Chobe to Moremi

You arrive in Kasane and are met at the airport, then transferred to your camp or lodge on the Chobe Riverfront. A full safety briefing and camp orientation takes place before any activity. In the late afternoon, board a boat for your first sunset cruise on the Chobe River — hippos, crocodiles, kingfishers and, if you are lucky, elephants swimming across the channel.

Chobe holds Africa’s largest elephant population, and the riverfront is where they gather. A morning game drive along the floodplains is followed by brunch and a rest, then an afternoon river cruise for close-up views of elephants drinking and bathing, huge buffalo herds, and spectacular birdlife — including carmine bee-eaters in season.

A transit day by open 4x4 safari vehicle, heading south from the Chobe Riverfront into the Savuti ecosystem of Chobe National Park. This is a game-viewing day in its own right — your guide follows tracks and follows the wildlife as you go, with a picnic lunch set up in the bush along the way. You arrive at camp in the late afternoon, in time for a shower before dinner.

A full day of game drives in prime predator country. Savuti is famous for its lions, spotted hyenas and wild dogs, and for the elephants that move through in enormous numbers. Your guide will read the morning tracks and plan the day around what has been moving overnight. Sundowners on the marsh as the light drops is one of Botswana’s great safari moments.

A transit day by open 4x4 safari vehicle south-west into the Okavango region, arriving in the Moremi Game Reserve and the Khwai Concession. Wildlife is followed along the way, and you arrive at camp in the late afternoon. Khwai is one of the few areas in Botswana where night drives are permitted, so if conditions allow you can head out after dinner to look for genets, civets and owls.

An early start for the best predator activity. You explore the mopane woodlands, riverine forest and open floodplains around Xakanaxa Lagoon and the Khwai River. After brunch back at camp, the afternoon offers a game drive or — water levels permitting — a tranquil mokoro excursion along the Khwai. In the evening, weather and conditions allowing, another night drive.

If time allows, one last early-morning activity before breakfast. You are then transferred to the bush airstrip for your light-aircraft flight to Maun, landing in time for onward connections to Gaborone, Johannesburg, Cape Town and beyond. Guests continuing into the Okavango Delta can be assisted with onward charters.