Botswana camping safari is a 10 day African safari tour to Botswana. This is a mobile camping safari tour in Botswana and Zimbabwe.

About Botswana Camping Safari

Botswana camping safari is a 10 day African safari tour to Botswana. This is a mobile camping safari tour in Botswana and Zimbabwe. The Botswana camping safari lets you traverse the wilds of Botswana.

You’ll explore Botswana from within its beauty. This Botswana camping safari allows you to be transported in a cloud of amazement. The Botswana camping safari allows you to visit the Victoria Falls in Zambia. This is what gives this Botswana safari tour an edge over the others.

Botswana Camping Safari Itinerary

Days 1 and 2: Maun – Okavango Delta

On arrival at Maun International Airport you’ll be met by our rep. Enjoy the welcome as you are briefed on your Botswana camping safari. Aboard a light aircraft you’ll proceed to Nxabega Airstrip. Here you’ll be met by our safari guide.  With introductions done, a game drive to the will follow.

The next 2 nights of Botswana camping safari will be spent at your campsite. This campsite is bordering the Moremi Wildlife Reserve. The camp is situated in a private concession area. This area boasts of the best views of the world’s only inland delta.

You’ll spend your days on game-viewing walks on the islands. With luck you’ll be able to spot the native lechwe and sitatunga antelopes. There are a number of giraffe and elephant are present along the floodplains. Predators like lions and leopards sometimes appear in the region to make a spectacular game viewing.

You’ll spend time sliding through the water channels in a mokoro. These are traditional dug-out canoes. These trips will let you encounter sightings of the resident hippos. There are also fish eagles and reed-clinging frogs that decorate the channels.

A mokoro excursion is the perfect way to rewind the long drives. You’ll be pushed along by tranquil waters that eventually absorb into the earth. There’ll be occasional sightings of fish surfacing the water.

You’ll return to your campsite after a satisfying Botswana camping safari day.  At the camp indulge in a filling meal while sharing the day’s stories. This is often in the evenings around a campfire. Take time to stare out into an endless horizon of stars. This is before concluding your day in your tent.

Days 3 and 4: Moremi Wildlife Reserve

Your Botswana camping safari enjoys a morning flight. This is in a light aircraft to the Khwai Concession. The concession is in the North Gate region of Moremi Wildlife Reserve. You will be here for the next 2 nights of your Botswana camping safari.

Your days on the concession will be spent marveling in the wonder of the wild. The concession has breathtaking views and a wealthy wildlife concentration. This will be an integral part of your stay here. A variety of landscapes will be displayed. They range from forests and floodplains to lagoons and islands.

You’ll have nonstop game viewing in this region. Look forward to sightings of resident species. They include lion, cheetah, leopard and wild dog. Elephants, zebra and red lechwe antelope can also be seen throughout the year. You’ll be kept occupied in extensive game viewing on drives and bush walks.

Days 5 and 6: Savute Region in Chobe National Park

You’ll spend more time in the bush on Botswana camping safari. This is to allow you spot a wider variety of fauna and flora. There will be 5-6 hours rummaging through the untamed bush. This is in search of your favorite African wildlife species.

The final destination of this game drive is the Savute region of Chobe National Park. The area is renowned for its impressive concentrations of wildlife. You will spend 2 nights marveling in the amazement this region exudes. The vegetation is a unique site on its own.

There are indigenous mopane forests. These are complemented by acacia savanna and rocky outcrops. The Savute Channel acts as a magnet as it draws large numbers of wildlife to its waters. This is acknowledged as being the prime spot to view predators.

The Savute region is roamed by lions, leopards and spotted hyenas. Large numbers of zebra migrate to the area after the summer rains. They have turned this region into a scrumptious marsh. You’ll dine under the stars before returning to your comfortable dome tent. Have a peaceful sleep with dreams shaped by the day’s experiences.

Days 7 and 8: Chobe River in Northern Chobe

Your Botswana camping safari leaves the Savute behind. Today you take your memories with you into your next destination of adventure. This will involve a long game drive that lasts for approximately 5 hours. This is as you head to the northern Chobe region. It is here that you’ll have the next 2 nights.

You’ll meet unbelievably-sized herds of elephant. They are a widely-known and accepted characteristic of the Chobe region. You’ll be able to view these grey giants as they parade in and around the Chobe River. Northern Chobe’s has a prolific list of bird and animal life. There are flawless sunsets that descend into a landscape of wonder.

Day 9: Victoria Falls

From here your Botswana camping safari will be driven to Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls. You’ll be escorted to The Elephant Camp and into your Victoria Falls activities.

Your guide will accompany you on a breathtaking tour of the Falls. This is one of the world’s greatest natural spectacles. The Falls was originally known by the local Batonga people as Mosi-oa-Tunya. This means ‘the smoke that thunders’.

