Botswana fly in tour is a 7 day African safari in Botswana. Botswana fly in tour takes in some of the most dramatic areas in Botswana. Your safari tour of Botswana will visit Chobe National Park and the Okavango.

About Botswana Fly in Tour

Botswana fly in tour is a 7 day African safari in Botswana. Botswana fly in tour takes in some of the most dramatic areas in Botswana. Your safari tour of Botswana will visit Chobe National Park and the Okavango. Here you can make unforgettable memories.

This Botswana fly in tour has been carefully constructed with you in mind. This is to ensure you get an insight into unique features of Botswana’s heritage. You’ll encounter dramatic landscapes to unique animal interactions.

This Botswana fly in tour is rated among the top South African safari holidays. Activities range from water-based game viewing to dugout canoe safaris. You will also have game drives and one on one interaction with Elephant.

You will make use of carefully selected accommodation. This provides an excellent base for a wilderness experience that is hard to beat.

Botswana Fly in Tour Itinerary

Day 1: Chobe National Park

You will be met on arrival in Kasane off your scheduled flight. This will be by our Botswana safari representative. You will have a few minutes to be briefed on the Botswana fly in tour.

Enjoy a transfer to your game lodge. This is situated high above the floodplains of the Chobe River. You’ll be able to view stretches into eternity. You can settle into your spacious rooms at the lodge. Each room has a private garden.

Later in the afternoon you’ll embark on game drive along the Chobe River. You’ll return to your lodge in the evening in time for dinner and overnight.

Day 2: Chobe National Park

You will starts your Botswana fly in tour day early. This is by going for a game drive along the river. With luck you may see predators going about their business.

The Chobe River is legendary for its huge Elephant numbers. It is thought to have the largest elephant population in Africa. This area is part of an ancient Elephant migration route. It’s not uncommon to see herds crossing the river into Namibia.

Afternoon tea will be served before the late activity. In the evening you’ll explore the wonders of the Chobe River. Your guide will share with you his vast knowledge of the Chobe. Cocktails will be enjoyed looking out over the floodplains before dinner is served.

Day 3: Chobe – Okavango Delta

You will begin your Botswana fly in tour day with an early breakfast. There may be an opportunity for an early-morning game drive. This is before boarding a light aircraft in Kasane to fly to the Okavango. This flight goes across the vast expanse of the Botswana wilderness.

The next 2 nights will be spent in a bush camp. It is located in the seasonal floodplains of the Okavango. This bush camp provides for drama and excitement at every turn. There is something special about this area during the dry season.

It is also amazing when the floodwaters are at their highest. We’ll leave this to your wildlife guides to explain this in detail.

Day 4: Okavango Delta

Your Botswana fly in tour day’s activities depend on the water levels. These may include game drives, boat rides or some nature walks. The peak of these will be a one tete a tete with semi-habituated Elephants.

You’ll learn a little more of the intimate habits of these gentle giants. The afternoon activity allows you to gain more insight into this unique area. You will have time to explore the floodplains and the islands.

There will be an evening stop at a spectacular vantage point for sundowners. This is before returning to the bush camp for dinner. The evening is well spent around the camp fire. You may also have time to meditate upon the day’s achievements.

Day 5: Okavango – Moremi Game Reserve

Today your Botswana fly in tour takes a short flight to the Moremi Game Reserve. You will be here over next 2 nights. This area is considered by most people to be the predator capital of Africa.

It is situated on the far western side of the Moremi in the Mombo concession. It is a place of choice for countless wildlife documentary makers. You will be awed at every turn during your stay here.

Day 6: Moremi Game Reserve

You will have to start your Botswana fly in tour day early. This will be to an early morning game drive. This will be before breakfast and embarking on a mid-morning drive.  It will be just a taste of what this legendary area has to offer.

Nutritious floodplains and islands provide a haven for a multitude of animals. It is this attracts predators in numbers. This area is known for its natural beauty. This gives you the sense of the Africa of old.

The afternoon may not let you have some sleep due to the urge to go out.  In place of the sleep, take the option of having a spa treatment to calm your emotions. This will be a super prep before the afternoon drive.

