10-Day Windhoek to Victoria Falls

Duration

10-Days

From

US$1 500.00

Trip Type

Lodge Safaris

Activities

Birding, lodging , Game viewing 

Botswana Safari and Victoria Falls

Botswana Safari and Victoria Falls tour Starts from Windhoek, the capital of Namibia.  Make your way inland to “the river that never finds the sea” where you will find your way through the blue-green wilderness of the Okavango Delta. Watch the wild beauty of a myriad wildlife as they gather at the water’s edge to drink, while your guide gently poles your mokoro through the clear waters.

This Botswana Safari and Victoria Falls is a unique experience of the best of the highlights of Southern Africa tourism. In just over a week you will have seen two of Africa’s natural wonders. Botswana Safari and Victoria Falls is carefully crafted to meet short holiday stay in Africa.

Botswana Safari and Victoria Falls 

 

Finish your journey with an adrenalin fix as you peer over the sheer edge of the thundering waters of Victoria Falls. Go wild! Leap off bridges, boogie board headfirst down the rampant rapids of the Zambezi and experience the grandeur of raging Victoria Falls from up high in your micro-light aircraft. Then, cool off with a tranquil cruise along the upper Zambezi River as you watch the African bush go by.

Tour Highlights

  • The Khoisan /Bushmen culture
  • Okavango Delta Excursion
  • Makgadikgadi salt pans
  • Chobe overnight  Excursion
  • Victoria Falls

Itinerary

The trip starts in Windhoek the capital city of Namibia. The city Tour is on schedule today and takes about 3-hours. The rest of the day will be left for you to explore the town and basic shopping for your necessities for the Tour.

Optional Activity:

Dinner at Joe’s Beer.

Ghanzi

You leave Namibia today through the Gobabis Town as you make your way into Botswana. You have a lunch stop along the way and border process as you enter Botswana but al being well you should arrive in Ghanzi late afternoon. The activity today is a bushwalk with the Khoisan as they take you through their culture and history.

The Khoisan are the original inhabitants of Southern Africa since …….

Maun

300 km from Ghanzi is a Tourist Town of Maun which serves as the gateway to the Okavango Delta Delta

Okavango Delta
The Delta

The Okavango Delta is the biggest inland Delta in Africa. The Kavango river, whose source is in the highlands of Angola brings in 11 million cubic litres of water annually and all that water vanishes through evaporation or transpiration.

It is studded with exotic islands renowned for a variety of species of birds and animals.

This afternoon you have a chance to prepare your backpack into the Delta for 2 days. 

Accommodation

Ghanzi Trail-Blazers

Maun Sedia Hotel

You are transferred on 4×4 vehicles to the Delta. You meet Polers at the Poler-station who will take you on the “mokoro”, wooden canoe. The mokoro will navigate the channels of the Delta to your campsite on one of many islands in the Delta. These are traditional mode of transport used by locals here who stay in the Delta.

As you are poled through you will see a few traditional villages, wildlife like hippos, elephants, giraffes and lots of birds. After a couple of hours along the waterways you will arrive at mobile tented camp situated in the heart of the Okavango Delta. 

A brief introduction to the campsite on safety and use of bucket showers and long drop toilet. 

Included Activities
  • Mokoro Trails
  • Guided walking 

On the second day after breakfast , you use the same way back to the poler’s station for your 4×4 vehicles back to Maun. The afternoon is set aside for relaxing in Maun.

Optional Activities

Scenic flights over the Delta 

The elephant paradise

You leave Maun behind as you head north-east to Nata through the Xai-Xai national park. Patches of salt pans will be visible as you drive through. Your campsite at Elephant Sands is the elephant paradise. Sit back and relax as you observe the behavior of the biggest land mammal jostling at the waterhole.

Further north the next day you travel to Kasane where your campsite is at the banks of the Chobe river . The Chobe meets the Zambezi river at this region forming the border of four countries Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Enjoy the river action of birds or wildlife on the river or take sometime to do a bit of shopping in Kasane.

 

Today you leave for your Overnight Chobe excursion.  It’s an overnight experience in the wilds of the Chobe National Park. Chobe is one of Botswana’s premier game parks, renowned for its large herds of elephants. The afternoon you will be on game-drive while you head to campsite. 

Included Activities

Chobe Overnight excursion

 

In the morning you head out of the national park on a game drive in the Chobe national park. In Kasane we pack our bags for Zimbabwe just 10km away. The formal border crossing here may take an hour or more depending on the day.

Victoria Falls town is situated on the Zambezi River surrounded by the Zambezi national park. Your campsite will be short walk to the waterfalls. At 1 700 metres wide and 100 metres deep , this is the largest sheet of falling water in the world.

There is a lot you can do while you are here. See Victoria Falls Activities. Just across the bridge you will be in Livingstone Zambia for more activities.

Have fun in Victoria Falls!!! Tour ends here. 

Your transfer to the airport will be inline to the times of your flight.

Included/excluded

Included on Tours

Included in package

Excluded in package

Ground transportation in customized vehicles

International Airfares; Excess baggage charges;

Guiding in English and/or translations in German, French and Dutch

Country to country Visa fees

Accommodation as indicated on the itinerary

International vaccinations and inoculations

Meals as shown (breakfast/lunch/dinner)

Personal items

All Park Entrance fees

Beverages, Communication charges, laundry etc

 

Postage and Porterage fees, Tips and gratuities for your driver/guide and lodge staff

 

Shopping charges for personal items

 

Optional activities unless specified

 

Any other services not shown or indicated as included on the itinerary

Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe
Windhoek to Victoria Falls Route

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