Kalahari Special
Length: 9 days / 8 nights
- Route: Maun to Maun
- Accommodation: 5 nights camping; 3 nights lodge
- Prices: please email kalahariskies@ngami.net to enquire
- Booking Code: KS
Highlights - Areas Visited
- Kgwebe Hills
- Central Kalahari Game Reserve
- Bush walks
- The Bushman culture
- Star show ( weather depending )
- Boteti River
- Makgadigadi National Park
Tour itinerary
- Location: Maun
- Time: 14h00
Day 1, 2 : Kgwebe Hills Lodge
Your guide will meet you at the Maun International Airport on your arrival or at your hotel around 14:00. After a briefing by your guide we head for the bush at around 14:30 to Kgwebe Hills. There we check into the lodge for the next 2 nights. A visit to the mystic baobabs is a feature of our program here. The early mornings and late afternoons are set aside for game viewing, bush walks and a visit to the oldest Tswana village in Botswana. During one of the evenings we enjoy a starshow presentation through a 25 cm diameter telescope.
Approximate distance: 140km Power: Limited Generator Use
Day 3, 4: Pasarge Valley campsite, 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. Once inside the park a game drive takes us to our camp for the night. Lunch is served on the road and dinner is around the campfire at our exclusive camp site.
Approximate distance: 210km Power: No
Day 5, 6 & 7: Deception Valley campsite, Central Kalahari Game Reserve
These days are spent game viewing in and around the well known Deception Valley area where we set up camp in the northern section of the Park. Relax at our exclusive wilderness camp during the afternoons. Ample time to see the Kalahari specials.
Approximate distance: 100km Power: No
Day 8: Meno a Kwena Lodge, Boteti River
We leave the Central Kalahari Game Reserve to find our lodge along the lush Boteti river. We spend the day in this area walking with the bushman into the Kalahari and getting to know the traditional survival skills for which the Bushman are famous. Who wants can observe the many animals coming to drink in the river from the 2 observation points overlooking the Makgadigadi National Park. Dinner is served in a traditional safari mess-tent and afterwards drinks are enjoyed around the camp fire.
Approximate distance: 200km Power: Solar
Day 9: Maun
After breakfast, we pack up and ease our way back some 90 kilometers along the main road and we head North. Arrival in Maun, is around 12:00. Lunch and transfer to the airport or your hotel in town.
Approximate distance: 100km Power: No
Full list of items Included:
- 8 Breakfast
- 9 Lunch
- 8 Dinner
- Accommodation: 3 x Lodge, 5 x Camping
- Transport in a 4x4 safari vehicle
- Camping in dome tents as per itinerary (3x3 meter, 1.9 m high)
- Services of a professional guide and camp cook
- All meals as indicated in itinerary
- Drinking water. Soft drinks & fruit juice from our selection
- Local wine and beer from our selection at the camp dinners
- All camping equipment incl. camp beds, bedding & towels
- Vat and Government taxes
- Mobile bush ablutions: hand basin per tent & communal bush toilet & shower
- All Park and camping fees
- All activities as per itinerary
- Transfers (Airport, Maun hotels)
Full list of items Excluded:
- Drinks at lodges
- Airfare
- Visas
- Spending money
- Any additional activities not listed in the itinerary
- Gratuities
- Items of a personal nature
- Medical evacuation insurance
- Laundry during camping sections
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.