Kruger Park & Okavango Delta
Game viewing excellence in two of Africa's finest and most diverse parks: Kruger National and the Okavango delta wilderness area.
Accommodation is camping, in Kruger the a pre-erected permanent Camp is used, and in the Okavango delta you will Bush Camp.
Day 1: Kruger National Park (South Africa)
We depart early morning from Johannesburg & Pretoria, via Nelspruit, where we also pick clients up. En-route we stop for breakfast (own cost). From here we head straight for the world renowned Kruger National Park. The majority of this day will be spent doing game drives, searching for as many animal and bird species as possible. Your guide will tell you interesting stories about all the animals, birds and not so usual trees.
Lunch will be enjoyed at one of the open picnic spots inside the park. You will do a 3 hour night drive in an open vehicle inside Kruger National Park, searching for nocturnal animals such as porcupine, leopard, lion and many more species living in the park. Dinner will be served after returning from the night drive.
Lunch, Dinner included
Day 2: Kruger National Park (South Africa)
The day starts with an early morning coffee or tea, before heading for Kruger National Park, entering as soon as the gates open. We will be doing a full day game drive, searching for more animals of the 147 mammal, 502 bird and 114 reptile species. You also have the option of doing an optional 3 hour game walk.
Accommodation: You will be staying in the bush camp (permanent semi-luxury tented camp) of Kapama Game Reserve just outside Kruger National Park.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
Day 3: Hartbeespoort (South Africa)
We start our final game drive as soon as the gates open, before driving west to Hartbeespoort, where we overnight in a backpackers lodge.
Breakfast included
We depart early morning from Hartbeespoort. 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
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 just outside Maun, where you can visit the crocodile farm, and relax by the pool.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
Days 6, 7, 8: Okavango Delta (Botswana)
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 9: Palapye (Botswana)
This morning we head south to Palapye, where you can relax by the pool.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
Day 10: 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: Sundays
Accommodation: Permanent and Bush Camp
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Tour Length: 10 days
Price: R8980
Departure points: Johannesburg
Pretoria
Includes:
All transport
All accommodation
Qualified and registered guide
Meals as per itinerary
Kruger National Park game drives
Kruger Park entry fees
Night drive inside Kruger National Park
Mokoros and Polers
Excludes:
All drinks (except coffee
& tea with meals)
Meals not specified below
Optional game walk inside
Kruger National Park
Our tents are permanently erected on
wooden platforms along the fence. The
tents that we use are 2.4 x 2.4 (meters)
and 3.0 x 3.0 (meters) with built in floor
and mosquito nets over the windows
and door. Each tent has two proper
single bed mattresses (same as
many hotels in South Africa use) with
fitted sheets.
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.