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Botswana Makgadikgadi Adventure

Planet Baobab

At any one time, locals jostle the cross-continentals who have slogged it through the bush, and worse, to get here. Just a stone's throw from all this beer and bustle is the elephant's paddling pool. Oblivious to Guests crouching in the nearby trees, the elephants and travellers mostly ignore each other. At Planet Baobab, you can sleep in traditionally styled Bakalanga Huts and Baobab huts.

 

2 Nights / 3 days - US$790.00 per person

(minimum of 2 people)

Valid 24 April until 31 December 2010 (PLEASE NOTE: from 01 November – 31 December all 2 nights are spent at Planet Baobab in a Bakalanga Hut, there is no camping out, and no visit to the Meerkats)          

Included:

• Road transfer from Maun to Planet Baobab
• 1 Night at Planet Baobab in a Bakalanga Hut
• Village visit lunch
• Quad bike activity
• 1 Night camping under the stars at Ntwetwe Pan
• Visit to see the meerkats and Green’s Baobab
• All meals and park fees
• Road transfer from Planet Baobab to Maun

 

Excluded:

• Drinks
• Additional activities
• Visas and travel insurance
• Gratuities and items of a personal nature

 

3 Nights / 4 days - US$1025.00 per person

(minimum of 2 people)

Valid 24 April until 31 December 2010 (PLEASE NOTE: from 01 November – 31 December all 3 nights are spent at Planet Baobab in a Bakalanga Hut, there is no camping out, and no visit to the Meerkats)          

Included:

• Road transfer from Maun to Planet Baobab
• 1 Night at Planet Baobab in a Bakalanga Hut
• Baobab bush walk and sundowner drinks
• Village visit lunch and cattle post visit with traditional lunch
• Quad bike activity
• 1 Night camping under the stars at Ntwetwe Pan
• Visit to see the meerkats and Green’s Baobab
• Nxai Xini pan visit with picnic lunch
• All meals and park fees
• 1 Night at Planet Baobab in a Bakalanga Hut
• Road transfer from Planet Baobab to Maun

 

Excluded:

• Drinks
• Additional activities
• Visas and travel insurance
• Gratuities and items of a personal nature

 

Base yourself here and you can take guided walks and quad bike trips into the bush and the Pans with our expert Guides discovering the geological origins of what was once the world's largest ever super lake. Follow the palm trail created by elephant droppings as these ancient creatures trekked across the arid waste when the super lake dried up. Pick up, (and replace!), thousand year old flint spear heads left by the Stone Age hunters who were the region’s first inhabitants.

 

Experience the world of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Learn the African handshake from the Batswana in the cattle posts and villages near to Planet Baobab and discover how Botswana continues to be one of the most successful and interesting societies in Southern Africa. Enjoy a cuppa of Mma Ramotse’s famous red bush tea with the grande dames of Gweta and, if you are really adventurous... sample some sizzling 100% organic traditional sorghum beer!

 

At every stage and at every turn of this voyage you will hear traveller’s tales from guides and companions who know and love this place. Best of all, if you are very lucky, you can overnight on the Pans under the most spectacular night skies in the world, enjoying a barbecue of a lifetime. Curl up under a canopy of stars - a light that you cannot switch off. No wonder Planet Baobab is also known as Base Boomerang – our Guests keep coming back. In a continent that is full of surprises, and a place that is full of nothing, Planet Baobab is really something. Gweta is situated 200km East of Maun on the edge of the Makgadikgadi Pans.

 

 

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