Botswana Adventure Safari

This 12-day Botswana Adventure Safari combines the amazing Victoria Falls with a 9-night Letaka Safaris mobile camping trip through Botswana as featured in National Geoographic Wild's series "Safari Brothers", which purists claim is the only true way to experience this amazing country.

This is a guided group tour which leaves on set dates, and runs either north to south and south to north. The minimum number of participants is 2 and the maximum number is 7.

On this safari, you will spend three nights each in private campsites in Moremi in the Okavango Delta, Khwai and Savuti. Your dedicated, professional and experienced guide and camp staff will make sure you enjoy the perfect balance of comfort, safety and the excitement of being under canvas in Africa's most celebrated wilderness areas.

• Day 1 Arrival – Maun – Moremi

  We meet you on arrival at Maun Airport, Botswana and assist you on to your scheduled flight. You will be met by your guide on arrival at Xakanaxa airstrip. Your first three nights will be spent camping in the Xakanaxa region and exploring the surrounding wilderness on game drives during the day.  On the open plains large herds of Buffalo and Lechwe can be seen and in the waterways rafts of Hippopotami are a common sight.

  Letaka Mobile Camp
  Meals Included: Dinner

• Day 2 Moremi Game Reserve

  The Moremi Game Reserve is all about searching for big game; where the habitats are as diverse as the wildlife itself. Water-adapted antelopes and wary-eyed buffaloes spill out into floodplains, behind towering woodlands where leopards hide on the high branches. Dead trees cast silhouettes over elephant-filled savannas a stone’s throw from papyrus-fringed channels stretching out to the delta beyond.

  When you arrive in the Moremi Game Reserve, it’s anyone’s guess what you’ll find lurking in the long grass. From wild dogs stalking waterbucks to long sunsets by a hippo-filled lagoon, the scenes will live on in memory long after the journey home.

  Kick up sharp smelling clouds of dust on a morning drive, disturbing pockets of warm air in the reeds as you splash through water crossings in pursuit of a distant lion’s call. Pause by the edge of large lagoons, squinting to catch mischief making hyenas as they emerge from the trees to drink.

  Letaka Mobile Camp
  Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• Day 3 Moremi Game Reserve

  When you tire of game drives, discover the channels by boat while Squacco herons fly alongside you into the wind. Watch a lazy sunset with the blue-cheeked bee eaters before returning to dry land for more hardcore bush exploration.

  As Moremi Game Reserve is bound by national park rules, activities here are limited to game drives during hours of daylight with no off-roading, and boat cruises on the permanent channels.

  While most of the reserve is open to the public, two private lodges sit in the Mombo Concession to the north of Chief’s Island, surrounded by the waters of the Okavango Delta. Boating isn’t possible here, instead the area offer the ultimate in dry-land game viewing. Hailed as Botswana’s predator capital, this exclusive corner is closed to outsiders and home to the big five, where the invitee list fills up years in advance.

  Letaka Mobile Camp
  Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• Day 4 Khwai Community Area

  Today we drive north 3-4 hours from Moremi to Khwai. Looking at a map of Botswana, you’d miss Khwai completely if you didn’t know it was there. Wedged between the big-ticket attractions of Chobe National Park to the east and Moremi Game Reserve to the south, Khwai exists as a significant big game destination of its own.

  Lying on the eastern fringes of the Okavango Delta with a rich wildlife population and no borders drawn around it on the map, Khwai is often overlooked in favour of its more famous neighbours, though in the winter months it can hold its own for the quality of big game viewing.

  Letaka Mobile Camp
  Meals Included: Breakfast and Lunch

• Day 5 Khwai Community Area

  The Khwai River forms a boundary between the reserve and the community area. We spend three nights camping at an exclusive campsite in the community area, exploring the Khwai floodplains on game drives both during the day and at night. Night drives offer you an opportunity to find nocturnal animals that are rarely encountered during the day.

  We will also have the opportunity to explore the surrounding wilderness on foot. Night drives and guided walks are conducted outside the boundaries of the Moremi Game Reserve in the Khwai community area. Activities include day and night game drive, walking safaris (conditions permitting).

  Letaka Mobile Camp
  Meals Included: Breakfast and Lunch

• Day 6 Khwai Community Area

  As Khwai lies outside the parks, it offers the freedom and flexibility normally only possible with the heavier price tag of a private concession. Go off-road for a closer look at sightings, night drive in search of nocturnal species, and, with a little advance planning, head out on game walks to track wildlife on foot.

  Khwai is also home to a village community where people live side by side with the resident wildlife. Some camps will offer village visits for a dose of cultural insight to go with your safari. For those not visiting the water camps of the delta, many camps in Khwai offer the chance to get out on a mokoro (traditional canoe), although excursions are less traditional in nature, skirting the riverbanks, rather than open delta floodplains.

