These safaris are all about the adventure and unravelled experiences! Pristine campsites in rugged big 5 territory. You will have your very own team of guides, rangers and chefs setting up a campsite in different locations each day depending on the route. These differ depending on the season and wildlife presence in the area. You will wake up each morning at sunrise to the sound of a whistling kettle or the calls of Francolin or Kingfishers igniting life into the African bushveld and anticipation of the day’s exciting safari. After a hearty breakfast you will set off on a full-day safari ending in a beautifully laid dining area around open fire at a campsite. Dinner under the stars could not be magical with all the typical sounds of the African night playing as an orchestra and sharing stories of the days amazing sightings, before making your way to your cosy dome tent.
Experience this in an open game vehicle specially converted, allowing one to absorb and experience sightings with all your senses when up and close to wildlife. Your experienced game ranger will teach you about all aspects of nature and interpreting wildlife behaviour to you in a unique way.
Moremi/Khwai/Savuti/Chobe
The Okavango Delta is a unique pulsing wetland, covering between 6 and 15 000 square kilometres of Kalahari Desert in northern Botswana. The 1000th site to be inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2014, the Okavango Delta is an important wildlife area protected by both the Moremi Game Reserve, on its eastern edge, and the numerous wildlife concessions within Ngamiland. An oasis in an otherwise dry environment the Okavango Delta is known for its superb wildlife, with large populations of mammals and excellent birding particularly in the breeding season.
Makgadikgadi / Nxai Pans
The Makgadikgadi Pan, a salt pan situated in the middle of the dry savanna of north-eastern Botswana, is one of the largest salt flats in the world. Lying southeast of the Okavango Delta and surrounded by the Kalahari Desert, Makgadikgadi is technically not a single pan, but many pans with sandy desert in between, the largest being the Sua (Sowa), Nwetwe and Nxai Pans. A dry, salty, clay crust most of the year, the pans are seasonally covered with water and grass, and are then a refuge for birds and animals in this very arid part of the world.
Central Kalahari
The Central Kalahari Game Reserve covers a large section of central Botswana. Its harsh, sprawling terrain is dominated by grasslands, home to wildlife such as giraffes, cheetahs, hyenas and wild dogs. There are several fossilized river valleys, including Deception Valley and Passarge Valley, which offer basic campsites. Dirt tracks wind south through the reserve’s remote landscapes to the Piper’s Pan area.