After arrival at Maun airport, you will be taken to the Old Bridge Backpackers, where you will spend the first night in an en suit safari tent.
Depart from The Old Bridge at 9am by vehicle to the Boro poler station where you will meet your poler and change into your mokoro (dug-out canoe) for an approximately 4-hour trip with game bird viewing on the way with a short stop for a picnic lunch. Arrive at your campsite mid-afternoon and settle into camp. From 5:00pm to 6:00pm go for a short guided game walk. Arrive back at camp, have a wash or bucket shower and then a good campfire dinner. Sleep the night in dome tents with comfortable bedrolls.
Depending on the water level, an upgrade from mokoro to a motor boat will be possible.
Wake up around 6 am, have coffee/tea, rusks and cereal. This morning you will use mokoros for a combination of canoeing and walking, looking for game, with elephant encounters being highly likely. Arrive back to the campsite for a large cooked brunch. From 3pm to 6pm go further upstream for birding and game viewing in a different area. Arrive back at the campsite for a shower and campfire dinner.
Wake up at 5.30 am, have coffee/tea and set off for a three-hour guided game walk. Arrive back around 8:30 for a full breakfast of cereal, eggs, bacon toast etc. Depart from camp around 10.00 am for a slow ride back to Maun with a picnic lunch on the way. Arrive back at 5.00 pm. Sleep at the Old Bridge in Maun.
Board the open-sided game viewer and drive to Moremi NP– You will explore sandy and muddy tracks looking for the abundant game around the fringes of the delta. Lunch will be sandwiches and salad and snacks. Dinners will be prepared over the camp fire for you You will camp in one of the non-public access camping areas with bush toilets and showers.
Game drive to the Khwai Community concession. You will be camping at Khwai, close to the river. Before dinner you will go a night drive, which is only possible here, outside any national park.
Entering Chobe NP from the south, you head up with the sand ridge or the marsh track depending on local conditions. In contrast to the woodlands of Moremi, the Savuti area is much more open. For decades a dry sand channel, the Savuti River has started flowing again, making for some interesting driving conditions, and attracting plenty of game. Keep your eyes open for cats especially. Camping in the Savuti area.
Today you will head north up and down the hills to the Chobe River and its massive elephant population. There are also large numbers of various antelope species, including the striking Sable antelope. Camping on the banks of the Chobe. Camping around Ihaha.
Drop of in Kasane to embark on a private three-hour Chobe River cruise. This is a great opportunity to see hippos and crocs, and of course more elephants, before being dropped at The Old House.
After check-out you will be transferred to to Kasane airport. Further arrangements can be organized.
Departure.
