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8 Day Victoria Falls, Chobe, and Okavango Delta Explorer Safari in Zimbabwe and Botswana
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe; Kasane - Chobe National Park - Savuti - Khwai Concession - Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana
Breathtaking Zimbabwe and Botswana Safari
Go on a trip to Botswana with Moonstroll Vantage Expeditions! This tour is designed to give you diversity and an authentic African safari experience.
Key information
- Group safari
- Maximum group size: 12 persons
- Children policy: Children from the age of 5 years old are allowed to participate under the supervision of a parent or guardian
- Starting point: Victoria Falls
- Ending point: Maun
- Languages spoken: English
- All park fees are included
Highlights
- Game drives in Moremi Game Reserve, Khwai Concession, and Chobe National Park
- Guided tour of Victoria Falls
- Boat cruise on the Chobe River
- Possibility to see African elephants, wild dogs, big cats, zebras, and abundant birds
- Exploring Savuti Marsh and visiting Bushman rock paintings
- Services of a professional guide and chef
- 7 nights accommodation
- Daily meals
- Airport pick-up and drop-off
Styles
8 activity days
Group size: Maximum of 12 participants
Airport transfer included:
Maun Airport
Accommodation
During the safari, you will stay in various accommodations:
- Night 1: Lodge in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
- Night 2: Lodge in Kasane
- Night 3: Wilderness campsite in Chobe National Park
- Night 4: Wilderness campsite in Savuti
- Nights 5 and 6: Wilderness campsite in Khwai Concession
- Night 7: Wilderness campsite in Moremi Game Reserve
The accommodation will be camping in en-suite safari tents on a shared basis i.e. two people per tent. Therefore, bedding (i.e. bedrolls-mattresses, pillows, sheets, duvet, blankets, etc.) and all the necessary camping equipment (i.e. shower buckets, bush toilets, etc.) will be provided.
Program
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
This safari officially starts in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. A representative of Moonstroll Safaris will meet you at Victoria Falls Airport upon your arrival and transfer you to your lodge where you are going to spend the first night of your safari vacation on a dinner and bed and breakfast basis. Note: The rest of the afternoon today is left for you to spend at leisure or to participate in some of the numerous activities (own cost) on offer in Victoria Falls.
- Accommodation: Lodge
- Meals and drinks: Dinner
Day 2: Victoria Falls - Kasane, Botswana
Today after breakfast, you will go for a guided tour of Victoria Falls. Victoria Falls is known as the largest sheet of falling water in the world. You will enter the Victoria Falls rainforest to explore the magnificent plant and birdlife of this unique rainforest created by the constant spray of the thundering Falls on the surrounding area. On reaching the edge of the Falls, you will explore the gorge through various view/vantage points. You will leave Zimbabwe after your guided tour of Victoria Falls and cross the border into Botswana where you will spend a further one night of your safari vacation.
Chobe River boat cruise
Another highlight today is a boat cruise in the Chobe River. This boat cruise gives you the chance to experience the animals of Chobe from another perspective. You might, therefore, get up close and personal with hippos, crocodiles, and a mind-boggling array of water birds.
- Accommodation: Lodge
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 3: Exploring Chobe National Park
Today you will wake up in the morning for breakfast. Thereafter, you will leave your lodge to spend the day on a safari drive inside Chobe National Park. At the end of your safari drive, you will be taken to your wilderness camp inside Chobe National Park where you are going to spend one night. Tucked up in Botswana’s far northeastern border with Namibia, Chobe is one of the great wildlife destinations of Africa. At approximately 11900 square kilometers, Chobe is made up of rich ecosystems and pristine landscapes consisting of savanna plains, rivers, swamps, and scrubs.
It is the ultimate haven for vast herds of elephants. As many as 120,000 animals depend on the Chobe River’s life-sustaining waterways when the dry season kicks in. Other resident game species are large herds of buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, the rare puku, roan, and sable antelope. These are normally trailed by the notoriously fearless lions of the Chobe, leopard, and cheetah.
