Cheap Botswana safari is a 12 day Southern Africa safari in Botswana. This cheap Botswana safari combines Botswana and Zambia. The cheap Botswana safari will take you to the amazing Victoria Falls.

About the 12 Day Cheap Botswana Safari

The cheap Botswana safari is a 12 day Southern Africa safari in Botswana. This cheap Botswana safari combines Botswana and Zambia. The cheap Botswana safari will take you to the amazing Victoria Falls.

The 12 days cheap Botswana safari starts from Maun International Airport. You’ll have time to visit the Okavango Delta in Botswana. This is an action packed filled Botswana safari tour.

Enjoy guided tour in a Mokoro on the Okavango Delta waterways. There is the amazing game viewing in Chobe National Park. Your nights on cheap Botswana safari will be spent in camps.

Cheap Botswana Safari Itinerary

Day 1: Maun, Botswana

You will be met at Maun International Airport. This will be by our Botswana safari rep. You’ll enjoy some time on cheap Botswana safari briefing.  Enjoy a shared road transfer to Thamalakane River Lodge. This is located just outside of Maun.

The lodge is set on the banks of the Thamalakane River. You’ll be accommodated on the edge of the Okavango Delta. Spend the night being serenaded by the sound of Hippos and Bell Frogs. The lodge offers comfortable accommodation in en-suite stone chalets.

Days 2 and 3: Okavango Delta, Botswana

Your cheap Botswana safari will start as you head to the Okavango Delta. This will be with a transfer on motorboats. You’ll cruise along the narrow papyrus-lined channels of the Delta.

Along the way you’ll be searching for the elusive Sitatunga Antelope. Don’t forget to enjoy the exquisite bird life of the region. This is as you absorb the stunning landscape of this area on your safari travel in Africa.

Deeper in the Delta you will meet your mokoros. They are traditional dugout canoes. You will enjoy a tranquil ride to an island where you will spend 2 nights. Most of your time will be spent exploring the island on foot and by mokoro. Your cheap Botswana safari will be camping in the wild with bush ablutions.

Day 4: Maun, Botswana

You will return to your vehicle and retrace your route to Maun. You have the option on cheap Botswana safari to fly or drive to Maun. This will provide another perspective of this unique water system.

This is because flying gives you a chance to spot game from the air. Tonight will be spent at a private camp outside Maun.

Days 5 – 7: Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana

The big game aspect of cheap Botswana safari takes you to Moremi Game Reserve. This is one of the best wilderness areas of Botswana. The park covers swamp areas as well as dry land.

The next 3 nights of your cheap Botswana safari will be spent here. This park has a wide variety of animals and birds in the reserve. Enjoy yourself while absorbing the sounds and beauty of this region.

Enjoy cheap Botswana safari game drives as the sun rises. There will also be game drives late in the afternoon as the sun sets. You’ll then move campsites to a different area of the park.

This allows you to explore the different regions this diverse area has to offer. Camping will be in private designated areas with bush ablutions.

Days 8 – 10: Chobe National Park, Botswana

Today your cheap Botswana safari heads to Chobe National Park. The park has diverse and striking landscapes. As you continue your search for wildlife, you will traverse the drier region of Savuti. Here there are large Bull Elephants that dot the plains.

Your cheap Botswana safari then heads northwards to the Chobe River. Here your game drives will meander along the banks of the river. They are to be followed by the call of the majestic African Fish Eagle. You will camp in private designated areas with bush ablutions.

Days 11 and 12: Livingstone, Zambia

Your cheap Botswana safari will cross the Zambezi River by ferry. You’ll then drive to Livingstone on the Zambian side of the Victoria Falls. Here you will stay at a comfortable lodge. You will have time to visit the thunderous Victoria Falls and shop for curios.

There are many exciting optional activities offered at Vic Falls. All of these are at an extra cost.  You are booked on bed and breakfast at your lodge. You will be transferred by road to Livingstone Airport.

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12 Day Cheap Botswana Safari Destinations

Okavango Delta

Okavango Delta

The 12 day cheap Botswana 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 12 day cheap Botswana 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

12 day cheap Botswana 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 12 day cheap Botswana 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 12 day cheap Botswana 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 12 day cheap Botswana safari guests will find the largest concentration of wildlife.

For a more predator-rich area: guests on 12 day cheap Botswana safari will head off to Linyanti Marshes. Or nourish your soul in the remote Savuti area.

Wherever guests on 12 day cheap Botswana 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 12 day cheap Botswana 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 12 day cheap Botswana 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 12 day cheap Botswana 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 12 day cheap Botswana 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 12 day cheap Botswana 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.

12 day cheap Botswana 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 12 day cheap Botswana 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 12 day cheap Botswana 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.