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Family safari in Botswana

COUNTRY:
Botswana
LOCATION:
Okavango Delta
DEPARTURES:
2012: 31 Mar, 14 Jul, 23 Jul, 1 Aug, 10 Aug, 19 Aug, 20 Oct, 16 Dec
2013: 30 Mar, 13 Jul, 22 Jul, 31 Jul, 9 Aug, 18 Aug, 19 Oct, 17 Dec
PRICE:
From £2759 - £3479 (11 days ) including UK flights
MORE INFO:
From £1659 - £1709 excluding flights. From £2549 - £3099 per child including flights from the UK. From £1639 - £1679 per child excluding flights.
VOUCHERS:
Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday
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Family safari in Botswana

Family safari in Botswana

Small group family holiday
This is a 'small group family adventure' - typically you will join several other families and travel in a group of approx. 16 people. The trips are great value and a great way for you and your children to meet new people! While itineraries are pre-planned there is some flexibility and you'll have plenty of time to yourselves. Most adventure kids tend to be aged between 7 and 15, but some are younger (minimum age is usually 5) and some older (perhaps travelling as part of a larger family group). Please check with the operator to confirm the minimum age for this trip

How this holiday makes a difference

Responsible mission: As adventure travellers we relish and celebrate the diversity of the world. We also recognise our obligation to protect the environments that we explore. Our aim is to tread lightly, whilst contributing to maintain the world’s culture and nature, and most importantly to engage the help of all our customers to utilise the potential of tourism as a tool to aid sustainable development. We believe that responsible travellers are welcome in the places that they visit.

On this trip: We travel in small groups (max 14 people) so have a minimal impact on the environment as we go. On this trip we use a local agent from Botswana, locally owned hotels, local leaders. Not only does this mean that more of the money we generate stays within the community, but their local knowledge and expertise helps us to better understand the environment in which we are travelling, whilst reinforcing within the local community that preserving this environment is both important and worthwhile.
We are also supporting the SOS 'Save Our Sausage trees' project by donating 5US$ for every passenger on the trip. Theses funds stop fishermen from cutting down theses endangered trees to craft their traditional canoes by providing them with fiberglass replica canoes.

Responsible code: Being Responsible is at the heart of everything our company does - full details of our code can be found on our website. The local supplier for this trip will promote our responsible travel code throughout your adventure. You will also receive specific information on this trip’s responsibility in your trip notes.

Helping to minimise negative impact: All of our customers are invited to offset their international flight emissions. Contributions go to the Blue Ventures Carbon Offset program, a non-profit organisation which provides solar stoves for subsistence communities in Madagascar, benefiting the people and protecting the environment. We also contribute £2 per person towards offsetting of your in-country travel. We fully offset all emissions from our staff travel and run an energy efficient office.

Giving something back: We have a foundation that collects the funds that you donate to us to support our projects. All our customers are invited to make a £1 per person contribution to the foundation at the time of booking. We will match every contribution that you make with our own £1. You as a customer choose where these funds are used from a shortlist of nominated projects – so it really is YOUR foundation.

Partnerships: As a company we support The Travel Foundation, a UK charity that has been established to promote responsible travel practises throughout the whole of the travel industry. We also work with a number of charity partners who work in the destinations that we visit; including Friends of Conservation and Born Free Foundation. We partner with many small grassroots projects throughout the destinations that we visit - they all share our responsible vision.

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Family safari in Botswana

Reviewed 09 Aug 2010 by Françoise Bartiaux4 star rating

1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?


Many wonderful memories, among which magnificent sunsets, mating lions and a leopard resting in a high tree near its prey, a young impala, lifted in the tree. Lions and leopard were seen in the Moremi Game reserve.

2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?


Bring enough warm clothes: in July and August, nights and early mornings are very cold.
Bring many memory cards and something to protect your camera from dust and sand.

3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, and minimized impacts on the environment?


This tour is organized by a South-African company, so it does not benefit local people from Botswana. However, entrance fees in parks and reserves benefit local people.

4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?


Our two sons, 15 and 17 years old, and us, the parents, found this holiday quite enjoyable. The driver was quite knowledgeable, the guide helpful and smiling, the other family in the group very nice. The holiday should have been a little longer, for example by adding one or two days in the Moremi Game reserve.
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