Livingstone’s footsteps

Livingstone’s footsteps

Day 1
Arrival at the International Airport in Johannesburg and transfer to Air Botswana flight to Maun. Departure at 10:10 h – 11:50 arrival in Maun
12:30 Lunch at local restaurant
14:00 transfer on open Land Rover to the Moremi Reserve has already prepared the tent camp (lodge or tent). During the journey to the camp by the reserve group stops at waterholes closely watching the herds of antelopes, giraffes, elephants, buffaloes and lions with a little luck, hyenas, cheetahs and wild dogs . Access to the camp in an extremely difficult, sandy area, possible to tackle only in 4 wheel drive cars.
19:30 dinner at the open-air fires
21:00 hour Night Safari at the protection of armed rangers, with special spot lights in search of feeding animals at night.

22:30 night in tents

Day 2
6:30 Wake up and prepare for breakfast
7:30 Breakfast
9:00 Departure from the camp through the northern part of the Moremi Reserve among the herds of animals moving in search of water and food. We leave the reserve over the bridge and the gate on the River Kwai. Here begins perhaps the most interesting part of the crossing through the bush in the direction of the Chobe River and the town of Kasane. Bumpy road leads along the River Kwai where we watch hundreds of lounging hippos, crocodiles, dozens of species of aquatic birds and antelopes and elephants coming to water.

After several kilometers, leave the riverbed and turn into the bush to the next phenomenon of nature, dried Savuti channel. Channel over the centuries repeatedly dried up and returned to life attracting in the dry season lot of animals in an area with a radius of several kilometers. Driving along the dried bed of the channel we always follow the elephants present here that dig deep holes along the canal where the always find water.

14:00 lunch at the camp site at Savuti Camp
For two whole days we do not meet any settlements along the way, only reaching the plains of the Chobe river basin we encounter first villages. We admire the sunset over the plains of Caprivi Strip until we arrive at dusk at town Kasane, which is a business and tourism center in North East of Botswana . Along the banks of the river are great, embedded in bush are exclusive lodges, from which terraces you can enjoy watching the animals at the water without leaving the hotel.
A short rest

19:30 Dinner in the hotel restaurant
21:00 the night in one of the exclusive lodges in Kasane

Day 3
7:00 Wake up and prepare for breakfast
8:00 Breakfast
9:30 cross the border with Zimbabwe after which the tiny town of Victoria Falls we pass a theoretical and practical course preparing for one of the most exciting whitewater rafting in the world on Zambezi River. This always flowing river , collecting waters from Angola and Zambia drops to almost 2 km long gap in the basalt massif after which it flows through the eight rocky gorges, which are the scenery of an exciting water rafting.
After rafting on the Zambezi, we climb the steep bank of the river and return back to the town of Victoria Falls.
16:30 In the afternoon we move to a special boat, on which during the hour cruise admire the magnificent sunset over the Zambezi. Sitting on one of the two decks of the ship watching elephants drinking water, basking on the banks hippos and static but always watchful crocodiles.
After a spectacular sunset we return to the hotel to get ready for dinner at a famous restaurant BOMA, serving African game dishes at its best. During the dinner we watch traditional dances and go through a crash course in playing the drums.
22:00 Overnight at the historic Victoria Hotel.

Day 4
5:30 Early wake up and departure for the farm where part of the group takes part in the walk with the young lions, the others engage in the two-hour safari on elephants.
After both events breakfast breakfast is served and return back to Victoria Falls.
11:00 Two hours walk along the almost 2 kilometer Falls which are one of the greatest natural phenomena in the world, considered as the second-longest waterfalls. Water falling down causes the formation of a cloud of steam that rises up over the edge of a precipice and falls along the hydrating unique vegetation of the rainforest.
13:00 Farewell lunch on the terrace of the Victoria Hotel, with a great view of the bridge was built in 1906 by a company founded by Cecil John Rhodes, whose aim was to connect Cape Town with Cairo by the railway. The project has not been completed but today we can admire the magnificent views of the waterfalls from the bridge, and sitting on the terrace of the Victoria Hotel to admire the bridge itself against the mist of waterfalls. It is unusual place in the world where one feels that the colonial times never passed.
After lunch departure to Johannesburg, and then to Europe.

Day 5
Arrival in Europe

 


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