You arrive today at Maun Airport where you will be met by your pilot for your stunning light aircraft scenic flight over the Okavango Delta and Chief’s Island. This flight gives you a fish eagle’s eye view of this amazing ecosystem. When you land at your remote bush airstrip within the Moremi Game Reserve, your guide will provide you with a snack pack on arrival and will be waiting to transfer you to your mobile camp with a game drive en route. The friendly, attentive staff will help you feel immediately at home and brief you on what to look forward to on your safari. The magic of a mobile camp becomes apparent as the sun sets and you enjoy drinks around the fire before a starlit dinner and a great night’s rest after falling asleep to the sounds of the African bush.
Spending our first two nights camping in the Xakanaxa / Third Bridge area, we explore the surrounding wilderness on game drives during the day. The Moremi Game Reserve protects around a third of the entire Okavango Delta ecosystem – some 5 000km2 (1 930 square miles).
Following an early breakfast, we pack up the camp and continue our journey to Khwai, stopping for a bush picnic lunch en route. The Khwai River forms the boundary between the reserve and the local Khwai Community Area. We spend the next three nights camping at a campsite in Khwai area of Moremi Game Reserve.
As well as enjoying morning and afternoon safari drives during your stay in Khwai you will also have the opportunity to experience a 2½-hour mokoro trip, discovering channels and lagoons at a relaxed pace in a traditional dug-out canoe.
The area around Khwai is wonderfully diverse consisting of open plains, broad-leafed woodlands and languid rivers and wetlands.
In Khwai it is permissible to go on a night safari using conservationally approved spotlights so one evening you'll be able to go out in search of some of Africa's nocturnal creatures such as aadvark and pangolin as well as the local predators who are more active after dusk
We head further north today en route to Chobe National Park, where we spend the next three nights camping at a pristine bush campsite in the Savute region and exploring the dry landscape on game drives.
Savute is an area that can change dramatically depending on the flowing or drying up of the Savute Channel. In 2010, water from the Savute Channel reached the Marsh for the first time in three decades after a long dry period during which resident lions learned to prey on elephants coming to drink at isolated waterholes.
The Savuti area is home to a great many species of wildlife and lions and cheetah thrive on the wide open plains with its large herds of grazers whilst leopard specialize in hunting in the more wooded areas that surround the channel.
Elephants are seen in great numbers here grazing in the marsh during the wet season and in the woods when things become dry.
Leaving this parched landscape, we continue our journey north to the contrasting Chobe region of the park. We spend the last two nights camping in a wilderness campsite near the Chobe River.
Today you will enjoy an afternoon boat cruise on the Chobe River which departs from Kasane and is a perfect way to enjoy Chobe National Park from the river. The wildlife comes down to drink and eat the lush grass on the floodplains, hippos and elephants can be seen in huge numbers and the birdlife is prolific
You have the opportunity today to explore the riverbanks and surrounding flood plains on morning and afternoon game drives before going back to camp for your last night in the bush where you can recall your highlights of your 10 night Botswana safari
After a final game drive along the Chobe River you return to Kasane airport where you can either fly home or be met by your new guides for the start of the next part of your safari adventure.