There are endless activities in areas surrounding the Falls. This should deepen your love for the majestic wonder. Enquire about the optional activities before you arrive at the Falls.

You’ll be spoilt with choice of adventure available here. These include sports like bungee jumping and white water rafting. You can enjoy a helicopter ride over the falls among others activities. You can also visit the elephants at the Wild Horizons Wildlife Sanctuary.

Day 10: Victoria Falls International Airport

Your Botswana camping safari starts with a final breakfast. This is at The Elephant Camp before a transfer to Victoria Falls International Airport. This marks the end of your Botswana camping safari. This is in time for your departure flight back home

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Botswana Camping Safari Destinations

Okavango Delta

The Botswana camping safari also goes to the Okavango Delta. This is a vast and varied ecosystem created as the Okavango River flows into the Kalahari Desert in Botswana.

The Okavango Delta is rich in wildlife, this World Heritage Site is a sanctuary to some of the world’s most endangered animals and birds.

This delta in north-west Botswana comprises permanent marshlands and seasonally flooded plains. It is one of the very few major interior delta systems that do not flow into a sea or ocean, with a wetland system that is almost intact.

One of the unique characteristics of the site is that the annual flooding from the River Okavango occurs during the dry season, with the result that the native plants and animals have synchronized their biological cycles with these seasonal rains and floods.

 It is an exceptional example of the interaction between climatic, hydrological and biological processes. The Okavango Delta is home to some of the world’s most endangered species of large mammal, such as the cheetah, white rhinoceros, black rhinoceros, African wild dog and lion.

The Botswana camping safari takes you unique pulsing wetland. More correctly an alluvial fan, the delta covers between 6 and 15 000 square kilometers of Kalahari Desert in northern Botswana and owes its existence to the Okavango (Kavango) River which flows from the Angolan highlands, across Namibia’s Caprivi Strip and into the harsh Kalahari Desert.

Moremi Game Reserve

Botswana camping safari takes you to the oldest protected section of the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

A 100 years after explorer David Livingstone called this land ‘country full of rivers’, the environment and wildlife in the Moremi area were under threat. It is because of the bold, local Batawana people that this area was proclaimed Moremi Game Reserve in 1963, making Moremi the oldest and first protected reserve of the Okavango Delta.

As a sign of gratitude, the reserve is named after Batawana tribe members, Chief Moremi III and his wife. Now, the Moremi Game Reserve is one of the most diverse reserves with surprises everywhere, even for the most seasoned Africa-travelers.

The only proclaimed wildlife reserve in the Okavango Delta, Moremi Game Reserve (and its spectacular Khwai area) is also widely regarded as the most beautiful. Moremi Game Reserve has the most diverse habitat and animal populations in Botswana.

The reserve contains about a quarter of the Okavango Delta and stretches across several thousand square kilometres, comprising a stunning landscape of forests, lagoons, floodplains and islands.

Game viewing when on Botswana camping safari here is excellent year-round and resident species include lion, cheetah, leopard, elephant, African wild dog, zebra, red lechwe and many more.

In 2008, Moremi Game Reserve was voted ‘best game reserve in Africa’ by the prestigious African Travel and Tourism Association at South Africa’s premier tourism fair, Indaba.

It is the first reserve in Africa to be established by local residents. Concerned about the rapid depletion of wildlife in their ancestral lands – due to uncontrolled hunting and cattle encroachment – the Batawana people of Ngamiland, under the leadership of the deceased Chief Moremi III’s wife, Mrs Moremi, took the bold initiative to proclaim Moremi a game reserve in 1963.

It is the only officially protected area of the Okavango Delta. As such, it holds tremendous scientific, environmental and conservation importance. To this day, Moremi ranks as one of the most beautiful reserves in Africa, possibly in the world.

Chobe National Park

Chobe National park is famed for its massive elephant populations, big herds of buffalo (matched only by some large lion prides) and incredible birdlife. Chobe National Park will leave an everlasting memory.

Where else can one on Botswana camping safari find such an amazing riverfront, with bustling wildlife, undisturbed predators, heavenly landscapes and tranquil lodges?

The most accessible area of the park is the Chobe Riverfront, this is also where Botswana camping safari guests will find the largest concentration of wildlife.

For a more predator-rich area: guests on Botswana camping safari will head off to Linyanti Marshes. Or nourish your soul in the remote Savuti area.

Wherever guests on Botswana camping safari go in this park, wildlife encounters are plentiful and all of Chobe feels like true wilderness. It is a place that can be enjoyed by everyone: couples, families and seasoned Africa travelers.

Whether arriving by air or road, the first glimpse of the Chobe River is always breath-taking. It appears as a swathe of bright, blue ribbon, winding its way through the tiny town of Kasane and out into the Chobe National Park’s wilderness.

One of Africa’s most beautiful rivers, the Chobe, supports a diversity and concentration of wildlife unmatched in Botswana.

