Special offers
Special offers on safaris in Botswana in 2008
BOTSWANA GREEN DESERT SAFARI & VICTORIA FALLS
Travel between 1 March to 31 May 2008 and save up to £280 per person on a 9-day luxury safari.
The Green Desert Safari is a journey in the contrasting great wilderness areas of Botswana's Okavango Delta and Chobe National Park and the Victoria Falls in Zambia. Each year, these areas, so recently parched and desert-like, are magically transformed by the mighty waters of Africa.
This safari enables you to enjoy the spectacle of the wilderness in bloom, in all its green finery, and to discover the flora and fauna unique to each region through a variety of game and cultural activities.
The 9-day luxury Green Desert Safari costs from £2,347 per person sharing, a saving of up to £280 per person sharing.
The price includes South African Airways flights from London via Johannesburg to Botswana, returning from Livingstone, prepaid departure taxes, scheduled internal flights and road transfers, 2 nights at Pom Pom Camp, 2 nights at Gunns Camp, 2 nights at Chobe Safari Lodge, 2 nights at Songwe Village, all meals, park fees, game drives, night drives, mokoro (dugout canoe) trips, fishing, Okavango motorboat cruise, Chobe River cruise, visit to Zambian side of Victoria Falls and cultural visits.
Valid 1 March – 31 May 2008.
BOTSWANA: EXPLORERS, WRITERS & FILM-MAKERS
Alexander McCall Smith is the latest of the writers who have stirred the imagination and inspired journeys to Africa. The late Anthony Minghella’s film of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency reflects the author’s loving portrayal of Botswana, where traditional values coexist with development, education and modern technology.
The intrepid explorers of the 19th century are still remembered. Baines Baobabs, beside which Mma Ramotswe parks after she has rescued the teacher’s son, and Baines Camp commemorate the explorer and artist, Thomas Baines. Stanley Safari Lodge in Victoria Falls honours the memory of the remarkable man who traced Dr. David Livingstone, who was the first European to set eyes on the Falls.
To mark the broadcast of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, we have secured a special price on this varied Botswana safari. Travel between 1 April and 30 June and save £118 per person sharing.
Our 9-day journey in Botswana and Victoria Falls costs from £2508 per person sharing. The price includes South African Airways flights via Johannesburg, prepaid departure taxes, scheduled internal flights and road transfers, 3 nights at Stanley Safari Lodge, 3 nights at Baines Camp including all meals, a visit to Zambian side of Victoria Falls and cultural visits, park fees, and game activities; and 2 nights at the President Hotel, Gaborone, with breakfast and a full day ‘No.1 Ladies Detective Agency’ tour with lunch.
Valid for travel 1 April – 30 June 2008.
BOTSWANA NATURAL HISTORY EXPEDITION
Depart on 19 June 2008 and save up to £1460 per person on this superb 14-day mobile safari through northern Botswana.
This is an amazing opportunity to journey through Botswana with Brent and Grant Reed, who will bring to life and help you understand the intricate inter‐relationships binding the birds, animals, insects, and plants of the African bush. The Reed brothers are owners of the safari company, third generation naturalists, highly qualified guides, wildlife photographers and directors of the Okavango Guiding School, and have specialised in Botswana for over a decade.
This is a very comfortable safari. The tents are spacious with en suite facilities, good beds and bed-side tables. Bucket showers can be ordered as required, and hot water is provided every morning and evening. A professional safari chef prepares the meals of a high standard, and good quality wines are served.
Depart on an overnight flight to Johannesburg, where you connect with the morning flight to Maun. Board a charter flight over the southern Okavango to Xakanaxa, where camp awaits you. The sight of elephant in the mopane scrub and herds of lechwe and buffalo on the plains will revive you. Two further days are spent exploring the Moremi Game Reserve in the eastern Okavango, an area of diverse habitat and rich and varied game and birdlife. Game viewing is both by boat and on game drives. Continue to the scenic Khwai area, with its mopane, lead-wood and camelthorn woodlands to spend three days. Leopard, cheetah, serval and lion are common predators and the home ranges of 2 different packs of wild dog include the Khwai. Walking safaris and night drives provide additional game viewing in the Khwai.
The journey to Savute crosses the Mababe Depression, the remains of the ancient Lake Makgadikgadi and a birder's paradise. Savute is distinguished by the extraordinary interaction between elephants and unusually large prides of lion, which enables the lion to prey even on young adult elephants. You will also walk to see some of the San paintings that are a feature of the area.
It is a fabulous journey through the teak woodlands to the vast floodplains of the Chobe River. Spend 2 nights in Chobe National Park, with its massive buffalo herds, enormous elephant population, roan and sable antelope and the Puku's only location in southern Africa. No longer under canvas, Elephant Valley Lodge is the base for game drives, boat cruises and walking safaris.
Travel to the Zambian border and on to Livingstone for a finale of 2 nights at Victoria Falls, staying at Taita Falcon Lodge.
Departing 19 June from London Heathrow, this exceptional 13-night/14-day safari costs from £3,350 per person sharing. The price includes flights, airport taxes, all specified activities, park entry fees, meals, accommodation, drinks on safari and all transfers.
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