Horse Riding Safari on the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans

Arrive in Maun, where you are met and check in on the scheduled flight to the airstrip and drive through to camp.

Charming and understated, you’ll find 12 Meru style tents filled with campaign furniture, comfy four poster beds, old maps and Persian rugs. Eclectic in style, the main area offers a small library and comfy sofas. Dinners are served at the long dining table, the perfect place to chat about you’re day’s riding activities.

Relax at the lodge until your first ride experience, after meeting the team and a brief meeting.

Back at the lodge for dinner and night.

There aren’t many experiences that beat riding a horse through Botswana’s Makgadikgadi salt pans. Here you’ll spend your days unearthing all the delights that thrive in this living desert.

The environment will dictate what you’ll see and do each day, from meeting the habituated meerkat and the desert adapted wildlife that live here. Like the brown hyena – the third rarest large carnivore in Africa, and an animal that’s virtually impossible to see elsewhere on the continent. But that’s just the beginning: look out for bat-eared foxes, aardvark and aardwolves scampering across the salt, elephant plodding through on their nomadic journey and dazzling numbers of zebra and wildebeest during the migration. And where there’s a zebra, a predator will never be far away.

You’ll ride out to the famous Chapmans Baobab, once the campsite of early explorers like Livingstone and Selous when they pioneered the area, and meet the San bushmen learning about the ancient secrets of the desert.

It’s time to bid farewell to your horse, and begin the journey home.

Transfer to the airstrip and fly back to Maun. Fly back home or extend your safari with a stay in the Okavango Delta, a visit to Victoria Falls or Cape Town.