11-Day Botswana Safari from Kasane with Okavango Delta Mokoro

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Day 01

Arrival in Kasane

• Arrive at Kasane International Airport and meet your Botswana safari guide. Your guide will take you to your place of accommodation.

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Day 02

Into Chobe National Park

• After breakfast, depart for Chobe National Park.
• Arrive at the campsite with your African tour guide. Have lunch and start your game drive.
• Drive back to the camp before sunset.
• Start another game drive activity in the afternoon. The Chobe River is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful rivers in Africa. Deep and dazzling in the sandy terrain, it supports a diverse concentration of wildlife and bird species residing in the area. Thus, Chobe National Park is an indispensable safari destination in Botswana.

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Day 03

Game Viewing in Chobe

• Have an early breakfast of cereals and nibbles, and leave the camp just after sunrise.
• Head out for game viewing and proceed through the beautiful scenery of this part of Chobe while spotting buffalo, elephants, and lions.
• Come back to the camp for lunch and have a siesta.
• Resume your afternoon game drive with your Chobe tour guide.
• Arrive back at the camp before sunset and have dinner.

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Day 04

Safari Journey to Savuti

• Depart for Savuti, where you can see some of the game along the road.
• Arrive at the campsite and have lunch.
• Resume your afternoon game drive.
• Drive back to the camp before sunset.

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Day 05

Travel to Khwai and Afternoon Game Drive

• Let your African tour guide take you to Khwai in the morning and get an opportunity to see some of the game along the road.
• Arrive at the campsite.
• Resume your afternoon game drive.
• Drive back to the camp, have a warm shower, and then have dinner.
• Enjoy the sunrise on a morning game drive. After each morning activity, you return to the camping area for lunch and siesta time.
• Another game drive activity will follow in the afternoon.

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Day 06

Game Viewing in Moremi Khwai

• Leave the camp just after sunrise for game viewing.
• Proceed through the beautiful scenery of this part of Khwai with a very good chance of viewing buffalo, antelopes, and hippos.
• Come back to the camp for lunch and then have a siesta.
• Resume your afternoon game drive.
• Arrive back at the camp before sunset, have a shower, and enjoy dinner around the campfire.

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Day 07

Into Moremi Game Reserve

• Depart for Moremi Game Reserve and reach the campsite.
• Resume your afternoon game drive.
• Drive back to the camp, have a warm shower, and then have dinner. Moremi is one of the accessible areas with amazing wildlife, animals, and bird species. The reserve is widely considered the finest wildlife reserve in Africa, with diverse habitats combining acacia and mopane woodland with floodplains and lagoons. The wildlife highlights differ from day to day, and amongst them are leopards, lions, wild dogs, kudus, waterbucks, elephants, buffaloes, impalas, and rhinos. Birdlife is quite amazing in the area, with birds such as secretary bird, hornbill, lapwing, vulture, African jacana, African fish eagle, hamerkop, and crested crane, amongst many other species.

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Day 08

Game Viewing in Moremi Game Reserve

• Leave the camp just after sunrise.
• Head out for game viewing and proceed through the beautiful scenery of this part of Moremi Game Reserve with a good chance of viewing buffalo, elephants, and lions.
• Come back to the camp for lunch.
• Resume your afternoon game drive after a siesta.
• Arrive back at the camp before sunset, have a shower, and dinner will be served around a campfire.

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Day 09

Into the Okavango Delta

• Transfer to a mokoro station at Boro, where you will stay overnight in the Okavango Delta area for two nights.
• Arrive at your camping area and go on a short nature walk.
• Then come back to the camp and have lunch.
• After a siesta, resume your afternoon activity. You will enjoy mokoro. There will be much to see, from water-based animals to other wild animals such as zebra, impala, elephant, kudu, giraffe, waterbuck, hippo, and crocodile. Bird watching is also remarkable and includes hornbills, secretary birds, cranes, vultures, plovers, and doves.
• Come back to the camp before sunset.

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Day 10

Morning Game Walk and Mokoro Experience

• Start the day with an early morning game walk.
• Explore the channels and the intricate veins of waterways which interconnect the lagoons, or take a guided bush walk before having lunch or snacks. Your local tour guide will take you to a safe location where swimming is possible in the Okavango Delta, followed by a chance to learn how to pole a mokoro using the gnashi.
• Relax and unwind in the camp, refresh, and have dinner under the Milky Way starlit skies; after that, the guides and polers will narrate cultural stories and entertain with traditional dances that display animal tracking techniques and gathering methods for traditional medicinal purposes.
• Guests interested in astronomy will be treated to one of the most expansive displays of stars on earth by your tour guide before retiring in cosy tents for the night and drifting off to the sounds of the wild.

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Day 11

Departure to Maun

• Transfer to Maun Airport.