Day 11: Cheetah Park to Okaukuejo, Etosha National Park, NamibiaStopping briefly in Outjo to get supplies, then it is on to Etosha. Game drive your way into Okaukuejo rest camp before setting up camp and heading out for an afternoon game drive. Etosha is the major nature reserve of Namibia, covering over 20 000 square kilometres with a large variety of animal and bird species.
The park is situated around the Etosha Pan, and has an extensive network of gravel roads that enables you to get to remote areas of the park. A feature of the park is the floodlit water holes at both Okakuejo and Namutoni. Evenings can be spent sitting on the specially constructed viewing benches watching the game as it comes in to drink. Breakfast, lunch and dinner is included. Day 12: Etosha National Park – Okaukuejo to Namutoni, NamibiaAnother full day of game driving as you make your way the 150kms across the park form west to east. After a full day of game driving you will then have another opportunity to spend the evening watching the game at Namutoni's floodlit waterhole. Breakfast, lunch and dinner is included. Day 13: Namutoni, Etosha National Park to Rundu, NamibiaDeparting Etosha, you head in a northeasterly direction towards the lush Kavango region of northern Namibia. You will stop at Rundu for supplies before reaching your nearby campsite. This campsite is spectacular and located right on the banks of the Kavango River complete with “open air” facilities and the occasional hippo grazing on the lawn. Breakfast, lunch and dinner is included. Day 14: Rundu to Maun, BotswanaContinuing along the Kavango River, you enter Botswana and travel east along the course of the Okavango River to the southern reaches of the Okavango Delta and your destination of Maun. It is from here that you set off to explore the Okavango Delta. Breakfast, lunch and dinner is included. Day 15: Maun to Okavango Delta, Botswana (Optional)The Delta is a huge expanse of water, which has travelled from the Angolan highlands, spreading out to form the largest inland Delta in the World. Studded with exotic islands, the Delta is renowned for its incredible variety of bird life as well as many other animals unique to Southern Africa. Here you have the opportunity to take the optional 3 day / 2 night excursions into the Delta. This is the drive in Mokoro excursion. Breakfast, lunch and dinner is included.
This drive in trip to the Okavango Delta takes you approximately 1-2 hours north to the Mokoro polers station. From there you hire mokoros, the local dug out canoes, which are poled by local guides through the winding waterways. Your guides will select a place to set up camp. An afternoon game walk will allow you to experience the Delta wilderness. Day 16: Okavango Delta, BotswanaA day of rest, relaxation and Delta experiences await. Today you will have the opportunity to partake in a number of activities including game walks, mokoro cruises, swimming and even a chance to try your hand at poling your own mokoro! Breakfast, lunch and dinner is included. Day 17: Okavango Delta to Maun, BotswanaA final opportunity for a morning game walk before packing up camp and setting off back to Maun. After arriving back in the early afternoon you have the opportunity to complete your picture of the Okavango Delta by taking an optional sunset scenic flight over the Delta region. Breakfast, lunch and dinner is included. Day 18: Maun to Kasane, BotswanaYou travel east and then north through Botswana to the town of Kasane where you will set up camp on the banks of the Chobe River. The Chobe River forms a border between Botswana and Namibia as well as Botswana and Zambia. Listen out for the resident hippos! Breakfast, lunch and dinner is included. Day 19: Chobe National Park, BotswanaThis morning you depart on an early-morning game drive into Chobe National Park. Chobe is one of Botswana’s premier game parks, renowned for the large herds of elephant around the Chobe River. After your game drive you return to camp for lunch.
There is opportunity for those who wish to partake in a boat cruise along the Chobe River to do so in the afternoon (optional) or you can relax on the banks of the Chobe River and watch the renowned Chobe sunset from your campsite. Breakfast, lunch and dinner is included. Day 20: Victoria Falls, ZimbabweYou pack up camp and depart for your final destination, Victoria Falls. Leaving Botswana you enter Zimbabwe and drive to the nearby Victoria Falls where you set up camp in the municipal town campsite. Afternoon at leisure to explore the many sights and delights of this town! Brunch is included. |