Buffalo Safari 8 Nights 9 days

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Victoria Falls
1 stop
1
Victoria Falls
You will be picked at Victoria Falls by a safari guide and our destination manager holding a sign board that reads “MARVELOUS MOBILE SAFARI”. The guide and our destination manager will do a meet and greet and they will meet guests with face towels that guests will freshen their faces with and the destination manager will hand a stainless steel water bottles to guests filled with cold water and branded their names. Then the tour guide and the destination manager will take you across the border to Chobe National Park in Botswana at your camp site.
12 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 2
Kasane
1 stop
2
Chobe National Park
Wake up the next day, have a quick breakfast before departing for a morning game drive . You will also have an opportunity to observe the animals from close up. Chobe also boasts two antelopes rarely encountered elsewhere in Botswana - the puku and the Chobe bushbuck. Always be on the lookout for predators, a repetitive whistle is used to warn fellow herd members. In contrast, the Chobe bushbuck is nocturnal and rarely forms groups of more than one pair. Rarely seen, this shy antelope, with its short, spiral horns relies on a sharp bark as an alarm call when threatened. Go back to the camping site after a beautiful drive, have lunch and then go for siesta. At 3:00pm you depart for a beautiful sunset boat cruise along the Chobe River. You will come very close to crocodiles and pods of hippos from the boat. We may see lions from the boat, and big herds of buffalo and elephants. We get back to the camping area after sundown and dinner will be served at 8:00pm.
12 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 3
Chobe National Park
1 stop
3
Have breakfast and depart to Savuti which is part of Chobe National Park. It is called Savuti because a certain chief called Sauté used to live there with his tribe. Tawny eagles can be seen soaring in the sky as we go. The drive is very enjoyable as you will see lots of birds and animals on the way. The scenery is amazing and very African looking, with lots of umbrella thorn, acacia tortilis with giraffe feeding and many more including the most photographed bird, lilac breasted roller, a national bird of Botswana. You will not resist from taking a picture of it, it’s the most beautiful bird in Africa. We arrive in time for lunch; our exclusive camp will be set up and we will camp for one night. Depart for a game drive at 3:30pm, to the beautiful Savuti marsh where we will see vast herds of zebras and wildebeest and also have an opportunity to see pairs of kori bastards which are the heaviest flying birds. We get back to camp after sunset for a lovely dinner around the camp fire.
12 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 4
Chobe National Park
1 stop
4
We will have an early morning tea and coffee with rusks then depart for a game drive along the Savuti channel. The area looks very unique as there are lots of tall trees along the river where animals like to hang around in the shade. We will also drive to the Savuti marsh where we may have an opportunity to track the cheetah because of the vast open grassland, their mostly preferred habitat. Get back for lunch after a long drive, have a shower, launder your clothes and have a siesta. Depending on individuals, sometimes some people update their diaries. 3:30pm – tea and coffee and depart for a game drive, which will be our last game drive in Savuti. We will be back from the game drive after sunset which will have been enjoyed under the baobab tree (adonsonia digitata), an indigenous tree found in Africa. Its nick named the upside down tree, because the branches look like roots when it is dry or doesn’t have leaves. Get back to the camp after a lovely game drive and have dinner
12 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 5
Moremi Game Reserve
1 stop
5
Khwai Concession
Have breakfast and depart to Moremi Game Reserve. Moremi game reserve is widely considered as one of the finest wildlife reserves in Africa. It has a diversity of habitats combining acacia forests and mophane woodlands with floodplains and lagoons. Here we will be camping at an exclusive campsite. Our drives will take us to the park’s most beautiful areas such as Third Bridge, Bodumatau and Dead Tree Island. 3:30pm – tea and coffee and depart for a game drive. We will be back from the game drive after sunset. Get back to the camp after a lovely game drive and have dinner Khwai is situated in the eastern part of the Okavango Delta, bordering the Chobe National Park on the southwestern part of the park. Khwai has a huge population of impala and tsessebe are found in the area, while in the dry season large herds of buffalo, elephant, and zebra flock into the reserve from Kalahari in search of food and water. Birds which are found in the reserve include Sacred Ibis and Crested Crane.
12 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 6
Moremi Game Reserve
1 stop
6
Khwai Concession
After a warm shower in the morning, have breakfast, then you will do a morning game drive around Khwai of Moremi game reserve. You will witness amazing wildlife as you drive around Khwai area. After spending hours out in the bush in Khwai area of Moremi game reserve your private guide will do a game drive heading back to your private campsite and when you arrive you will be met by our safari staff with face towels to freshen your faces from the long dusty game drive and you will have lunch, followed by a siesta. After siesta enjoy high tea and then resume your afternoon game drive in Khwai area of Moremi game reserve. Come back from your afternoon activity, have a shower and then dinner will be served. After dinner the guests will sit down around our private bush boma (fire) commonly known as African bush television with their guide and their destination manager who will be around fire hosting the guests, sharing African bush knowledge and conservation measures with them.
12 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 7
Okavango Delta
1 stop
7
Okavango Delta
Wake up to prepare your small luggage for the Mokoro Overnight Trip in Okavango Delta by Moremi game reserve. After breakfast we depart to the Okavango Delta, here you will meet your local mokoro (dug-out canoe) poler who will serve as a guide and he will always be accompanied by our own tour guide who started the trip with you. This activity is conducted by local mokoro community guides but our chef, Guide and camp assistant come along as well. When we arrive the camp assistant will have set up the camp under a canopy of trees, we will have lunch, and then it’s time for a siesta. Tea and coffee will be served before you head to the polling station to start your mokoro activity. Traveling by mokoro is undeniably the best way to experience the Okavango Delta. You explore the waterways, and take nature walks where you have the opportunity to track game and get a closer-up feel of this unique environment. Here bird life is spectacular.
5 days • Admission ticket free
Day 8
Okavango Delta
1 stop
8
Okavango Delta
Wake up the next day, have quick breakfast before departing for a mokoro activity from your private campsite in Okavango delta to the mokoro polling station your guide will do a game drive towards the polling station enabling you to have an opportunity to see more animals. On arrival at the polling station the local community guides and polers will give you a safety briefing and as soon as they are done the polers will take you on a mokoro ride in Okavango delta, Okavango delta is part of 7 natural wonders of the world. The intricate veins of waterways which interconnect the lagoons. On arrival the guests will be met by the marvelous safari staff with face towels to refresh their faces and after refreshing we will have lunch, and then it’s time for a siesta. Tea and coffee will be served before you head for an afternoon game drive with our guide around Okavango delta , observing hippos and crocodiles in the Okavango River. Return back to the campsite dinner will be served.
12 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 9
Okavango Delta / Maun Botswana
1 stop
9
Okavango Delta
Wake up in the morning have breakfast as soon as you are done with breakfast we start our journey to Maun for your international flight back home.
12 hours • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking

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