Botswana & Zambia

Landlocked Botswana is a country of contrasts. The Kalahari Desert occupies most of Botswana and within this is the wondrous wetland of the Okavango Delta.  The Delta receives it's waters from rain that falls in Angola - over a 1000 kilometres away.

The 15,000 square kilometre Delta is a maze of water channels, lagoons and islands that supports a huge diversity of wildlife so you will enjoy excellent game viewing all year round.  Throughout the Delta you will find predators and game who have adapted to a changing water landscape, lions who readily swim across channels to chase prey, antelope with longer back legs so they can spring through the water, hippos who stomp a track through the waters creating "highways"  that elephants and tourists on makoros can use.  Birdlife is abundant and twitchers will delight in identifying the huge range of birds to be found.

Less travelled Zambia is the original home of the concept of walking safaris and with 19 National parks you can enjoy a diverse range of wildlife and birdlife. Kafue and South Luangwa National Parks offer a diverse range of landscapes from riverine forest, grasslands, papyrus wetlands, open plains, floodlands, mopane woodland and savannah.  These different lands attract a great variety of wildlife including excellent leopard, lion and wild dog.

Victoria Falls (Livingstone) is an adventurers playground and is not to be missed.  View the mighty Zambezi River and it's cascading waterfalls - a microflight will give you a birds eye view!