  Letaka Mobile Camp
  Meals Included: Breakfast and Lunch

• Day 7 Khwai – Savuti

  After breakfast, we drive a full day north to Savuti.

  Unlike the vast majority of the country, Central Chobe is not flat landscape. Large outcrops of volcanic rock reach up out of the Kalahari sands, towering over the endless savannah. These hills provide habitat for a completely different array of small wildlife, birds and plants.

  The Savuti Marsh has been the stage for many of the most dramatic wildlife documentaries in Africa. The wide open country, good ungulate populations and particularly strong prides of lion and hyaena clans make for dramatic wildlife interaction and excellent viewing opportunities.

  The now dry Savuti Channel runs through this landscape linking the drysand-veld, the waterholes, the hills and the grassland that was the Savuti Marsh.

  Letaka Mobile Camp
  Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• Day 8 Savuti

  Undoubtedly it is the interaction between lion and elephant that is the most interesting aspect of Savuti. The area is inhabited by a huge pride of lions with numbers fluctuating from 20-30 members.

  These remarkable lion have learned over the years how to hunt these massive pachyderms that are supposedly above predation. Launching their attack under darkness and using their numbers, they manage to kill adolescent and even young adult elephant.

  The marsh is prime cheetah country and in the wet season it is not unusual to have the wild dog hunting here in Central Chobe.

  Letaka Mobile Camp
  Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• Day 9 Savuti

  Another day of exploring Savuti

  Letaka Mobile Camp
  Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• Day 10 Savuti – Victoria Falls

  After breakfast we drive to Kasane, and then drive on to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe or Zambia.

  Bayete Guest Lodge or equivalent
  Meals Included: Breakfast and Dinner

• Day 11 Victoria Falls

  One of the original natural wonders of the world, the Victoria Falls is a World Heritage Site and an extremely popular tourism attraction. Known locally as ‘The Smoke that Thunders’ this spectacle is accessible from both Zambia and Zimbabwe and it is an ideal place to combine game viewing and water sports. There is excellent fishing, a terrifying bungee jump and arguably the best commercial white water rafting in the world. You  can enjoy any one of the numerous activities available in or around the falls, which we will decide together at the time you book your safari.

  Included in your tour price is one sunset cruise on the Upper Zambezi and one guided tour of the falls.

  Bayete Guest Lodge or equivalent
  Meals Included: Breakfast

• Day 12 Victoria Falls – Departure

  Today we transfer to the airport for our onward travel arrangements.

  Meals Included: Breakfast

• Letaka Mobile Camps

  Letaka Safaris mobile camps were made famous in Nat Geo Wild’s “Safari Brothers” series, and feature fully-serviced and staffed camps with walk-in tents, real beds, private en-suite bathroom facilities and fine bush dining.

  The Purists Delta

  Each of the camp tents contain twin beds with sewn in floors. Each tent has its own enclosed bucket shower and bathroom facility behind it, with a sit down toilet and bush shower drawn to order.  The tents are set apart from the open sided dining tent where you can sit and eat your evening dinner, and afterwards sit a while around the blazing fire with a drink before settling down for the night. The camp is full serviced, with no participation required from guests. All you have to do is sit back and enjoy being in the hands of renowned Botswana experts.

  A Wildlife Wonderland

  Daily schedules are flexible, and depend on local conditions. There is always so much happening in the Delta, however, that your day is sure to have you babbling about the highlights around the evening campfire. You go out with your guides on game drives and boat cruises. (Some of these activities are seasonal.) No special training is required for the walking safaris and the emphasis is on interpretive exploration and discovery; you will feel as though you are some of the first explorers in Africa as you explore this vast wilderness.

Season	Dates	Per Person*
Low	01 Jan - 31 Mar	$3,849	Enquire now
Mid	01 Apr - 30 Jun	$5,353	Enquire now
High	01 Jul - 31 Oct	$6,077	Enquire now
Mid	01 - 30 Nov	$5,367	Enquire now
Low	01 - 31 Dec	$3,877	Enquire now

• * The price includes and does not include

  The price is per person and is based on a minimum of two people sharing a room. Upgrades to single rooms are available on payment of a supplement. Single travellers are welcome on all of our tours, at an extra charge. Please see below for full inclusions and exclusions.

  The following are included in the main tour price:

  • Accommodation in standard twin rooms
  • Meals as indicated in the daily meal plan
  • All road and air transfers as indicated
  • Park fees
  • 1 tour of Victoria Falls
  • 1 sunset cruise on the Upper Zambezi.
  • All other activities described in the itinerary, unless specified as extras

  The following are not included in the main tour price:

  • International air fares, entry visa fees, domestic and international departure tax
  • All beverages
  • Other optional activities at Victoria Falls
  • All expenses of a personal nature
  • Tips and gratuities to your driver guide, park guides, hotel/camp staff etc.