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Arrival
Day 1
Arrival in the Selinda Reserve
Arrival in the Selinda Reserve
Fly from Maun in a light aircraft, watching the Okavango’s lacework of channels give way to the vast Selinda Reserve below. This is one of Botswana’s wildest corners – four camps in 130,000 hectares – so even from the air you can feel the space and exclusivity. You touch down on the airstrip and rattle along sandy tracks to Selinda Explorers Camp, tucked among ebony trees on the banks of the Selinda Spillway. Your canvas tent is old-school safari romance: rugs underfoot, lanterns, a comfy bed. After a quick orientation, meet your EcoTraining instructors – the same experts who train Africa’s top guides. As the heat softens, head out on your first game drive, learning how they read tracks, birds and distant alarm calls. Back in camp, dinner is shared around a long table, followed by fireside stories and a short briefing on the EcoQuest course ans what is covers. End the night with a constellation talk, seeing familiar stars through a very African lens.
- Main Destination:
- Okavango Delta
- Accommodation:
- Selinda Explorers Camp
Wildlife in Okavango Delta
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
First Light on the Spillway
First Light on the Spillway
Wake to coffee and the soft hiss of the Selinda Spillway beyond the trees. The day begins with a gentle primer in bush awareness: how to walk in single file, where to place your feet, and why wind direction matters more than your wardrobe. Depending on water levels, you either set out on foot along the Spillway or drive deeper into the reserve, stopping often to read the landscape like a textbook – from termite mounds and dung middens to raptor perches and game trails. Lions, elephants and wild dogs share this neighbourhood, so expect suspense. Late morning brings breakfast and relaxed discussions on ecosystems and predator–prey dynamics. After a lazy siesta, you head out again for an afternoon drive. Birders begin their species lists; EcoQuest guests delve deeper into behaviour and tracking. Sundowners glow over the wetlands, and the day ends with dinner, stars overhead and a bit of friendly ID quizzing from your instructors.
- Main Destination:
- Okavango Delta
- Accommodation:
- Selinda Explorers Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Big Behaviour and Small Details
Big Behaviour and Small Details
By now, the rhythm feels natural: early wake-up, coffee, then out into the cool morning while the bush is at its most active. Today’s focus is behaviour. Your guides slow things down, interpreting every tail flick, ear twitch and alarm call. You might follow a line of giraffes to a distant lion sighting, or watch elephants negotiate the Spillway channels with quiet authority. In between headline moments, you learn to appreciate the “small stuff” – spiders’ webs, beetle tracks, clever seed dispersal, and the quiet engineers of this ecosystem. Back in camp, lunch morphs into a relaxed session where your instructors unpack what you saw: territory, hierarchies, hunting strategies and how guides piece together a sighting long before most guests notice a thing. The afternoon is yours to read, swim, nap or chat before heading out again After dark, a short night drive introduces the secretive cast: civets, genets, owls and maybe a leopard on patrol.
- Main Destination:
- Okavango Delta
- Accommodation:
- Selinda Explorers Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Big Behaviour and Small Details
Big Behaviour and Small Details
This morning is all about getting your nose, eyes and ears tuned to guide level. After breakfast-on-the-move – muffins and coffee on the vehicle bonnet – you spend more time outside the car than in it. On a slow walk with your instructor, you learn to read the sand like a newsfeed: fresh lion tracks, the drag of a crocodile’s tail, the delicate scrawl of a mongoose chase. You’ll test your sense of direction, practise safe approaches and discover how much information fits into a single patch of ground. Back in camp, a bushcraft session may cover navigation, safety protocols and what guides carry in their backpacks. After lunch, flop in a hammock or watch elephants drift through camp before the afternoon activity. If the Spillway is running, glide silently in a mokoro past reed beds and lilies; if it’s dry, enjoy extended walks or long, golden-hour drives. The day closes with fireside stories of remarkable tracks followed and close calls avoided.
- Main Destination:
- Okavango Delta
- Accommodation:
- Selinda Explorers Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Food, Rituals and the Good Life
Food, Rituals and the Good Life
By day five, Selinda Explorers feels less like a camp and more like a small, well-run village deep in the bush. This morning’s activity focuses on your chosen path: EcoQuest guests build their ecological “big picture." In between, you notice the quiet choreography of camp life: the always-hot kettle, the replenished biscuit jar, the team appearing just when you’re thinking about a G&T. Lunch on the deck brings fresh bread, salads, something from the fire and plenty of laughter. The afternoon drive or walk deepens what you know, but there’s still room for surprises: wild dogs hunting, a lion pride at dusk or queleas shifting like smoke. After dinner, you may join a constellation talk, seeing familiar stars through a very African lens.
- Main Destination:
- Okavango Delta
- Accommodation:
- Selinda Explorers Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Africa's wildest corner
Africa's wildest corner
By now you’ve realised just how astonishingly remote Selinda really is. This reserve is so vast you could fit the entire Sabi Sands into it four times, yet there are only four camps in the whole 130,000 hectares. That means roughly 32,000 hectares per camp — which is why you won't seen another vehicle all week. Don’t be alarmed if a pack of wild dogs trots through camp mid-brunch; this really is their backyard after all. With only four tents (one a family tent), there are never more than ten guests in camp, so mornings feel wonderfully unhurried. Today’s activity goes deeper into the rhythms of this wilderness — extended tracking, a quiet walk along the Spillway or a relaxed drive following fresh signs of predators. After lunch, settle into your hammock, listening to the bush go about its business. The afternoon brings one more chance to explore this enormous, empty landscape before ending the day with sundowners in a place that feels entirely, gloriously yours.
- Main Destination:
- Okavango Delta
- Accommodation:
- Selinda Explorers Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Last Drive, Farewell Bots
Last Drive, Farewell Bots
Your final morning begins with that familiar soft knock on the tent frame, and the sudden awareness that these sounds – francolins shouting, hippos grumbling and the distant whoop of hyenas. There’s time for one last activity: perhaps a slow walk to revisit favourite viewpoints, or a focused drive to check in on the lions, wild dogs or special birds you’ve been following all week. Your instructors nudge the questions back at you now, letting you interpret tracks, behaviour and the shifting weather like a budding guide. Back in camp, brunch is a warm, slightly sentimental affair, with cameras out and email addresses swapped. Breakfast ad then bags onto the vehicle and a final drive to the airstrip, eyes scanning every tree-line for one last surprise. From the plane, the Selinda Reserve shrinks to a patchwork of floodplains, islands and secret channels, but you’ll carry its rhythms – and a quietly upgraded bush brain – all the way back to Maun.
- Main Destination:
- Okavango Delta
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
