Mobile safari from Kasane to Maun 11 Days / 10 Nights

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Minimum: 4 people

Highlights

• Mokoro Trail Okavango Delta
• Black & White Rhino Trekking
• San /bushmen expereince
• Game Drives and Night Drives
• Traditional Dance by Sekgantshwane Dance Group

Botswana is diverse and different from other destinations in Africa. A huge country covering over half a million square kilometers with most of this vast landscape lying uninhabited for thousands of years, nature undisturbed. Across its wide horizons, a profusion of wildlife live in an un-spoilt wilderness.

Why a mobile safari?
It is the most convenient way to visit these pristine wilderness areas, in which your camp travels with you. Areas become accessible that cannot be visited on a fly-in trip. A professional guide accompanies you throughout this safari, with a supply vehicle and back-up ground crew to help set-up and later break the camps, although the safari may be classed as semi –participation safari, where a little help in the camp would be appreciated.

This safari includes

• All meals in the duration of the safari, with bottled water in reasonable quantities.
• As a participation mobile safari, our guests are expected assist in the setting up of the camp on arrival at their private bush campsite. The tented accommodation is in walk-in style bow tents, complete with stretcher bed, pillow and pillowcase with a sleeping bag.
• Mokoro activities and game drives in open-sided canvas topped customized safari vehicles.
• Hosted by professional and knowledgeable guides.
• Courtesy 14-seater bus from Kasane to the Khama Sanctuary and Sanctuary to Sedia Riverside Hotel.

Mobile Camp Equipment
Afro Trek Safaris use good quality camping equipment and bow tents that comfortably sleep two people. The tents are fitted out with twin stretchers, mattresses, Sleeping bags, pillows & pillowcases etc. Washstands are provided for each tent. Screening on both windows and doors of the tents make them fully insect proof. Safari tables and chairs are provided in the camp with tea and coffee facilities always available. Camps are provided with mobile toilet and showers.

All our professional guides are fully licensed having taken training courses and passed government controlled examinations. Our professional guides are Botswana born and bred, having many years of experience, with an extensive knowledge of indigenous flora and fauna and the peoples of Botswana.

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Day 1 - Kasane

On this day, our guests will be met by Afro Trek Safaris professional guide who will brief them before taking the boat for their sun set cruise on the Chobe River, where game such as hippos and elephants may be viewed. followed by dinner and an early retirement to bed in one of the lodges in Kasane.

Day 2 - Kasane to the Khama Rhino Sanctuary, Serowe

We depart Kasane immediately after breakfast as this journey to our next destination will take around 8 hours which includes stopping on our way for a picnic lunch.

From Kazungula to Nata is about 300 kilometers, on this road, our guests would be able to spot game such as elephants, kudus , giraffes and ostrich. Our arrival at Khama Rhino Sanctuary just 25 kms outside Serowe, will be in the afternoon, well in time to participate in the afternoon game drive where our guests will be able to spot both the black and white rhino along with other game.

Covering over 4000 hectares, the Khama Rhino Sanctuary ( KRS ) provides prime habitat for rhino and many other species of game.

In addition to rhino calling the sanctuary home, there are leopard, blue wildebeest, eland, giraffe and kudu and many other species which roam the grouhds of the sanctuary.

At Khama Rhino Sanctuary, activities here are such as rhino trekking, game drives guided game walks are undertaken in the mornings and in the afternoons.

Set amongst a grove of Mokongwa trees close to Serowe Pan in the sanctuary is the Mokongwa Camp where we enjoy cottage accommodation for the night.

Day 3 - Khama Sanctuary to Maun

Today our quests would have an option to either start the day with an early game drive and rhino trekking then followed by branch or they start the day with breakfast before the rhino trekking / game drive. As soon as the activities are finished, the safari departs to Maun.

Guests could arrange, at their own cost, extra activities if they wish to do so, such as scenic flights over the Okavango Delta, a visit to a cultural village or a sunset boat cruise along the Thamalakane River.

Day 4 - Maun to the Okavango Delta for a Day Mokoro Trail Safari

Today guests depart in the early hours for the Okavango Delta, the journey will take about one hour to reach the mokoro polling station situated in the South East of the Okavango Delta, it is where our Afro Trek Safari guide would hand our guests to the Okavango Kopano Mokoro Community Trust (OKMCT) polers and guides who will pole them through the meanandering channels of the Okavango Delta in a canoe (mokoro in the native language). The Okavango Delta maybe described as a highly dynamic ecosystem driven by hydrological variability, listed as a wet land of international importance in the Ramsar site in the world.

