SAMPLE ITINERARIES TO WHET YOUR APPETITE

FAVOURED MOREMI/SAVUTI/CHOBE ROUTE

Most clients choose to travel through these Botswana world-famous parks for their high concentrations of wild life. Explore Moremi National Park and its surrounding wildlife management areas. Notably the Khwai River has excellent game viewing and one can spend many an hour watching the antics of a drinking elephant herd, or a pride of lions resting under a tree. If the public campsites in the park are fully booked, have a look at some of the excellent community campsites and lodges around the Moremi Game Reserve.

Travelling by 4x4 to the Chobe River, you pass through Savuti. The Savuti channel, dry for a very long time, has recently started to flow again, bringing back large volumes of game. Man made waterholes attract all that Savuti has to offer in game.

CHOBE RIVER

The Chobe River has excellent game and high visibility of all animals that come to drink here. Many roads follow the actual river, giving you the sense of Africa at its best.

If the public campsites are fully booked, Kasane (10 km away from the park) offers great accommodation at reasonable costs. You can also re-supply and re-fuel in Kasane.

Many people wish to explore the Victoria Falls while they are in Kasane. Although we allow our 4wd vehicles to travel both to Zambia and Zimbabwe, please bear in mind that the fees charged for 4wd vehicles in these countries vary and can be quite steep. We suggest you utilise one of the many operators in Kasane to take you across. They have the experience and the means to get you across safely and with minimum delay, while your vehicle is safely stored at their premises in Botswana.

MOREMI/SAVUTI/CHOBE/NXAI PANS/MAKGADIKGADI PANS

Some guests who have the time, are interested in the normal itinerary, and then explore the Nxai and Makgadikgadi Pans on their route back to Maun. This is one of the most sought after desert & delta experiences, as the Nxai Pans are part of the Kalahari and thus in complete contrast to the Okavango Delta.
Teaming with lion, hyena and cheetah, you find antelope here that do not frequent the delta a 150 km away – eland, oryx and springbuck are typical desert animals that common to these areas.

The Makgadikgadi Pan is a saltpan in northern Botswana, the largest in the world. These saltpans cover 16,000 km2 (6,177.6 sq mi) and form the bed of the ancient Lake Makgadikgadi that started evaporating many millennia ago. Archaeological discovery in the Makgadikgadi has revealed the presence of prehistoric man through abundant finds of stone tools; some of these tools have been dated sufficiently early to establish their origin as earlier than the era of Homo sapiens. The area is home to one of Africa's biggest zebra populations, and usually only quad bikes are permitted on the fragile plains in single file. Makgadikgadi is technically not a single pan but many pans with sandy desert in between, but it is all counted in the area estimate. The largest individual pan is about 5,000 km2 (1,930.5 sq mi), and it is seasonally covered with water.

There are some campsites on the edges of the pans in the Makgadikgadi National Park, but we suggest a quad bike adventure with one of the many operators in the area, to take you into the vastness of these pans.

As the majority of Botswana's camp sites have now been privatised, please see our Services page for information on where to make your camp site bookings.

The Self Drive 4x4 forum has recent reports on road conditions throughout Botswana, as well as other useful information.