Best of the Kalahari
Length: 8 days / 7 nights
Areas visited
Tour itinerary
Day 1 & 2 Maun – Nxai Pan – Makgadigadi National Park Your guide will meet you at the Maun International Airport on arrival or at your hotel around 1 PM . We then head for the bush at around 3 PM to Nxai Pan or Kumaga area, this depending on where the game is concentrated that specific time of year. There we put up camp for the next 2 nights. A visit to the famous Baines Baobabs is a feature of our program here. The early mornings and late afternoons are set aside for game viewing in the Park which is well known for its lion pride feeding around the waterholes. Day 3, 4 & 5 Central Kalahari Game Reserve We make an early start with coffee/tea and a healthy snack before boarding our game viewing vehicle to head off to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve following the Makgadigadi National Park’s border. Once inside the Park a game drive takes us to our camp for the night. Lunch is served during the day and dinner is around the campfire at our exclusive camp site. The days are spent game viewing in and around the renown Deception Valley area where we set up camp in the northern section of the Park. Relax at our exclusive wilderness camp during the afternoons. Day 6 & 7 Ghanzi area - Lodge We leave the Central Kalahari Game Reserve to the middle of Bushmen country deep into the Kalahari where we overnight in a lodge on a private game farm close to a San (Bushman) Village. We spend 2 nights in this area and go on a walk with the bushman into the Kalahari getting to know the traditional survival skills for which the Bushman are famous. The area is authentic African Kalahari bush; expect encounters with game on our walk and drives In the evenings, pre-dinner drinks are served and after dinner drinks are enjoyed around the camp fire. Day 8 After breakfast, we pack up and ease our way back to the main road and we head North. Arrival in Maun, is around 11:30. Lunch and transfer to the airport or your hotel in town. All accommodations shown are examples and actual sites on the tour and are subject may change. Precise routing of the tour may also vary but will always be for the benefit of your trip. Full list of items Included:
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Important note: these trips can be combined with a “Moremi – Chobe Classic” as the last day of these Kalahari Special tours is also the first of the Moremi Chobe Classic. |
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