On arrival at Maun Airport, Botswana, you are met and assisted with your light air transfer to DumaTau. The flight will take about 40 minutes.
On arrival at the airstrip, you will be met and transferred to camp.
After settling in to your tent you enjoy high tea before departing on your first afternoon game drive.
You return to camp for dinner.
Overnight: Duma Tau - Luxury tent - All meals, selected beverages, daily scheduled activities and laundry
DumaTau is located close to the source of the Savute Channel, with access to the Linyanti Swamps, floodplains and mopane woodlands, thus offering an excellent combination of habitats. Well known for its elephant concentrations as they congregate along the waterways and lagoons during the dry winter months, the area is also renowned for general wildlife including red lechwe, Burchell's zebra, giraffe, buffalo and warthog. Predator sightings of lion, leopard, cheetah, wild dog and spotted hyaena are good.
Here you enjoy the scheduled activities on offer such as night and day game drives, and in seasn - guided walks, boating and fishing.
Overnight: Duma Tau - Luxury tent - All meals, selected beverages, daily scheduled activities and laundry
After a morning activity and brunch, you fly by light air transfer from DumaTau to Vumbura Plains Camp.
The Vumbura concession offers both land and water activities and has a wonderful variety of habitats and a great diversity of wildlife. The concession offers an enormous traversing area of close on 130,000 acres.
Open 4x4 Land Rovers allow close proximity to animals in the savannah and forested areas. The Vumbura area is possibly the only area in the Okavango where one can see red lechwe (an animal that inhabits the fringes of the waterways) and sable antelope (an animal that enjoys the dry countryside) on the same game drive.
After a siesta and afternoon tea, you set off on a game acticity.
Overnight: Vumbura Plains Camp - Luxury tent- All meals, selected beverages, daily scheduled activities and laundry
The annually flooded grasslands of the Okavango Delta surrounding Vumbura Plains are locally referred to as 'melapo' and offer good seasonal viewing of elephant, giraffe, impala, sable antelope, kudu, zebra, common waterbuck and reedbuck, tsessebe, wildebeest, red lechwe and Cape buffalo. Hippo and crocodile are common in the waterways.
Add in lion, leopard, elephant, cheetah and buffalo along with all the plains animals and one has an excellent all round wildlife experience in a remote and private part of the Okavango. In addition to game-drives, walks, mokoros and boating are available.
You have the next 2 nights at Vumbura to enjoy the very best of safari life.
Overnights: Vumbura Plains Camp - Luxury tent - 2 nights - All meals, selected beverages, daily scheduled activities and laundry
After an early morning activity and a late breakfast you fly 15-minutes south by light air transfer to Mombo Camp. On arrival at the airstrip you are met and transferred by vehicle to camp.
After settling into camp, safari life continues unabated. Your stay here will undoubtedly be the “crowning glory” of your safari experience. During your time here you might consider partaking in a helicopter flight. This experience provides a wonderful overview of the intricacies of the Okavango.
Overnight: Mombo Camp - Luxury Tent - All meals, selected beverages, daily scheduled activities and laundry
Mombo is ‘a place of plenty’, the ‘game mecca’ of Southern Africa. Here you will see a plethora of animals, including all the ‘big five’ if you’re lucky, in a totally uncontrived environment. There are few places in Africa that can boast such an abundance of game in a wild setting.
Mombo is highlighted by the massive concentrations of plains game and predators that live here. These include all the big cats, of which lion sightings are frequent. Leopard, spotted hyaena, large herds of buffalo, elephant, giraffe, blue wildebeest, Burchell's zebra and more abound, while cheetah and wild dog sometimes move through the area. It is here that black and white rhino were first reintroduced into the Delta, to be seen occasionally by a lucky few.
Spend the next two nights here enjoying the scheduled activities on offer.
Overnights: Mombo Camp - Luxury Tent - 2 nights - All meals, selected beverages, daily scheduled activities and laundry
After a final game viewing activity and breakfast, you will be flown on a scheduled light air transfer to Maun Airport where you check-in for your onward flight and depart Botswana.
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