Trip Itinerary
Chobe National Park
For the first leg of your Botswana safari on a budget, you’ll travel to Chobe National Park, where you’ll stay at Chobe Elephant Camp for two nights. This is an excellent eco-style camp, with a lofty position on top of a ridge overlooking the Chobe River and its floodplain. The lodge’s open-plan lounge and dining area flows out into a traditional boma, while a pathway brings you to a viewing deck with swimming pool. As far as activities are concerned, there’s a clue in the name of the camp – Chobe boasts the biggest elephant population in Africa! You’ll be able to check out the herds on game drives and boat cruises. The camp also offers walks through the local village.
Okavango Delta
From Chobe, you’ll head to the Okavango Delta and stay in two properties. The first property is Sango Safari Camp, where you’ll stay for three nights. This is a classic tented safari camp, with an open main area and a few Meru-style guest tents. The views are beautiful from camp, comprising floodplains, riverine forests, and dry woodlands, supporting a fine diversity of wildlife. You can enjoy all this from your private veranda too. Due to its location between the Khwai river and the predator-rich Moremi Game Reserve, Sango provides some great game-viewing activities – day and night game drives, all-day game drives, and mokoro excursions, but keep in mind that this is a busier area than deeper in the Okavango. You can expect to see four of the Big Five species – lion, leopard, elephant, and buffalo – as well as cheetah, hyena, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, antelopes, hippopotamus, crocodile, and many more!
Okavango Delta
It’s just a quick hop in a light aircraft from Sango to Pom Pom, and you spend the last two nights of this Botswana safari on a private island and in one of the Delta’s best-value private reserves. Pom Pom is an adventurous little property, in an area where the scenery is nothing short of spectacular, featuring reed-fringed channels and waterlily lagoons. Guest accommodation consists of safari tents, each with its own private veranda overlooking beautiful views across the lagoon! Activities from Pom Pom focus on checking out the local wildlife, on morning and evening game drives, and mokoro excursions. This part of the Delta also boasts a wealth of wildlife! Fishing is available too, with the safari guides on hand to help you find the likes of African pike and various types of bream.
