Botswana Deluxe Safari

Botswana Deluxe Safari

12 days Botswana Deluxe Safari

Stay in luxurious, exclusive accommodation.
Get to know Botswana's diversity of animals in their original habitats
and experience the magic of the unique landscape shaped by water.

HIGHLIGHTS DURING YOUR SAFARI :

Victoria Falls
Boat trip on the Chobe River
Mokoro ride in the Okavango Delta
Exciting game drives in Linyanti and Moremi
Bushwalk
Luxurious accommodations

Price $ 41.500 US Dollar

Arrival in Zimbabwe

1st & 2nd day

Itinerary

Welcome to Victoria Falls! Upon arrival at Victoria Falls airport, you will be met by a driver and taken by private road transfer to your accommodation where your journey begins.

Victoria Falls River Lodge (2 nights)
The lodge is a luxurious camp in the heart of the Zambezi National Park on the banks of the Zambezi River. Just a few minutes from Victoria Falls.

Victoria Falls
On the evening of your arrival, you will discuss with your guide the activities you can do during your stay. Discover the national park on a game drive, enjoy a sundowner on a boat trip or let your guide show you the Victoria Falls in close proximity. We are also happy to book a helicopter flight for you.

In Victoria Falls, the ground opens up and swallows one of Africa's largest rivers, the mighty Zambezi, creating the widest continuous waterfall in the world. When the water hits the narrow Batoka Gorge below, it forms a cloud of mist that rises to the sky, giving the waterfall its local name "Mosi-oa-tunya" (the thundering smoke). When the Zambezi is in flood, the mist forms a permanent rain cloud over the waterfall, giving visitors a shower even on the sunniest of days and is visible for miles.

Above the falls, tour boats cruise the tranquil Zambezi at sunset, as the fading sunlight breaks off the distant spray of the falls. Through the rocky walls of the Batoka Gorge, the Zambezi below the falls offers a chain of world-class rapids, a prime opportunity for white water rafting.

Aside from being a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the World's Natural Wonders, Victoria Falls also forms a natural border between Zimbabwe and Zambia. The falls can be visited from both countries and for the most part the same activities are offered, including helicopter rides, village visits and souvenir shopping.

Whether you prefer to relax by drinking tea in colonial surroundings or by taking an exciting bungee jump from a bridge is entirely up to you. Neither the adrenaline junkie nor the visitor with slightly weaker nerves will get bored in Victoria Falls, even after several days.

On the Zambian side, you can enjoy a side view of the falls and a glimpse into the Batoka Gorge. On Livingstone Island, however, you can also venture to the very edge of the falls at dizzying heights.

In Zimbabwe, many vantage points and a hiking trail offer you a frontal view of three quarters of the 1.7 km wide curtain of water as you stroll through a natural hot and wet rainforest created by the spray from the falls.

Day 3-5

Transfer Victoria Falls accommodation - Kasane airport

Today you leave the magnificent Victoria Falls and start your safari. You will be picked up by a driver at your accommodation and taken by private road transfer via Victoria Falls Town across the Botswana border to the airport in Kasane.

Duma Tau Camp (3 Nächte) Duma Tau – auf Setswana "das Gebrüll des Löwen“– ist ein Safaricamp im privaten 125.000 Hektar großen Linyanti Wildreservat, welches an den westlichen Teil des Chobe Nationalparks angrenzt.

Linyanti
During your stay, you will undertake exciting activities with your guide. You can choose from the various activities (included in the price) and always discuss these with your guide or management the evening before. Linyanti ...

... is synonymous with wildness, remote solitude and exclusive adventure, in an often harsh-seeming area. This untouched corner of northern Botswana offers the stuff that great safari experiences and documentaries are made of.

In Linyanti there are only private concessions with flexible rules and no crowds. Here you can not only cross some big game off your wish list, but also discover many less prominent, but certainly rarely presented treasures. Among them are the brush-eared pig and the long-sought wild dog.

There are only a few camps in Linyanti. Each offers different habitats and landscapes, but they all have one thing in common: visitors will experience many great moments of wildlife viewing during Botswana's dry winter months. Together with the Chobe River further east, the Linyanti is home to the highest density of elephants in Africa. Many camps also offer water activities depending on the season and water level. Either on a spillway, a river, a lagoon or a canal to break up the game drive routine.

One of the concessions in the Linyanti is already 20 times the size of Manhattan and yet only 40 people can stay there at the same time. Botswana is very careful to preserve its wilderness and only let a handful of visitors into the bush. Here in the Linyanti, this concept has been perfected.

In Linyanti you can also accompany the wild animals away from the roads - whether it is the nerve-racking pursuit of a lioness during a buffalo hunt, or the careful approach to a wild dog den from which the pups stumble into the light of day for the first time.

For travelers who don't just want to read the safari book from their vehicle, but want to become part of the story and immerse themselves in their surroundings, walking safaris are offered. Many camps also offer hidden hides from which you can observe animals in a relaxed manner. In some camps you can even stay overnight.

