Okavango Delta & Magadikgadi Salt Pans
The Okavango Delta must be one of the best experiences offered in southern Africa, and offers a large variety of mammal, reptile and bird species.
Day 1: Nata (Botswana)
We depart early morning from Johannesburg & Pretoria. Your guide will stop en-route for breakfast (own cost) and last minute shopping, before reaching the Botswana border. You will get an opportunity to change money, after crossing the border, from where we head further north to Nata, where we camp the night.
Dinner included
Day 2: Maun (Botswana)
The day starts with an early morning breakfast, before heading west along the northern border of the Kalahari Desert to Maun. We stay the night at a great campsite outside Maun, where you can visit the crocodile farm, and relax by the swimming pool.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
The Okavango Delta must be one of the best experiences offered in southern Africa, and offers a large variety of mammal, reptile and bird species.
We start the day with a large breakfast, before heading into the Okavango Delta with 4x4 open-sided game viewing vehicles. The local guides (polers) will be waiting for us in the park at the waterline, where we transfer all the equipment and our personal belongings into mokoros (traditional dug out canoes). From here we glide down the water channels deeper into the Okavango Delta, searching for the ideal place to set up camp. There will be no fences, no running water, no showers, no buildings and no electricity. We camp in the wild with only what we take with us. After lunch you cool off by swimming in a natural swim hole in the rivers.
Every day we will do early morning and late afternoon game walks, searching for as many different animal species as possible. The guides will explain more about all the animals, tracks and the Delta during these walks. You will have the opportunity to get as close as possible (safety first) to the wildlife of the Okavango Delta.
After dinners you can relax with the guides around a campfire, while listening to their stories about the bush, animals, their cultures and of course listening to the sounds of animals at night in Africa.
You start your last morning in the Okavango delta with a cup of coffee before doing your final game walk. After the walk you will enjoy breakfast, break down camp, and then return by mokoros to the place where the 4x4 vehicles will meet you.
Your guide will prepare a light lunch on return to camp in Maun. This afternoon you have the opportunity to do an optional one hour flight over the Okavango Delta, during which you are guaranteed to see many large herds of animals, as well as many single or smaller groups of animals.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
Day 6: Nata (Botswana)
This morning we head back to Nata, where you can relax by the pool or do an optional quad bike excursion. Late afternoon we do a game drive (included) in the Magadigadi Pans in an open sided 4x4 vehicle.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
Day 7: Return to Johannesburg & Pretoria (South Africa)
We depart early morning for Johannesburg & Pretoria. Your guide will stop en-route for breakfast (own cost).
No meals included
Departure Days:
Every Wednesday
Accommodation: Camping
on a 2 person share basis
Tour Length: 7 days
Price: R5980
Local Payment : n/a
Departure points:
Johannesburg
Pretoria
Includes:
All transport
All accommodation
Qualified and registered guide
Meals as specified below
Okavango Delta
Open vehicle transfers (Okavango Delta)
Polers & mokoros
Excludes:
All drinks (except coffee & tea with meals)
Meals not specified below
Optional flight over Okavango Delta
Visas if needed
Camping
The tents that we use are:
2.4 x 2.4 meters in size with
built in mosquito nets over
the door and windows.
All
camping equipment is provided
by Livingstone Trails.
The
mattresses used are proper
sponge mattresses with
covers that are washed
after each tour.
In the Delta we Free camp with our local guides: which means
We find an ideal patch of trees along the waterways that is suitable for us to camp. This means that there are no fences, electricity, buildings or bathrooms. All that it is, is us plus what we are able to carry with us in the mokoros.
The polers will dig a hole and
build a toilet seat from palm tree leaves.
Unfortunately we do not have a shower for these days, but we do have many natural swim holes in the rivers. These swim holes has crystal clear water and are extremely welcome when the temperatures reaches Africa style maximums during the afternoons.