Botswana mobile tent safari
• Services of a professional guide, safari chef and camp assistants, with a supply vehicle.
• All meals and drinks + activities
Description of Botswana mobile tent safari
A mobile safari is not just about seeing the wildlife, it is hearing the crickets at night, smelling that elephant wandering through camp, feeling the sand between your toes and tasting great food made with fire alone! Our guides have an affinity and respect for nature that is infectious. Mobiles provide an intimacy with nature, experiencing the wilderness with all the senses and no fences! A mobile safari visits different areas but keeps the same guide, crew and companions, bonding for the whole safari for that authentic wilderness experience – up close and personal!!
This 10 day Botswana mobile tent safari will help you explore the furthest reaches of the country’s magnificent wilderness. Travelling from the Moremi Game Reserve on the edge of the Okavango Delta through to Chobe National Park, you’ll spend nine nights moving from destination to destination, sleeping in domed tents with private al fresco bucket showers and flushing toilets. You’ll travel in a small group with a maximum of seven guests and with a dedicated expert guide, a safari chef and camp assistants.
The first three nights are spent in the Xakanaxa region, where you’ll explore the terrain on morning and afternoon game drives, through landscapes ranging from floodplains to marshes to woodland to savannah. Wildlife highlights include the endangered African wild dog and a resident herd of several hundred buffalo, plus lions and unusual red lechwe antelopes.
The next three nights are spent in the Khwai Community Area, one of the most beautiful areas of the Okavango, which has habitat ranging from savannah to marshes and waterways, and boasts excellent populations of bull elephant as well as lions, leopards, servals and African wildcats. You’ll visit the Dombo Hippo Pools and explore the Khwai floodplains on both day and night time game drives and also have the opportunity to go on guided walks, though these, and the night drives, are conducted outside the boundaries of the Moremi Game Reserve.
The final three nights are spent in the Chobe National Park, passing through habitats renowned for lion prides, cheetah and elephant.
The trip includes day and night game drives, walking safaris, mokoro excursions, San painting walks and a boat trip. This safari can travel in a northerly or southerly direction.
On a scheduled departure our maximum number of guests is 7 (6 on photographic specific trips) and we guarantee to run a departure with just one person (on our regular Northern Highlights and Miracle Rivers tours - all year round!).
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• Services of a professional guide, safari chef and camp assistants, with a supply vehicle.
• All meals and drinks + activities
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1 Reviews of Botswana mobile tent safari
Reviewed on 08 Jul 2018 by Geoffrey Yates
1. What was the most memorable or exciting part of your holiday?
The elephant "sneaking" through camp one night.
2. What tips would you give other travellers booking this holiday?
Bring a coat if you are travelling during the winter. Mornings get cold.
3. Did you feel that your holiday benefited local people, reduced environmental impacts or supported conservation?
The guides and other employees were all local people. Most of the power in the camps was solar, which minimized the need to run generators.
4. Finally, how would you rate your holiday overall?
I had a great time. I saw just about everything I could have hoped for.
Responsible Travel
Planet
This mobile tented safari leaves very little environmental footprint. Specific camping areas are used and the camp moves every few days. Support vehicles ensure waste is removed from the site and recycled and fresh local produce bought in.The company that owns the camps takes pro-active steps to ensure the properties and tourism activities are run in an environmentally responsible manner. This is important in protecting the fragile ecosystems in which they operate and that wildlife and local people rely upon for their survival.
Water Conservation
The conservation of water is of critical importance in the environments they operate, where many local people do not have ready access to safe, clean drinking water and droughts are commonplace. They conserve water through regular maintenance to reduce leakages, fitting flow restrictors on shower heads and taps where possible, watering our gardens and grass roofs at cooler times of the day, planting only drought resistant native plants where landscaping is necessary, and implementing a guest towel re-use and water conservation programme.
Waste Management
All of the waste produced is recycled, re-used or disposed of responsibly. In order to reduce waste, they avoid the purchase of glass bottled and tin canned goods where possible and offer our guests refillable steel water bottles in place of plastic water bottles.
People
The focus of the trip is the quality of our guides, hence there is a close association with Okavango Guiding School, a training facility which has been created to elevate the standard of guiding in Botswana, using local members of the local community. Many of Botswana’s top guides pass through Okavango Guiding School’s doors at one time or another.The company is locally owned and managed and support staff are all from local communities, bought up on the fringes of the Delta.
To this end, a dedicated environmental team - made up of members of the local community - manage the day-to-day running of the reserve, ensuring its long-term biological diversity and sustainability.
Cultural Sensitivity
They have in partnership with the local community developed a Responsible Code of Visitor Behaviour that is shared with guests before they go into the community for village visits so as to protect traditional cultures and minimize the impacts of tourism on living culture. They also provide guests with an Insider's Guide to Responsible Safaris which includes important cultural aspects.
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