There are travellers who prefer the great outdoors. If you are one of them, then this option is tailor-made for you. This tour provides guests with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the wilderness by staying in small, customized mobile camps in remote areas. Typically, a mobile camp consists of a central area serving as a dining area. Camp chairs are arranged around a fire-pit or beneath the shade of a tree. The accommodation is tented.
This is a comfortable non-participation private camping safari. In this safari, guests can fully relax without being involved in camp duties. You will be accompanied by a guide, chef, and a camp assistant who will cater to your needs. It offers an authentic safari experience where the camp is set up on a private site
Accommodation is provided in dome tents (measuring 2.4 meters by 2.4 meters), featuring basic en-suite facilities – including bucket shower, basin and toilet. However, the toilet is often not of the flush type – instead it is a drop toilet (consisting of a hole in the ground with a basic seat above it), and relies on ash or chemical mechanisms for sanitation.
Guests are treated to three meals daily, skilfully prepared by the camp chef, who possesses the remarkable ability to create sophisticated and delectable meals even in the midst of the wilderness. Game drive activities primarily occur during the early mornings and late afternoons, with relaxation time back at camp during the midday hours.
Moremi Game Reserve is about 100 kilometers from Maun. Often described as the most beautiful of all wildlife sanctuaries in Africa, Moremi Game Reserve covers almost a third of the entire Okavango Delta. Explore the diverse habitats where desert and delta support floodplains, pans, lagoons, channels, woodlands and forests, each offering unparalleled excitement and adventure.
This safari is undertaken in customised safari vehicles with rear mounted game viewing seats underneath a canvas canopy - offering 360-degree views and fantastic opportunities for game viewing. This tour commences and ends in Maun.
Warm clothes are necessary during winter months and rain gear during the rainy season.
Pick-up from Maun international airport/accommodation by a professional safari guide. A short introduction and brief on what to expect on your safari before heading out for Moremi Game Reserve through Shorobe. The drive will take about 3-4 hours depending on what you see on the way. The game drive technically starts once we have passed the Buffalo fence. Packed lunch will be carried with us.
Arrive late afternoon at your designated camping ground in Moremi, where we will be camping for 6 nights in 2 separate campsites. Find your camp already set by our camp staff. Time to relax and stretch your legs , pre-dinner refreshments, take dinner under the stars and later relax for a while around a blazing campfire listening to the calls of hyenas and lions. Guests interested in astronomy will be treated to one of the most expansive displays of stars on earth, before retiring in cosy tents for the night and drifting off to the sounds of the wild.
An early morning wake up call for tea and coffee with breakfast depending on clients food preferences, before we go for morning game drive. Leaving camp just after sunrise, we will proceed through the beautiful scenery of the Moremi Game Reserve. Our game drive will take us to the park’s most productive areas such as Black Pools and Xini Area. These areas are in the south western part of Moremi. There is plenty of game in these areas with a very good chance of seeing elephant, buffalo, rhino, giraffe, lion, leopard, hyena, jackal, and many different antelopes, including red lechwe and sitatunga, the web-footed antelope perfectly adapted to life in the swamps, as well as a wide variety of birdlife. Wild dog whose numbers are so rapidly dwindling elsewhere, are regularly sighted in the Moremi Game Reserve
Return to camp for brunch and a siesta before heading out for a late afternoon game drive that will lead to sundown. Find a good spot and enjoy refreshing sundowners (G&T, wine, soft drinks, water) till sunset . Return back to camp.
After an adventurous day, spend the evening enjoying delicious cuisine and then retire to your cosy tents for a good night’s sleep
Up with the dawn, you will greet the beauty of this extraordinary landscape coffee and rusk in hand. Today you have another early start. We will leave camp just after sunrise, we take our belongs with us(bags) and head to Xakanaxa and Third Bridge for 3 nights, our camp staff will brake the camp as we move to the next camp spot. Located in the western part of Moremi, Xakanaxa and Third Bridge areas offer a more interesting and varying habitat for wildlife – gigantic mopane forest opening up to wide open spaces of floodplains, seasonal and permanent swamp. The wildlife in this area is therefore spoilt for habitat, from island to woodland, and floodplain to permanent swamp. With such diversity of habitat, time spent in this area is quite rewarding.
You will also have a packed lunch at approximately 1pm at a picnic spot chosen by your guide – perhaps with a view of elephants! Bottled water and soft drinks are also provided and a cooler box with ice.
We head to camp after sunset where our professional camp staff will already have set everything up awaiting your arrival. Enjoy a refreshing sundowner, followed by a hearty dinner again under the expansive night sky.
Today we wake up early morning for light breakfast with tea and coffee just prior to sunrise, our main focus is to locate the big cats in areas that may include Dead Tree Island. Lions can be spotted as they follow the herds of buffalo and other game which roam in these areas. The lagoon of Dead Tree Island is home to a large concentration of hippos and offers an excellent array of semi- aquatic species.
You will also have a packed lunch at around 1pm at a picnic spot chosen by your guide – with a view of a pod of hippos, for all you know! Bottled water and soft drinks are also provided, and a cooler box with ice. Boat cruise is highly recommended here(OPTIONAL)
Arrive back at camp before dark to a roaring campfire and late sundowner refreshments, dinner as you evaluate your trip with your safari guide, share your safari experience before you relax to the sounds of the night.
Early morning wake up for light breakfast before heading out for your final game drive in Moremi as we transit to Maun.
Drop-off at the Airport or your Accommodation.
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