The game viewing at Jao is superb. Huge herds of red lechwe can be seen, followed by their primary predator - prides of lion.
Jao has five luxurious suites and two ultra-luxe villas. Each is individually handcrafted and with an open-plan design, vintage-style fittings and a sala for afternoon siestas. A romantic Star Bed is a seasonal option when water levels permit. An elaborate two-storey main area also includes a plunge pool, library, gym and boma for dining under the stars, complemented by an excellent wine cellar. The spa has a wide range of massage therapies.
Jao is a place that is dedicated to the conservation of the Okavango Delta and its unique ecosystem - the waters and the dry land, and the plants, birds and wildlife that call it home.
Overnights: Jao Camp – 2 nights - All meals, scheduled activities, laundry and selected local beverages
Today, after breakfast, you will be transferred back to the airstrip for your flight to Maun.
On arrival in Maun, connect with the flight to Johannesburg, South Africa.
On landing in Johannesburg, clear immigration formalities and walk to the International Departures terminal and Depart Africa.
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