The Okavango, which is one of Southern Africa’s longest rivers, flows through Botswana in the North West, fanning out into a huge delta some 15,000 square kilometers in extent, to form a unique environment with a myriad of water after a picnic lunch on a shady island selected by the guide poler, at this juncture, our guest could venture on a foot for a short bush walk. Although this activity is not primarily a game viewing activity, a variety of animals are invariably spotted during the trips including hippos, elephants, giraffes and buffalos.

The mokoros are an essential method of transport for the local inhabitants of the region in transporting not only people but also for transporting the local people’s building materials such as thatching grass, reeds and poles cut from the forest for the structures of their huts. Mekoro (Plural) are also used for hunting and fishing activities etc etc. The drive to the mokoro mooring station on the Boro River will take around one hour. The transfer is in customised safari vehicles with rear mounted game viewing seats beneath a canvas canopy.

On arrival at the mokoro poling station you will meet your poler guide / polers for the day. Seats are placed in the mekoro for a more comfortable experience. The polers will steer us through this serene area of narrow reed lined channels which open out onto beautiful lagoons. After arriving at one of the many secluded islands which make up this fragile yet dynamic, unique eco-system, a guided bush walk may be taken with the guide.

The most rewarding and enjoyable way to explore and experience the beauty and serenity of this intricate system of lily covered channels and lagoons, which make up the Okavango Delta, is undoubtably by Mekoro, which glide quietly and effortlessly through the whispering papyrus of the shallow water channels, the quietness and gentle pace of the mokoro offers a truly magical way of experiencing the beauty and tranquility of the Okavango Delta.

The Mokoro Trails offers a snapshot view of the traditional mode of transport utilized for hundreds of years by the Bayei and the Hambukushu tribes people living in the area.

Although the mokoro trails is not primarily a game viewing activity, a variety of game may be spotted in this pristine wilderness area including elephant, giraffe, kudu, impala and zebra.

After the bush walk which could be for an hour or longer if required, return by mokoro through the channels back to the mekoro mooring station for the transfer back to the Sedia Riverside Hotel.

Day 5,6,7 & 8 - Kwaii and Moremi Game Reserve

Departure will be immediately after breakfast, our guests will head to Khwaii situated adjacent to the Moremi Game Reserve. Khwaii is a concession owned by a trust body, and it shares its boundaries with the famous Moremi Game Reserve. At Khwaii our guest would experience a night game drive which cannot be done in any of our game reserves and national parks. Therefore, it is important to take this opportunity and encounter those animals and cats that could be spotted at night, and could not be seen during the day, such as hyena, bush babies, African cIvet cat, spring hares and genet cats both large spotted and small spotted. As explained earlier, after two nights at Khwaii we will cross over to Moremi Game Reserve for two nights.

Day 9 & 10 - Moremi to D’KAR (San People)

Today our guests will arrive in Maun, relax for an 1hour or 2 hours then depart for D’Kar, Ghanzi. In this area our guests are going to have the San/Bushmen experience of this culture which they offer at the traditional San village adjacent to the lodge.

Guests will enjoy a full day and evenings entertainment from a group of ten elders and children going out of their way to share every surviving aspect of their culture.

This will involve dances such as Gemsbok and Tsamma Melon dance by day (great fun and good exercise) as well as trance dances in the evening ( a very powerful experience in this exclusive setting), this will be followed by an outing onto the farm which is owned by the San people of D’kar for a best gathering areas for extensive but relaxed bush walks where our guests would experience the astonishing skills of the world’s finest trackers and marvel at the botanical knowledge of the guides as they point out and gather sustainably a wide range of both food and medicinal plants. Then back at the village our guest will be shown how to make ropes from plants and construct ingenious traps. They will demonstrate that most crucial of all ancient skills, making fire by friction, and at this moment our guest would be invited to participate if they so wish.

On the last day our guests can join the san guide on a tour to the san village where they will give a visual presentation of their history and culture. As hunter gatherers they have some fascinating cultural insights to share including spirituality, child care, sharing, story telling, holding community, their minimalist lifestyle and their deep love of the natural world.

As for the San history, the san culture is the oldest surviving on earth. Therefore, on this day since it is our last night, our guests will join the san in an interpreted story telling session, very special around a fire at night, for the san culture is an oral culture handed down through the generations. All aspects of their knowledge are embedded in elaborate stories. Knowledge of animals, moral code and their belief in God are all transferred through story telling.