Botswana 4X4- Go Wild!
In Botswana you will be overwhelmed by the finest and most untouched game reserves in the world. With a fantastic
game experience. Because no fences around the state parks, so anywhere you can encounter wild animals!
You visit the
Kalahari desert and
Makgadikgadi Pans and Victoria Falls Botswana to create a dream destination.
The
accommodations on this tour range from tents to one night stays in luxurious lodges (optional). You can use the route as a self drive, but also support the convoy-trip, where you guided by an experienced guide.
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Your journey to freedom
Botswana 4X4- Go Wild!
Day 1 - Flight
Flight from your (home country) to Johannesburg.
Day 2 -- 4x4 training
Today you will learn all the basics for a safe off road trip through the Bush. For co-drivers and advanced 4x4 drivers, there is plenty to learn or to refresh. The course is given by AAWDC (Association of All Wheel Drive Clubs of Southern Africa) accredited trainer.
Overnight lodge in Pretoria.
Day 3 & 4 - Khama Rhino Sanctuary
The 4300 hectare grass area with several natural water holes around the Serwe Pan is a reserve since 1993, where rhino and other grazers flourish. The nearby military base provides the necessary protection of the animals. The nearby Serowe is the birthplace of Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana.
Overnight at camp in Palapye.
Day 5 & 6 - Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) is about the size of Switzerland. It consists of open plains, old riverbeds in the southern direction, where people live in the mopane plantation. The park also tsamma grow melons on the ground. It is from these fruits that many animals get their water sometimes. The original inhabitants of the park area were San, Also called Basarwa (in Tswana) or Bushmen mentioned. They lived as nomads of hunting and fruit and lived mainly in the southern areas. Now most have adjusted their lifestyle and owners of many lodges appeal to their San accompany tourists. Sometimes they learn the visitors find water resources, ostriches catch. Animals that are preventable brown hyena, warthog, wild dog, cheetah, leopards, lions, blue wildebeest, eland, gemsbok, kudu, red hartebeest and springbok. Deception Valley what remains of a large river bed? It is now covered with grass and low growing some 'islands' with tree growth. The roots of the trees, acacia and jujube almost exclusively, sometimes up to fifty meters depth grow where they find water to survive. It is these places that lions often find the shade. The brown hyena hides.
Overnight at camp in Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Day 7 & 8 - Makgadikgadi Pans
Mid-November when the rainy season begins, the salt pans of Makgadikgadi filled with water and keep it mostly in April or May These areas attract many large temporary water bird and large numbers zebras and wild beasts. The roads are virtually impassable during this period and the best way to admire nature and animals than from the air. From May you can use a quad bike (or 4x4) to Ntwetwe Pan and a fire at night under an amazing sky! It is almost certain that you on your journey from a close more cat family you admire!
You can visit the Nata Bird Sanctuary, Take a walk to the many baobab trees close to admire, or relax by the pool or in the cosy bar.
Overnight: 2x or camp (optional) 1 x and camp under the stars in Ntwetwe Pan.
Day 9, 10, 11 & 12 Maun / option 2 days luxury camp Okavango Delta
The delta has an area of 20,000 kilometers ². It is one of the most important natural areas of Southern Africa. During the rainy season, enter the river beyond its banks and get flooded sometimes up to 13,000 kilometers ² inlands. This usually happens around May time, most animals are nesting in these area. From May to October is the best time to visit the delta. The water is very pure because it flows through areas with no agriculture or industry, and purified by the ever growing papyrus. The delta is home to many fish, including pike, barbell and bream. In the swamp feel hippos, zebras, crocodiles, lions, cheetah's, leopards, hyenas and various types’ water birds and water bucks where they make their home.
Option: fly inn 2 nights Okavango Delta full care and includes all meals and drinks, excursions, flights, taxes, entrance fees and transfers (luxury accommodation in camps). Not the cheapest, but the only and best way by far the most beautiful areas deep in the delta to visit!
Day 13 & 14 - Moremi Wildlife Reserve
The Moremi Game Reserve is 4871 km ². It borders the eastern side of Chobe National Park. This area offers savannah, wetlands and dense forests of acacia trees, interspersed with mopane woodland. In the eastern part of the exchange reserve lagoons, creeks and ground hard with each other. When do most Xakanaxa hippos and elephants particularly numerous during the dry season. In the game reserve teeming with diverse antelope species (including wild beast and Lechwe), giraffes, buffalos, zebras, lions, leopards, hyenas, cheetahs, hippos, crocodiles and wild dogs.
Overnight at camps in Xakanaxa and Linyanti.
Day 15 & 16 - Chobe National Park
Per 12 inhabitants of Botswana, their lives elephant in Chobe National Park! The so-called Kalahari elephants are larger than normal African elephant, their tusks are shorter and their ivory is fragile. A less interesting prey for ivory smugglers. The rhino is the only species missing from the Big Five (elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, leopard and lion). There are also impala, wildebeest, hartebeest, zebras and giraffes in large quantities. More rare antelope, the puku, the waterbuck, the marsh antelope (Lechwe) and the sitatunga. The endangered elsewhere wild dog home here. Traveling over the Chobe river (boat cruise) you will find elephant and bird-rich, photogenic species of bee eaters, African fish eagles and many species of kingfishers.
Overnight at camps in and Ihaha Savuti (Chobe River).
Day 17-18 Kasane / Victoria Falls
On day 13 you visit to the Victoria Falls by Livingstone named after the Queen of England, but in the Kololo language known as Mosi-oa-Tunya (the smoke that thunders). Rightly one of the seven wonders in the world: 1.7 kilometers wide, 108 meter high waterfall and an average of 1 million liters of water. Per second! For a unique view makes the helicopter flight. Looking for more adrenaline can tame the mighty Zambezi in a raft or bungee jumping off the bridge between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Overnight at camp in Kasane.
Day 19 & 20 - Nata
We drive to Nata, a small town at the crossroads of routes between Maun, Kasane and Francistown. A day trip to the Sua Pan is organized from the lodge, as the salt lake is most of the time under water, attracts many water birds. In the southwest lies the famous Kubu Island, a 20 meter cliff that protrudes above the salt lake.
Overnight in camp at Nata.
Day 21 & 22 - Tuli
In the north-eastern tip of Botswana Tuli Block is named after the Tuli River in Zimbabwe and 350 km wide along the border with South Africa. Wetlands are interspersed with forests, savannas and rocky areas. It is rich in wildlife and can be visited with a 4x4, or on horse or on foot.
Overnight at camp in Tuli Block
Day 23 - Mokolo
Today we begin the journey back to Johannesburg and still stay 1 night at a camp in Mokolo Dam, the distance to break the next day and certainly the flight home to be achieved.
Flight Day 24
Lease car and evening flight home
Day 25 Home