- Accommodation: Mid-range camping
- Campsite: Wilderness campsite
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 4: Chobe National Park - Savuti
Leave your camp after breakfast and head southwards to Savuti where you will spend one night. First, you will take a leisurely wildlife drive through Chobe National Park. This drive is actually meant to be a game drive that provides a farewell to the area’s magnificent landscapes and mammals. Savuti is known for its predators, both big cats (lion, leopard, and cheetah) and birds of prey - raptors, vultures, and all manner of birds of prey that soar over Savuti’s landscape in search of food. Perhaps the strangest phenomenon of all about Savuti is the 100-kilometer Savuti Channel.
At times it will stop flowing and remain dry for years at a stretch. When the Savuti Channel recommences its flow, it changes the entire ecosystem, transforming the Savuti Marsh and Mababe Depression into wetlands and thus creating an oasis that provides water for thirsty wildlife herds and acts as a magnet for a profusion of water birds. You will spend your days searching for Savuti’s resident wildlife.
- Accommodation: Mid-range camping
- Campsite: Wilderness campsite
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day 5: Savuti - Khwai Concession
Today, after breakfast, you will take a slow game drive through Savuti. You will explore the Savuti and its marsh. The Savuti Marsh is a vast expanse of grasslands dotted with dead acacia trees creating an intriguing, almost ghost-like landscape. Finally, you will head further southwards towards Khwai Concession for a two-night stay. At about 1800 square kilometers, the Khwai is situated in the northeastern Okavango next to Moremi.
It is a wildlife–prolific and varied ecosystem dominated by a patchwork of lagoons, grasslands, permanent flood plains, and large areas of Mopane woodland forests. Khwai has a marvelous selection of predators such as lions, leopards, wild dogs, cheetahs, servals, African wild cats, etc. In the afternoon, you will go for your game drive and possibly watch the sunset unfold over the Khwai River.
- Accommodation: Mid-range camping
- Campsite: Wilderness campsite
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 6: Exploring Khwai Concession
This morning you will go for your usual morning game drive after an early light breakfast. Your journey will follow the Khwai River’s watercourse weaving from the riverside and floodplains into the mopane veld and woodlands that make Khwai one of the most scenic areas of the Okavango. The Khwai area boasts an excellent population of African elephants, both solitary bulls and breeding herds. The swampy areas are home to Red Lechwe.
Other resident species include the southern giraffes, buffalos, Burchell’s zebras, tsessebes, the Greater kudus, impalas, and various other nocturnal species. Khwai is also one of Botswana’s birding Mecca’s. As such the raptors and water birds are particularly abundant and make for some great photography.
Mokoro excursion
The highlight today is a mokoro excursion along the Khwai River part of the Okavango Delta system. During this mokoro excursion, you should have some great encounters with aquatic birds and several species of mammals.
- Accommodation: Mid-range camping
- Campsite: Wilderness campsite
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day 7: Khwai Concession - Moremi Game Reserve
Wake up early in the morning for some breakfasts. Shortly after this breakfast, you will drive through Khwai Concession as you conduct your last safari drive in this beautiful wilderness area. Finally, you will head for Moremi Game Reserve where you are going to spend the last night of your safari vacation. Moremi is situated in the central and eastern areas of the Okavango Delta. It covers about a third of the total land area of the Okavango Delta. At about 3900 square kilometers, Moremi as a reserve is unfenced.
This allows for the free movement of animals within the Okavango according to their seasonal migrations. Moremi Game Reserve provides outstanding game viewing throughout the year. As such when visiting to explore Moremi, one should be ready for close encounters with everything from elephants, buffalos, and antelopes, followed closely by predators; lions, leopards, wild dogs, etc. You have one night at a wilderness campsite to marvel at this exceedingly diverse reserve that offers an untouched wildlife experience.
- Accommodation: Mid-range camping
- Campsite: Wilderness campsite
- Meals: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 8: Departure
Wake up very early today to greet the fresh African morning with coffee and some light breakfast. Thereafter, you will take a leisurely wildlife drive through Moremi Game Reserve. During this drive, you might take some time to marvel at territorial hippos ‘yawning’ at each other in the lagoons or watch African jacanas pick weightlessly over waterlily pads as they search for food, while a fish eagle calls melodically from above.
