Southern Explorer
Tour Itinerary
Day 1: Accommodation: 
(D)
On arrival in to Livingstone, you will be met by your tour leader, and transferred to your hotel. Afternoon at leisure. This evening get to know your fellow travelers over dinner. (Accommodated)
Day 2: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
Today you will visit the spectacular Victoria Falls viewing them from the various lookout points in the park. In the afternoon you will have time to do any optional activities such as a flight above the Falls, Jet boat ride down the Zambezi, a walk with the Lions, or a visit to The David Livingstone Museum. In the evening, enjoy a sunset cruise on the Upper Zambezi.
Day 3: Accommodation: 
(B, L, D)
You cross the border today into Namibia and stay at The Zambezi Lodge campsite located right on the banks of the mighty Zambezi River and a short stroll in to the lively town of Katima Mulilo.
Day 4: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
Today we drive through the Caprivi Strip, a narrow protrusion of Namibia bordered by Botswana, Angola and Zambia. The area is rich in wildlife and mineral resources and has been the subject of many a dispute over ownership. We overnight at the Sarasungu River Lodge campsite.
Day 5: Accommodation: 
(B, L, D)
We will stop at Grootfontein in the morning to do some shopping before heading to Etosha National Park. Etosha is a vast reserve of over 20,000 sq km. Wildlife is abundant - a haven for 93 mammal species and 340 bird species. After setting up camp at Namutoni Rest Camp we will head out on an afternoon game drive.
Day 6: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
We leave early in the morning for a game drive and a visit to the Etosha Pan, a flat saline desert 130km long by 50km at its widest. After lunch we’ll enjoy a swim at Halali Rest Camp. We spend the afternoon game driving before stopping at Okaukuejo Rest Camp where we will be staying for the next two nights. Okaukuejo has a great flood lit water hole where you can observe the game coming to drink at all hours of the night. Elephant and Rhino are regular visitors to this water hole.
Day 7: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
Morning game drive in the Park before returning to Okaukuejo for lunch. You can spend the rest of the day relaxing by the pool and water hole or go out on another afternoon game drive.
Day 8: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
This morning we’ll drive to Outjo where we will stop for supplies before continuing on to Twyfelfontein to see the 6000 year old rock engravings. We will be staying at Aba-Huab Camp for the night a great place to sleep out under the stars.
Day 9: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
Driving through the Skeleton Coast Park we stop at the Cape Cross Seal Reserve, home to over 80,000 seals. Continue on to Swakopmund Rest Camp where we will spend the next two nights in A-Frame Chalets.
Day 10: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
Swakopmund is a seaside resort town with a small German village feel to it. The Namib Desert around the town is the number one draw card offering countless exhilarating activities such as sand boarding, quad biking, hot air ballooing, shark fishing etc. For the more sedentary there are restaurants, cafes, art galleries, museums, a snake park and aquarium.
Day 11: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
Today we drive past Walvis Bay then out into the Namib Desert Park and camp at Mirabib, a huge granite rock. There is evidence that nomadic people as many as 9000 years ago used this site as shelter. This is a great place to sit around a fire and look at the stars in the desert sky.
Day 12: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
We drive through to the giant sand dunes at Sesriem and Sossusvlei today. You can take a walk up Dune 45 or a 4WD trip into Sossusvlei, a large pan set amid red sand dunes towering over 200 metres above the valley floor. We will stay at The Sesriem Campsite tonight.
Day 13: Accommodation: (B, L)
A pleasant drive today up to Windhoek, the capital of
Namibia. This small, clean city is located in a basin between the Khomas Highland, Auas and Eros Mountains and is 1,680m above sea level. With German-influenced architecture and a European café culture, it is a pleasant place to enjoy an evening out. Dining out at your own expense. (Accommodated)
Day 14: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
Big day driving into Botswana and across the northern fringes of The Kalahari, stopping for the night at Ghanzi. (Camping)
Day 15: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
We arrive in Maun today and prepare everything for our trip into The Okavango Delta. Maun is the hub of the Delta safari industry and quite a bustling town with shopping centres and hotels. It still retains its raw edge with local tribesmen bringing cattle to sell, antelopes grazing the quiet river banks, and donkeys and goats wandering the main road.
Days 16 & 17: Accommodation: (B,L, D)
The Okavango Delta is a natural wetland where theOkavango River fans out into the largest inland delta in the world. Explore the myriad of waterways and stunning scenery on foot and my makoro (dugout canoe). Hippo, crocodile, buffalo and elephant are at home here, as are numerous species of bird. We camp on river islands and enjoy the serenity amongst the swamps, lily pads and swaying delta grasses.
Day 18: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
Return to Maun for the evening.
Day 19: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
We drive through to Nata - a town located on the edge of the Makgadikagadi Pans - the halfway point between Maun and Kasane.
Day 20: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
Arrive at Chobe Safari Lodge campsite in Kasane where we will be based for the next two nights.
Day 21: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
Chobe National Park is the second largest national park in Botswana and covers a mere 10,566 sq kms! It also has one of the greatest concentrations of game found on the African continent. Its uniqueness in the abundance of wildlife and the true African nature of the region, offers a safari experience of a lifetime. This morning we will be game driving looking for the Big 5, followed by a three hour afternoon boat cruise on the Chobe River.
Day 22: Accommodation: (B, L, D)
We leave Botswana and cross back to Zambia on the Kazungula ferry. It is only a short drive back to Livingstone where we spend the last night reminiscing about a memorable trip before flying out the following day..