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Botswana safari adventure takes you to the heart of Botswana. This is a 10 days African safari in Botswana. Engrave your memories in the African soil on this Botswana safari adventure.
About Botswana Safari Adventure
Botswana safari adventure takes you to the heart of Botswana. This is a 10 days African safari in Botswana. Engrave your memories in the African soil on this Botswana safari adventure.
This Botswana safari adventure lets you become one with the wild. It is a nonstop African safari adventure in Botswana. This Botswana safari adventure allows you to tour Botswana. This is a country overwhelmed by its majesty.
Botswana safari adventure let you have a connection to its authenticity. You’ll wake up to the sounds of a serenade by a chirping bird choir. You’ll also be lead into an encounter with the giants of the wild.
Botswana Safari Adventure Itinerary
Day 1 - 3: Maun - Central Kalahari Game Reserve
You’ll be met on arrival at Maun International Airport in Botswana. Our Botswana safari rep will brief you on the Botswana safari adventure. Maun is on the edge of the Okavango Delta. You’ll enjoy a transfer to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. It is here that you’ll spend the first 3 days of Botswana safari adventure.
Central Kalahari Game Reserve is the second largest game reserve in the world. The reserve is a hub of wildlife activity in the Kalahari Desert.
The park contains wildlife such as giraffe, brown hyena and warthog. It is also home to cheetah, wild dog, leopard, lion and the blue wildebeest. We cannot forget the eland, gemsbok, kudu and red hartebeest found here.
Your day on Botswana safari adventure starts with tea or coffee. This is before you set out on an early game drive. You will admire many wildlife species as they awake in their natural habitats. This will be followed by a late brunch.
In the afternoon there is time for a siesta before tea. This is followed by an evening game drive adventure. At this time you’ll be in search of the nocturnal creatures.
You will return to camp for supper later in the evening. It’s time to reminisce on the Botswana safari adventure days' events and sightings. You’ll share stories around a camp fire under a canopy of stars. Your overnight will be in your tents.
Day 4 - 6: Makgadikgadi Pans
Your Botswana safari adventure takes you to the Makgadikgadi Pans. This is a large salt pan in the middle of the dry savanna. It is located in northeastern Botswana. The pan is all that remains of the formerly enormous Lake Makgadikgadi. This lake dried up several thousand years ago.
You’ll wake up to a warm mug of coffee. This is before setting out on your Botswana safari adventure day exploration. A game drive will introduce you to the region as well as to its unique wildlife.
Visit the nearby colony of meerkats. You’ll relax in humor as these strange creatures peek their heads out of a hole to stare at you. Experience a surreal feeling as you interact with the little animals. This is a treat and a great form of entertainment.
Your lunches will involve indulging in delicious meals. This is before spending the afternoon time at leisure. In the evening the Botswana safari adventure will heading out into the sunset. It is time for an evening game drive.
You will collect memories on your drive and reflect on the day's events. This is as you gaze into the flames of the evening campfire. You’ll dine under the stars as you are served a camp dinner. This will be followed by retiring into your spacious tent for a well-deserved rest.
Day 7 - 9: Nxai Pan National Park
Today your Botswana safari adventure camp moves to the Nxai Pan. This is a large salt pan topographic depression. You’ll start your day in true camp tradition, with coffee or tea around a campfire.
You’ll then embark on a game drive in the Nxai Pan National Park. This is a seasonal home to herds of up to 25,000 zebra. These animals make a remarkable migration through the Makgadigadi and Nxai Pan region.
It is important to pay close attention as you move through the bush. You’ll be on the lookout for lions, hyenas and cheetahs.
You’ll have quick pit stop at your campsites during mid day. This is to have lunch and a short rest. In the evening your Botswana safari adventure goes for game drives.
The evenings are spent in search of nocturnal predators. They are often awakening out of their afternoon laziness. They venture out to hunt for prey. Watch as the natural life cycle completes its rounds under a darkening sky. You’ll return to camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 10: Nxai Pan - Maun
This is your final day of the Botswana safari adventure. It will be a return to Maun International Airport. You will be in time for your flight back home.
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10 Days Botswana Safari Adventure Costs:
What is included in the 10 Days Botswana Safari Adventure cost?
- Accommodation in as per the itinerary
- Transport in a 4 X 4 Safari vehicle with pop up roof
- Meals on full board basis while on the 10 Days Botswana Safari Adventure
- All park entrance fee
- All Government tax
10 Days Botswana Safari Adventure cost excludes:
- Visa
- Items of personal use
- Deviation from the above program
- Drinks and beverages
- Tips and porterage
What to Carry on the 10 Days Botswana Safari Adventure
- Sun glasses
- Light and some few heavy clothing
- Sun screen
- Insect repellant
- Hat
- Comfortable shoes
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Botswana Safari Adventure Destinations
Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR)
Nothing can prepare Botswana safari adventure visitor for the sheer size and immensity of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), nor its wild, mysterious beauty. There is the immediate impression of unending space, which gives the impression of having the entire reserve to yourself.
Waist-high golden grasses stretch to the horizon, punctuated by dwarfed trees and scrub bushes. Wide and empty pans appear as vast white stretches of pancake-flat earth, meeting a soft, blue-white sky. At night the stars are genuinely awe-inspiring, utterly dominating the land with their brilliance and immediacy.
Botswana safari adventure takes you to the largest, most remotely situated reserve in Southern Africa and the second largest wildlife reserve in the world, encompassing 52,800 sq. km.
During and shortly after good summer rains, the flat grasslands of the reserve's northern reaches teem with wildlife, which gathers at the best grazing areas. On Botswana safari adventure here you will see large herds of springbok and gemsbok and wildebeest, hartebeest, eland and giraffe.
Silver Terminalia sand veldt, Kalahari sand acacias, and Kalahari apple leaf dominate the landscape, interspersed with grasslands and dotted with occasional dunes, pans and shallow fossil river valleys.
Initially established in 1961 to serve as a sanctuary for the San people in the heart of the Kalahari (and Botswana), the CKGR provides space for traditional lifeways, without intrusion or influence from the outside world.
Following 30 years of closure, the 1980s and 1990s saw limited self-drive and organised tours. Following initiatives lead by the Government of Botswana to diversify tourism across the country; authorities allocated concessions for lodge construction. These sites are at the peripheries of and inside the reserve, allowing for fly-in tourists.
Deception Valley, located in the north, is one of the reserve highlights not to be missed when on Botswana safari adventure. This is due to dense concentrations of herbivores that gather to feed on the sweet grasses that spring into life after the rainy season.
Naturally, these animals attract the usual itinerant predators. Deception Valley is also one of the most travelled areas of the reserve, with many public campsites and proximity to the eastern Matswere Gate. The other two gates are on the far side of the reserve, at Xade and Tsau, where public camps are also available.
Other worthwhile areas to drive when on Botswana safari adventure are Sunday and Leopard Pans, north of Deception Valley, Passarge Valley, and further south, Piper's Pan.
Makgadikgadi Pans
Botswana safari adventure will also be a tour to the largest salt pans in the world, spanning over 16,000 km² (9,942 m²), the Makgadikgadi Pans are an awe-inspiring sight; a vast sea of white that was once the centre of a huge lake that evaporated more than 2,000 years ago.
Remnants of an ancient lake, the pans are interspersed with sandy desert and occasional vegetation, and is home to one of Africa’s largest zebra populations. When the rains fall during the wet season, the pans fill with water and attract large numbers of zebra, springbok and wildebeest, followed closely by predators, making for fantastic game viewing.
Shimmering miles of white are made up of surreal landscapes where flocks of swallows soar in ragged formation and elephant tracks appear seemingly out of nowhere, blend into a sense of endless space. In the midst of this nothingness lies Kubu Island, a granite outcrop walled with companies of baobab reaching stubby branches towards the sky.
In this extraordinary and almost lunar landscape Botswana safari adventure guests can stand on the spot where the mighty Zambezi River once flowed into a gigantic lake that covered these pans, leaving behind a beach full of smooth pebbles.
At the world’s biggest breeding site of greater flamingos, unusual mud nests wait for their inhabitants’ annual return.
Nxai Pan National Park
The Nxai Pans National Park is situated north of the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park. The park is dominated by large salt pans, which attract large herds of animals especially during and after the rainy season.
The fascinating landscapes, a group of seven mighty baobab trees – the famous Baines Baobabs – as well as a waterhole frequently visited by a pride of lions are the main highlights of the Nxai Pans National Park.
The park derives its name from a curved stick ‘Nxa’, which the San used to dig out springhares and which the form of the park resembles. The area of the park belongs to the settlement area of the San (Bushmen).
North of the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park lies the Nxai Pans National Park separated only by the road which connects Nata and Maun. Both parks share a border along this street for about 100 km.
The geological formation of the Nxai National Parks goes hand in hand with the formation of the Makgadikgadi National Park. The pans formed when the prehistoric Makgadikgadi Lake dried up. The Nxai National Park has two main pans, the Nxai Pan and the Kudiakam Pan in the south. During the years 1950 to 1963 cattle herds were driven through the park on the so-called Old Trek. This route was cut by the establishment of the vetenary fence to fight the Foot and Mouth Disease.
In 1970 an area of 1676 km² around the Nxai Pan was declared as game reserve. In 1992 the Kudiakam Pan was added increasing the area of the reserve to 2578 km² and changing its status to national park, which now also included the seven giant baobabs, the Baines Baobabs.
What to See on Botswana safari adventure
The Nxai Pans National Park is situated on the migration route of large animal herds moving between the Okavango Delta, the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe and the grasslands in and around the Magkgadikgadi Pans National Park.
Here on the Botswana safari adventure, you will see Lions, giraffes, kudus, jackals, springboks, impalas and bat eared foxes can always be found in the park. During the rainy season from December to April oryx antelopes, elephants and thousands of zebras enter the park. Ostriches and numerous bird species add to the game viewing experience.
As many animals give birth during the rainy season, for example springbuck in December and zebras in March/April a lot of mothers and their young can be seen in the salt pans.
The Baines Baobabs
Another famous attraction when on Botswana safari adventure here are the Baines Baobabs. They consist of a group of seven large baobabs on the edge of the Kudiakam Pan. The trees are about 1000 years old and over 20 metres high.
The discoverer and painter Thomas Baines painted the trees in 1862 and made them well-known. Hence the trees were named after him. As the trees grow extremely slow, the stem circumference increases by 1mm a year, pictures and photographs of today depict virtually the same scene than 100 years ago.
The famous IMAX movie ‘Roar: Lions of the Kalahari’ was shot in the Nxai Pan National Park
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