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On arrival into Johannesburg, South Africa, from your International flight, you will be met and transferred to the Grace Hotel where you stay for one night (bed and breakfast).
South Africa's capital Johannesburg, is a great place to begin your African Adventure and to prepare you for the unforgettable safari in Botswana.
Situated in the heart of Rosebank, a secure and leafy suburb, The Grace has been designed in the neo-classical style with understated elegance, without losing personal charm. There are cosmopolitan restaurants, shops, cinemas, art galleries and craft markets all within walking distance, and there is easy access to Johannesburg's airport.
Providing exclusive, comfortable accommodation and service which is personal and efficient, there are seventy-five bedrooms, fifteen of which are suites, all decorated to the highest standard. Fine and imaginative cuisine is served in the restaurant adjoining a sunny roof garden and poolside terrace. At the pool terrace light meals, teas and drinks are served high above the hum of the streets below.
In the morning you will be met and privately transferred to Johannesburg Airport to board the Air Botswana flight BP212 departing at 1000 to Maun, Botswana. On arrival at 1140 you will be met and transferred thirty minutes by light aircraft into the Okavango Delta to stay for two nights at Jao Camp (fully inclusive of meals and activities).
A safari in Botswana will provide you with some fantastic memories. Botswana has some of the most luxurious lodges for the perfect African safari.
Jao Camp is an eighteen bedded luxury tented camp located in the huge Jao Private Reserve which lies to the west of the Moremi Wildlife Reserve in the Okavango Delta.
The accommodation is among the most luxurious in the Okavango Delta and each of the nine immense canvas suites is beautifully designed with a wooden structure below the sweeping canvas roof and walls. Inside each suite there are large beds (twin or double as preferred), occasional tables, lamps, dressing table and luxury en suite bathroom with 'his & hers' hand basins, flush w.c. and both indoor and outdoor shower. The entire structure is set on a large raised wooden deck with spacious veranda and hammock outside where you can enjoy views of the verdant Okavango vegetation laced with the shallow waterways for which this region is famous.
Because the Jao Reserve is private, you can enjoy a wide range of safari activities in the company of the camp's expert guides. These include mokoros (dugout canoes) which are punted silently along reed lined channels, boats, open vehicles which head off in search of the bigger herds by day and after dark, as well as walking safaris where your guide will be armed. Each of these means of game viewing provides a new and exciting perspective from which to enjoy the wildlife, birds and scenery.
The abundant grassland and water of the Jao Private Reserve supports a wide variety of wildlife including elephant, giraffe, antelope (including water-adapted species such as red lechwe), zebra, hippopotamus and crocodile. It is also a place where you are likely to encounter big cats and lion, leopard and cheetah are all regularly seen on the reserve. A fantastic way to view the game is on a day or night safari game drive often at dawn or dusk or on foot.
After your morning activity you will be transferred forty minutes by light aircraft to Lebala Camp where you stay for three nights (fully inclusive of meals and activities).
Lebala Camp is situated on a peninsula of land jutting into the heart of the Linyanti Delta that surrounds the camp. This delta comprises big seasonal floodplains, hundreds of square miles of savannah, as well as varied forest which includes mopane trees, huge old baobabs and acacia; all of which attracts a very large number and wide range of animals.
Lebala Camp is located on the largest private game viewing concession in Botswana - the 2320km_ Kwando Concession. It shares this enormous area of land in northern Botswana with its sister camp, Lagoon Camp, and because the concession is private you can enjoy the widest possible range of game viewing activities which include walking with an armed guide and tracker, game drives by open vehicle both during the day and at night with a spotlight to view nocturnal creatures. There is also a hide close to the camp where you can enjoy exciting 'close up' game viewing and bird watching.
This huge reserve attracts very large numbers of animals including large herds of elephant including lone bulls and big breeding herds, herds of buffalo, graceful looking giraffe and a wide variety of antelope, zebra, wildebeest and other plains game. More rare antelope such as roan, sable, sitatunga and lechwe are regularly seen. This reserve is also a very good place for spotting predators and wild dogs regularly den in the area, and if you add the cheetah, leopard and lion which all inhabit the reserve you have an exciting predator population.
The bird watching in this area is also very good indeed with approximately 400 species including big eagles, brilliantly coloured kingfishers, storks, herons and an enormous variety of other birds. Your guides would know every one.
The accommodation here is very comfortable with just eight huge tents set on a raised wooden deck with en-suite bathroom (flush w.c. and shower), proper beds, safari furniture and a private veranda facing onto the open plains. The standard of cuisine here is very good indeed and all drinks and laundry are included.
After your morning activity you will be transferred forty minutes by light aircraft to Duba Plains Camp where you stay for three nights (fully inclusive of meals and activities).
Duba Plains is perhaps the Okavango Delta's most remote camp. The camp is located in the furthermost reaches of the Delta and is situated on an island, which is surrounded by large flood plains and shaded by large ebony, fig and garcinia trees. The private reserve is 35,000 hectares in extent.
The game viewing at Duba is always very exciting with big herds of buffalo, which are the main prey of the numerous lion, while sleek leopard are continually on the prowl searching for the smaller antelope such as impala. This year Duba has developed as possibly the best lion spotting camp in southern Africa. It is also an excellent camp for elephant with some impressive breeding herds and many large lone bulls. You can see hippopotamus, giraffe, zebra and a host of smaller creatures such as warthog and jackal, while on night drives nocturnal creatures like porcupine and aardvark can be seen. At any time of year there are over 350 species of amazing birds in the Duba area.
Duba is small and intimate, with accommodation for only twelve people. The huge tents each have en suite bathrooms, with hot and cold running water, proper beds, furniture and a veranda overlooking the floodplain. The dining room and bar area are on raised decking, situated under large riverine trees.
The camp offers a variety of activities, ranging from game drives in open 4x4 vehicles, walking safaris or mokoro canoeing. Guests may take night drives, which often provide opportunities to see Africa's elusive nocturnal animals in action. The vehicles in Duba are allowed "off-road" for the ultimate in game viewing.
South Africa combines fantastically with Botswana mixing a city location with a luxury safari providing you with some fantastic memories. Botswana has some of the most luxurious lodges for the perfect African safari.
After lunch you will be transferred thirty minutes by light aircraft to Maun for flight BP211 departing at 1500 to Johannesburg. On arrival at 1640 and connect with your International flight home.