Your guides know the movements of the animals as well as their habits. They will therefore spend time in search of them. This is to ensure you experience the best wildlife viewing.

You will have dramas unfolding each moment and at every turn. This might not give you time for a sundowner. You’ll just head straight to your camp after the game drives.

Day 7: Moremi – Maun Airport

Wake up to the last day of you Botswana fly in tour. This day begins with an early breakfast. You have got time for a last exciting game drive. This will be followed by a transfer to the airstrip in Moremi.

You will fly over the delta to Maun in time for onward connecting flights.

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Botswana Fly in Tour Destinations

Okavango Delta

The Botswana Fly in Tour 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 Botswana Fly in Tour 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.

Moremi Game Reserve

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 Fly in Tour 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.

Flora and Fauna on Botswana Fly in Tour

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 Fly in Tour. 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.

Botswana Fly in Tour Accommodation

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 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.

Camp Moremi

Sheltered by ancient ebony trees and set on the banks of the lush Xakanaxa (pronounced ‘ka-ka-na-ka’) lagoon in the pristine wetland of the Okavango Delta, Camp Moremi provides a true ‘get away from it all Botswana Fly in Tour experience.

With only 11 East African-style safari tents (and one family tent) and located in the heart of the Moremi Game Reserve, Camp Moremi is ideal for those keen on ‘unplugging’ from modern communications but who still want some 21st century creature comforts.

‘Water safaris’ by boat allow you to go in search of hippo, elephants and water fowl, and are an excellent way of understanding this vast and fragile ecosystem (the water here is too deep to use mekoro).

Back at Camp Moremi, tuck into their famous homemade bread at lunch and then take to your viewing deck with a book and binoculars – or to your king-sized bed for a lazy siesta.

With a beautiful setting, comfortable accommodation and attentive staff, Camp Moremi is an excellent introduction into the lifeblood of Botswana on your Botswana Fly in Tour.

Camp Xakanaxa

Camp Xakanaxa was one the first set up in Botswana’s mesmerising Okavango Delta. Today, it has a welcoming balance between old-school rustic charm and modern conveniences and, being fenced, is a good choice for families travelling with pre-teen children.

It is also wheelchair-friendly and has four open-roofed Land Cruisers for game drives in Moremi Game Reserve, and three power boats for exploring the gentle reeded waterways of the Delta.

There are 12 twin-bedded Meru-style tents and a separate guide’s tent for those who bring along a personal tracker, guide or other staff. There is also one of the largest swimming pools in the Delta and a cosy fire pit for convivial sundowners.

As part of the laid-back atmosphere of Africa, Camp Xakanaxa has an ‘open bar’ where you can help yourself to your favourite tipple and the kitchen staff will be happy to prepare some local dishes if you want to extend your Botswana Fly in Tour adventure to your taste buds!

Sanctuary Chief’s Camp

This exclusive safari camp comprises top-notch accommodation on iconic Chief’s Island – the largest in Botswana’s Okavango Delta.

Twelve secluded bush pavilions with thatched roofs are located in the Moremi Game Reserve with views of the Piajio floodplain and Botswana Fly in Tour guests all but guaranteed predators sightings as this area is generally thick with game.

During the flood season guests are able to explore the miraculous waterways of the Delta by mokoro (dug-out canoe) in search of a diverse array of wildlife, including the elusive white rhino seen nowhere else in Botswana.

Twice daily games take place in 4x4s that seat six, meaning each guest has a coveted ‘outside seat’. After returning, be welcomed back to Chief’s Camp with refreshing hot towels and cool drinks.

Birders on Botswana Fly in Tour should be in the look-out for jewel-like malachite kingfishers, while leopard frogs cling to the reeds of the Delta. Chief’s Camp is well laid-out, with a swimming pool, open-plan bar, safari shop for last-minute essentials and tranquil views over Piajio. Sisal, leather, wicker and wood combine to create tasteful and comfortable interiors.

The wellness studio is on tap for massages, facials, scrubs and nail treatments during the sunny afternoons between a delicious lunch and your late-afternoon game drive on this Botswana Fly in Tour.