There are perhaps no wilder parts of Africa than Botswana's Okavango Delta, Linyanti Concession, and the banks of the Chobe and Zambezi rivers. Our Botswana safari provides access to exclusive camps in wildlife-rich areas, and visits the remarkable Victoria Falls.

Botswana’s Okavango Delta, Linyanti Concession, and the banks of the Chobe and Zambezi rivers are intensely beautiful wetlands attracting a diversity of wildlife that is breathtaking to behold -- including lion, leopard, cheetah, numerous plains animals, and huge herds of elephants. Our safari provides access to remote and exclusive camps on private concessions bordering the Moremi Game Reserve, Chobe National Park, and near Zambia’s Victoria Falls, allowing for exploration of wildlife-rich areas seen by few other travelers.

Days 1-4: Safari in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Days 5-7: Safari in the Linyanti Concession bordering Chobe National Park, Botswana

Days 8-10: Safari in the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, Zambia

Boundless Journeys has partnered with Wilderness Safaris, widely recognized as the best safari outfitter in Southern Africa, to develop a truly unique adventure safari. In addition to experienced guides who seamlessly lead your entire journey, first-class vehicles, and a diverse selection of camp and lodge options, Wilderness Safaris’ conservation efforts and community-mindedness are great matches for Boundless Journeys’ core philosophy.

Most Convenient Airport:

• For international flights into Africa: O.R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa (JNB)
• For arrival into Botswana on Day 1: Maun Airport, Maun, Botswana (MUB)
• For departure from Zambia on Day 10: Livingstone International Airport, Livingstone, Zambia (LVI)

Meeting Time and Place:
1 p.m., Maun Airport, Maun, Botswana

Departure Time and Place:
10:30 a.m., Livingstone International Airport, Livingstone, Zambia

Overview: Private camping on a private concession in traditional walk-in safari tents and deluxe permanent camps on platforms in national parks and private reserves (all with full size beds, private baths, and extensive amenities).

Nights 1 & 2:

Xigera Camp (May date)
Xigera Concession, Okavango Delta
Botswana

This 10-room luxury tented camp is built of a clever mix of wood and canvas. Each tent has both en-suite facilities and an outdoor shower. All are built on wooden decks, offering views of a seasonal floodplain and small lagoon. Meals and evening drinks are enjoyed in the lounge, pub and dining area overlooking the permanently flowing channel with a footbridge across it, or under the stars in a traditional African boma. The camp is finished off with a plunge pool and curio shop.

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Kwetsani Camp (August/September date)
Jao Concession, Okavango Delta
Botswana

This five room luxury tented camp is raised on stilts, overlooking expansive plains. The main area includes a lounge, bar and tented dining area, along with a plunge pool. The spacious tented tree-house chalets are each built under a thatch roof and have en suite facilities including a shower, separate flush toilet, wash basin with running water, and outdoor shower.

Nights 3 & 4: Chitabe Camp
Chitabe Concession, Okavango Delta
Botswana

A traditional style tented safari camp built on raised platforms with beautiful views over open floodplains. The eight large tents each have a private deck in front, en suite bathroom facilities, and a private indoor and outdoor showers. The main dining and lounge areas are thatched structures on raised platforms, with an outdoor pub area with superb views across the floodplains, and a pool to cool off during the heat of the day.

Nights 5, 6 & 7: Linyanti Discoverer Camp
Linyanti Concession
Botswana

This seasonal camp with incredible views across the Linyanti wetlands allows us to experience the bush with ultimate authenticity and privacy: we have exclusive use of the camp for our time here. The camp is in many ways reminiscent of early safaris -- spacious walk-in tents, a cozy tented lounge and dining area, an outdoor fire ring for evening socialization and for a nice warm breakfast – but with indulgent comforts like full size beds with heavy cotton linens, en suite bathroom facilities, and small, private “verandas” with table and chairs from which to contemplate the wilderness before you.

Nights 8 & 9: Toka Leya Camp
Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park
Zambia

Recipient of Condé Nast's 2009 hotel "Hot List" award.

Overlooking the mighty Zambezi River and some of its islands, Toka Leya Camp consists of 12 spacious en suite safari-style tents. Wooden walkways snake between the units and main area, limiting our footprint on this pristine area. Tent interiors boast cool wooden flooring, tasteful, uncluttered African decor in earthy hues, climate-control for a cool summer sanctuary, and expansive wooden decks. The camp’s dining, lounge and bar areas offer ample space for relaxation and are complemented by an infinity pool, with meals served on the sundeck, the pool deck or dining room; all overlooking the Zambezi.

DAYS 1 & 2
Into the Okavango Delta

Safari - Day and night game drives, guided nature walks, and mokoro canoe excursions – easy, approximate total of 5-6 hours of activities per day.

Upon arrival in Maun, you will be met by your guide or our representative and fly by light aircraft over the shimmering waters of the Okavango Delta. This initial flight provides a remarkable and beautifully scenic introduction to one of the world’s most unusual ecosystems. The Delta represents life at its most fertile: abundant water, sunlight and rich soil combine to form a paradise bursting with life and a landscape of indescribable beauty.

By early afternoon, we arrive at our home for the next two nights: a five- or 10-room luxury tented camp located in a private reserve to the west of the renowned Moremi Game Reserve. These camps are among the most remote in the entire Okavango Delta and offer an unparalleled sense of wilderness. The camps are surrounded by water and woods, and all the Okavango big game can be found here – including excellent chances of spotting predators.

