8 days Botswana

Best of Botswana

Name: Chobe, Makgadikgadi, Okavango & Moremi Safari
Brand: Discover Africa
SKU: epic-botswana-adventure
Price: 6220 USD
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Is the Best of Botswana Trip for Me?

This safari takes you to three of Botswana’s star conservation areas. You’ll begin in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve with its red sand dunes, salt pans and open plains. Your next destination is the Okavango Delta where you will get a chance to enjoy game drives, as well as mokoro rides along the waterways. The Kwando Linyanti wetlands is the last of the wilderness areas on your journey. It’s a world of papyrus and reed swamps, grasslands and riverine forests, and home to incredible wildlife.

Visiting:

Southern Africa › Botswana › Central Kalahari Game Reserve › Okavango Delta › Linyanti Concession

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From $6330 USD

$12650 USD

per person sharing per tour

TRANSPORT

Transfers included

MEALS

Meals + drinks (local brands only) included

ACTIVITIES

Lodge game activities

Only excludes: International flights, visas, travel insurance, gratuities

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An Unforgettable Adventure

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Guest numbers are strictly limited. Camps are small. Vehicles are few. | Photo: Linyati Expeditions

Your 8-Day Itinerary

Your journey starts in Maun with a light aircraft flight down to the Central Kalahari where you will spend the next two nights enjoying this incredible and diverse area. Tau Pan is the first semi-permanent camp inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and offers incredible views from the elevated ridge of an ancient sand dune, an unusual experience in a land as flat as Botswana, and overlooks the famous Tau Pan - recognised for its stark beauty and remoteness.

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Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Drinks: Local brands included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

Activities offered at Tau Pan are game drives, star gazing, and nature walks with Bushman trackers. Optional activities (at an extra cost) also include days trips to the well-known Deception Valley, Sunday, Piper and Passarge Pans. Species that can be found in the Kalahari include oryx, the desert-adapted springbok, jackals, the rare brown hyena, red-crested Korhaan and herds of wildebeest.

Includes & excludes

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Drinks: Local brands included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

View of the Okavango Delta at sunset on a Botswana Family safari

Today, you will depart the semi-arid Kalahari by light aircraft and and head to Kwando Splash Camp, located in the heart of the Okavango Delta, within the Private Kwara Reserve. The Kwara Reserve shares a 30 km water boundary with the famous Moremi Game Reserve and its unique location boasts both permanent water and seasonal flood plains as well as extensive dry bush wilderness.

Includes & excludes

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Drinks: Local brands included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

Located around a pan, each of the 12 rooms is situated on a deck overlooking the pan which attracts game year round. Enjoy the activities on offer which includes game drives (including night drives), mokoro excursions, boat activities, walking safaris and seasonal fishing.

Includes & excludes

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Drinks: Local brands included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

Bar at Mbalageti Serengeti, Tanzania | Photo credit: Mbalageti Serengeti

Today you make your way by light aircraft to your next incredible destination in Botswana, the Kwando Lagoon Camp located on the banks of the wild Kwando River. The area has a well-earned reputation for big game and large herds of elephant and buffalo. This vast concentration of game attracts the attention of large predators.

Includes & excludes

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Drinks: Local brands included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

Activities include game drives, walks, seasonal fishing and boat cruises - The unique double deck boat allows several guests the opportunity to drift along the river while enjoying spectacular views, mammal and bird life while sipping at your 'sundowner' of choice.

The Lagoon wild dog pack regularly den close to the camp and the excellent viewing opportunities have led to Lagoon's reputation as the place to see wild dog in Botswana.

Includes & excludes

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Drinks: Local brands included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

This morning enjoy your final morning game activity before being flown by light aircraft back to Maun Airport where your journey ends. Here you can connect to onward destinations.

Every itinerary can be crafted to your needs, from adjusting the length of your stay to including different accommodation and refining the route. Your safari is yours, shaped around your idea of a dream experience.

Handpicked Stays Along Your Journey

Each lodge has been chosen for its sense of place, privacy, and quiet luxury –
where service is seamless and the views are unforgettable.

Tau Pan

Tau Pan accommodates up to eighteen guests in specially designed thatched units on raised decks. The camp offers truly incredible views from the ridge of an ancient sand dune, an unusual experience in a land as flat as Botswana, and overlooks the famous Tau Pan – recognised for its stark beauty and remoteness.

This, the first safari camp to be built in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, is a model of environmental sensitivity. As with its sister camp, Nxai Pan, Tau Pan has been constructed with the delicate ecologies in mind. Both utilise only solar power for the generation of electricity, heating of water and pumping of water from deep under the Kalahari sands. Waste water is treated in a state-of-the-art sewerage treatment plant and the fully treated water is returned to the sands from whence it came. Activities offered at Tau Pan are game drives, day trips to the well-known Deception Valley, Sunday, Piper and Passarge Pans, star gazing, bush brunches on Tau Pan, and nature walks with Bushman trackers.

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Kwando Splash Camp

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Lagoon

Lagoon is perched on the banks of the wild Kwando River, overlooking the Mudumu National Park in the Namibian Caprivi Strip.

The camp is nestled beneath towering ebony and marula trees and accommodates up to 16 guests in eight traditionally styled ‘tents.’ The heavily forested site is home to a wide variety of birds and mammals, while elephant and hippo are normally visible from the camp. The stunning views and close proximity of wildlife all contribute to the pervading sense of calm at Lagoon. Seasonally large herds of elephant drink at the river bank near to the camp in full view of the main deck, while playful spotted – necked otters are commonly seen performing in the water.

Lagoon has a well-earned reputation for big game and large herds of elephant and buffalo, especially in the winter months, when herds of up to a thousand are not uncommon. This vast concentration of game attracts the attention of large predators. The Lagoon wild dog pack regularly den close to the camp and the excellent viewing opportunities have led to Lagoon’s reputation as the place to see wild dog in Botswana.Another special feature of the camp is the afternoon river cruise. The unique double deck boat allows several guests the opportunity to drift along the river while enjoying spectacular views, mammal and bird life while sipping at your ‘sundowner’ of choice. For those guests who enjoy fishing, there is ample room to throw a line in the water while the boat meanders along.

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