"Botswana Camping Safari Operator"
Botswana camping Safari.
9
days/8 nights Mobile Safari
Total cost per person sharing: US$2923
Valid
from 01 Jan – 31 December 2007
Summary
Start
Kasane. End Maun. Transport: Open 4 WD
2
nights Chobe
2 nights Savute
2 nights Moremi
2 nights Moremi/Okavango Delta
(Please note: there might be slight possible seasonal variations)
SAFARI
ITINERARY
On our safaris we offer a style of travel which is
extremely comfortable, yet allows our guests the opportunity to get
off the beaten track and away from the ‘main routes’.
This is a relaxed alternative to a lodge safari and designed
for those who prefer to sleep under canvas in comfort and get away
from the crowds.
Although the safari vehicles are roomy and open on
all sides to allow the feel of Africa to permeate, it is fully under
canvas cover overhead to keep you out of the glaring sun. The seats
are high and comfortable and ideal for game-viewing and photography.
Inside your safari vehicle you will find a selection of reference
books on Botswana’s parks, its history, flora and fauna as well as a
fridge with cold drinks.
Your host and guide is fully licenced and highly
experienced. He is accompanied by a full support crew, consisting of a
mechanic and cook, who
will go along in a back-up vehicle to take care of all the camp chores
and ensure that you are well looked after. The support vehicle goes
ahead of the group and sets up the camp to await your leisurely
arrival. Your guide and his assistants are experienced
professionals who will prioritise your comfort and safety as well as
ensuring optimal game-viewing opportunities throughout your safari
with us.
You will be accommodated in 3m x 3m dome tents with
screened doors and windows to keep your sleeping quarters free of any
insects. Tents have
en-suite toilets and bucket showers.
Our friendly cook will provide scrumptious 3-course
meals, which will either be served in the mess tent or under the
stars. Meals usually consist of a continental breakfast
before the early morning game drive, a cooked brunch on your return to
camp for siesta or a light picnic lunch on days that we move camp from
one area to another, afternoon tea and biscuits, snacks with your
sundowners and a hearty three-course dinner.
ITINERARY
CHOBE NATIONAL PARK - MOBILE
CAMPING SAFARI-
F/B
We
meet in Kasane on your arrival and transfer by road to our private
campsite in Chobe National Park. The drive to the Chobe River takes
about one hour.
TERRAIN:
Along the Chobe riverfront the terrain is that of a typical riverine
ecosystem. Away from the river we have mixed miombo and broadleaved
woodland that harbours rich avifauna.
GAME:
Northern Chobe is famous for its elephant & buffalo herds, puku,
kudu, Chobe bushbuck and hippo. One could also hope to see: lion,
leopard, wild dog, giraffe, waterbuck, zebra, impala, baboon, vervet
monkeys, warthog, sable, roan, lechwe, banded mongoose, crocodile,
leguan.
ACTIVITIES:
Game drives; birding; boat trip on the Chobe River.
CHOBE
NATIONAL PARK - SAVUTI - CAMPING
SAFARI-
F/B
While
the camp staff break camp and load the supply vehicle, we head off on
a game drive. When we meet up with the supply vehicle again we drive
to Savuti in convoy. The drive lasts approx five hours with a picnic
lunch en route. At Savuti the staff will set up camp on the banks of
the now dry Savuti Channel while we explore our new environment.
TERRAIN:
Savuti Marsh is typical open grassland surrounded by Acacia bush and
stony outcrops reminiscent of Serengeti.
GAME:
Savuti is famous for its lions and hyenas, lone elephant bulls, zebra
and wildebeest migrations. Other game one can hope to see include:
giraffe, tsessebe, warthog, black-backed jackal, leopard, cheetah,
bat-eared fox, impala, wild dog, kudu, baboon, steenbok, dwarf,
slender and banded mongoose.
ACTIVITIES: Game drives; birding, bushman paintings,
elephants at waterhole.
MOREMI
NATIONAL PARK & OKAVANGO DELTA
- CAMPING – F/B
We transfer by road to our private campsite in Moremi
(approx 5 hours’ drive with a picnic lunch en route). The road leads
via the Khwai River, which offers good opportunities for close-up game
and raptor photography.
We will spend the next two nights here. On day two we
will explore the waterways by boat from Mboma Island.
TERRAIN: Moremi being an extension of the
Okavango, offers a typical wetland system with grassy plains and pans
surrounded by well-developed mopane forests and riverine woodland.
While out on the mokoros the terrain will alter to typical Okavango
Delta terrain with its grassy flood plains dotted with large termite
mounds, small islands fringed with palms and larger islands with
riparian forests of sausage and ebony trees. Water lilies adorn the
bracken-lined watercourses and streams.
WILDLIFE: Elephant, lechwe, waterbuck, impala,
hippo, warthog, squirrels, baboon, vervet monkeys and banded mongoose
are common. So are crocodiles and leguan. One can also hope to see
buffalo, giraffe, bushbuck, lion, wild dog, leopard, cheetah,
black-backed and side-striped jackal, zebra, wildebeest, tsessebe,
bush babies, fruit bats, sable, kudu, roan, steenbok, duiiker, honey
badger. The birdlife includes water birds as well as dry land birds.
ACTIVITIES:
game drives; birding; boat trip.
TRANSFER
TO MAUN
B/FAST
ONLY
Transfer to Maun in time for your
onward flight.
INCLUDED:
All
transfers between destinations, accommodation, activities and meals as
mentioned; all camping equipment (tents with bedding, mattresses,
pillows, hot bucket shower and bush toilet; mess tent with table and
chairs; staff members to take care of camp chores; all park fees and
permits; the services of a licensed professional guide.
EXCLUDED:
International
flights; lodge accommodation; airport transfers; tips and gratuities
for guides, camp staff and drivers; medical, travel and cancellation
insurance (compulsory); items of a personal nature; visas and laundry.
Travel
Insurance: Travel Insurance (Medical, Travel, Luggage and Cancellation Insurance)
for the duration of your holiday is compulsory.
"Traveler's Guide to Botswana by Peter
Comley and Salome Meyer. Struik, 1994. Reviewer David Steele (Getaway
Nov. 1994) says that for the first-time visitor this beautifully
illustrated work is practically essential reading. The book is laid
out in four parts: An introduction to Botswana, Getting around
Botswana, Exploring Botswana and a Visitor's Digest. According to
Steele the meat of this work is in the Exploring Botswana section
which features the Okavango Delta, Chobe National Park, Makgadikgadi
and Nxai Pan National Park, the Kalahari, and Eastern Botswana and the
Tuli Block. The reviewer found the information to be accurate,
"...which is not at all surprising since (authors) Comley and
Meyer live in Botswana, guiding and conducting photographic safaris in
all of this country's major tourist areas."
All camping safari itineraries are
strictly tailor-made to suit your needs requirements and expectations.
No request
is too small or large for us to assist .For all your Botswana camping
safari needs.