Intimate Wilderness Immersion

You are collected in Maun and flown by light aircraft to a bush airstrip in the Khwai Concession — roughly 20 minutes in the air. Your guide meets you on arrival and drives you to camp, where a full safety briefing and camp orientation takes place before any activity. Lunch, a siesta, then your first afternoon game drive along the Khwai River as the light softens.

Khwai is one of the few areas in Botswana where guided walking safaris and night drives are permitted. After an early morning game drive along the Khwai River, your guide takes you out on foot — reading tracks, watching birds at eye level, learning about medicinal plants and animal behaviour. In the afternoon, a tranquil mokoro excursion through the quiet channels. After dark, a night drive reveals genets, civets, owls and nocturnal predators.

A short game-viewing transit by open 4x4 south into the Moremi Game Reserve — one of the shortest transfers on any of our safaris. Wildlife is followed the whole way. You arrive at camp in the late afternoon, in time for a shower before dinner. Moremi is famous as the predator capital of the Delta, with exceptional sightings of lion, leopard, cheetah and wild dog.

A full day around the beautiful Xakanaxa Lagoon. Morning game drive through mopane woodland and riverine forest, followed by a boat safari through the channels around Xakanaxa — hippos, crocodiles, African fish eagles, malachite kingfishers and, on the islands, red lechwe and elephants crossing the water. Return to camp for a siesta, then an afternoon game drive as the light drops.

Another short 4x4 transfer deeper into the Okavango, arriving at a private Delta concession for three nights. Private concessions offer exclusivity and greater flexibility than national parks — including walking safaris, mokoro excursions and night drives. Settle into camp, then head out for a late-afternoon activity as the light turns gold across the floodplains.

A full day devoted to the Delta. Morning mokoro excursion through the crystal-clear channels, gliding past hippos, crocodiles and dazzling birdlife. Then a guided walking safari on one of the islands — reading tracks in the sand, watching elephants at a respectful distance, and learning how the Delta’s ecosystem fits together. Afternoon siesta, then a late game drive or another mokoro as the sun drops.

A second full day in the concession, shaped entirely around what has been happening. Perhaps an early morning walk to a leopard sighting, a long mokoro to a heronry, or a game drive to a favourite waterhole. In the afternoon, an optional night drive in search of the Delta’s nocturnal creatures. A farewell dinner in camp under the stars rounds off the safari.

If time allows, one last early-morning activity before breakfast. You are then transferred to the Delta airstrip for your light-aircraft flight to Maun, landing in time for onward connections to Gaborone, Johannesburg, Cape Town and beyond.