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7 Day Overland
Okavango
Day
1: Nata (Botswana)
We depart early morning from Johannesburg & Pretoria. 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 2: 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 swimming pool.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
Days
3, 4, 5: 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. It is also one of the most beautiful and relaxing
places in southern Africa. Untouched for hundreds of years.
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
6: Palapye (Botswana)
This morning we head south to Palapye, where you can relax by the
pool.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included
Day
7: 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):
R 5 980 : Camping - Prices in South African Rand
Departure:
Wednesday
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
All accommodation
Qualified and registered guide
Meals as specified below
Okavango Delta
Open vehicle transfers (Okavango Delta)
Polers & mokoros
Excluded:
All drinks (except coffee & tea with meals)
Meals not specified below
Optional flight over Okavango Delta
Visas if needed
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