$3,112 pp (USD)
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Arrival
Day 1
Arrival into Nxai Pans National Park
Arrival into Nxai Pans National Park
Your journey begins as you meet your mobile safari crew and travel into the vast saltpan landscapes of Nxai Pan National Park, where the scenery shifts from bushveld to wide open plains dotted with iconic baobabs.
Accommodation is a spacious mid-range canvas tent (larger than 3x3m), each with beds, a private veranda, and an en-suite bathroom with toilet, shower, and basin. Our staff takes care of all camp duties, allowing you to relax and enjoy the experience.
The afternoon is spent settling into camp before your first game drive introduces Nxai’s quiet wildlife, springboks, oryx, and possibly elephants moving across the pans in golden light. Dinner is served under a sky unpolluted by anything but stars, with the distant calls of jackals setting the tone for the wilderness ahead.
- Main Destination:
- Nxai Pan National Park
- Accommodation:
- Mid-range camping
Wildlife in Nxai Pan NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Full Exploration of Nxai Pan National Park
Full Exploration of Nxai Pan National Park
A full day in the Nxai pans. You will start your morning with a light breakfast and continue on a walking safari. Returning to camp, you will prepare for a late morning game drive, move slowly across the pan where mirages blur the horizon, and wildlife appears almost out of nowhere. You may encounter large elephant herds at the waterholes, especially during dry periods, along with giraffe browsing on acacia stands and predators tracking silently across the open flats.
In the afternoon, the safari slows, focusing on photography, tracking, and simply absorbing the silence of the pans. The experience here is less about constant sightings and more about scale, light, and isolation.
- Main Destination:
- Nxai Pan National Park
- Accommodation:
- Mid-range camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Full-Day Exploration of Nxai Pans National Park
Full-Day Exploration of Nxai Pans National Park
Today is dedicated to a deeper exploration of Nxai Pan National Park. After light morning refreshments, you head out for an extended game drive focusing on different regions of the park and seasonal water points. The open landscapes provide exceptional visibility, allowing for unique wildlife encounters and photographic opportunities. Depending on conditions, you may visit areas where large herbivore herds gather, as well as quieter sections of the pans that highlight the raw beauty of the environment.
At midday, you return to camp for a relaxing brunch and time to unwind. In the afternoon, another game drive is conducted, offering a different perspective of the landscape as the light shifts across the pans. The day concludes with a scenic sunset experience followed by dinner under the stars.
- Main Destination:
- Nxai Pan National Park
- Accommodation:
- Mid-range camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Journey from Nxai Pans to Moremi Game Reserve
Journey from Nxai Pans to Moremi Game Reserve
After breakfast, you journey into the heart of Moremi Game Reserve, one of Botswana’s most diverse and wildlife-rich wilderness areas. As you travel deeper into the reserve, the landscapes unfold into a mosaic of floodplains, lagoons, riverine forests, and open grasslands that support an incredible variety of wildlife.
Upon arrival, you’ll settle into your campsite, which will be your home while exploring Moremi. Accommodation is in spacious mid-range canvas tents (larger than 3x3m), each equipped with comfortable beds and access to well-maintained camp facilities. Our dedicated camp crew takes care of all camp duties, allowing you to relax and fully immerse yourself in the wilderness experience.
Later in the afternoon, you set out on a game drive through Moremi Game Reserve. As the day cools and wildlife becomes more active, keep an eye out for elephants, buffalo, antelope, and the predators that make this extraordinary reserve one of Africa’s premier safari destinations.
- Main Destination:
- Moremi Game Reserve (Okavango Delta)
- Accommodation:
- Mid-range camping
Wildlife in Moremi GR
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Discovery in Moremi Game Reserve
Discovery in Moremi Game Reserve
The day begins with an early morning game drive, when wildlife is most active across the reserve’s diverse habitats, and the bush is alive with movement and sound.
As the safari unfolds, a leisurely brunch is enjoyed back at camp, offering time to relax and reflect on the morning’s sightings while surrounded by the natural rhythms of the African wilderness.
With no fixed route, your guide adapts the safari according to real-time wildlife activity, maximizing opportunities for meaningful encounters. From lion prides resting in the shade to elephants moving between feeding grounds and elusive leopards moving through riverine forest, each sighting adds depth and character to the experience.
In the afternoon, you continue exploring Moremi’s landscapes, from floodplains to woodlands and winding channels, before returning to camp. The day concludes with a freshly prepared dinner served under the stars, the perfect setting to share stories and enjoy the atmosphere of the African bush.
- Main Destination:
- Moremi Game Reserve (Okavango Delta)
- Accommodation:
- Mid-range camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Walking Safari & Mokoro Excursion in Moremi Game Reserve
Walking Safari & Mokoro Excursion in Moremi Game Reserve
You'll start the day on foot with a guided walking safari in Moremi Game Reserve. This is a slower-paced experience focused on reading tracks of animals, identifying signs, and noticing details you would normally miss from a vehicle. It offers a grounded, close-up understanding of the environment and how the ecosystem connects.
In the afternoon, you continue with a mokoro excursion through the Delta channels within Moremi. You drift quietly along narrow waterways, passing reeds, water lilies, and grazing areas along the banks. Wildlife is often seen at close range, while birdlife is especially active, with regular sightings of kingfishers, herons, and other wetland species.
You return to camp in the evening for dinner, served either under the open sky or around the fire. It’s a relaxed end to the day, with the natural sounds of the bush in the background and time to unwind after a full day exploring Moremi’s landscapes on foot and by water.
- Main Destination:
- Moremi Game Reserve (Okavango Delta)
- Accommodation:
- Mid-range camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Transfer to Chief's Island - Water Transition
Transfer to Chief's Island - Water Transition
After breakfast, you will continue deeper into the Delta system toward Chief’s Island, where the landscape becomes a true water wilderness of winding channels, reedbeds, and scattered islands. Wildlife here is closely tied to the water, with hippos grunting in deeper pools, crocodiles resting along sandy banks, and elephants moving quietly between islands.
Accommodation is a spacious mid-range canvas tent (larger than 3x3m), each with beds, a private veranda, and an en-suite bathroom with toilet, shower, and sink. Our team takes care of all camp duties, allowing you to simply relax and take in the surroundings.
You arrive at camp and settle in, enjoying a bit of time to unwind as the Delta slows into its afternoon rhythm. Later, you head out on a sunset boat safari, where golden light stretches across the channels, and wildlife begins to gather along the water’s edge. Dinner is served back at camp under the stars, rounding off the day with the sounds of the bush all around you.
- Main Destination:
- Chief's Island (Okavango Delta)
- Accommodation:
- Mid-range camping
Wildlife in Okavango Delta
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Full-Day Motorized Boat Safari
Full-Day Motorized Boat Safari
You explore the intricate waterways of Chief’s Island by motorboat, moving slowly through lagoons, reedbeds, and open channels that reveal constant wildlife activity. The experience is unhurried and immersive, with sightings unfolding naturally as elephants bathe in shallow water, buffalo herds gather along the banks, and predators use the water’s edge as a strategic hunting ground.
You'll pause for lunch in a shaded riverside setting, surrounded by the sounds of the Delta. In the afternoon, you continue cruising through the channels as the light softens, enhancing reflections on the water and creating ideal conditions for photography, before returning to camp after a full day on the waterways.
- Main Destination:
- Chief's Island (Okavango Delta)
- Accommodation:
- Mid-range camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Delta Water Immersion & Campfire Evening
Delta Water Immersion & Campfire Evening
A slower, immersive day focused on the quieter side of the Delta within Chief’s Island. Early morning birding offers a peaceful start, with fish eagles calling, herons wading through shallow channels, and kingfishers darting across still water in quick flashes of colour.
Later, you'll enjoy a mokoro excursion through quieter, less-travelled channels, gliding silently past reeds and lilies while wildlife is observed at close range along the water’s edge. The pace is unhurried, allowing time to absorb the stillness and subtle movements of the Delta.
In the evening, you will return to camp for dinner around the fire under a wide, star-filled sky, with the sounds of hippos and frogs providing a natural, calming backdrop to the night.
- Main Destination:
- Chief's Island (Okavango Delta)
- Accommodation:
- Mid-range camping
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 10
Departure and Return to Maun
Departure and Return to Maun
You will enjoy a slow and reflective morning at camp in the heart of the Delta within Chief’s Island, taking time to absorb the final sounds and atmosphere of the wilderness over breakfast.
Afterwards, you will begin your transfer out of the island, retracing the waterways and floodplains by boat as the landscape gradually opens toward Maun. Along the way, you take in one last view of the Delta’s channels, wildlife activity along the banks, and the shifting reflections on the water. The journey brings the safari to a close, leaving behind a layered experience of desert pans, riverine wilderness, and deep Delta immersion.
- Main Destination:
- No major destination visited
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
