Wildlife Highlights Tour
11 days—Etosha, Bwabwata, Mudumu, Nkasa Rupara National Parks, Victoria Fall in Zimbabwe
$7200-8600 USD
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Safari summary
We are focusing on wildlife on this tour, game drives in National Parks. The idea is to be in the bush all the time and avoid the staying in the city. Mammals and birding, from the day one arrives until leaves. We will only transverse through cities when in transit from one wildlife area to another. The only place we are in town will be the last day before catching a flight. We will stay a minimum of 2 nights in each park to full experience what the area has to offer in terms of wildlife sightings. Listen to wildlife sounds at night when one is sleeping. Talk to nature.
About this tour
| Tour type | Custom, tailor-made, private | |
| Main focus | Game drives | |
| Activity level | Easy activity | |
| Best months | All months | |
| Countries | ||
| Parks |
Fine details
Safari highlights
- Night game drives
- Photography safari—with professional guide
- Wildlife sanctuaries
What’s included?
- Accommodation
- Airport transfers
- Meals
- Park fees
- Private vehicle and driver
What’s not included?
- Alcoholic beverages
- All drinks
- Hot air balloons
- Internal flights
- International flights
- Laundry
- Premium alcoholic beverages
- Spa treatments
- Tips and gratuities
- Visas
Itinerary
Arrival- Okapuka Ranch
Your guide will pick you up from the airport and transfer you to Okapuka Ranch which is located about an hour drive away. We will embark on an afternoon game drive. This private ranch is a well-stocked land, protecting herds of sable, giraffe, blue wildebeest, oryx, greater kudu, white rhino among others. Let's enjoy our sunset drinks as a welcome to the Wildlife Highlights Tour.
Okapuka Lodge
Eastern Etosha National Park
Etosha
After breakfast, we will drive to the Eastern part of the Etosha National Park. We will be in time for an afternoon game drive upon arrival. There are 114 mammal species and over 350 bird species in this park. We will embark on a night drive today after dinner with hope of encountering nocturnal wildlife.
Namutoni Resort
Eastern Etosha National Park
Etosha
we will go for a full day game drive with lunch packs, explore this part of the park at most. Mammals include Black and White Rhinoceros, Lion, Leopard, Cheetah, African elephant, Plains and Hartmann’s Mountain Zebras, Southern Giraffe, Eland, Gemsbok, African Wild Cat, Spotted and Brown Hyaena among other animals. Besides abundance of mammals, birding is prolific in Eastern Etosha.
Namutoni Resort
Bwabwata National Park -Mahango
After breakfast, we will drive to the northeastern part of Namibia, with relatively high rainfall. We will explore the Mahango Core Area of the Bwabwata National Park. The park is very small and has a size of only 245 km². Because of lack of surface water, wildlife is mainly found along the Okavango River. The greenery attracts an impressive range of animals including water-loving buffalo, elephant, sable, reedbuck, bushbuck, waterbuck, red lechwe and good numbers of crocodiles and hippo.
Mahangu, Ndlovu Safari lodges
Bwabwata- Buffalo Core Area
We will explore the Buffalo Core Area of the Bwabwata National Park. It is 629 km2 and several game species including elephant, buffalo, zebra and wildebeest do seasonal movements. They remain at the Okavango River during the dry season and move inland during the wet season. This seasonal cycle is an important natural mechanism that guarantees that the vegetation structure can be in a resting period during some part of the year.
Mahangu, Ndlovu Safari lodges
Kwando Core Area
We will have breakfast on the boat in Okavango River before we leave for Kwando Core Area in the eastern side of Bwabwata National Park. We will explore the Kwando area before checking in at our lodge, which is located inside the park. This part of the park is 1280km2 is surface area and serves the main migration corridor of wildlife between countries, hence huge concentration of game.
Nambwa Tented Camp, Namushasha Lodge
Kwando Core Area
We have a full day game drive with lunch packs to be taken in the park. The Kwando River has several names, Kwando in Namibia, Linyati at the parts of Botswana and it becomes Chobe in Kasane area in Botswana. Besides mammals, the area is a great favorite place for birdwatchers; more species can be found here than in any other park in Namibia. Ducks, geese, herons, plovers, egrets, kingfishers and various waders occur here.
Nambwa Tented Camp, Namushasha Lodge
Mudumu National Park
Mudumu
After breakfast, we will explore the Mudumu National Park. Mudumu National Park is 1010 km2 expanse of dense savannah and mopane woodlands bordered in the west by the Kwando River. It is notable for its buffalo, roan and sable antelope populations, the water-loving lechwe and elusive sitatunga, and often large herds of elephant. We have a full day exploring this park with lunch packs.
Nkasa Lupala Tented Lodge
Nkasa Rupara National Park
Today in Nkasa Rupara National Park, we will embark on morning and afternoon game drives with a local guide from the lodge. This 350 km2 park consists largely of marshland, veined by a network of reed-lined channels. It has vast majority of Namibia's population of Sitatunga, red lechwe, and puku, as well as large herds of buffalo and recorded 430 bird species.
Nkasa Lupala Tented Lodge
Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe
Victoria Falls
After breakfast, we will cross a couple of borders into Zimbabwe's Victoria Falls. We will be there in time to take a walk around the Falls. This is our last day, and the only day we are in a "townish" environment. Victoria Falls town is located in the national park. It is not uncommon to find people going about their normal town life while elephants, baboons, warthogs are roaming in the streets as well.
Ilala, Victoria Falls Safari Lodges
Departure- Victoria Falls Airport
Zambezi
This marks the end of your Wildlife Highlights Tour. We will transfer you to the airport.
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