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6-Day Tour To Okavango Delta & Salt Pans
  • Tour Category

    Group Tour

  • Tour Types

    Bird Watching, Camping, Canoeing

  • Duration

    6 Days

  • Activity Level

    Easy

  • Language

    English

Description

Enjoy the soul of Botswana on this tour by visiting the salt pan in the middle of the dry savanna of the north-east section. Witness the fascinating beauty and abundant residents of the Okavango Delta with a canoe/mokoro ride and walking tour. 

Highlights
  • Explore Makgadikgadi Pans and encounter lions, zebras, and exotic bird species
  • Glide through the Okavango Delta's pristine channels
  • Stargaze and delve into captivating astronomy stories
  • Day 1: Maun expand_more
    • Arrive at Maun International Airport. You will be met at the airport by a Botswana safari guide holding a signboard.
    • The guide will take you to your accommodation, where you will stay for 1 night on a bed-and-breakfast basis at your own expense. Lunch and dinner will be served at your own expense. You will arrive a day before the safari begins.
  • Day 2: Makgadikgadi Pans National Park expand_more
    • Drive 192 km in the morning in a safari game viewer vehicle on a tarred road with a professional guide to Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, lying southeast of the Okavango Delta surrounded by the Kalahari Desert. 

    • Relish a wonderful morning and afternoon game drive inside the Makgadikgadi Pans. As very few animals migrate in and out of the pan, you can expect to see lions, elephants, zebras, jackals, antelopes, meerkats and many birds species. Your driver/guide will be in contact with other safari drivers and will amaze you with his skill at locating the hidden animals. Several observation towers enable you to overview the park in its entirety. Makgadikgadi pans themselves are salty deserts whose only plant life is a thin layer of blue-green algae. 

    Overnight: Makgadikgadi Pans

  • Day 3: Makgadikgadi Pans National Park expand_more
    • After an early morning game drive at Makgadikgadi Pans, return to Maun.

    • Reach Maun in the afternoon and transfer to the hotel or the lodge you booked.

    • Stay overnight in Maun, and relax during the night as the following day you will be heading to the mighty Okavango Delta.

  • Day 4: Okavango Delta expand_more
    • Get picked up early in the morning from the lodge/hotel by your driver and leave for the mighty Okavango Delta a UNESCO Heritage Site. In the delta, you will meet the local mokoro (dug-out canoe) pooler, who will serve as your guide. The activity will be conducted by the community guide and the chef and camp assistants will be there with you.

    • Hop in a canoe/mokoro on your way to the camping grounds on the delta island where you will have lunch and siesta. 

    • Go for a walking safari late in the afternoon, experiencing the art of safari whilst walking in the same ground with animals like Zebras, elephants, Red Lechwe, blue-wildebeest and other different bird species like pied kingfisher, cormorants and the African data.

  • Day 5: Okavango Delta expand_more
    • Go for an early morning walk for 2 hours after breakfast. On foot, you can have a much more intense experience of the bush, experiencing the Okavango delta islands and animals found in the delta.

    • Savour lunch served at the camp and siesta and relaxation.

    • After the siesta, jump into the canoe now experiencing the Okavango Delta channels, birds, and trees and experiencing the mokoro dugout while in the delta.

    • Relish the dinner while on your way back.

    • After dinner, just relax under the milky starlight and learn more about astronomy and even do storytelling.

  • Day 6: Maun expand_more
    • On the departure day, you will drive to Maun and then transfer to the airport to continue with other travel arrangements.

What's Included
  • Transport in 4 x 4 game viewing vehicle 

  • Professional chef 

  • Botswana Safari Guide

  • Camp hand 

  • Mokoro cruise 

  • 2  Game drives

  • Polers

  • Nature walk on the Island

  • Park fees

  • Camping fees

  • Camping equipment’s (comfortable bedrolls, pillows, blankets)

  • All meals (breakfast, lunch & dinner)

  • Car fridge

  • Fruits

  • Bottled mineral water, soft drinks

  • Tea, coffee

  • First aid kit

  • Beers, wines, spirits

  • Airport transfers

  • Pick up and drop off from a place of accommodation

What's Excluded
  • Scenic flights over the Okavango Delta

  • Staff tip

  • Curios

  • Emergency evacuation

  • Insurance

Know before you go
  • The Makgadikgadi Pan is a salt pan situated in the middle of the dry savanna of north-eastern Botswana and is one of the largest salt flats in the world. Very little wildlife exists here during the harsh dry season of strong hot winds and only salt water, but following a rainy season, the pan becomes an important habitat for migrating animals, including wildebeest and one of Africa's biggest zebra populations, Flamingos and the large predators that prey on them. 

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
Adult
1 To 4 USD 3024 Per Person
5 To 7 USD 2880 Per Person
8 To 20 USD 2736 Per Person
Child
1 To 20 USD 1512 Per Person

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USD 3024 / person