eco-friendly safari in botswana
(for the environmentally aware traveller)
7 nights / 8 days
Chobe National Park, Okavango Delta, Khwai
from approx. US$4850 pp (low season)
2 nights at Elephant Valley Lodge (includes all meals & activities)
2 nights at Delta Camp (fully inclusive)
3 nights at Khwai Tented Camp (fully inclusive)
All transfers and flights included
Itinerary starts and ends in Johannesburg
Day 1
You will be met at Johannesburg airport and assisted onto your scheduled flight from Johannesburg - Kasane. You will then be transferred by road from Kasane to Elephant Valley Lodge.
On arrival at Elephant Valley Lodge, you will be welcomed by the management who will show you to your room, given a brief overview of the lodge and area and will then discuss which activities you would like to do during your stay. Enjoy a lovely lunch and afternoon relaxing before your afternoon game activity. You then return to the lodge in time to freshen up before a delicious dinner accompanied by the sounds of the African bush.
2 nights at Elephant Valley Lodge
(includes all meals and safari activities)
Elephant Valley Lodge comprises of 20 'meru' style luxury safari tents and can accommodate a maximum of 40 guests. Each of the tents features en-suite shower and toilet, mini-safe and fan. Your tent also ensures that you are able to hear the multitude of night sounds as you drift away with vivid thoughts of the experiences of your days on safari!
Elephant Valley Lodge is well situated around a waterhole, although the perimeter is fenced to keep the elephants from moving through the camp. Instead, they now move around the camp boundary, along their well worn paths to and from the Chobe River.
Day 2
Enjoy the game viewing activities offered – 4x4 safaris, boat cruises and night drives – or just relax in camp and watch the wildlife congregating at the waterhole.
Your stay at Elephant Valley Lodge includes all meals and safari activities, but excludes drinks.
Day 3
After an early morning game drive followed by breakfast, you will be transferred to Kasane airport, where you will be met by your pilot who will fly you to Delta Camp. This is an awesome experience in itself as you fly over the delta and see the animals below (have your camera ready!)
On arrival you will be welcomed by the Camp Manager and shown to your room. Enjoy a leisurely buffet lunch and a little later this afternoon your guide will take you on a mokoro excursion, where you explore the channels and their amazing wildlife. You will enjoy sundowners while in the mokoro and watch the sun sizzle as it sets on the waterways, before returning to the camp in time to freshen up before a delicious dinner, accompanied by the sounds of the African bush.
Delta Camp is an intimate and informal safari camp nestled on a small island close to the south-western edge of Chief's Island, in the heart of the Okavango Delta. Accommodation is in spacious 'lethaka' (reed) chalets with en-suite facilities. Your chalet at Delta Camp directly overlooks the waterways on the banks of the Boro, one of the primary watercourses of the Okavango.
Excursions, by foot and mokoro - the traditional dug-out canoe - are conducted in the renowned Moremi Game Reserve, with your own professional game-guide, a man of the swamps, completely at one with his environment.
The accent is on peace and tranquillity (stalking game on foot provides all the excitement one could wish for) and you are encouraged to visit a local village, home to your guide, and to interact with the people there.
2 nights at Delta Camp
(includes all meals, drinks and safari activities)
Day 5
After breakfast and an early morning activity, you will be assisted onto your charter flight to Khwai Tented Camp. Enjoy a lovely lunch and afternoon relaxing before your afternoon activity. You then return to the lodge in time to freshen up before a delicious dinner accompanied by the sounds of the African bush.
You will spend the next 3 nights at Khwai Tented Camp in a twin room with private en-suite facilities. Accommodation includes all meals, activities, park fees, laundry, medical evacuation insurance and local beverages.
Khwai Tented Camp is a luxury semi-permanent camp in the Hemingway style, and the game viewing is excellent - with regular sightings of elephant, buffalo, zebra, lion, leopard, cheetah, wild dog, giraffe, eland, sable, hippo, hyena and various other nocturnal species.
3 nights at Khwai Tented Camp
(includes all meals, drinks and safari activities)
The magnificent Khwai River is the hub for some of the most outstanding wildlife viewing in the Moremi and Khwai areas. Khwai Tented Camp is a small 8 bedded tented camp situated along this life supporting river. It is designed for the luxury camping seeker who is looking for the real African experience in a simple and yet understated tented safari experience.
The main focus is the wildlife experience, which includes walking and 4x4 excursions in the legendary Moremi game reserve. The style of the camp is the East African Meru tent, as used by the original explorers as they moved through the African wilderness.
Activities on offer are game drives, walking and night excursions including cultural village outings to the old bushman village of Khwai.
Day 8
After breakfast and an early morning game activity you will be transferred by light aircraft to Maun, in time for your departure flight back to Johannesburg.
included in your itinerary
- Scheduled flight Johannesburg - Kasane
- Scheduled flight Maun - Johannesburg
- All accommodation
- All transfers (by road and light aircraft)
- All game activities as mentioned in the itinerary
- All park fees
- All meals
- All drinks at Delta Camp and Khwai Tented Camp
what makes this safari eco-friendly?
elephant valley lodge
- Water: Elephant Valley Lodge operates on borehole water, which comes from 110 metres below the ground. This water is used for everything in the lodge: cooking, gardens and rooms. It is safe to drink and use for washing etc. They do not use municipal water as the demand in the area is too high. This means they are not taking from the river and are eliminating all chances of disease from the municipal water.
- Sewage: Elephant Valley Lodge has just installed and built a
20 000L bio chemical septic tank which filters and purifies the water making it reusable for irrigation. This saves the use of the borehole water and is a very good form of recycling.
- Power: Elephant Valley Lodge has a policy that if any room or area of the lodge is not being used all power to that section of the lodge is turned off. All rooms that are occupied are monitored for electrical usage, so when the guest is out of the room the power to the room is turned off. They only allow 2 hours a day of geyser usage a day per room. This heats the water sufficiently for the clients and also saves power.
- Litter: Elephant Valley Lodge has an out-sourced refuse removal company that removes all refuse on a daily basis; this refuse is taken to the new eco friendly dump that has been built in Kasane.
- Health department: Elephant Valley Lodge successfully passed their last health inspection with flying colours due to their conservation policies at the lodge.
delta camp
- Delta Camp is powered by solar power
- The lodge is built from natural material (Thatched wooden & reeded en suite chalets – Open with roll up reeded blinds)
- Delta Camp also doesn't have any motorized activities - they only offer mokoro trips and walks
- Fridges and stoves use a clean source of fuel (gas)
khwai tented camp
- Khwai Tented Camp uses solar lighting and wind-up bedside lamps and torches, and solar powered equipment for radios and communication
- Gas stoves, fridges and hot water on demand - all using a clean source of fuel (gas)
- Soaps are all natural products
- Tents and canvas are used for most of the structures so that it is low impact and can pack away easily
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