Safari Overview
Exposing you to the hidden gems of southern Africa, this safari combines a wide range of land and water activities to provide you with a terrific and unforgettable safari experience. On this 10-Day Okavango Delta Chobe and Victoria Falls African Safari, take in the adrenaline rush as you explore Africa’s renowned distant unspoiled sites that live in their original authentic surroundings. Explore Botswana’s famed Okavango Delta and its calm, crystal clear rivers and papyrus-fringed canals, Moremi Game Reserve, Makoro, Khwai, Chobe National Park, and the great Victoria Falls in the comfort of 4×4 safari vehicles, canoe rides, boat cruises and on foot.
10-Day Okavango Delta Chobe and Victoria Falls African Safari Itinerary
Day 1: Pick-up and Transfer to Moremi Game Reserve
Pick-up from the Airport in Maum and transfer to Moremi Game Reserve. Breakfast will be served at Moremi’s south gate and it includes coffee, tea, juice, cereals, biscuits, and fruits, among others.
After that, you’ll embark on your game drive and prepare to spend the day looking for the various wildlife and birds that this area is known for before being driven to your tent for the night.
Moremi Game Reserve is located in the central and eastern parts of the Okavango Delta and accounts for around one-third of the delta’s overall land area. Moremi is an unfenced reserve of approximately 3,900 square kilometers of distinct environments, including floodplains, lagoons, grasslands, and riverine to mopane forests. This permits animals to wander freely within the Delta following their seasonal migrations. As such, the reserve is very rich in not just flora, but enthralling fauna including the African elephant, African buffalo, Sable antelope, Plain zebra, Warthog, Wildebeest, Giraffe, Greater kuku, spotted hyena, Leopard, Hippo, Crocodile, etc and a variety of bird species.
Overnight stay in Moremi Game Reserve
Day 2: Explore Moremi Game Reserve
After breakfast, depart on a full-day game drive with a picnic lunch. The tranquil ambiance and true wilderness experience set it apart from Kenya’s more well-known wildlife reserves. There is plenty of wildlife, and bird viewing are especially wonderful. The reserve is rather hot and semi-arid, making game watching simple. Dinner and accommodation at the Lodge/Camp.
Day 3: Transfer to Khwai
After your breakfast, enjoy a farewell game drive as you exit Moremi and drive northeastwards to the Khwai Private Reserve. Khwai Private Reserve spanning 200,000 acres of pure forest, is located on the northern edge of the Okavango Delta. It is bordered by Moremi Game Reserve to the south, Chobe National Park to the east, and the private Kwara concession to the west. Mopane, acacia woodland, seasonal waterholes, wide floodplains, and streams thread their way across the region from the Khwai River up the diversified scenery.
Khwai Private Reserve’s wildlife is abundant and diversified, with vast herds of elephant, buffalo, sable, and roan antelope, among others as well as a strong population of predators such as leopard, cheetah, lion, and wild dog. While in the reserve, you will embark on a wildlife drive in the afternoon and enjoy game viewing. Conclude your drive amidst the magnificent African sunset. Overnight stay in Khwai Private Reserve.
Day 4: Game Drive and Mokoro Excursion
After an early breakfast, head for the morning game drive. The safari will take you along the stream of the Khwai River, flowing from the riverbank and floodplains into the mopane veld and forests that make Khwai one of the most spectacular locations of the Okavango. Here, expect to spot a variety of African elephants, the Southern Giraffe, African buffalo, Burchell’s Zebra, Tsessebe, Greater Kudu, Impalas, and so on. Khwai is also a birdwatching hotspot in Botswana boasting numerous raptors and aquatic birds. After the game drive, you will return to your camp, relax and have lunch.
In the afternoon, take on the Mokoro excursion. Operated on boat and canoe rides, this experience is one way to discover the Okavango Delta’s hidden beauties, a location rich in Papyrus, reed rafts and streams, lily lagoons, wooded islands, and learning about the native way of life of the several tribes here in Okavango. Expect to have fantastic interactions with a variety of water birds and numerous types of animals during your mokoro adventure.
Overnight Stay in Khwai Private Reserve
Day 5: Transfer to Savuti
After breakfast, enjoy your last game drive in Khwai Private Reserve before transferring to Savuti near Chobe National Park. Located between the Delta and Chobe National Park, Savuti is well renowned for its predators, which include big cats like the lion, leopard, and cheetah and birds of prey such as raptors, vultures, and many others. The Savuti area boasts its 100-kilometer-long Savuti Channel which is perhaps the area’s oddest feature: the channel tends to cease running and remains dry for years at a time.