Activities over the next two days will include mokoroing (think Africa’s version of the Venetian gondola), walking on palm-fringed islands, and game drives during the day and night – all advantages of staying on a private reserve. Lion, leopard, cheetah, wild dog, buffalo and elephant are all found in this area, as well as excellent concentrations of zebra, wildebeest, giraffe, and all the plains animals.
Kwetsani or Xigera Camp, Okavango Delta, Botswana

DAYS 3 & 4 
Okavango Delta

Safari - Game driving and nature walks with an armed ranger – easy, approximate total of 5-6 hours of activities per day.

After a final morning game drive and brunch at our camp, a late morning bush flight brings us to Chitabe Camp, situated in the southeast Okavango Delta, on an island bordered on three sides by the renowned Moremi Game Reserve.

While at Chitabe, our guide enhances the knowledge we’ve gained in the past two days on day and night game drives in open 4 x 4 vehicles, as well as on nature walks with our guide. Chitabe’s variety of surrounding habitats ensures diverse and interesting wildlife viewing, including elephant, lion, zebra, giraffe, tsessebe, and impala, as well as the very special occassional sighting of wild dog.
Chitabe Camp, Private Reserve, Botswana

DAYS 5-7 
Linyanti Wildlife Reserve

Safari - Twice daily game drives – easy, approximate total of 5-6 hours of activities per day.

After breakfast, we fly north-eastwards, departing the Okavango, to the Linyanti Concession; after a short game drive we arrive at our private seasonal camp, which is elegantly set up under African ebony and knobthorn acacia trees overlooking panoramic vistas of the Linyanti river system.

The landscape of the Linyanti Wildlife Reserve varies from floodplains to open, dry savannah and forest with sweeping views, creating a paradise for a high diversity of wildlife and bird species. During our three days here, our activities will include game drives in the private northern region of the concession, exploring a range of habitats, from riverbanks to scrub and forest, which reveal a myriad of wildlife en route to slake their thirst from the river. In particular, large herds of elephants can be found in this region during the dry season (May-October). Impressive even in small family groups, when these animals gather together in numbers, it becomes an awe-inspiring sight you won’t soon forget. In addition to the elephants, seldom-seen sitatunga can often be spotted in the waterways, as well as rare plains game, such as roan and sable antelope and of course their predators, the lion and leopard – with the endangered wild dog as an incredible bonus.
Linyanti Discoverer Camp, Linyanti, Botswana

DAY 8 
Chobe River Cruise and fly to Zambia

River Cruise, about 2-3 hours.

After a short morning drive and breakfast, we depart by light aircraft to the northern Chobe region of Chobe National Park. This area is also famous for its vast herds of elephants in the dry season and other unique species such as the elusive puku and Chobe bushbuck that move to the river in the hottest hours of the day. We’ll enjoy a light lunch while cruising the Chobe River in a catamaran-style shaded boat.

We leave Botswana, boarding a short flight to Zambia’s Livingstone International Airport, arriving at Toka Leya Camp in the late afternoon. On leaving Botswana, we fly over the Kazangula border, a point where the four countries of Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia meet, and as we approach Livingstone, it is often possible to see the spray of legendary Victoria Falls from miles away.

Toka Leya Camp is situated on the banks of the Zambezi River in Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park, a few miles upstream from the falls.
Toka Leya Camp, Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park, Zambia

DAY 9 
Exploring the Zambezi

Various activities available.

Activities available from our camp include game drives within Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park, river cruises, fishing excursions and guided nature walks. Tours of Livingstone town and museum and visits to Mkuni Market and Simonga Village are all outstanding ways of learning about the people and culture of this part of Zambia. Your guide will discuss the options with you upon arrival so that you can choose what interests you most. Other activities available in the area at an additional charge include sunset cruises on the Zambezi, helicopter flights, micro-lighting, canoeing, jet boating, and white water rafting. Please contact Boundless Journeys ahead of time if you would like to find out more about these options.

Game drives into the Mosi-Oa-Tunya Park offer sightings of general game species such as buffalo, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest and impala. There is rich birdlife here too, including several sought-after species such as African Finfoot, Half-collared Kingfisher, African Skimmer (seasonal), Schalow's Turaco and Rock Pratincole (seasonal). Excellent birding can be enjoyed within the camp itself, on boat cruises, and on game drives.

The Zambezi River offers some fishing opportunities and tiger fishing is an unforgettable challenge for keen fishermen, (the best months are October through December). There are several varieties of bream (Tilapia) which are also a good catch.

Tonight we enjoy a final dinner together in celebration of an unforgettable safari in one of Africa’s greatest wilderness areas.
Toka Leya Camp, Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park, Zambia

DAY 10
Victoria Falls and Departure

Walking tour of Victoria Falls – easy, about one hour.

The grand finale is a guided tour of Victoria Falls, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. At 1708 metres wide, it is the largest curtain of water in the world and drops more than 100 metres into the sheer Zambezi Gorge.

By mid-morning we transfer to Livingstone Airport and bid farewell to our adventure in time for early afternoon flights homeward.

Please note that this is a typical itinerary, and actual activities may vary to take advantage of weather conditions, local events, and to allow serendipity to play a hand in your experience.  Accommodations are as outlined in the itinerary, although we reserve the right to change these should the need arise.

$7,295 per person

• Expert naturalist guide
• Services of safari camp staff and camp gratuities
• Chartered bush flights
• All accommodations
• All meals and select alcoholic beverages
• All activities noted in the itinerary, such as daily game drives, night drives, mokoro excursions, tracking walks, and river cruises