Botswana wildlife safari is a 5 day Botswana safari tour that starts from Maun and ends in Kasane. Botswana wildlife safari goes to the Okavango delta and Chobe National Park.

About Botswana Wildlife Safari

This is a 5 days African safari in Botswana. The Botswana wildlife safari starts from Maun and ends in Kasane. Botswana wildlife safari goes to the Okavango delta and Chobe National Park.

You’ll experience Botswana from the air. This is as you take a charter flight to your first destination, Xakanaxa Camp. The Camp’s accommodation is in 12 luxury twin bedded, spacious safari tents. They all have modern conveniences, guaranteeing a comfortable and stress free stay.

This Botswana wildlife safari includes drives through diverse vegetation. You’ll be looking out for some interesting animals during the game drives. This area also boasts a prolific birdlife, especially in the spring and summer. You can opt to fish the many Bream and Tiger fish waiting to be caught.

Botswana Wildlife Safari Itinerary

Days 1 and 2: Xakanaxa Camp, Botswana

Our Botswana safari rep will be at Maun Airport for meet and greet. You will be briefed on this Botswana wildlife safari. This is before you take a scheduled charter flight to Xakanaxa Camp.  Here you are booked on an all inclusive basis for 2 nights.

Xakanaxa Camp can accommodate a number of 24 guests. The camp is set on elevated platforms on the banks of the Khwai River. Each tent has a private viewing deck with comfortable sofas. They are well furnished with comfortable beds, tables and chairs.

The atmosphere is rustic and friendly. The service is highly personalized and of an outstanding standard. The open fronted dining room is also raised on a wooden platform. It is placed at the edge of the lagoon. Its thatch roof and reed walls add to the atmosphere of rustic comfort on this Southern Africa safari

. You’ll enjoy game drives through this sector of Moremi. This take one through a large variety of different vegetation types. You’ll go down winding tracks, through Mopane forests and across lush grasslands. The waterways are either forded by vehicles or crossed on rustic log bridges.

Birding in the Xakanaxa area is excellent. This is especially in the spring and summer months when the migrants are breeding. To the north of the Xakanaxa are the world-famous heronries. They attract large numbers of breeding Storks and Herons.

The summer months are best for fishing. This is good mainly Bream (Tilapia), but there are also Tiger Fish. All Botswana safari activities are conducted by fully qualified licensed safari guides.

Days 3 and 4: Chobe Game Lodge, Botswana

You’ll be chartered from Xakanaxa Camp to Kasane Airport. Your Botswana wildlife safari will go to Chobe Game Lodge. Here you are also booked on an all inclusive basis. Game drives will be done on open 4×4-safari vehicle.

You can also enjoy game viewing by motorboat. Don’t miss the sunset cruises on Mosi-oa-Tunya on the Chobe River. Stargazing and guided walks within the game fenced area is on offer.

All the rooms at the lodge are river facing and are air conditioned. They have overhead fans and a complimentary mini bar. They also have en-suite bathrooms, each with tea and coffee facilities. All rooms have their very own private terrace.

Day 5: Depart

Your Botswana wildlife safari day begins with an early breakfast.  There is a scheduled road transfer from Chobe Game Lodge to Kasane Airport. This is in time for your departure flight back home.

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5 Day Botswana Wildlife Safari Destination

Okavango Delta

The 5 day Botswana wildlife 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 5 day Botswana wildlife 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.

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 wildlife 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 wildlife safari guests will find the largest concentration of wildlife.

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

Wherever guests on Botswana wildlife 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 wildlife 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 5 day Botswana wildlife 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 wildlife 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 5 day Botswana wildlife safari can see over 500 species of birds and 85 recorded species of fish including Tigerfish, Tilapia and Catfish.

Botswana wildlife 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 wildlife 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 wildlife 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 lodges 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.

5 Day Botswana wildlife safari Accommodation

Ghoha Hills Savuti Lodge

5 day Botswana wildlife safari to Ghoha Hills Savuti Lodge is a Botswana tour to an eco-friendly and committed lodge that serves Chobe National Park and supports the mission of the Global Alliance of National Parks.

Within the Chobe National Park lies the fascinating game rich Savuti area. Ghoha Hills Savuti Lodge is ideally positioned on the edges of the Ghoha Hills overlooking the Savuti Plains.

