You will be met airside at ORT and assisted through Immigration and Customs. Your Specialist guide, Sid Hayes, will be waiting for you in the arrivals hall where he will take you across to the ORT Intercontinental Hotel for check in and overnight.
A much needed breather after your long flight and a chance to relax, unwind and catch up on the hours and sleep lost with your transatlantic flight.
Your Safari begins the minute you change your watches to Africa Time.
A quiet evening before your flight to Maun the next morning.
This morning after a good nights sleep and a hearty breakfast, you will be met once again and chaperoned to the regional flights section of ORT. A scheduled commercial flight taking 90 minutes out of ORT Johannesburg will have you arriving in Maun, Botswana. You may be interested to know that this little airport is the busiest light aircraft airport in Africa!
The cost of the commercial flight from Johannesburg to Maun is Approximately $850.00 per person return. This is an estimate and the fare HAS NOT been included in the costing but we certainly book it for you should you wish.
Following customs and immigration, your pilot will meet and assist you for your private charter flight out of Maun, over the Delta to Mombo Airstrip, greeted with a much needed welcome drink and a game drive transfer to Mombo Private Reserve on Chiefs Island - home for the next four nights.
Fond farewells and check out for Part Two! A short charter flight out of Mombo Airstrip to Odop Airstrip and a short transfer onward to Duba Plains Camp
Check in to another luxurious tent that you can lay your hat, unpack your toothbrush and get to call home.
A complimentary helicopter transfer will have you at Zarafa Camp for Part Three of your Safari.
Zarafa means “the beloved one” in Arabic and comes from a giraffe that was presented to Charles X of France in 1826 by the Viceroy of Egypt.
Located on the private 130,000 hectare Selinda Reserve, at the world famous source of the Savuti at Zibadjana lagoon, this camp has been named one of the greatest game viewing regions in southern Africa.
Check into your luxurious tented accommodation for the next 4 days.
Time to pack away the camera, dust off your hat and shoes. a sad "tsamaya sentle' to the Zarafa staff and charter out of paradise to Maun airport for onward travel to civilization.
Here you will bid farewell to Sid as he heads back up north to regale his family with stories of his safari with you all.
Maun to ORT Johannesburg for your longhaul flight that connects you back home. You will be met airside, assisted and escorted to the International terminal.
The next few weeks thereafter will be spent downloading hundreds of photographs and sharing your stories with your friends and family.
There is an option on a pre-safari or post -safari trip to the Majestic Victoria Falls for a few nights - if you have come all this way it would be a crime not to see one of the most amazing Seven Wonders of the World!! An ideal trip would be 2 or 3 nights at the beginning of the safari which will also afford you to deal with your jetlag and prepare for your safari. Victoria Falls is Sid's home and base, so you will get to meet his family and he will then continue on his trip with you from there!! This cost is NOT included in this safari package, it will be an extra cost on request.
