Botswana Luxury Safari

Evening departure by British Airways from London Heathrow to Johannesburg.

Connect with your Air Botswana flight to Maun (2 hours). On arrival, transfer by light aircraft Xigera where you will spend 3 nights. Xigera Camp is within the Moremi Game Reserve and lies on a riverine island. A waterland paradise in the heart of the Moremi Game Reserve. Permanent water all year round allows one to enjoy an unparalleled variety of activities including foot safaris, mokoro trips, game drives and powerboat outings in total privacy. Paradise for avid birdwatchers, Xigera is home to Pels fishing owl, African skimmers, slaty egrets, wattled crane, lesser jacana and a host of eagles, vultures, raptors and kingfishers. It also boasts one of the highest densities of the rare and elusive sitatunga antelope found anywhere in the Okavango Delta. Go on an afternoon game viewing activity.

Xigera has something for everyone in an area where there are no other Moremi camps. Enjoy a true Delta experience while you sit back in a mokoro (dugout canoe) and silently glide through the wonders of the tranquil Okavango waterways observed by a myriad of delta creatures.

Watch the sun setting and the birds gliding home to roost from a motorboat on the Xigera Lagoon. Observe the wildlife and unique delta scenery from the comfort of an open topped Land Rover or, for the adventurous, track animals on foot. Or simply take in the beautiful sunrise from your comfortable bed while sipping your morning tea or coffee.

Transfer by light aircraft to Khwai River Lodge which is nestled on the edge of a leadwood and fig tree forest, overlooking the vast Khawi River floodplains and beyond into the Moremi Wildlife Reserve. Stay at this camp for 3 nights.

Day at leisure to follow Lodge activities.

Enjoy the lodge and spend your day experiencing some of the available activities.

After a short morning drive and breakfast, depart by light aircraft to Livingstone International Airport (1 hour). On leaving Botswana, you will fly over the Kazangula border, a point where the four countries of Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia meet. On arrival you will be transferred to Toka Leya in the late afternoon.

The grand finale is a guided tour of the Victoria Falls, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. At 1,708 metres wide, it is the largest curtain of water in the world and drops more than 100 metres into the sheer Zambezi Gorge. After a guided tour, transfer to Livingstone airport for your British Airways flight (operated by Comair) to Johannesburg (1 hour 40 minutes), where you connect with the overnight British Airways flight to London.

Arrive at London Heathrow early this morning.