Affordable Botswana Safaris: Discover the Best of Botswana Without Breaking the Bank
2025 Fly-in Camping Safaris from Maun.
The ultimate 2025 fly-in Botswana camping safari package, where you can enjoy the beauty of the Okavango Delta and the Moremi Game Reserve with scenic helicopter flights, mokoro excursions, game drives, and boat cruises. All on an a fully-inclusive camping safari to have you experience the best of Botswana's wilderness in only 5 nights.
Price:
USD 2890.00 per person sharing (add 25% for single supplement).
Inclusions:
All park, concession and community fees. All guide, poler and boating fees. Activities and return road transfers from Maun.
Accommodation:
3.5m x 3.5m classic Safari style Meru tent with comfortable beds and quality cotton linen. A covered verandah at the front of your tent with chairs and table. An attached enclosure at the back of each tent with own shower and toilet. Towel supplied.
Meals:
Breakfast - Cereals, yoghurt, fruit, rusks, tea, filter coffee and full cooked breakfast.
Light afternoon lunch - salads, breads and spreads. Sunset snacks
Dinner - Soup/starter, a main and a dessert.
Drinks:
All bottled water, fruit juice. Local soft drinks, beer, cider. Wine and a limited supply of spirits will be supplied. Please supply drinks preferences.
Day 2:
Wake up on day 2 for a full cooked breakfast served at 6:00am and depart at 6:30am on your safari vehicle for half hour drive to the mokoro station. You then go out on the mekoro at 8am for a couple of hours on the mekoro followed by a couple of hour game walk. After the game walk, enjoy a nice picnic spread back at the riverside and a bit of relaxation in a nice shady location. At around 2pm you set off on a 1-hour downstream mokoro ride back to the mokoro station. From there it is a half hour game drive drive back to your riverside campsite for another warm shower and wonderful Okavango sunset
Day 3:
You start your third day at a more leisurely pace with your warm beverage being delivered to your tent at sunrise with breakfast served any time before 8am. At 8:30m set off for a 3-night safari to Moremi Game Reserve, stopping off enroute at "Elephant Havens", a wildlife foundation that runs an Elephant orphanage and reintroduction program. After a 1-hour tour at the orphanage you continue your way, arriving at South Gate Moremi by midday. From South Gate we head off on a slow game drive through the wildlife rich Western flood plains of the Moremi Game Reserve. A picnic lunch in the Xinii area gives a relaxing break before heading on to the camp in the 3rd Bridge area. Arrival at the camp is at around 5:30pm and you will find dinner preparations already underway. The staff will have heated water on the fire to fill your bucket shower for you to enjoy at your leisure.
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Itinerary:
Day 1:
Your guide will meet you at the airport (or anywhere in Maun) in the early afternoon and connect you with your Helicopter Horizons pilot. From there you go on a helicopter transfer to your riverside Okavango base camp. Once in camp our guide will show you around and take you to your tented accommodation. There is a mini-bar available in the main area from which you may help yourselves to beverages and enjoy the sunset over the hippo lagoon. Shortly after sunset a 3- course fire cooked dinner will served in the dining area.
Day 4:
After an early breakfast you head out for a full day of game viewing with a packed picnic lunch. At around 2:30pm you then start on a 2-hour boat cruise from the Xakanaxa boat station. Afterwards another game drive will take you back to camp.
Day 5:
On the last full day on safari the pace slows down a bit. Rather than going out for a full day game drive you go out for a morning game drive and an afternoon game drive with sun downers. Returning back to camp for lunch and a little relaxation.
Day 6:
A super early wake up and a dawn game drive, returning for a full cooked breakfast. Departure from camp is at 8am to be back in Maun before midday.
