Stay : Combined Zambia/Botswana
Botswana and Zambia are both beautiful and surprising destinations. Incredible diversity, protected natural areas, breathtaking landscapes, memorable sunsets, lush parks... impossible to come back disappointed from such a stay. This itinerary allows you to add different extensions: the Victoria Falls, the beaches of Mozambique or the dunes of the Namib desert
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11 days
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Detail of the stay : Combined Zambia/Botswana - 11 days
Day 1: Arrival without time difference via Johannesburg
Late afternoon flight to Johannesburg, South Africa. Dinner and overnight on board.
Day 2: Overflight of the Okavango Delta by taxi
Arrival and transfer from Johannesburg to Maun by taxi to the Okavango Delta (about 40 minutes flight). First magical moment, the delta seen from the sky.... Transfer and installation in a luxury camp. Lunch. In the afternoon, you will have the opportunity to take the first safari of the stay in the meanders of the delta, in a mokoro for 2 people or in a boat (depending on the water level) for 6 people with an English-speaking ranger-guide. Return to Xigera camp and starry night
Day 3: Safaris in the Delta, in mokoros
Day safari in the Delta, in mokoro, in 4x4 with experienced guide ranger. Meals and overnight in tents at Seba camp,
Day 4: The islands with birds
The Okavango Delta is nicknamed "the only river that never finds the sea", but this does not prevent it from having dozens of islands particularly suitable for bird watching. No less than 400 species frequent the area. The osprey, the golden eagle, the royal crane or the sacred ibis, so many rare and protected varieties enjoy a particularly varied ecosystem: savannah, swamps, forests, meadows... But what would a safari be without being able to observe elephants, buffaloes, wildebeests, hippopotamuses, lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, white and black rhinoceroses? At this point in the delta, many people are present, if only to quench their thirst
Day 5: Morning Botswana, afternoon Zambia
Steps: Livingstone, Kasane - Kazungula
After the morning safari in the delta to finish the Big Five, departure by taxi to Kasane (about 1h30 flight). Upon arrival, boarding for a safari cruise on the Chobe River to witness the rare spectacle of wildlife that came to drink. Lunch served on board. Afternoon, two hours drive to Livingstone, Zambia. Dinner and overnight in the tent
Day 6: Victoria Falls on the Zambia side
Steps: Livingstone, Victoria Falls National Park
In the morning, visit Victoria Falls with an English-speaking guide. The Falls form the world's largest water curtain, falling from more than 100 m in height into the Zambezi Gorge, it is twice as high as Niagara Falls. During a trip, Dr. Livingstone named Victoria Falls, considered one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world, in honour of the queen of the same name. At sunset, boat trip on the Zambezi River. Meals and overnight
Day 7: Safari in Kafue Park
Steps: Kafue National Park
In the morning, transfer to the airport and departure by taxi to the Kafue park. Welcome and transfer to Busanga camp, lunch. In the afternoon, it is safari in the reserve in 4x4 with an experienced ranger guide. Meal and night in one of the two small intimate camps located in the heart of the plains.
Day 8: In the plains of Busanga
Departure at dawn for a new safari in 4x4, by boat or on foot, depending on your wishes. After a good break at the Lodge and before nightfall, the second safari of the day in the light of headlights and 4x4 headlights. It is often at sunset that animals go out the most. From safari to safari, it is impossible to see the same animals as the park is so huge. Proclaimed a national park in 1950, it covers 22,500 km². Its exploitation for tourism purposes is very recent, the animals are all the more wild because they are not used to being observed
Day 9: Overview of Kafue Park by balloon
Steps: Kafue National Park
Depending on the season, you can fly over the plains of Busanga in a balloon. Kafue Park is one of the largest parks in Africa, the Busanga plains cover 750 km² and offer landscapes of dense and wild forests dotted with dambos (open areas sometimes flooded). A few meters above the ground, you can admire animals whose names are not necessarily evocative: the poukou, hippotragues (coming out of antelopes) or tropis and large troops of lions, always ready to eat..
Day 10: Last Round in the Park
Steps: Lusaka
At the end of the morning, transfer and departure by plane taxi to Lusaka. Flight to Johannesburg and correspondence for Paris. Dinner and night on board.
Day 11: Return flight without jet-lag
Arrival in Paris in the middle of the morning.
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