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13 days
Specific Tour
20 people
English
A desert and delta experience where drought resistant flora and fauna is explored in Nxai National Park and the Okavango Delta terrains of Moremi Game reserve are the topping highlights of the tour. Visiting the cool breeze of the wilderness Lagoons from the salty sands of Nxai.
Arrival
Guests will be picked up by Kala Safaris, safari guide from a safari lodge in Kasane or Kasane International Airport. Guests will be picked in a 4x4 open game viewer followed by a safari game viewing safety briefing. The Usual time of guests pickup is normally 8:30am depending on the flight arrival. The transfer from the airport in to Chobe National Park will take around 40 minutes.
The morning transfer will cover the first game drive of the tour through the many game viewing stops that will occur along the way as the guests will be driven to camp through the park to have lunch around noon and to offload luggage and to familiarize themselves with the camp during the day’s light. Around 15:00pm guests will leave to enjoy the first Chobe National Park sunset over sundowner toast on the banks of the river. Around 18:15pm guests will head back to camp to be treated with a three course bush dinner and close the day around the camp fire.
Every day guests will be woken up by their safari guide around 05:30am or 06:00am (depending on the agreed time) to have a 30 minutes morning refresh time. Followed by 30 minutes of breakfast before leaving for the first morning game drive of the day around 06:30am or 07:00am. Around 11:00/12:00 pm depending on the natural uncontrolled game viewing sightings, guests will be driven back to camp to relax, have lunch, take showers, download photos and to charge cameras before the evening game drive that will start around 15:00pm to 18:15pm.
Day 2 will be used for the boat ride in the Chobe National Park river in the morning to explore aquatic game viewing up close from the river view.
Day 3 will see a mobile continuation of the exploration of Chobe wildlife by the 2 game drives of the day. Day 3 can also be used as an optional activity day to do a day trip in to Victoria falls Zimbabwe, if Guests have opted to do the additional optional activity.
Camp Transfer day
Day 4 will start normal like the previous day. Around 07:00am guests will have their last morning game drive in Chobe National Park while the Kala Safaris camp team will take the time to break down the camp and drive ahead of the guests to Makgadikgadi Pans (Nxai Pan National Park region) by tarred road. Around 16:00pm-17:00pm guests will arrive in the Makgadikgadi pan region where guests will spend their first night in the open salt desert observing the open skies of the Paleo Makgadikgadi.
Day 5 guests will make a short transfer by tarred road less than 2 hours in to Nxai National Park. Guests will enjoy a change in terrain and vegetation by exploring the vast salt desert wild life of Nxai Pan. Drought resistant flora and fauna will be explored in the last 2 days in Nxai National Park through the morning game drive and the afternoon game drive. Adopting the same time routine used and followed in Chobe National Park.
Camp Transfer day
The 3rd camp transfer will resemble the camps first transfer events from Chobe in to the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans. Guests will have their last morning game drive in the salt pans and head to Maun by tarred road to have a short stop in Maun and lunch. From Nxai Pan to Maun, the transfer will be between 2hrs drive to 2hrs 30min.
An optional activity at additional cost that can be done in Maun by guests while in transit to Moremi Game reserve is a 45 min or 1 hour scenic flight over the Okavango Delta in Maun during the lunch stop in Maun.
From Maun to Moremi Game Reserve will be a 3hrs transfer on a dirt bumpy terrain. They will be plenty of game viewing stops along the way as game is still plenty on route to the game reserve. Guests will arrive to have their first sunset game drive in the delta water rich wildlife of Moremi Game Reserve.
The last 2 days in Moremi Game Reserve will have the guests pick up from where they left off in Chobe National Park. By Exploring the north east of moremi game reserve with the two game drives of the day and the last day in Moremi Game Reserve involving a boat ride to view the water dependent African wildlife that roam freely between the water channels and the dense bush and open grasslands Moremi Game Reserve.
Camp Transfer day
Day 10 will start normal like the previous days. Around 07:00am guests will have their last morning game drive in Moremi Game Reserves (South side) while the Kala Safaris camp team will take the time to break down the camp and drive ahead of the guests to Savuti. Guests will be driven to Khwai village to do the 2 hours mokoro ride in the morning before joining the road to Savuti after lunch.
Guests will arrive around 17:00 pm in Savuti to experience their first evening game drive in Savuti as the first welcome note of the predator dominated wildlife location. After sundowner’s guests will be driven to camp to freshen up before dinner. Savuti is mainly a predator paradise with plenty of lion viewing, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas and wild dogs. They are no optional activities in Savuti.
Days in Savuti will be a feast for cats and dogs lovers as they will be in a land ruled by Lion prides. Savuti is of a much drier marsh vegetation terrain compared to water lodged Okavango Delta terrains of Moremi Game Reserve. Times agreed upon for waking up, breakfast, morning game drive, lunch and afternoon game drive in Moremi Game Reserve will continue in the exploration of Savuti.
Departure
Depending on the time of departure flight from Kasane International Airport. Guests will wake up at normal time before being transferred to Chobe on the 4hrs drive to be dropped off at the airport or by the safari lodge.
The country practices low volume high cost tourism policy as a conservation method, to have fewer places in the wilderness to camp. leading to the high demand in the limited camps increasing costs of safari access, this limits over crowding during animal sights and keeping the parks as natural as possible.
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