The lodge is designed and built to blend into the natural surrounding environment and the elevated position assures spectacular unparalleled 180 degree views.

11 Luxurious tents with high quality beds & linen ensures ultimate comfort. The understated elegance of the décor, the views and the attention to your comfort is a perfect mix to make your 5 day Botswana wildlife safari extra special.

The thatched main area has an open dining area, bar and various small lounges overlooking an active waterhole. We have a refreshing pool, gym and a spa to take care of the mind, body & soul.

Ghoha Hills Savuti Lodge is ideally positioned on the edges of the Ghoha Hills in Savuti within the Chobe National Park approximately 150km south west of Kasane and 230km north east of Maun.

How to get there: Road transfer is approximately 3 hours taking you through parts of Chobe, some local villages and different 4 x 4 terrains. Transfers can be pre-booked at time of reservation from Kasane Airport. (Minimum 2 people)

Camp Moremi

Situated in the world-renowned Moremi Game Reserve, Camp Moremi 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 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.

The area is renowned for its large population of bull elephants and visiting Camp Savuti offers 5 day Botswana wildlife safari guests the chance of witnessing the unique interaction of the resident predator species.

Experienced and passionate guides will ensure that visitors on Botswana wildlife safari leave with irreplaceable memories in wildest Botswana.

5 day Botswana wildlife safari guests at Camp Savuti will be accommodated in private and peaceful Meru-style tents. There are 5 individual tents built on elevated wooden platforms offering some height for overlooking the channel.

Each unit has a private wooden veranda, complete with chairs for two; carpeted floors inside; twin or king-size beds with headboards and pure cotton linen; shelving space; a safe; and an ensuite bathroom with an outdoor, open-air shower.

The bathroom is separated from the main bedroom interior by a dividing canvas curtain that can be fastened back or pulled closed for privacy. There is a flush toilet and indoor bath.

The accommodation is wonderfully comfortable and cosy for cooler weather, yet it can be open and airy for those ultra-hot months from September to December. Guests can choose to rest and relax in the privacy of their rooms while watching game gathering at the channel.

Camp Xakanaxa

Camp Xakanaxa was one the first set up in Botswana’s mesmerizing 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 wildlife safari adventure to your taste buds!

Chobe Safari Lodge

Perched on the banks of the Chobe River beside the world-famous Chobe National Park, Chobe Safari Lodge is northern Botswana’s top heritage stay.

Established in 1959, decades of guest experience make this the ideal expedition base for iconic game viewing by boat, tiger fishing adventures or visits to the nearby Victoria Falls.

With its modern design and social atmosphere, Chobe Bush Lodge lies beside Chobe Safari Lodge, sharing the same classic facilities and grounds with roaming impala, rare Chobe bushbuck and entertaining warthogs.

Chobe Safari Lodge is situated in Kasane on the banks of the Chobe River and shares a border with Chobe National Park. It is the oldest lodge in Chobe and was established in 1959.

Right on the lodge’s doorstep is the meeting of four African countries: Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Chobe Safari Lodge therefore offers Botswana wildlife safari guests an excellent getaway location to Chobe, Victoria Falls or Caprivi.

Chobe Safari Lodge borders on the Chobe National Park. The lodge is in Kasane, on the Chobe River, and all rooms have beautiful river views. The park entrance gate is a short 10-minute drive from the lodge.

The restaurant serves a la carte as well as buffet-style meals. The cocktail bar and pool areas are most welcoming. The lodge offers excellent value for money accommodation. Botswana wildlife safari guests have options and can choose from camping to budget to luxury accommodation.

The lodge’s setting is remarkable for those on Botswana wildlife safari, as it overlooks both the beautiful river and the Chobe floodplains.

The lodge location is perfect for any safari traveller or visitor in Botswana. It’s a great place to do game drives and boat trips. Chobe Safari Lodge is the most sought-after lodge because of its price, location, and value for money.

We recommend that Botswana wildlife safari guets to make your reservations well in advance.

The campsite at the lodge offers some of the best sunset views for guest on Botswana wildlife safari in Kasane. The camp also overlooks the Chobe River. The Chobe Safari Lodge Campsite comes highly recommended by our team.