8 Day Okavango Wilderniss Trail (Inner Delta & Moremi)

Authentic African Safari Experience. This wild camping safari shows you the best of the Okavango Delta during land and waterbased activities. We visit the narrow channels of the Inner Delta and the lagoons of Moremi Game Reserve (East Okavango).
Our team sets up camp in the wilderness without any bounderies. The tour is non-participatory and fully-catered. A journey to remember!

DAY 1: WARM WELCOME IN MAUN (-/-/-)

Upon your arrival in Maun, we welcome you at the airport and transfer you to your accomodation in Maun (included), where you can recover from the journey and prepare for the next days adventure.

DAY 2: IN THE CHANNELS OF THE OKAVANGO DELTA (B/L/D)

In the early morning we pick you at your hotel or lodge or the airport in Maun. The tour starts at 07:30h with a 1h speedboat cruise to the Buffalo Fence. Because of dryseason or other circumstances we might drive you in a 4×4 vehicle. At the buffalo fence you meet your poler, who will take you on an unforgettable journey through the channels of the Okavango. Born and raised in the Okavango Delta, our polers and guides show you their home which they are very pationate and knowledgable about. Our experienced polers take you on a journey deep in the watersystem. Enjoy the peace of the delta in a Mokoro, the traditional onetree-canoe. In camp on an island our team awaits you with lunch. After your meal you can freshen up before your guide takes you on an afternoon nature walk where we hope to see more animals and learn about the delta its plants, animals and the tribes living here. For dinner we return to camp. In the evening you sit around the campfire sharing the stories of the day.

DAY 3: ON THE ISLANDS OF THE OKAVANGO DELTA (B/L/D)

Spend the whole day deep inside the Okavango. Explore the channels by Mokoro (traditional DugOut Canoe) and go on guided bushwalks and gamewalks with an experienced guide on the islands of the Okavango Delta.

You are woken up with a warm “Dumela“ (setswana = Hello) and a light breakfast waiting for you. After coffee, tea and breakfast you go on your first gameviewing activity (either a nature walk or a canoe excursion). When returning to camp you have the opportunity to shower. Afterwards you will be served brunch. In the afternoon you enjoy a second gameviewing activity.
Enjoy delicious meals cooked over the bushfire by our experienced bush chef and share
the experiences of the day in the evening sitting around the bushfire before falling asleep in your comfortable tent with the noises of animals and the bush around you.

DAY 4: LEAVING THE OKAVANGO DELTA (B/L/-)

Enjoy a last DugOut Canoe tour and a last bush walk before heading back to town. For lunch you will rest by the riverside. Before sunset you will return to Maun for an overnight in a good midrange lodge with en-suite room.

DAY 5: INTO THE WILD OF MOREMI GAME RESERVE (B/L/D)

In the early morning at we pick you at your hotel or lodge in Maun. You meet your highlytrained and experienced guide that will take show you our beautiful wildlife and nature in the next days. In a 4×4 open-sided safari vehicle you drive to Moremi Game Reserve, where you will spend the day on gamedrives in the floodplains – seasonally or perennially wet, waterways, lagoons, pools, pans, grasslands and riparian, riverine and mophane forests. This terrain makes driving Moremi’s many loops and trails both delightful and, at times, totally inspiring.
Inside the bush you enjoy a picnic lunch. Before the sun sets you arrive in your camp in where you enjoy a bush shower. After a delicious dinner you can sit around the campfire sharing your experiences of the day.

DAY 6: CLOSE UP WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS IN MOREMI (B,L,D)

An early morning wake up with a fast breakfast allows you to go on an early gamedrive as this is the time when the predators are on the hunt. After the game drive you return to camp where you have the chance to freshen up with a delightful bush shower. The team is already awaiting you with brunch so that you can go on your next game drive as soon as the hot midday sun is over and the animals come out of their hiding places again. Evening progamm once again is dinner and story telling around the campfire and the unforgettable experience of being during night deep inside the bush.

DAY 7: GAMEVIEWING IN MOREMI

And again you are woken up in the early morning with a warm “Dumela” so that after a fast coffee, tea and breakfast snack you can rush on an early morning game drive. You spend the day in Moremi on a transfer gamedrive and return to Maun in the late afternoon/early evening with plenty of pictures and unforgettable memories. You are accomodated in a good midrange lodge with en-suite rooms.

DAY 8: DEPARTURE

Breakfast and departure.

inclusions:

all transfers, activities as mentioned, parkfees, 7x breakfast, 6x lunch, 5x dinner

4 nights of wild camping in 2.5×2.5m² dome tents with twin stretcher beds, pillows and duvet blankets and private en-suite bush-bathroom with longdrop toilet and bucket shower. water, softdrinks, juice included

3 nights accomodation in double rooms (budget to midrange lodge)

exclusions:

visas, international flights (to / from Maun), inssurances, gratuities, personal expenses (such as souvenirs), alcoholic beverages (can be added on surcharge), 2x dinner.

This tour is often combined with:

2 Night Savute Wilderness Trail + Chobe + Victoria Falls
2 Day Salt Pans Overnight
3 Day Central Kalahari Wilderness Trail
4 Day Central Kalahari & Bushmen Experience Culture and Wilderness Trail
5 Day Best of Southern Botswana Wilderness Trail
5 Day Rhinos, Diamonds & Okavango Delta Overland Tour
7 Day Highlights of Botswana Overland Tour
10 Day Across Botswana Overland Tour