Mobile Safaris in Botswana - Safaris with Botswana Odyssey

Without doubt one of the best ways to view wildlife is by taking a mobile safari. Mobile safaris take in the best of whats to offer by venturing to areas untouched by mainstream tourists and timing the trips to maximize the best possible game viewing.

As seasons change and wildlife migrates to different areas of a country, mobile safaris follow the herds with the flexibility to move wherever the game chooses to go itself. This is true wilderness, exploring areas that may not have been touched before.

The trips involved on a mobile safari have no set itineraries. Small groups set out with the expectations that although they know where they will be sleeping, getting there is dependant upon the knowledge of their guide and where the game moves to.

Mobile safaris throughout Botswana aim to show people the diversity of the country, often taking in areas of the Linyanti and Savuti marshes as well as the Okavango itself and the massive Kalahari desert or areas of the Makgadikgadi Pans.

Below is a brief itinerary for one of the Mobile Safaris that departs from the 1st June to 30th November. Its a good exampl of the mobile trips take in all the contrasts that Botswana has to offer. The trip exploits game movements and therefore maximises game viewing.

Days 1 and 2

On arrival in Maun, guests will be met and assisted on to their shared light aircraft transfer to the Makgadikgadi Pans where they will will be taken to San Camp for their first two nights.

San Camp

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Days 3 and 4

Today guests will be driven to Nxai Pan National Park and the heart of the Kalahari desert for the first taste of mobile camping for two nights. Visits to see the bushmen and their paintings are a fantastic experience and driving quad bikes over the pans gives a real sense of how the habitat changed once the rains arrive.

Kalahari Sunset

Days 5 and 6

Today guests are driven to Maun and flown to The Moremi Game Reserve. On arrival they will set off on Xigera's Mokoro Trails for two nights, spending the days punting through the Delta's channels and floodplains and walking on some of Moremi's game filled islands.

Makoro's

Days 7 and 8

This morning guests will be flown to Lechwe Island Camp in the Okavango delta for the first of two nights camping in the Delta itself. The area is superb for game drives giving guests the chance to see another of the regions broad range of habitat.

African Fish Eagle

Day 9

Today the trip drives guests up into the Chobe National Park, stopping off and camping by the Savute marsh for the night. This area is largely untouched by the mainstream and is another place on the trip where it is likelly that guests will spend the day here withour seeing a sole.

Savuti Sunsets

Days 10 and 11

This morning guests set off up into the Linyanti Region and stay for two nights at Linyanti Trails Camp where the emphasis is on walking safaris through this specatcular private concession.

Close encounter

Days 12

After a flight to Kasane, guests take a boat safari down the Chobe River getting as close as is possible to the large herds of elephants Chobe is so well known for. The trip finishes at Livingstone where guests stay for the night.

Chobe herds

Day 13

This final day is spent exploring Victoria Falls from both the Zambian and Zimbabwean side before being transferred to the airport for your flight home.

Victoria Falls