Botswana family safari is a child-friendly safari tour in Botswana.  This Botswana safari tour is designed to offer families discover African wonders together.

About the 4 Day Botswana Family Safari

Botswana family safari is a child-friendly safari tour in Botswana.  This safari is designed to offer families discover African wonders together. Activities are planned with your whole family in mind.

The young ones will learn African bush tricks. This will include tracking and hunting skills. Accommodation is in twin-bedded Meru tents with a bucket shower and bush toilet.

You’ll also have daily laundry service on this African safari in Botswana. A chef will prepare delicious meals for the whole family to enjoy. It’s time to enjoy your Botswana family safari.

Botswana Family Safari Itinerary

Day 1: Maun – Okavango Delta

You’ll be met on arrival at Maun International Airport. This will be done by our Botswana safari rep.  After introduction you will be briefed on this 4 day Botswana family safari. Aboard a light aircraft enjoy a transfer to Shinde Private Concession.

Our driver guides will meet you on arrival at the airstrip. In your 4 X 4 safari vehicles, enjoy a short transfer to your camp. You will be in time for lunch and a short rest. Later in the afternoon your Botswana family safari will venture into the wild. It is time to enjoy a guided walk.

There will be a bush craft lesson for the young ones. Do not forget to watch their creativity in bush skills. You will then enjoy a brief on animal behavior and how to treat wild animals.

This is to be followed by a guided walk around the area. Your Botswana family safari will expose you to the natural sights. Here you will hear sounds and smells of the African bush.

This will be an introduction to the wild Africa. It is to be followed by a return to your lodge. It is time to enjoy a bucket shower under the stars. Later you’ll gather around the campfire in time for dinner.

You’ll learn more about Botswana’s history and people through stories. If you are tired it is time to retire to bed. For the night owls, an examination of the star-filled African sky is not a bad idea.

Day 2: Okavango Delta

You’ll start the Botswana family safari day with an early morning river cruise. The river cruise trip proves to be fun for the whole family. You’ll be seated in a traditional dugout canoe. This canoe is locally called a mokoro. On your Botswana family safari, you’ll learn how to survive here.

This is a vast wetland that needs proper survival skills to conquer.  With luck you may spot the sitatunga. This is one of the world’s most unusual and secretive antelope. This will be before heading back to camp for brunch. Afternoon will be at leisure. You’ll be left to a lazy afternoon napping or reading.

In the meantime, your precious young cub/s will be under the watch of the guides. The guides will spend some time recording the morning’s observations. This will also include discoveries and have them in their Bush Journal. This is to be followed by having some creative fun.

Your children will learn some traditional bush skills. This may include basket weaving or carving the seed of the palm nut. Your Botswana family safari day will end in the evening. This will be courtesy of another delicious meal from the bush kitchen. You’ll be astounded to learn how the mouthwatering fare is produced on the fire.

Day 3: Okavango Delta

Today your Botswana family safari will be heading into the bush. This will be after your breakfast just as the sun rises. As you drive by, look out for the many species of large mammals.

Okavango Delta is home to wild dogs, elephant, lion, buffalo, cheetah, wildebeest and impala. Be ready to have an insight into the structure of the animals’ habitat. This will include your understanding of their body language.

Today you’ll also be introduced to the world of firearms. You’ll be taught on the safety measures necessary when handling a rifle. The importance of these measures will often be emphasized.

Later you’ll be let to handle and shoot a pellet gun on the bush range. This will be followed by trying ones angling skills in true Okavango style. You will do this along the banks of lagoons and channels.

If you are more adventurous then try this from the traditional mokoro. You will also learn how to catch a fish correctly. This will include how to handle and release it ensuring no harm is done to the fish.

The afternoon will be nap time for mummy and daddy. The lullabies will be a chorus of the hippos and the tinkle of the reed frogs. The young ones however will head off into the wilderness. With spotlight they’ll try and identify some of the many species that wake up as the sun sets.

Day 4: Maun

This is your last day on Botswana family safari. There will be an informal bush evaluation for the children. We will test their knowledge of the bush. This is from identifying tracks and animals to the skills on survival. If successful, they will be awarded an Okavango Delta certificate.

This will be welcoming them to the exclusive group of bush-rangers. After farewell, it’s time for a transfer across the Delta to Maun International Airport.

End of Botswana Family Safari

4 Day Botswana Family Safari Destination

The 4 day Botswana family safari takes you 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 4 day Botswana family 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.

Each year the Okavango River discharges approximately 11 cubic kilometres (1.1 × 10¹³ litres) of water into the Okavango Delta. Most of this water is lost to transpiration by plants (60%) and by evaporation (36%) with only 2% percolating into the aquifer system with the remainder finally flowing into Lake Ngami.

