Moremi Expedition

CLASSIC MOBILE SAFARI
Explore Moremi and the khwai community concession

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From $2,965

Mixed Safaris

This safari concentrates on the best areas that the Okavango Delta has to offer for Mobile Safaris. With only 7 people maximum per vehcile, this ensures all guests have a window seat

You will explore the stunning beauty of the Moremi Game reserve and its central regions, then moving on to the Khwai Community concession along the banks of the Khwai river an din the Mababae Praivate Concession area in the hope of seeing its strong populations of leopard and wild dog.

This safari is on a fully serviced basis providing you great levels of comfort with camp staff who are on hand to do everything for you.

Includes

Maximum 7 guests
Large walk in tents with private en-suite bathroom
Professional guide, chef and camp hands
Private campsites
All park fees and levies and all activities
All meals and drinks

Excludes

Gratuities and items of a personal nature
International flights
Travel insurance or visas
Anything not listed under inclusions

The Moremi Game Reserve is the famous heart of the Okavango and known for its abundant wildlife.

Moremi Game Reserve

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The heart of the Okavango Delta

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Visiting the Mababe Private Concession area of the general Khwai zone, used for mobile safaris only

Khwai

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Abundant wildlife in this spectacular region

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The Accommodation

The accommodation consists of classic Sahara-style tents measuring 4 x 3 meters, each with an impressive high roof that creates a genuine sense of space. At the back, a 2 x 3-meter en-suite bathroom provides privacy, while out front, a 2 x 3-meter covered veranda offers a shaded spot to relax between activities.

Inside, guests sleep on sturdy base camp beds fitted with comfortable mattresses and proper bedding—sheets, duvets, and pillows all provided. The bathroom setup is authentically rustic: a long-drop toilet and bucket shower positioned at the rear of the tent. Showers can be requested hot, warm, or cold, with water heated over the fire in traditional safari fashion. While guests can shower whenever they like, guides may need to restrict water use during Kalahari trips depending on availability. Hand and bath towels are supplied, though guests should pack their own toiletries and personal items.

Lighting comes from paraffin lamps placed on the veranda and in the bathroom, plus a rechargeable LED camp light inside the sleeping area. Small tables in both the sleeping and bathroom areas provide convenient surfaces for personal belongings. Despite these camp lights and additional lamps positioned around for navigation, a personal headlamp proves essential. It's genuinely useful for reading in your tent at night or catching up on journal entries while listening to the sounds of the wilderness outside. The camp's advice here is worth heeding: invest in a decent headlamp rather than relying on cheap promotional ones. The difference in quality becomes apparent quickly, and if traveling as a couple, each person should bring their own.

The day starts early because that’s when the animals are out. You’ll have coffee and a bite to eat around the fire before dawn, then head straight out for a game drive, walk, or boat trip depending on where you’re staying.
After a few hours tracking wildlife, your guide will pull over somewhere scenic for tea and biscuits. You’ll be back at camp by mid-morning with time to wash up at your basin before brunch—usually fresh bread, something warm from the kitchen, and cold salads.
The middle of the day is yours to sleep, read, take a proper shower, or just sit and absorb what you saw that morning. Late afternoon you’ll head out again for another drive or boat outing. In private areas outside the national parks, these can run past sunset with a spotlight to pick up leopards, genets, and other nocturnal animals that don’t show themselves during the day.
That’s the general rhythm, though your guide will adjust things based on what’s actually happening—where the elephants are moving, if there’s been a recent kill, weather changes, that sort of thing. No two days run exactly the same.

Moving days start earlier than usual. You’ll pack up after a quick coffee, then drive to a scenic spot for a proper breakfast—maybe overlooking a floodplain or dried riverbed. From there, it’s game viewing while traveling toward your next camp, with stops for tea and biscuits along the way.
Lunch happens under whatever big trees your guide finds, usually acacia or sausage trees with decent shade. By that point you’re close enough to the new camp that the crew has already driven ahead and set everything up. You’ll arrive to find your tent standing exactly as it was that morning, just in a completely different landscape.
There’s time for a shower and afternoon tea before heading out to explore the new area—different waterholes, different vegetation, often completely different animals than what you were seeing the day before.
The timing on these travel days shifts around depending on distance, road conditions, and what wildlife shows up along the route. If there’s a pride of lions on a kill or a big elephant herd blocking the track, you might spend an extra hour there and compress something else. Your guide will read the situation and adjust accordingly. The drive times given are just the actual driving—they don’t account for the inevitable stops when something interesting crosses your path.

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Arrival

Arrive into Maun Airport. You'll be greeted by your charter aircraft company and escorted to your flight into Camp Moremi

Day 1 - 3

Welcome to Botswana! We will be there to give you a warm Botswana welcome when you land at Maun Airport around noon. You will meet your pilot for your stunning light aircraft scenic flight over the Okavango Delta and Chief’s Island. This flight gives you a fish eagle’s eye view of this amazing ecosystem.

When you land at your remote bush airstrip within the Moremi Game Reserve, your guide will welcome you

and will transfer you to your mobile camp with a game drive en route. The friendly, attentive staff will help you feel immediately at home and brief you on what to look forward to on your safari. You will enjoy afternoon tea in camp. The magic of a mobile camp becomes apparent as the sun sets and you enjoy drinks around the fire before a starlit dinner and a great night’s rest after falling asleep to the sounds of the African bush.

Spending our first two nights camping in the Xakanaxa / Third Bridge area, we explore the surrounding wilderness on game drives during the day. The Moremi Game Reserve protects around a third of the entire Okavango Delta ecosystem – some 5 000km2 (1 930 square miles).

Accommodation: Tented Camp
Activities: Game Drives, Charter flight

Moremi Game Reserve

Day 4 - 6

Following an early morning breakfast you take a slow drive through Moremi Game Reserve north-east towards the Khwai and Mababe Areas. On this moving day we shall do a mokoro excursion in the calmer back-waters of the Khwai and Mbudi channels as opposed to doing the mokoro in the quicker moving section of the Khwai River that runs through Mababe.

Habitat: The Manuchira Channel is known as the Khwai River at its eastern most extremity. The day’s journey follows this water course, with the track weaving from the riverside and floodplains into the mopane veld and the woodlands that to the Mababe Private Reserve where we camp on the banks of the Khwai River before it flows out and into the Mababe Depression. We pass the magnificent Dombo Hippo Pools in the morning stopping to enjoy the scenery and the antics of the resident hippo and shall game drive through Khwai until we reach Mababe.

Accommodation: Tented Camp
Activities: Game Drives, Night Drives, Mokoro Trips, Walking Safaris

Khwai

Day 7

Exit to Maun

After breakfast we take a game-drive to the Khwai airstrip where you will be met by your charter flight back to Maun. Should you be flying on to a safari lodge, you can fly directly out from Khwai Airstrip to avoid returning to Maun. Please request that the lodge’s preferred air charter company collects you from Khwai Airstrip prior to 12h00.

This marks the end of your Safari.