A luxury mobile tented safari experience in the Central Kalahari and Moremi Game Reserves. This is a private safari for groups of four or more persons. It is possible to vary the itinerary to include Nxai Pan and/or Chobe National Parks.
Days 1–4: On arrival into Maun Airport, you will be met and transferred to your light aircraft charter flight to the Kalahari. Your private guide will meet you and then it is another three hours drive to your Mobile Tented Camp, your home for the next four nights.
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You are accommodated in spacious and comfortable tents with twin beds and private en-suite bathroom. Activities include morning and afternoon game drives in open 4x4 Land Cruisers.
In the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, the landscape, vegetation and game quantities vary immensely between the dry and wet seasons, when the rains arrive you can just imagine hearing the land and its inhabitants sigh in relief.
The habitat varies from sand dunes with many species of trees and shrubs in the north, to flat bushveld in the central area and heavily wooded area in the south, with Mopane forests to the south and east. Many of the river valleys are scattered with salt pans, relics of the great salty lake that once filled the area. Four fossilized rivers meander through the reserve including Deception Valley.
The Reserve contains wildlife such as giraffe, brown hyena, warthog, cheetah, leopard, lion, wildebeest, eland, springbok, gemsbok, kudu and red hartebeest. The people commonly known throughout the world as Bushmen, but more properly referred to as the Basarwa or San, have been resident in and around the area for probably thousands of years. Originally nomadic hunters and gathers, the lifestyle of the Basarwa has gradually changed with the times and they now live in settlements, some of which are situated within the southern half of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Day 5: After breakfast you drive back to the airstrip to connect with a scenic charter flight to the Moremi Game Reserve. The 20 minute flight gives you the opportunity to view the southern reaches of the Okavango Delta, sightings of elephant, giraffe, zebra and buffalo are common from the air. You are met by your boat driver, and taken to an exclusive, isolated island camp. The trip will take between 1 and 3 hours depending on which island you camp. You will stop for a picnic lunch on the way, or if time is short, picnic on the boat.
Your accommodation is a pre-erected island camp consisting of dome tents equipped with bedrolls with linen and battery lights. External shower and toilet tents are provided; there is one toilet and one shower shared between every two tents. Dinner is served under the stars, surrounded by the wildness of the Okavango, and the chorus of the reed frogs.
As there is a limit on how much equipment is allowed on the island, the island night is very rustic but still comfortable. To see the Delta by boat is an amazing experience, and the bird life can be incredible. Spending the night in a private island campsite is an event not to be missed!
Days 6–8: You enjoy a light breakfast on the island and then board the boat for the return journey to the boat station where your vehicle awaits. The morning is spent game-viewing on the way to Xakanaxa, your base for the next three nights in your Mobile Tented Camp.
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Moremi Game Reserve is completely surrounded by either company owned or community based wildlife management areas. It is accessible by both road and by air with landing strips in both Xakanaxa and Khwai. The road conditions in Moremi vary drastically; the roads can very sandy in places particularly around Xakanaxa and Third Bridge areas during the dry season and in the wet season entire sections of road may be under water. During the rains, in the Mopane woodlands the water puddles in the road, making it practically inaccessible, the end result can be driving in water so deep it flows over the bonnet of a Toyota Land Cruiser!
The reserve enjoys a wide diversity of habitat and is well known for the height of the trees in the mopane tongue, which covers the central area. Birdlife is prolific and varied, ranging from water birds to shy forest dwellers.
Elephants are numerous, particularly during the dry season, as well as a range of other wildlife species from buffalo, giraffe, lion, leopard, cheetah, wild dog, hyaena, jackal and the full range of antelope, large and small, including the red lechwe. Wild dog, whose numbers are so rapidly dwindling elsewhere, are regularly sighted in the Moremi and have been subject to a project being run in the area since 1989 so these animals are often seen wearing collars placed on them by the researchers. It is claimed that the Moremi area contains about thirty percent of all remaining wild dog.
Day 9: After a hearty breakfast in camp, you return to the airstrip, game driving en-route if time permits, for your light air charter to Maun Airport to meet your connecting flight or other travel arrangements.
It is possible to vary this itinerary to include mobile camps in Nxai Pan, the Khwai Community Area and Chobe National Park.
Please note that our itineraries are tailor-made to suit the particular interests and requirements of our guests. The itinerary shown above is just one recommended combination of camps. Please contact us for a bespoke proposal.
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Your Accommodation
7 nights
Mobile Tented Camps
Plus 1 night in a pre-erected camp with dome tents and bedrolls
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