Name: Chobe, Makgadikgadi, Okavango & Moremi Safari
Brand: Discover Africa
SKU: epic-botswana-adventure
Price: 6220 USD
Availability: InStock

Is the Horse Riding Safari on the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans for Me?

Camp Kalahari sits amongst the acacias and Mokolwane palms of Brown Hyaena Island, on the edge of the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans. Here, you’ll get to explore this wild, unspoilt area like many of the earliest explorers, hunters, and missionaries did – on horseback! Embark on adventurous outrides around the crusty flats, meeting the habituated meerkats and following the animal highways that bring life to this lunar-like landscape.

In between all your riding explorations, enjoy a walk with the San Bushmen and siestas around the swimming pool – a soothing escape from the desert sun. At the height of the zebra migration, the adjoining grasslands are awash with zebras, wildebeests, and more.

Expect incredible scenery, memorable wildlife encounters and, above all, super horse riding!

Your 4-Day Itinerary

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.

Camp Kalahari

Includes & excludes

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Drinks: All local brands included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

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.

Camp Kalahari

Includes & excludes

Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Drinks: All local brands included

Activities: Included

Transport: Included

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.

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.

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