Luxury Okavango Expedition
Fly-In to your first location. Our Luxury Okavango Expedition takes in the southern end of Moremi and the Khwai Private Concession, both integral parts of the Okavango system.
Why This Safari is Special
Open Vehicle Game Drives
All game drives conducted in specially modified open 4x4 vehicles providing unobstructed views and exceptional photography opportunities - the same vehicles used at Botswana's top luxury lodges.
Luxury Lodge Quality
The wildlife experience equals that of private concessions and luxury lodges. Our locations are carefully selected for exceptional game viewing, and our guides' knowledge rivals the best in Botswana.
Quality Food
Three good meals a day prepared by our camp chef. Healthy continental-style breakfasts, hearty lunches in camp, and evening dinners around the campfire using fresh ingredients.
Expert Service
All our staff trained in some of Botswana's finest luxury lodges. From your guide to camp staff, expect attentive, professional service that anticipates your needs while respecting the wilderness setting.
Locations We'll Explore
Your Accommodation
Luxury Sahara Tents
Spacious 6x3m Sahara tents with metal-framed beds, premium memory-foam mattresses, crisp linen and private ensuite bathrooms with hot bucket showers and flushing toilets. Your camp moves with you, set up in prime private campsites within Moremi and Khwai, attended by a dedicated chef, host and camp staff trained in Botswana's top lodges. Evenings end around the campfire with cold drinks and three-course dinners, and a light-aircraft transfer to your first camp is included.
Typical Daily Schedule
Wake-up call with hot tea/coffee delivered to your tent
Depart for morning game drive in open 4x4 vehicle
Return to camp for full breakfast
Midday at leisure - rest, read, or enjoy lunch
Afternoon tea and cake
Evening game drive with sundowner stop
Return to camp for showers and dinner around the campfire
Retire to your tent or enjoy stargazing
Wildlife You May Encounter
Wildlife sightings vary by season and cannot be guaranteed, but these species are regularly seen in the areas we visit.
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1
Arrival — Moremi Game Reserve
A light aircraft lifts you from Maun over the Okavango's great fan of channels and emerald floodplains to a private airstrip in the Moremi Game Reserve. A short game drive delivers you to your luxury Sahara tent, already erected beneath leadwood and acacia with a private ensuite bathroom, hot bucket shower and flushing toilet. After lunch and a briefing with Pilot — a guide of 30+ years — your first evening drive runs into the golden light over the Xakanaxa floodplains, where elephant herds drift, red lechwe splash through the shallows and fish eagles perch in the dead leadwoods.
Days 2-3
Moremi Game Reserve
Two full days in southern Moremi, the "jewel of the Delta." Dawn drives track lion prides working the open plains and elephant breeding herds stripping acacia; leopard are regular in the riverine forest and African wild dog den in the area in season. Midday is your own — lunch in the shade, a siesta, a hot bucket shower before tea. Afternoon drives follow hippo trails to lagoons alive with saddle-billed storks, spurwing geese and the splash of lechwe; sundowners on a palm island give way to three-course dinners around the campfire beneath an unbroken Milky Way.
Days 4-6
Khwai Private Concession
The camp relocates to the Khwai Private Concession, where the Okavango's permanent water meets dry mopane and acacia woodland — one of Botswana's richest predator areas. Three days blend game drives for Khwai's famous lions, wild dog and tree-climbing leopard with mokoro (dugout canoe) trips through quiet channels past reedbeds, hippos and frog-hunting herons. Night drives — a concession privilege — reveal bushbabies, porcupines, serval and the eyeshine of prowling cats; the silence of a mobile camp, with no fences and no other vehicles, is the point of it all.
Day 7
Departure
A last dawn drive and a bush breakfast before a short transfer to the airstrip and your flight back over the Delta to Maun, carrying the silence and scale of the Okavango with you.