Great Adventure Trips

Botswana

Deluxe / Luxury Camping / Serviced Camping / Budget Camping / Victoria Falls

Okavango & Tuli

As conducted from Maun Airport to Lower Limpopo

Day 01 & 02: Upon your arrival at Maun Airport you will be met by a representative and assisted onto your light aircraft transfer to Sandibe Safari Lodge. Spend two nights at Sandibe Safari Lodge in a twin bedded African inspired cottage. Your stay is on a full board basis including
park fees and scheduled activities. Activities include daily game drives, bush walks, river cruises, mokoro excursions, bird watching, and stargazing. For relaxation there is a hammock, which sways in the trees outside the main living area, and a shaded plunge pool.

Sandibe Safari Lodge is set on a permanent channel of the magnificent Okavango Delta, adjacent to the game-rich Moremi Wildlife Reserve on a 270 square kilometre (104 square mile) private concession. The beautiful thatched lodge nestles between permanent water and grass-swept plains and was built with a commitment to “treading lightly on the earth”. The result is organic architecture that blends seamlessly with one of the most breathtaking landscapes in Africa. Sandibe is surrounded by an abundant array of wildlife and throughout the year, guests are enchanted by the changing moods of the Delta. Through exhilarating game-drives in open 4x4 safari vehicles and interpretive bush walks, professional guides share the wonder of this wetland wilderness.

Day 03 & 04: Transfer by light aircraft to Nxabega Okavango Safari Camp. Spend two nights at Nxabega Okavango Safari Camp in a twin bedded East African style safari tent pitched on an elevated platform. Your stay is on a full board basis including park fees and scheduled activities. Guests have a choice of daily activities including meandering along the floodplains of the Delta by mokoro, exploring the deeper channels by motor boat, nature walks accompanied by an unarmed professional guide, or tracking game by open 4x4-safari vehicle in the Mopane Forests and open grasslands. The added highlight of an evening game drive by spotlight assures you of the most complete lodge experience in Botswana.

Nxabega Okavango Safari Camp is located on the edge of the Okavango Delta in a 7 000-hectare (17 300-acre) exclusive wildlife concession bordering the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana. Meaning “Place of the Giraffe”, Nxabega is ideally positioned to explore the magnificence of the Okavango – the largest inland delta in the world. A wetland wilderness of looping channels, islands forested with palms and wide grassy floodplains, the Delta is home to a magnificent array of wild animals and exceptional birdlife. Guests are able to experience this irresistible combination of water and wildlife on twice-daily game-drives in open 4x4 safari vehicles, mokoro and powerboat excursions.

Day 05, 06 & 07: Transfer by light aircraft to Nitani. Spend three nights at Nitani in a twin bedded suite. Your stay is on a full board basis including scheduled activities. Activities include early morning and afternoon game-viewing drives by open 4-wheel drive vehicles as well as night drives. The wellness centre is equipped to offer various beauty treatments and massages at an additional cost.

Nitani Private Game Reserve presents the quintessential African Safari experience. The perfect balance between pristine wilderness, high quality game viewing, luxurious and exclusive accommodations, and the passionate commitment of a family who have been part of this landscape for decades – Nitani is sure to appeal to the most discerning of travellers who seek something different, yet reminiscent of home. Located in the Northern Tuli Game Reserve in Botswana (where South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe meet), Nitani is part of an Africa of wide open savannahs, grand and majestic skies and of people who proudly share their country and culture with visitors from far and wide.

Safaris are exhilarating. Private and open vehicles head out into the wilds, and take guests into close contact with elephants, lion, leopard, hyena, jackal, and antelope species a-plenty. Twitchers will find an abundant and impressive menu of birdlife.

Within the camp (raised on stilts in the unspoiled bush), the experience is a sensory one. From enjoyment of cordon-bleu cooking at the hands of their talented chef, to the quiet solitude and rejuvenating treatments on offer at the spa, one is guaranteed to leave the reserve a new person.

Day 08: You will be transferred by road to Lower Limpopo Airstrip to meet your onward flight.

2009 Per person sharing
March 1 - May 31 = US$5518. Per person single room supplement = US$480
June 1 - Oct. 31 = US$7179. Per person single room supplement = US$614
Nov. 1-31 = US$6040. Per person single room supplement = US$614
Dec. 1-31 = US$4738. Per person single room supplement = US$480

Unfortunately this itinerary is not suitable for families with children under the age of 12 years old as Nitani only accept children over the age of 12 years old

ACCESS FROM NITANI: Light aircraft transfer from Lower Limpopo Airstrip to Polokwane Airport for scheduled SA Airlink flight to Johannesburg

Light aircraft transfer from Lower Limpopo Airstrip to Polokwane 01.11.08- 31.12.09 = ZAR 5293.00 per person
The above flight cost is current and subject to change without prior notice

SA Airlink scheduled flight from Polokwane to Johannesburg Rate on request

what you get…
" Personalised Travel Journal
" Twin / single accommodation
" Meals as specified
" Seat on charter as specified
" Domestic departure tax ex Maun
" Waterborne/game viewing activities as offered by the camps/lodges
" National Parks entrance fees
" Laundry at Sandibe Safari Lodge and Nxabega Okavango Safari Camp
" Local brand drinks (premium brands to own account) at Sandibe Safari Lodge and Nxabega Okavango Safari Camp
" Local brand drinks (premium brands to own account) at Nitani for 2009 only
" Emergency medical evacuation insurance

…and what you don't
" Gratuities and all items of a personal nature
" Drinks not specified above
" Single travellers supplement
" Treatments at Wellness Clinic at Nitani at an additional cost dependent on the type of treatment
" Light aircraft transfer from Lower Limpopo Airstrip to Polokwane - quoted separately in ZAR
" Visas (please thoroughly check requirements, for the countries being visited, prior to travel)
" Scheduled flights