An Authentic African Safari Experience. This wild camping safari shows you the best of the Okavango Delta during land and water based activities. We visit the narrow channels of the Inner Delta and the lagoons of Moremi Game Reserve (East Okavango).
Our team sets up camp in the wilderness without any boundaries. We are visitors in the home of the animals. This is the real deal The tour is non-participatory and fully catered. A journey to remember and a great way to see one of Botswana’s most fascinating destination the Okavango Delta from different angles.
Standard: Wild-Camping, fully-catered, non-participatory, group joining
Activities: Game drives, walking safaris and excursions in traditional african canoe
Best Travel Time: May to November (but available all year around)
We welcome you at Maun Airport and take you to your accommodation where you unwind and prepare for your safari starting the next day. You are accommodated in a good midrange lodge or guesthouse with en-suite rooms.
In the early morning we pick you at your hotel or lodge or the airport in Maun. The tour starts at 07:30h with a transfer on dust roads in an open sided 4×4 safari vehicle. In the Okavango we meet up with you meet your poler, a local villager, who will take you on an unforgettable journey through the channels of the Okavango. Born and raised in the Okavango Delta, our polers and guides show you their home which they are very passionate and knowledgeable about. Our experienced polers take you on a journey deep in the water system.
Enjoy the peace of the delta in a Mokoro, the traditional one tree-canoe. For lunch you stop on an island, where you enjoy a packed lunch and then endulge in a walking safari. The Mokoro then takes you to your camp on the side of a river channel where our team already awaits you. Before your first bush dinner you can freshen up. Sometimes we even have time to include a game drive on the first day. After dinner, you sit around the campfire sharing the stories of the day.
Spend the whole day deep inside the Okavango. Explore the channels by Mokoro (traditional DugOut Canoe) and go on guided bushwalks and gamewalks with an experienced guide on the islands of the Okavango Delta. You are woken up with a warm “Dumela“ (That is the Setswana word for “Hello“)
and a light breakfast waiting for you. After coffee, tea and breakfast you go on your first game viewing activity (either a nature walk or a canoe excursion). When returning to camp you have the opportunity to shower. Afterwards you will be served brunch.
In the afternoon you enjoy a second game viewing activity often a game drive or another Mokoro canoe tour. Enjoy delicious meals cooked over the bushfire by our experienced bush chef and share the experiences of the day in the evening sitting around the bushfire before falling asleep in your comfortable tent with the noises of animals and the bush around you.
Enjoy a last DugOut Canoe tour or a game drive (your guide will let you know depending on local circumstances) before heading back to town. Before sunset you will be back in Maun, where you can sink in your hotel bed before the wild camping adventure continues the next day. You are accommodated in a good midrange lodge or guesthouse with en-suite rooms.
This is the best way of exploring the Okavango Delta! A real authentic experience of the delta ecosytem and a unique experience to meet and interact with locals on a personal and non-touristy basis.
In the early morning we pick you at your accomodation in Maun and in an open 4×4-safari-vehicle you head straight to Moremi Game Reserve. It is a 1.5 hrs long drive on a dusty sand track to the veterinary gate. Here we enter wildlife territory and hope to get some first nice sightings on the way to the official entrance gate, which we reach after another 1.5hrs.
Your highly-trained and experienced guide will show you Moremi in the next days.You will spend the day on gamed rives in the floodplains – seasonally or perennially wet, waterways, lagoons, pools, pans, grasslands and riparian, riverine and mophane forests. This terrain makes driving Moremi’s many loops and trails both delightful and, at times, totally inspiring.
Today we will have a packed lunch in the bush on the way to camp. In the evening before the sun sets you arrive in our campsite where your safari team is already awaiting you with pitched tents and cooked dinner.
Enjoy your evening around the campfire and embrace this unforgettable experience of being during night deep inside the bush of Moremi. You camp directly in the park without any fence around you. At any time you can feel safe even if you find yourself within striking distance to wild animals. Your guide
is highly qualified and trained by Botswana Guide Association. You sleep in tents with strecher beds with proper duvets. Daily you enjoy fresh and tasty meals. This is possible because a Back Up Team is with you 24/7.
An early morning wake up with a light breakfast allows you to go on an early game drive as this is the time when the predators are on the hunt. After the game drive you return to camp where you have the chance to freshen up with a delightful bush shower. The team is already awaiting you with brunch so that you can go on your next game drive as soon as the hot midday sun is over and the animals come out of their hiding places again.
After an exciting day you return for dinner to camp and sit around the fire listening to the bush and gazing stars. Close your eyes for your last night in the wild.
A last time you are woken up in the early morning with a warm “Dumela” , so that after a quick coffee, tea and light breakfast you can rush on an early morning game drive. You spend the day in Moremi on a full day transfer gamedrive and return to Maun in the late afternoon/early evening with plenty of pictures and unforgettable memories. You are accomodated in a good midrange lodge or guesthouse with en-suite rooms.
After breakfast we transfer you to Maun Airport where it is time to say goodbye. With plenty of pictures in your bags and memory, you start your journey back home and hopefully taking a part of Africa with you.
The above outlined itinerary is just a suggestion. You are welcome to customise the itinerary and e.g. add more nights per destination.
Option 1: Including Camping in Maun Town
Option 2: Including 3 nights of midrange accommodation in Maun
Please note: This tour needs a minimum of 2 people to depart. For private tours, please enquire about rates. We do not supply alcohol, unless you prebook it (min 1 week before tour start). Only children above the age of 6 are allowed on Mokoro and bush walk activities.
Inclusions: All camping equipment (2 people per tent), 3 nights of midrange hotel accommodation (option 2), park-fees, activities, transfers, 3 meals a day (please see exclusions), during wild camping drinking water, fruit juice and limited soft drinks.
Exclusions: Visas, international flights (to/from Maun), insurances, gratuities, personal expenses (such as souvenirs), alcohol, 3x dinner in Maun.
Pick Up: Maun, Botswana
Drop Off: Maun, Botswana
Accommodation: Camping in 2.5×2.5m² dome tents with twin stretcher beds, pillows and duvet blankets, and en-suite bush bathroom with longdrop toilet and warm-water-bucket-shower tent/camping (option 1).
Optional extras: