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10 Day Kruger National
Park and Okavango Delta
Day
1: Kruger National Park (South Africa)
We depart early morning from Johannesburg & Pretoria, via Nelspruit,
where we also pick clients up. En-route we stop for breakfast (own
cost). From here we head straight for the world renowned Kruger
National Park. The majority of this day will be spent doing game
drives, searching for as many animal and bird species as possible.
Your guide will tell you interesting stories about all the animals,
birds and not so usual trees.
Lunch will be enjoyed at one of the open picnic spots inside the
park. You will do a 3 hour night drive in an open vehicle inside
Kruger National Park, searching for nocturnal animals such as porcupine,
leopard, lion and many more species living in the park. Dinner will
be served after returning from the night drive.
Lunch, Dinner included
Day
2: Kruger National Park (South Africa)
The day starts with an early morning coffee or tea, before heading
for Kruger National Park, entering as soon as the gates open. We
will be doing a full day game drive, searching for more animals
of the 147 mammal, 502 bird and 114 reptile species. You also have
the option of doing an optional 3 hour game walk.
Accommodation: You will be staying in the bush camp (permanent semi-luxury
tented camp) of Kapama Game Reserve just outside Kruger National
Park.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
Day
3: Hartbeespoort (South Africa)
We start our final game drive as soon as the gates open, before
driving west to Hartbeespoort, where we overnight in a backpackers
lodge.
Breakfast included
Day
4: Nata (Botswana)
We depart early morning from Hartbeespoort. Your guide will stop
en-route for breakfast (own cost) and last minute shopping, before
reaching the Botswana border. You will get an opportunity to change
money, after crossing the border, from where we head further north
to Nata, where we camp the night.
Dinner included
Day
5: Maun (Botswana)
The day starts with an early morning breakfast, before heading west
along the northern border of the Kalahari Desert to Maun. We stay
the night at a great campsite just outside Maun, where you can visit
the crocodile farm, and relax by the pool.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
Days
6, 7, 8: Okavango Delta (Botswana)
The Okavango Delta must be one of the best experiences offered in
southern Africa, and offers a large variety of mammal, reptile and
bird species.
We start the day with a large breakfast, before heading into the
Okavango Delta with 4x4 open-sided game viewing vehicles. The local
guides (polers) will be waiting for us in the park at the waterline,
where we transfer all the equipment and our personal belongings
into mokoros (traditional dug out canoes). From here we glide down
the water channels deeper into the Okavango Delta, searching for
the ideal place to set up camp. There will be no fences, no running
water, no showers, no buildings and no electricity. We camp in the
wild with only what we take with us. After lunch you cool off by
swimming in a natural swim hole in the rivers.
Every day we will do early morning and late afternoon game walks,
searching for as many different animal species as possible. The
guides will explain more about all the animals, tracks and the Delta
during these walks. You will have the opportunity to get as close
as possible (safety first) to the wildlife of the Okavango Delta.
After dinners you can relax with the guides around a campfire, while
listening to their stories about the bush, animals, their cultures
and of course listening to the sounds of animals at night in Africa.
You start your last morning in the Okavango delta with a cup of
coffee before doing your final game walk. After the walk you will
enjoy breakfast, break down camp, and then return by mokoros to
the place where the 4x4 vehicles will meet you.
Your guide will prepare a light lunch on return to camp in Maun.
This afternoon you have the opportunity to do an optional one hour
flight over the Okavango Delta, during which you are guaranteed
to see many large herds of animals, as well as many single or smaller
groups of animals.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
Day
9: Palapye (Botswana)
This morning we head south to Palapye, where you can relax by the
pool.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
Day
10: Return to Johannesburg & Pretoria (South Africa)
We depart early morning for Johannesburg & Pretoria. Your guide
will stop en-route for breakfast (own cost).
No meals included
Price
per person (2008): In South African Rand
R 8 980 : Camping
R 9 480: Bedded accommodation (nights 1,2 3) Camping thereafter.
Departure:
Sunday
Depart
from: Johannesburg, Pretoria
Any Backpackers hostel, hotel, guest house
End
in: Johannesburg, Pretoria
Any Backpackers hostel, guest house, hotel or airport
Included:
All transport (open vehicle inside Kruger)
All accommodation
Qualified and registered guide
Meals as specified below
Cheetah & endangered species research centre
Kruger National Park
Night drive inside Kruger National Park
Okavango Delta
Polers & mokoros
Game walks while inside the Okavango Delta
Excluded:
All drinks (except coffee & tea with meals)
Meals not specified below
Optional game walk inside Kruger National Park
Optional 1 hour flight over the Okavango Delta
Visas if needed
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