The Delta and Victoria Falls
Three nights in the Okavango, four on the Zambezi.
- Seven nights
- Two stays
- Botswana, Zimbabwe
- Safari, river, helicopter
Two of Africa's great waters in a week, with time for each: the channels of the Okavango Delta, then the Zambezi and the Falls.
- Length
- Seven nights
- Pace
- Two stays
- Style
- Safari, river, helicopter
- Route
- Moremi Game Reserve to The Zambezi
- Moremi Game ReserveThree nights
- The ZambeziFour nights
01
Days 1 to 4 · three nights
Moremi Game Reserve
Drives morning, afternoon and evening, canoe, glass-bottomed mokoro or motorboat through the waterways, sundowners with your feet in the water, and a night in the Baobab, the lodge's steel treehouse a kilometre away, when it is free.
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.
02
Days 4 to 8 · four nights
The Zambezi
A light aircraft to Kasane and a drive across the border. The helicopter along the Zambezi and the Batoka Gorge over the Falls, a guided walk on the rim, tea at the old Victoria Falls Hotel, and drives, river cruises, canoeing and walks on the reserve.
Where you stay
Matetsi Victoria Falls
Matetsi is family-owned and stands on the Zambezi within its own private wildlife reserve of some 55,000 hectares, a short distance from the Botswana border, with interiors that draw on Zimbabwean village life and the work of local designers and artists.
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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