The Okavango Delta is affected by seasonal flooding with flood water from Angola reaching the Delta between March and June, peaking in July. This peak coincides with Botswana’s dry season resulting in great migrations of plains game from the dry hinterland.

Okavango Delta is generally flat, with a height variation of less than two meters across its area. The dry land in the Okavango Delta is predominantly comprised of numerous small islands, formed when vegetation takes root on termite mounds.

However larger islands exist with Chief’s Island, the largest, having been formed on a tectonic fault line.

The 1000th site to be inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2014, the Okavango Delta is an important wildlife area protected by both the Moremi Game Reserve. On its eastern edge, and the numerous wildlife concessions within Ngamiland.

An oasis in an otherwise dry environment the Okavango Delta is known for its superb wildlife, with large populations of mammals and excellent birding particularly in the breeding season.

What to See on the 4 day Botswana Family 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 the 4 day Botswana family safari of 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 4 day Botswana family safari can see over 500 species of birds and 85 recorded species of fish including Tigerfish, Tilapia and Catfish.

The Diversity of the Okavango Delta

The incredibly varied and rich eco-systems found in and around the Okavango Delta attract a stunning variety of wildlife. It is the incredible variety and concentration of animals and birds which has earned it the reputation as one of the top safari destinations in Africa.

Keystone Species

The Okavango Delta would not exist as we know it without the help of a number of keystone species which help to shape the environment and habitats in and around the Delta. These eco-system engineers include the elephant, hippo and termites.

Flora of the Okavango Delta

The aquatic environment of the Okavango has helped to develop a rich and complex eco-systems with thousands of tree and plant species which support the diverse wildlife found in the Okavango.

The diversity of the Okavango and surrounding areas is quite staggering. From Papyrus lined waterways peppered with lilies to open grass plains dotted with palm trees and wild sage, mopane forrests and the ancient baobab trees and acacia.

Common trees seen on this 4 day Botswana family safari  include the Candle Pod Acacia (Acacia hebeclada), Leadwood (combretum imberbe), Jackalberry (Diospyros mespiliformis), Marula (Sclerocarya birrea), Sausage Tree (Kigelia Africana) and the Knobthorn tree.

4 Day Botswana Family Safari Accommodation

Camp Moremi

Situated in the world-renowned Moremi Game Reserve, Camp Moremi lets visitors on 4 day Botswana family safari enjoys breath-taking vistas over the Xakanaxa Lagoon.

Nestled within a natural riverine forest of teak and ebony trees, twelve tented safari suites have an East-African flavour and a classic touch.

Hidden in lush green trees and branches, it feels like you are walking in an African fairytale forest. Enjoy outside dinners under an amazing starry sky, let a professional staff pamper you with their humour and warmth, dive in the large pool, start your day with homemade pancakes and enjoy excellent elephant, lion and leopard sightings (among many other species).

With no Wi-Fi connection, you are truly away from your fast pace life. Move with the rhythm of elephants, smell the sweet, warm breeze and explore African land and waters – you will leave Camp Moremi with an everlasting experience (and new friends). Feel at home.

The suites feature glass sliding doors opening out to private decks where you can enjoy manicured bush views and an attractive woodlands setting. All tents are beautifully decorated, with a soft, king size bed, luxurious en suite bathroom, comfy chairs and a desk to write down all your safari memories.

Traditional thatch and timber communal spaces invite you to relax or read, since the elevated lounge includes a wildlife reference library. Nestle yourself down on the viewing platform and marvel at extensive panoramas, mind blowing sunsets (with amazingly coloured African skies), and hippos at the lagoon. For breakfast, lunch and tea, of course, venture out to the outside boma.

There is nothing like a meal in the fresh African air. After an exhilarating safari day, order yourself a cocktail at the bar and reminisce about today’s wildlife sightings, while a homemade dinner is prepared.

Xugana Island Lodge

Xugana Lagoon is widely recognised as the most spectacular permanent water site in the entire Okavango Delta, which itself is Africa’s largest and most awe-inspiring oasis.

The Okavango River rises in the highlands of Angola yet never reaches the sea; instead its immense waters empty over the sands of the Kalahari, where the great thirst of the desert is quenched in a wilderness of freshwater lagoons, channels and islands.

Xugana Island Lodge is situated on a private concession and takes full advantage of this magnificent site. An expansive deck and al fresco dining area overlooks the vast, pristine body of water that makes up the permanent Okavango Delta.

The lounge, bar and dining areas are set back under the Ebony and African Mangosteen tree canopy in open-sided thatched structures, and the swimming pool, located within the mature gardens in the centre of the island, is a perfect place to relax.

The lodge accommodates only sixteen guests on 4 day Botswana family safari in large, raised, reed and thatch lagoon-facing chalets, with en-suite facilities and private viewing decks optimally placed on the shaded fringe of the island.