Upon arrival in Maun, you will be met by Delta Air who will assist you to the light aircraft and onwards air transfer to Oddballs’.
The bar and lounge areas at Oddballs’ provide a great meeting place and somewhere to swap stories around the fire. There is a great raised viewing deck that overlooks the sweep of the Delta – the perfect vantage point from which to watch the sun set over the palms and view whatever wildlife may be visiting.
Hearty and wholesome meals are served in the dining room, which looks across the Boro Channel to Chief’s Island and the Moremi Game Reserve.
The bar operates an honour system, with guests expected to note their consumption on a tab and settle up at the end of their stay.
Activities are conducted by your own professional guide (a maximum of two guests per guide), a man of the swamp, born and bred in the area.
Our guides all come from the nearby village of Sedibana, last redoubt of the legendary baYei people who colonized these swamps in their dug-out canoes in the mid- to late- 1700s. Your guide will be pleased to take you there, where you might meet the chief or some of his elders, and perhaps your guide’s family. The women of the village are adept at basket weaving and you may find a shopping experience difficult to avoid – but whatever transpires, the experience of people living, in this day and age, so simply and in such idyllic surroundings is a revelation to many visitors.
Spend four nights at Oddballs’
Daily walks with your own professional guide
Mokoro excursions with your own professional guide
Full-day picnics
Overnight camping trails by mekoro (minimum two nights on trail, more recommended)
After breakfast at Oddballs’, you will depart by light aircraft for the short hop to Xaxanaka/Khwai to meet your mobile safari .
Xakanaxa is in the heart of the Moremi Game Reserve on the eastern side of the Okavango Delta. The Xakanaxa region of the Moremi Game Reserve consistently rewards visitors with fantastic wildlife sightings. Permanent water along with varied drier vegetation zones, create some unexpected contrasts that support the wide range of species that inhabit this area. Experience excellent views of savannah game including red lechwe, buffalo, lion, leopard, cheetah, spotted hyaena, African Wild Dogs, as well fantastic bird-watching on the lagoons.
The Savuti region lies within the heart of Chobe National Park and boasts one of the highest concentrations of wildlife on the African continent. Over the years the area has developed a reputation as a prime place to view predators in Botswana, especially lion, leopard and spotted hyena. After the first summer rains have fallen, tens of thousands of zebra migrate to this area to feast on the sweet marsh grasses.
Self-sufficient and self-contained, travelling as and when desired, flexible and opportunistic, a mobile safari can be the perfect adjunct to several days in a lodge. Accommodation in dome shaped tents, fully equipped with twin beds, linen, side tables, lamps and en suite facilities (bucket shower and toilet)
Days will start with an early game drive after tea and coffee around the fire, followed by a late brunch and a siesta before tea and an evening drive, returning for supper and stories under a canopy of stars.
Children Welcome, minimum age of 7 years.
Spend six nights on your Mobile Safari
Morning and afternoon game drives in open game viewers
Enjoy an early morning safari, after which breakfast is served. Depart to Maun for your onward journey.