Established in 1968, Chobe National Park covers approximately 11,700 sq km, encompassing floodplains, swamps and woodland. The Chobe River forms the park’s northern boundary, which includes four distinct geographical areas: the Chobe Riverfront: the Ngwezumba pans; Savuté; and Linyanti.

The most accessible and frequently visited of Botswana’s big game country, the Chobe Riverfront, is most famous for the large herds of elephants and Cape buffalo that converge on the riverbank to drink during the dry winter months.

During the season, on an afternoon game drive, you may see hundreds of elephants at one time. The main Serondella Road sometimes becomes impassable as scores of family herds cross the main road to make their way to the river to drink, bathe and play.

Driving the tracks and trails close to the riverbank on your Botswana camping safari, you may see as many 15 different species of animals on any one drive.

Common species include waterbuck, lechwe, puku (endemic to this area), giraffe, kudu, roan and sable, impala, warthog, bushbuck, monkeys and baboons, along with the accompanying predators such as lion, leopard, hyena and jackal, who are never far away.

Take a river cruise – and on the Chobe National park safari, you’ll experience the park and wildlife from a completely different vantage point, getting up closer to hippo, crocodile and a mind-boggling array of water birds than you ever would on land.

Flora and Fauna to see on Botswana camping safari

The wildlife of the Okavango Delta is varied and plentiful thanks to the rich ecosystems and protection. The Okavango Delta supports large concentrations of animals on both a permanent and seasonal basis. Through careful wildlife management it has become perhaps one of the best places to see wildlife in Africa.

There is a dynamic seasonal shift of animals between the arid region that surrounds the delta and the Okavango Delta itself.

During the wet season most large animals move away from the delta to take advantage of the lush grazing that surrounds it. As this grazing begins to die in the winter animals’ move back to the delta.

Wildlife to be seen on Botswana camping safari in the Okavango Delta includes a myriad of species including African Bush Elephant, African Buffalo, Hippopotamus, Lechwe, Topi, Blue Wildebeest, Giraffe, Nile crocodile, Lion, Cheetah, Leopard, Brown Hyena, Spotted Hyena, Greater Kudu, Sable Antelope, Black Rhinoceros, White Rhinoceros, Plains Zebra, Warthog and Chacma Baboon.

Notably the endangered African Wild Dog still survives within the Okavango Delta and exhibits one of the richest pack densities in Africa.

In addition to the large animals the wildlife of the Okavango Delta, guest on Botswana camping safari can see over 500 species of birds and 85 recorded species of fish including Tigerfish, Tilapia and Catfish.

Moremi Game Reserve is situated in the central and eastern areas of the Okavango. It includes the Moremi Tongue and Chief’s Island, boasting one of the continent’s wealthiest and most diverse ecosystems.

This makes for spectacular game viewing and bird watching when on Botswana camping safari. Wildlife here include all significant, naturally occurring herbivore and carnivore species in the region and over 400 species of birds, many migratory and some endangered.

Both Black and White Rhino have recently been re-introduced, making the reserve a ‘Big Five’ destination.

Covering approximately 3,900 sq. km, where land and Delta meet, Moremi Game Reserve is a profoundly picturesque preserve of seasonal and perennial floodplains.

The landscape includes waterways, lagoons, pools, pans, grasslands, and forests. This terrain makes driving Moremi’s many tracks and trails delightful and exceptionally inspiring.

Moremi is a top-rated destination for self-drive campers, often combined with the northeast’s Chobe National Park.

The rustic Third Bridge campsite, situated near the pretty Sekiri River, flanked with thick stands of papyrus, is a favourite, creating lasting memories of glorious Okavango.

Botswana camping safari guests can encounter Chobe’s wildlife across the entire park. When the dry season begins, large herds of elephant and buffalo seek the permanent waters of the Chobe and Linyanti Rivers. Imagine thousands of them, coming sometimes all the way from Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park.

All year round, Chobe’s big game includes zebra, impala, baboon, blue wildebeest, kudu, giraffe, warthog and vervet monkey.

Lions and the spotted hyena are very common; together they are the dominant predators, bringing you spectacular encounters with big buffalo herds.

The riverfront is the hotspot to see hippo, crocodile and the slightly odd, leguvaan (the second longest lizard of Africa).

And, although seen less, the incredible cheetah, leopard and Africa’s rare wild dog roam the Chobe area frequently. Your Botswana camping safari guide will keep an eye out for these unique animals: seeing them in their natural environment is an unforgettable experience.

If you are very lucky on the Botswana camping safari, you might even spot the rarely seen, white rhino. Reintroduced in Botswana in 2001, they are spreading gradually. So a wandering rhino might turn up!

Some Chobe safari camps offer night drives on their own property; a very exciting and special trip. At night, the nocturnal animals emerge, such as bushbabies (adorable fluffy animals with big eyes), African wildcats and honey badgers.