About this tour
This tour has been organised as a Luxury Mobile Tour staying on private campsites. We will camp the days 2 through to 11. In total 11 nights out of our 13 nights stay. We start and end with a night in a Lodge to get ourselves organised. The camp is moved by a truck ahead and will have been erected upon arrival at the new campsite. This maximises the time we can spend birding/game driving.

Day 1
After the international flight from your home country we will take the connecting flight from Johannesburg to Maun, where we will arrive at midday. Our guide will wait for us at the airport and take care of the transport to our Lodge to refresh a bit after a long journey. We will stay in the Tamalakane River Lodge.

In the afternoon we will take a boat ride on the Thamalakane River. We will be looking for special species including Hartlaub’s Babbler, Slaty Egret, Swamp Boubou, Lesser Jacana, African Mourning Dove, Pygmy Goose and other aquatic species, e.g. herons, egrets, ducks, dabchicks. All of which may be seen on this stretch of the river.
Day 2 - 4
We journey to our tented camp near to Komana during the morning of day two. Our camp has its own extensive grounds, where it is safe to walk and observe several bird species, our first afternoon will be spent either relaxing or if you want, accompany the guide for a walk in the grounds, the option is yours.
The camp is only an hour’s drive away from Lake Ngami, a registered Important Bird Area and Ramsar Site. We will spend the second of our days in this area visiting the lake and also taking a boat tour of the lake. In years of high rainfall Lake Ngami fills with water, creating a lake of up to 250km2 in size. It then becomes an incredibly prolific place, with waterbirds in particular arriving in enormous numbers to breed. More than 60 waterbird species including 25,000 pairs of Red-billed Ducks, tens of thousands of Comb Ducks and sizeable populations of two species classified as Vulnerable – Wattled Crane and Slaty Egret, these are just some of the birds to be seen here.
For our third day in the area we will again visit the lake and explore its shores for animal and birdlife, but those wanting to relax around the camp and its grounds are welcome to make their own choice.

For our third day in the area we will again visit the lake and explore its shores for animal and birdlife, but those wanting to relax around the camp and its grounds are welcome to make their own choice.
Day 5

Day 6 - 7

We arrive at our camp in Khwai for a 2 night stopover and the Khwai area is one of the most beautiful places in Botswana as well as being very rewarding in terms of game viewing. It is situated in the north-eastern part of the Moremi Wildlife Reserve. Our stay here will be full of game and birding opportunities.
Day 8
Transfer day to Sengo Camp and a journey through the bush. Here we will arrive at our camp for lunch and have options to either relax in the camp and its surroundings or go on a trip in the Mokoro, again our guests can make their own choices.
Day 9 - 10

The western edge of Savuti is encircled by the Magwikhwe sand ridge, 100 km long and 20 metres high, which is the ancient shoreline of a super-lake that covered much of northern Botswana. It is difficult to imagine that this harsh dry landscape was once submerged beneath an enormous inland sea. A channel from the Linyanti River once fed the now dry Savuti Marsh, which is the deepest part of the Mababe Depression and is the only part to have filled with water in recent history.
Sometime around 1888 it started to dry up and remained completely parched until 1957. Camel-thorn acacia trees established themselves in the channel and along the banks and grew to full size. During unexpected floods these trees were drowned but as the channel and marsh dried out again, the dead trees became one of the most prominent features of the landscape.

Large Secretary Birds and Kori Bustards are often seen strutting around the Savuti marsh and small Red-billed Francolins provide us with a noisy morning wake up call. Interesting summer migrants and water birds include Abdim's Storks, Carmine Beeeaters and even Fish Eagles. Little Quelea Finches are quite a spectacle as they gather in their thousands. They reach a frenzy of numbers in about April when a single flock could contain tens of thousands of these small twittering birds.
Day 11 - 12

The Chobe River area contains an interesting variety of habitats and is rich in plant life, with mopane woodland, mixed combretum, sandveld, floodplain, grasslands and riverine woodland. Many trees have suffered considerable damage from the high numbers of elephants, who push them over and rip off the bark - and some woods have been totally denuded. The most popular area in and just outside Chobe National Park is the short 15 km stretch of Chobe River from Kasane town to the Serondela campsite. Few people come to Chobe without taking a trip on this river to see hundreds of hippopotamuses and crocodiles. Our two nights camping here will be punctuated by sundowner nights sipping chilled wine or other drinks with massed herds of elephant and buffalo acting as a backcloth to superb sunsets!
Day 13
After breakfast we will leave our camp to go to Kasana and further on to Kazangulo where where we will cross the border into Zimbabwe. We will need to buy a visa for those who did not buy one before, and then we will go on to the Victoria Falls. The trip to the Victoria Falls will take about 2 hours.
The Victoria Falls constitutes one of the most spectacular natural wonders of the world. The Local people call it "Mosi-oa-Tunya" -- the smoke that thunders and the Falls are remarkable. There is a magic about them manifested in the towering column of spray when the river is high, the thunder of the falling water, the terrifying abyss and tranquil lagoons upstream in which hippo and deadly crocodiles lurk.
The Victoria falls is 1708 meters wide, making it the largest curtain of water in the world. It drops between 90m and 107m into the Zambezi Gorge and an average of 550,000 cubic metres of water plummet over the edge every minute.
Remarkably preserved in its natural state, Victoria falls inspires visitors as much today as it did David Livingstone in the 1860's. The falls and the surrounding area have been declared National Parks and a World Heritage Site, thus preserving the area from excessive commercialisation.

The Victoria falls is 1708 meters wide, making it the largest curtain of water in the world. It drops between 90m and 107m into the Zambezi Gorge and an average of 550,000 cubic metres of water plummet over the edge every minute.
Remarkably preserved in its natural state, Victoria falls inspires visitors as much today as it did David Livingstone in the 1860's. The falls and the surrounding area have been declared National Parks and a World Heritage Site, thus preserving the area from excessive commercialisation.

The area surrounding the falls is a rainforest and is home to many different species of exotic birds. Area specials include Rock Pratincole, Schalows Turaco, Taita Falcon, Bat Hawk, Western-banded Snake Eagle, Augur Buzzard, Dickinson’s Kestrel, African Finfoot, Lesser Moorhen, Allens Gallinule, Lesser Jacana, Grey-headed Parrot, Coppery-tailed Coucal, Pels Fishing Owl, Pennant-winged Nightjar, Half-collared Kingfisher, Collared Palm Thrush, Rosy-throated Longclaw, Northern Grey-headed Sparrow, Broad-tailed Paradise Whydah, Brown Firefinch, Green-winged Pytilia. Today we will give the option; relax in the lodge, visiting the Victoria Falls or going out for birding and wildlife viewing.
We will stay the night in the A'Zambezi.
Day 14
The last morning we again have the option to visit the Victoria Fall or to go birding, but everybody is free to choose. After lunch we will go to the airport to get our flight back to Johannesburg and take our connecting flight home.