Day 6-8

Flight Linyanti - Okavango Delta

After breakfast, your guide will drive you to the airstrip. You will fly to the Okavango Delta in a charter plane. Seen from above, the winding waterways of the delta, combined with palm islands and grassy plains, offer an impressive... ... landscape. Once you have landed at the airstrip, you will be met and taken to your accommodation.

Mombo Camp (3 nights)
The nostalgic Mombo Camp has a rich history with almost 30 years of safari experience. The camp's location is one of the best areas for game viewing in all of Botswana.

Chiefs Island - Moremi National Park
During your stay in Moremi National Park, you can use the time to explore the habitat by jeep or mokoro. You can choose from the various activities (included in the price) and always discuss these the evening before with your guide...

... or the management. In the Moremi Game Reserve, everything revolves around the big animals and their habitats are as multifaceted and varied as the animals themselves. Antelopes perfectly adapted to life on the water graze alongside watchful buffalo on river meadows, framed by mighty trees towering into the sky, from whose branches leopard tails and paws often dangle. Tree skeletons cast their shadows on the backs of the elephants that roam the savannah, and all of this just a stone's throw from papyrus-lined canals that extend into the delta.

Moremi is like the land of unlimited possibilities when it comes to safaris, and anything can happen... The images of African wild dogs hunting antelopes and sunsets over a lagoon inhabited by hippos will stay with you long after the end of your vacation.

Be amazed by the warm air that stands in the tall reeds or under large trees, the sharp smells that suddenly attack you and reveal so much about the events of the previous night as you follow the call of a lion. Take a short break for a coffee on the edge of a lagoon and watch the hyenas who also stop by for a refreshment while you are already hatching their next plan.

As a change from the game drives, you can explore the winding water channels in a mokoro, accompanied by squacco herons that sail in front of the boat with their wings spread. Enjoy a sunset, gently rocking in a lagoon and look forward to the next morning game drive and what it will bring.

As the Moremi Game Reserve is subject to national park rules, activities are only permitted during daylight hours and leaving the roads and main river channels is prohibited.

While most of the reserve is open to the public, there are also two lodges in the private Mombo concession in the north of Chief's Island, in the heart of the Okavango Delta. Mokoro trips are not possible here, but the camps offer unbeatable wildlife viewing opportunities on land. This exclusive corner is often referred to as Botswana's predator paradise, is reserved for wealthy clients and is often booked up well in advance.

Day 9-11

Flight Okavango Delta - Okavango Delta

After breakfast, you will fly in a charter plane to your next camp. Admire the natural spectacle of the delta from the air.

Xigera Safari Lodge (3 nights)
This first-class newly built camp, part of the famous "Red Carnation" group, has 12 luxury suites. Each suite illustrates a theme of African art and design, celebrating local traditions in a unique way and with bold interpretation.

Okavango Delta
During your stay you will undertake exciting activities with your guide. You can choose from the various activities and always discuss them the evening before with your guide or the management. The Okavango Delta is the ...

... epicenter of Botswana's wilderness. As a huge oasis in the middle of the Kalahari, it is full of life with all its elephants, birds and other wild animals. The true magic of the delta comes from the masses of water that come from the distant highlands of Angola and pour into the channels and flood plains of the delta.

In winter from June, when the sun leaves the Kalahari dry and thirsty, the flood from Angola reaches the Okavango Delta and transforms the flood plains into a Noah's Ark of African wildlife. Every year between June and September, when the flood waters bring life to the delta, it is reshaped by its inhabitants. Little by little, termites build their huge mounds on the islands, which are densely covered with palm trees. Hippos open up new waterways as they move their large bodies through the reeds, creating a channel that can be explored by mokoros (traditional dugout canoes). The heart of the delta, with its shallow channels and flood plains, is best explored by mokoros and on foot on the islands.

The Okavango Delta has many faces that constantly change over the course of a year due to the unpredictable weather. As the water level rises and falls, the islands grow and shrink and the animals move to areas where life is easiest and the grass is greenest. Within a few days, a navigable sand road can turn into a waterway of unknown depth, forcing a safari to switch to boats. In November, the water level slowly drops again in the Okavango Delta and mokoro and boat trips are sometimes no longer possible until the flood water from Angola reaches the Okavango Delta again in May.

Day 12

Flight Okavango Delta - Maun

DEPARTURE

After a morning activity (if time permits) and breakfast, your guide will drive you to the airstrip and fly to Maun in a charter plane. From the air, you can once again admire the beauty of the Okavango Delta

Welcome to Habibi Tour

Itinerary

Stay in luxurious, exclusive accommodation.
Get to know Botswana's diversity of animals in their original habitats
and experience the magic of the unique landscape shaped by water.

HIGHLIGHTS DURING YOUR SAFARI :

Victoria Falls
Boat trip on the Chobe River
Mokoro ride in the Okavango Delta
Exciting game drives in Linyanti and Moremi
Bushwalk
Luxurious accommodations

Price $ 41.500 US Dollar