The Kalahari Pans and the Delta
Three nights on the salt pans with the meerkats, three in the waterways of Moremi.
- Six nights
- Two stays
- Botswana
- Safari, light aircraft
Two of Botswana's most different landscapes in under a week: the open white pans of the Makgadikgadi, and the papyrus and channels of the Okavango Delta. Both by light aircraft from Maun.
- Length
- Six nights
- Pace
- Two stays
- Style
- Safari, light aircraft
- Route
- The Makgadikgadi Pans to Moremi Game Reserve
- The Makgadikgadi PansThree nights
- Moremi Game ReserveThree nights
01
Days 1 to 4 · three nights
The Makgadikgadi Pans
A light aircraft from Maun out over the Kalahari. Mornings among the camp's habituated meerkats, a walk with the Zu/'hoasi Bushmen, drives by day and after dark for brown hyena and the Kalahari lion, and a visit to Chapman's Baobab. From April to October, quad bikes across the salt crust and a night slept out on the pans; from November to March, the zebra and wildebeest migration arrives on the grasslands. One horseback ride is included on stays of three nights.
Where you stay
Jack's Camp
Jack's Camp lies on the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans in Botswana's Kalahari, with nine tents furnished with Persian and North African rugs, paraffin lamps and mahogany campaign furniture, each with a private plunge pool on its deck. Guests dine together at a 36-seat table that served as an officers' mess table in the 1820s.
02
Days 4 to 7 · three nights
Moremi Game Reserve
A short flight north into the Delta. Drives morning and afternoon, mekoro and boats through the channels, walks, fishing in season and, if you wish, a helicopter over the floodplains. Then the light aircraft back to Maun.
Where you stay
Xigera Safari Lodge
Xigera is set deep in the Moremi Game Reserve in the Okavango Delta, almost hidden under a canopy of indigenous trees, and runs on solar power. Its 12 suites and a two-bedroom family suite are each designed individually, with copper fireplaces and sculptural furniture, and contemporary art fills the lodge.
Ways to make it yours
This is a sample. The hotels, the pace and the order are where we start, not where we finish: every journey is designed around the people taking it.
Made around you
Most travel is bought. This is designed.
Before anything is booked, we talk: who is travelling, how you like to spend a morning, and the hotel preferences below the obvious, from the kind of bath you like to the time you wake and how much daylight you need in a room. You see options where options matter and clean recommendations where they don't.
The same person remains your point of contact from the first reply to the trip after next. No handovers. No team.
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