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8-Day Scheduled Budget Overland Tented Safari

8 Days: US$1519.00 per person sharing

This Scheduled Budget safari is designed to enable one to see some of the famous wildlife areas without breaking the bank.Start from Kasane and end in Maun

The safari starts from Kasane with a Chobe River boat cruise and ends in Maun with a drop-off at Maun airport.

• 2 Nights Chobe National Park
• 2 Nights Savute
• 3 Nights Moremi Game Reserve and Okavango Delta

Please note:  the above itinerary could change due to seasonal variations.

 

All park fees and camping equipment are provided.  The 2m x 2m dome tents are equipped with camping mattress, sleeping bag and pillow with an extra blanket in the winter months.  The tents have built in floors and mosquito gauze on the windows and door.  Shower and toilet facilities are shared.  Delicious 2 course meals are served with cordials and house wine at dinner.

 

Guests could be asked to assist the guide or staff with occasional camp chores such as collecting firewood or water, setting up or packing up camp.

 

DAY 1–2 CHOBE NATIONAL PARK

CAMPING-F/B

We meet in Kasane on your arrival and transfer by road to our private campsite in Chobe National Park. The drive to the Chobe River takes about one hour.

 

TERRAIN: Along the Chobe riverfront the terrain is that of a typical riverine ecosystem. Away from the river we have mixed miombo and broadleaved woodland that harbours rich avifauna.                      

GAME: Northern Chobe is famous for its elephant & buffalo herds, puku, kudu, Chobe bushbuck and hippo. One could also hope to see: lion, leopard, wild dog, giraffe, waterbuck, zebra, impala, baboon, vervet monkeys, warthog, sable, roan, lechwe, banded mongoose, crocodile, leguan.

ACTIVITIES: Game drives; birding

                                                            

DAY 3 – 4 CHOBE NATIONAL PARK - SAVUTI - CAMPING- F/B

While the camp staff break camp and load the supply vehicle, we head off on a game drive. When we meet up with the supply vehicle again we drive to Savuti in convoy. The drive lasts approx five hours with a picnic lunch en route. At Savuti the staff will set up camp on the banks of the now dry Savuti Channel while we explore our new environment.

           

TERRAIN: Savuti Marsh is typical open grassland surrounded by Acacia bush and stony outcrops reminiscent of Serengeti.

GAME: Savuti is famous for its lions and hyenas, lone elephant bulls, zebra and wildebeest migrations. Other game one can hope to see include: giraffe, tsessebe, warthog, black-backed jackal, leopard, cheetah, bat-eared fox, impala, wild dog, kudu, baboon, steenbok, dwarf, slender and banded mongoose.

ACTIVITIES: Game drives; birding, bushman paintings, elephants at waterhole.

 

DAY 5 – 7 MOREMI AND OKAVANGO DELTA  - CAMPING – F/B

We transfer by road to our private campsite in Moremi (approx 5 hours’ drive with a picnic lunch en route). The road leads via the Khwai River, which offers good opportunities for close-up game and raptor photography.

           

TERRAIN: Moremi being an extension of the Okavango offers a typical wetland system with grassy plains and pans surrounded by well-developed mopane forests and riverine woodland.                

WILDLIFE: Elephant, lechwe, waterbuck, impala, hippo, warthog, squirrels, baboon, vervet monkeys and banded mongoose are common. So are crocodiles and leguan. One can also hope to see buffalo, giraffe, bushbuck, lion, wild dog, leopard, cheetah, black-backed and side-striped jackal, zebra, wildebeest, tsessebe, bush babies, fruit bats, sable, kudu, roan, steenbok, duiker, honey badger. The birdlife includes water birds as well as dry land birds.

ACTIVITIES: game drives; birding

 

DAY 8 TRANSFER TO MAUN  - B/FAST ONLY

Transfer to Maun in time for your onward flight.

 

Excluded

• Soft drinks and beers
• Items of a personal nature, like towels and toiletries
• Any visas if required
• International flights

 

Departure dates:

• 07 – 14 May
• 04 – 11 June
• 09 – 16 July
• 06 – 13 August
• 03 – 10 September
• 08 – 15 October
• 05 – 12 November

 

 

 

 

 

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