Botswana fly camp and lodge safari starting in Kasane Chobe for 9 days

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9 – DAY BOTSWANA FLY CAMP SAFARI

01 June until 31 October 2009

Total cost per person sharing: US$3564.00

Single supplement additional US$920.00

01 November – 30 November 2009

Total cost per person sharing: US$3076.00

Single supplement additional US$755.00

01 December - 31 December 2009

Total cost per person sharing: US$2663.00

Single supplement additional US$617.00

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Included:

Airport pick-up from Kasane Airport
Road transfer from Kasane to Chobe Riverfront Fly Camp
2 Nights en-suite tented accommodation at Chobe Riverfront Fly Camp
Airport drop-off at Kasane Airport
Scenic air transfer from Kasane to Savute
2 Nights en-suite tented accommodation at Savute Fly Camp
Scenic air transfer from Savute to Khwai
2 Nights en-suite tented accommodation at Khwai Fly Camp
Scenic air transfer from Khwai to Xakanaxa Fly Camp
2 Nights en-suite tented accommodation at Xakanaxa Fly Camp
All meals, teas and coffees
4 x 4 game drives in the Chobe National Park at Chobe Riverfront Fly Camp
4 x 4 game drives at Savute Fly Camp
4 x 4 game drives at Khwai Fly Camp
4 x 4 game drives in the Moremi Game Reserve at Xakanaxa Camp
Scenic air transfer from Xakanaxa to Maun

Excluding:

Visas and travel insurance
Drinks
International flights
Gratuities and items of a personal nature

FLY CAMP SAFARIS

These are traditional tented safaris with your own guide, cook and camp staff to take care of you. A real ‘safari’ experience with a camp established on a private site. Fly Camp Safaris - operate in four of the premier destinations in Northern Botswana - Xakanaxa, Khwai, Savuti and Chobe Riverfront.

A minimum of a two-night stay is required. All accommodation with basic en - suite facilities in a comfortable camp set up in private areas. Guests enjoy three meals per day, prepared by the camp cook. Guests fly into the airstrip that is closest to the site and are collected by the operator, saving travelling time – time that will be spent productively viewing game!

The Tents have twin beds with linen, side table, lamps and of course en suite (bucket shower and chemical/flush loo).

CHOBE RIVERFRONT FLY CAMP

The Chobe National Park, which is the second largest national park in Botswana and covers 10,566 square kilometres, has one of the greatest concentrations of game found on the African continent. Its uniqueness in the abundance of wildlife and the true African nature of the region, offers a safari experience of a lifetime.

The park is divided into four distinctly different eco systems: Serondela with its lush plains and dense forests in the Chobe River area in the extreme north-east; the Savuti Marsh in the west about fifty kilometres north of Mababe gate; the Linyanti Swamps in the north-west and the hot dry hinterland in between.

The original inhabitants of what is now the park were the San people, otherwise known in Botswana as the Basarwa. They were hunter-gatherers who lived by moving from one area to another in search of water, wild fruits and wild animals. The San were later joined by groups of the Basubiya people and later still, around 1911, by a group of Batawana led by Sekgoma. When the country was divided into various land tenure systems, late last century and early this century, the larger part of the area that is now the national park was classified as crown land. In 1931 the idea of creating a national park in the area was first mooted, in order to protect the wildlife from extinction and to attract visitors. In 1932, an area of some 24,000 square kilometres in the Chobe district was declared a non-hunting area and the following year, the protected area was increased to 31,600 square kilometres. However, heavy tsetse fly infestations resulted in the whole idea lapsing in 1943. In 1957, the idea of a national park was raised again when an area of about 21,000 square kilometres was proposed as a game reserve and eventually a reduced area was gazetted in 1960 as Chobe Game Reserve. Later, in 1967, the reserve was declared a national park - the first national park in Botswana. There was a large settlement, based on the timber industry, at Serondela, some remains of which can still be seen today. This settlement was gradually moved out and the Chobe National Park was finally empty of human occupation in 1975. In 1980 and again in 1987, the boundaries were altered, increasing the park to its present size.

A major feature of Chobe National Park is its elephant population. First of all, the Chobe elephant comprise part of what is probably the largest surviving continuous elephant population. This population covers most of northern Botswana plus northwestern Zimbabwe. The Botswana's elephant population is currently estimated at around 120,000. This elephant population has built up steadily from a few thousand since the early 1900s and has escaped the massive illegal off take that has decimated other populations in the 1970s and 1980s. The Chobe elephant are migratory, making seasonal movements of up to 200 kilometres from the Chobe and Linyanti rivers, where they concentrate in the dry season, to the pans in the southeast of the park, to which they disperse in the rains. The elephants, in this area have the distinction of being the largest in body size of all living elephants though the ivory is brittle and you will not see many huge tuskers among these rangy monsters.

SAVUTE FLY CAMP

The Savuti Marsh is situated in the Chobe National Park. On game drives in the area you also discover the very interesting history of this area. Often described as one of, if not the best, wildlife-viewing area in Africa today. Savuti boasts one of the highest concentrations of wildlife left on the African continent. Animals are present during all seasons, and at certain times of the year their numbers can be staggering. If you allow yourself adequate time here you will probably see nearly all the major species: giraffe, elephant, zebra, impala, tsessebe, roan, sable, wildebeest, kudu, buffalo, waterbuck, warthog, eland and accompanying predators including lion, hyena, jackal, bat-eared fox and possibly even cheetah and wild dog.

Savuti is famous for its predators, particularly its resident lions and spotted hyena populations. Sometimes you will have them uncomfortably close, as both they and marauding hyenas do wander through the campsite. Do NOT feed them. Almost certainly you will hear lion at night.

Geographically, Savuti is an area of many unknowns. One of the greatest mysteries is the Savuti Channel itself, which has over the past 100 years inexplicably dried up and recommenced its flow several times. The present dry period started in 1982.

The Savuti Marsh is situated near the Magwikhwe Sand Ridge, which forms part of the ancient shoreline of an enormous inland sea, which was formed in the area an estimated 2-5 million years ago. Situated close to this ridge/shoreline are the Savuti Hills (“kopjes”) where we can find Bushman paintings on the vertical rock faces.

KHWAI and XAKANAXA FLY CAMP

Moremi, hunted by the Bushman as long as 10,000 years ago, was initiated by the Batawana tribe and covers some 4,871 km2, as the eastern section of the Okavango Delta. Moremi is mostly described as one of the most beautiful wildlife reserves in Africa. It combines mopane woodland and acacia forests, floodplains and lagoons. It is the great diversity of plant and animal life that makes Moremi so well known.

The idea to create a game reserve first originated in 1961 and was approved by the Batawana at a kgotla in 1963. The area was then officially designated as a game reserve in April 1965 and was initially run by the Fauna Conservation Society of Ngamiland. Moremi was then extended to include Chiefs Island in 1976. In August 1979 the reserve was taken over by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks. A further extension was added as recently as 1992 and now the reserve contains within its boundaries approximately twenty percent of the Okavango Delta.

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