Overview
This small group tour with camping accommodation offers you insights into Botswana’s culture, it’s history and the best of its safari destinations as well as the mighty Victoria Falls. The tour starts or takes you from Gaborone City to Victoria Falls on a budget. Gaborone City is easily and affordably accessible from Johannesburg either by a plane or bus. On the way clients visit Khama Rhino Sanctuary, the Orapa Diamond Museum, Makgadikgadi National Park and the Okavango Delta as well as the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, Elephant Sands and Chobe National Park. All the activities and transfers are included during this tour and it can be done in reverse for example starting in Victoria Falls and ending in Gaborone or Johannesburg.
Please note below are not included:
Visas, International Flights (To Gaborone /from Maun), Insurances, Gratuities, Drinks, 5x lunch, 6x Dinner, Personal Expenses (Such As Souvenirs), Entrance fee to Victoria Falls.
We meet you at the airport, drive you to your lodging or accommodation in Gaborone (which is included), and allow you to rest and recuperate from the travel while getting ready for the adventures that lie ahead.
Following breakfast, we pick you up from your lodging or accommodation, and a local guide will take you on a three-hour cultural and quick historical tour of our capital city. We begin at the Three Chiefs Monument, proceed to the government enclave, and then mingle with the locals in the street market at Gaborone Main Mall. After taking you to Thapong Visual Art Centre, you will drive through Gaborone's birthplace, Old Naledi Township, to Botswana Craft, where our tour concludes at midday with lunch.
We depart Gaborone in the afternoon and travel north to Serowe, where we camp in the Khama Rhino Sanctuary's bush.
We begin our day early, at 6 am, with a 4x4 tour of the Khama Rhino Sanctuary. Clients then eat breakfast at the Community Trust restaurant before moving on to the Orapa region. Clients have time to order their lunch as we set up camp. We will then make our way into the restricted mining area in the afternoon. After a brief introduction by a mining worker or representative, we are free to explore the Diamond Museum.
Clients proceed to Makgadikgadi National Park after breakfast. We have a picnic and drive along the Boteti River's channel. Notice that today’s activity we will not be visiting the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans. On this game drive, Makgadikgadi National Park is visited. Clients may witness the Great Zebra Migration from January to April and after that, we go on or leave to Maun.
Clients will be in the Okavango Delta for the entire day today. The trip starts with an hour speedboat ride or cruise to the Buffalo Fence in the early morning. Clients can also be transported or taken by a 4x4 safari vehicle because of the dry season conditions. Polers, who will take you on an amazing journey through the Okavango channels, awaits you at the buffalo fence. Our guides and polers, who are extremely knowledgeable and passionate about their habitat, will show and lead you around the Okavango Delta, where they were born and continue to be raised. Clients will embark on an adventure through the water system with our knowledgeable and passionate polers in a mokoro (dug out) canoe, and enjoy the tranquility of the delta. Clients make a stop on one of the islands for a picnic and after that, clients also go on a walking safari. Another mokoro (traditional dugout canoe) activity will take clients back to the buffalo fence where they will be picked up for their return transfer to Maun.
In the late morning clients leave the tourist town of Maun and drive down south. Clients will have an opportunity to purchase their lunch in Gweta before we leave for the bush again and don’t have access to services in the towns. Your guide will dedicate the afternoon to the salt pans of the Makgadikgadi.Clients will explore the dry lands in a 4*4 safari vehicle.
Your first stop will be at the colony of Meerkats, who reside or leave on the edge of the Ntwetwe salt pans and with a little luck we will have a once in a life time opportunity to observe their natural behaviors and charming personalities from a very close distance.
After clients visit and interact with the Meerkats we then continue to the vast and large Ntwetwe salt pan, which forms part of one of the largest salt pans in the world and likened to being on the surface of the moon, the sight of the salt pan is truly amazing and captivating.
Clients will then overnight or sleep under the stars in the salt pan.
After breakfast clients leave the salt pans and continue their journey to Elephant Sands where they will enjoy and marvel at the scenery of this unique place. Elephant Sands gives clients the opportunity to view herds of elephants and other wild animals from a very close distance. Clients will sit in patience by the waterhole and view how the animals interact.
In the very early morning clients have a cup of coffee and/or tea. After breakfast they will go on a guided walking excursion or trail through the bush of the Elephant Sands Game Reserve or on a game drive.
On return clients have a full breakfast and time for a last view on the going ins at the waterhole before continuing the journey to Chobe National Park.
Clients will today do a 3h boating safari excursion in Chobe on the Chobe river.
The riverfront in Chobe National Park is famous and well known for its large herds of elephants which attract tourists from all over the world.Clients start the day with a morning game drive in Chobe in an open 4×4 safari vehicle.
Clients then continue to Victoria Falls. A local guide will take you on a guided walking tour through the Victoria Falls Rainforest which will allow you to see the Victoria Falls from different angles and sides. Clients can also book additional activities in advance on surcharge. Later in the evening clients enjoy a Sun Set Cruise in Zambezi River on top of the Victoria Falls.
Clients are transferred to the airport where they will connect to their departure flight with their luggage and full of unforgettable experiences. Clients can depart from Victoria Falls airport (Zimbabwe) or Livingstone Airport (Zambia).
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Included
- Transfers
- Meals as mentioned
- 1 bottle of water per day
- Accommodation (Camping)
- Park Fees
- Entrance fee into Botswana
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