However, when the canal reopens, it transforms the Savuti Marsh and Mababe Depression into wetlands, changing the entire ecosystem. This produces an oasis that gives water to parched animal herds and attracts a slew of water birds.
Overnight stay in Savuti.
Day 6: Explore Savuti
Today, you will spend your day exploring Savuti and its enthralling population of wildlife. After breakfast, you’ll go on a morning game drive to see the Savuti and its surrounding marsh. The Savuti Marsh and the Linyanti Marsh are linked by a dry hinterland dominated by the Nogatsaa grass woodlands. On the game drive, you will spot elephants, lions, leopards, hippos, crocodiles, sitatungas, jackals, cheetahs, warthogs, and others. Another attraction in Savuti is the Bushman rock drawings of giraffes, elephants, and elands. The drawings are considered to be over a thousand years old.
Return to your camp after and relax. In the afternoon, you’ll go on another game drive and return to camp right before dusk. Dinner and campfire await you for the night. Overnight stay in Savuti.
Day 7: Transfer to Chobe National Park
Today after breakfast, we proceed into Chobe, which is known for its breathtaking landscape and magnificent sunsets, as well as having the region’s greatest elephant and buffalo populations.
Chobe National Park, located on Botswana’s far northeastern border with Namibia, is one of Africa’s premier wildlife sites. The park encompasses around 11,700 square kilometers of diverse ecosystems and unspoiled landscapes including savanna plains, rivers, swamps, and scrub. These ecosystems and habitats support a diverse range of species including large herds of elephants, buffaloes, wildebeests, roan and sable antelopes, hippos, zebras, common warthogs, impalas, and elands among others. Predators in Chobe also include lions, leopards, wild dogs, and cheetahs. You will be able to spot all these on your game drive in the afternoon.
Overnight stay in Chobe National Park
Day 8: Explore Chobe National Park
After an early breakfast, head for the morning game drive to explore the park’s predators and grazers. Chobe National Park is one of the greatest sites in the world to observe and photograph Roan and Sable Antelopes. Other animals to expect on your safari game drive include elephants, buffaloes, Puku antelopes, lions, leopards, cheetahs, and wild dogs to mention but a few. You’ll return to your camp for relaxation and later lunch.
Later in the afternoon, go for a boat cruise along the Chobe River where you will immerse in impressive sights of hippos basking in the sun near the water. You will also get to see various buffaloes, elephants, antelopes, giraffes, and other plain animals chilling by the river banks. Because Chobe National Park is home to over 460 different bird species, a cruise on the Chobe is also popular for birding excursions.
Overnight stay in Chobe National Park
Day 9: Transfer to Victoria Falls
After your breakfast, you will transfer across the border to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, where you will conclude your 10-day African safari. On arrival, check into your lodge, relax, and have lunch.
In the late afternoon, take a sunset cruise along the Zambezi River. As a result, you will be picked up from your hotel in the afternoon and driven to the dock where you will join your boat for a cruise along one of the continent’s most famous rivers with breathtaking sights of the river and its surroundings. Enjoy complimentary beverages and nibbles while seeing the sunset and some wonderful wildlife such as elephants, hippos, crocodiles, and a variety of birds.
Overnight stay at Victoria Falls
Day 10: Explore Victoria Falls – End of Safari.
Wake up and have breakfast, after which you will be taken for a guided tour of the mighty Victoria Falls. Victoria Falls, also called locally “Mosi-oa- Thunya” and loosely translated as “The Smoke that Thunders,” is the world’s greatest sheet of cascading water.
Victoria Falls is a thrilling safari destination all year long, with a variety of adrenaline-pumping activities and warming festivities. Among these include the world’s wildest white water rafting safari, the 111-meter-high bungee jump, river cruises, river surfing, kayaking, crocodile cage diving in Victoria Falls, and cultural experiences, to mention but a few.
When you get to the brink of Victoria Falls, you will tour the valley from several vantage points and take in the mesmerizing views of the falls and the scenery. After your tour of Victoria Falls, you will be transferred to Victoria Airport for your departure flight. End of your 10-day African safari.
