On arrival at OR Tambo International Airport in Johanessburg, you will be met at the aircraft door. You will then be assisted with immigration, luggage collection, and customs.
You are then assisted across to the Intercontinental Hotel for an overnight stay.
Overnight - Intercontinental Johannesburg O.R.Tambo Airport
This morning, after breakfast, you will be met in the hotel's reception and assisted across to the Airport and check-in for your flight to Botswana.
On arrival in Maun, where you will be met and assisted to your waiting flight to Jack's Camp, which will take approximately an hour.
Once at the airstrip, you are met by your driver/guide and transferred by vehcile to camp, a 20-minute drive.
After a light snack and safety briefing, you will have time to settle into your room before returning to the main lodge area for high tea.
This afternoon you head out on your afternoon activity and return to the lodge for dinner.
Overnight - Jack's Camp
All meals, selected beverages, laundry and scheduled activities
Jack’s Camp is located in Botswana’s Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, the remnants of an enormous super-lake that used to cover most of Southern Africa. 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 unlike any other on the continent.
The desert is never a place of abundance yet it still surprises us. 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 symbolises 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 survive here include aardwolves, bat-eared foxes, honey badgers, and black-maned Kalahari lions. 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 not least, the meerkats. Jack's are pioneering a meerkat habituation project with some of the world’s pre-eminent researchers. The cheeky creatures are still very wild but enjoy coming to say hello.
Overnight - Jack's Camp
All meals, selected beverages, laundry and scheduled activities
After a final game activity and breakfast this morning, you are transferred back to the airstrip for your 80-minute flight to North Island, Okavango.
After landing at Kadizora airstrip, your guide will meet you and transfer you to the camp. This 20-minute transfer depends on whether you stop for some game viewing on the way.
Once at camp you enjoy lunch and an afternoon at leisure. You then head back to main camp for high tea.
You will then depart on your afternoon activity and return to camp for dinner.
Overnight - North Island Okavango
All meals, selected beverages, laundry and scheduled activities
This enormous concession is slightly to the west of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. With its large size, abundant game, and very little evidence of other people, it is a prime destination for those looking for an exclusive experience in a blissfully uncrowded area.
The landscape is iconic in all its Delta-esque beauty. It’s a pristine wilderness of floodplains and grasslands, lagoons and palm-strewn islands, and the diverse habitats support an extraordinary range of wildlife. It is one of the most unique wetland areas in the world, unchanged for centuries, and one of the best safari destinations.
Imagine a mosaic of forest islands, surrounded by crystal-clear waters, where channels flow one way this year, another the next. The camp is ringed by a congregation of beautiful trees, delights of ebony, mangosteen, rain trees, leadwood and wild fig and home to an abundance of beautiful birds, hives and nests, making this a magical haven buzzing with life.
The adventure comes to you in waves, as you safari amongst the islands, savannah grasslands and woodlands all rich in wildlife and extraordinary beauty. This is without doubt, an incredible Okavango Delta safari experience.
Whether it is your first time on safari or you’ve traversed the continent with your binosyou won’t be disappointed by what’s on offer. Those in the know (and who’ve been around the safari block more than a few times!) say that the area has the highest concentration of lions anywhere in the Okavango Delta. But the allure isn’t simply in the number of animals you’ll see but in the diversity of species in the reserve.
The area around North Island is famed for its large buffalo herds and the lions that hunt them. Far from being a one-trick pony, the plains are also home to a strong population of cheetahs and wild dogs, while the woodlands host leopards in high numbers. You’ll also spot elusive and lesser-known predators like caracal, serval and mongoose. Each year, approximately 40,000 elephants transit through the area, making it one of the most elephant-rich areas in Botswana and the entire planet!
Buffalo congregate en masse on the water's edge, lechwe leaps in bounding cascades, and the water-dwelling sitatunga shyly grazes. While trunk-swinging elephants bathe, watched beadily from the channels by sun-basking Crocs and Hippo. Antelope dot the floodplains in every direction, and zebra and giraffes appear in the flash of a camera. The birdlife here is especially noteworthy, with over 350 bird species, including the endangered wattled crane, carmine bee-eaters, secretary birds and the Pel’s fishing owl, all regularly spotted to the delight of many a twitcher.
Overnight - North Island Okavango
All meals, selected beverages, laundry and scheduled activities
After breakfast this morning, you head back to the airstrip for your awaiting helicopter that will transfer you to Tawana. This is the best view of the delta, so keep your cameras ready.
On arrival at Tawana Lodge you enjoy lunch and a siesta.
Set amid the pristine landscapes of Botswana’s iconic Moremi Game Reserve, Tawana offers an unrivalled discovery of the Okavango Delta and the wider wilderness ecosystem of northern Botswana.
Covering nearly 5,000 square kilometres [1900 square miles] of wilderness, the Moremi Game Reserve is the oldest protected section of the Okavango Delta and a proclaimed World Heritage Site. It lies on the eastern edge of the Okavango Delta and was named after Chief Moremi of the Batawana tribe. Because this ancestral land was set aside for conservation, it is designated as a game reserve rather than a national park.
Tawana is located in the southeastern sector of the reserve. The camp is situated on the eastern bank of the Gomoti River, with views out across the river and surrounding game-rich floodplains.
You head out on an afternoon game drive and return to camp for dinner.
Overnight - Tawana Camp
All meals, selected beverages, laundry and scheduled activities
The area in which Tawana is located is renowned for its high concentration of wildlife, including healthy populations of key predators—particularly lion, leopard, and African wild dogs—which are frequently sighted just meters from the camp.
The permanent waters of the Gomoti River ensure a wide variety of game is present year-round. Look forward to sightings of large herds of antelope, including the semi-aquatic red lechwe and shy sitatunga. Large pods of hippos make themselves at home within the lagoons and pools of the Gomoti, while enormous Nile crocodiles are often seen basking on the banks.
You have the next two days enjoying the activities on offer.
Twice-daily game drives, departing in the early morning and late afternoon, set out to explore the beautiful landscape of the Moremi Game Reserve; a lush tapestry of shimmering lagoons, shallow pans, mopane woodlands and grassy floodplains. Look forward to remarkable sightings of antelope, predators, birds and large herbivores. Your experienced guides, will also point out the lesser-known residents of the Delta.
The Okavango is renowned for its birdlife. Birding excursions, especially during the summer months, will introduce you to many of the 400 species recorded in the Moremi.
Overnight - Tawana Camp
All meals, selected beverages, laundry and scheduled activities
This morning you enjoy a final game activity before returning to your awaiting helicopter for your trip to Maun.
As the Delta retreats into the background, you arrive at Maun Airport and check-in for your flight to Johannesburg where you connect with your home bound flight and depart Africa.
End of arrangements
Breakfast