Finally, after your safari drive through Moremi, you will head to Maun. The safari ends upon arrival in Maun today. You will be dropped off at Maun Airport for your onward travel or to your lodge where you will relax and rest. This will give you ample time to prepare for the next leg of your safari vacation or journey back home.
- Accommodation: none
- Meals: Breakfast and lunch
About the safari
Rather than travel overland on major highways, this eight-day safari will take you straight into the heart of the big game country where the nights vibrate with rustlings and calls, and one’s senses become more heightened and focused. Offering great value for money, this short safari provides you with the perfect means to indulge and immerse yourself in wild Africa, from Victoria Falls, through Chobe and the Okavango Delta.
Location
The safari is Botswana-based and will take you to Moremi Game Reserve and Okavango Delta, in one of the most diverse and game-rich sections of the delta which will accord you the possibility of spotting the otherwise elusive leopard. You will also visit Savuti which has developed a reputation for being one of the world’s premier predator viewing areas and Chobe with its legendary elephant population. This safari starts in Victoria Falls and ends in Maun.
Maun
Maun, Botswana’s tourism capital, lies on the southern fringes of the Okavango Delta. Snaking its way through Maun, the Thamalakane River welcomes you as it sets the scene and creates the mood of what lies ahead of your safari trip into Botswana’s pristine wildlife destinations.
Moremi Game Reserve
Contained within an area of approximately 3900 square kilometers, Moremi boasts diverse ecosystems ranging from floodplains, waterways, lagoons, pools, pans, grasslands, and riparian forests, riverine to mopane woodland. This diversity makes Moremi one of the prime game-viewing and bird-watching areas of the world.
Savuti
Savuti is best known for its predators, especially lions, cheetahs, and hyenas. One of its greatest mysteries is the Savuti channel which has over the past hundred years inexplicably dried up and recommenced its flow several times. When the Savuti Channel is flowing, it will carry water away from the Linyanti River and then release it into a vast swampland called the Savuti Marsh, made up of the rolling savannah. This will attract many different species of antelope, zebra, wildebeest, etc. which will, in turn, attract many predators such as lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, and wild dogs.
Chobe National Park
The Chobe National Park, covering approximately 11,900 square kilometers encompassing floodplains, swamps, and woodland, supports a diversity and concentration of wildlife unparalleled anywhere else in the country. Thus, Chobe National Park is an essential wildlife destination while on a safari in Botswana.
Food
During the safari, you will be served seven breakfasts, six lunches, and seven dinners. Drinks and snacks are included. If you have any special meal requirements, please let Moonstroll Vantage Expeditions know in advance so that provisions can be sourced well in time and provided accordingly. It is very important to note that there are no shopping facilities in the wilderness areas where you will be camping most of the time. Therefore, if you require extra necessities, please inform them so that shopping can be done before your safari starts.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
- Soda
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
- Other dietary requirements on request
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
Things to do (optional)
During this safari, you may opt to go on a scenic flight. Offering an aerial view of the Okavango Delta, this activity allows you to see the Okavango Delta’s unique water system from a different perspective. This activity can be arranged for you at an extra cost and can be undertaken on the day of your arrival. You will also have the chance to pay a visit to the Bushman rock paintings if time permits.
What's included
- Game drives in Chobe National Park, Savuti, Khwai Concession, and Moremi Game Reserve
- Guided tour of Victoria Falls
- Boat cruise on the Chobe River
- 7 nights accommodation
- 7 breakfasts, 6 lunches, 7 dinners
- Snacks and drinks
- Transfers from Maun Airport (MUB) and to Kasane Airport (BBK)
- Safari chef
- Services of a professional guide
- Camp assistants
- Vehicle(s) and fuel
- Mid-range camping, equipment, and associated fees
- Park fees
- VAT (14%)
- Tourism bed levy
What's not included
- Activities not mentioned and included as part of the itinerary
- Additional activities in Botswana and Victoria Falls
- Flights
- Items of personal nature including, but not limited to, hotel extras, laundry, phone calls and meals not mentioned in the itinerary
- Medical insurance
- Passport and visa fees where relevant
- Staff gratuities
- Travel insurance
- Visas
How to get there
Recommended Airports
MUB
Maun Airport
338 km
Transfer included
Airport: Maun Airport
Airport transfer included: Maun Airport
No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 35% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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