Botswana Photo Tour with Tom Mason

Arrive independently to Kasane Airport and join your transfer to the excellent Pangolin Chobe Hotel overlooking the Chobe River and the Caprivi Floodplains, just a few hundred meters away from the Chobe National Park boundary. After time to settle in and familiarise yourself with the hotel, you could take the first thrilling game drive of your trip before settling down to dinner in the hotel.

3 nights’ accommodation at the Pangolin Chobe Hotel with all meals, select beverages & 2 game drives per day included.

During your time here you will enjoy daily activities focused on photographing the iconic wildlife and scenery of this remarkable area. Your game drives in the National Park will be guided by a dedicated photo host, and as we search for an abundance of wildlife including lions, elephants, zebras, giraffes and much more, there will be time to spend longer at each sighting in order to completely perfect your snaps.

In between the game drives, you can enjoy some relaxation at your award-winning hotel, where you will find an eco-pool, a stunning photo gallery and editing suite and a delightful bar which serves the best cocktails in Kasane accompanied by spectacular views.

Evenings will be filled with image review sessions, delicious meals, and relaxation time around the sunken firepit with Tom and your fellow guests.

This morning you will transfer back to Kasane Airport to take a bush flight to the renowned Kwara Private Reserve on the northern edge of the magnificent game rich Okavango Delta. Upon arrival, you will transfer to the fantastic, newly-opened 4 Rivers Camp set upon a permanent small lagoon overlooking Maboa Island.

With exclusive access to the western side of the concession, your adventures can begin as soon as you arrive!

3 nights’ accommodation at 4 Rivers Camp on a fully inclusive basis, with all meals, local drinks, day & night game drives, walking tours, and mokoro excursions (water-level dependent) included.

Over the next two days you can fully immerse yourself in this wild and isolated wilderness and its fabled floodplains that teem with plains game and the predators that stalk them. Discover the area’s stunning biodiversity where a confluence of waterways, open plains, forested islands, and Mopane woodlands is home to an abundance of wildlife including African wild dogs, lions, elephants, leopards, sable antelope and much more. Activities included during your time here are thrilling day and night game drives, guided nature walks, and unforgettable mokoro (traditional dug-out canoe) excursions which offer a unique perspective and appreciation of the magnificent delta.

Each evening, return to the camp for tasty meals and drinks around the firepit chatting about the day’s adventures and sharing the snaps you will have collated.

Today it’s time to make our way to the final destination of our trip as we transfer back to the airstrip for a bush flight to the wonderful Khwai Community Area where we will check into the impressive Sango Safari Camp overlooking the Khwai River on the outskirts of the traditional village of Khwai. Located on the border of the Moremi Game Reserve, this will be the perfect base from which to explore the wildlife and culture of this unique habitat.

3 nights’ accommodation at Sango Safari Camp on a fully inclusive basis, with all meals, local drinks, day & night game drives, and mokoro excursions (water-level dependent) included.

During these days at Sango Safari Camp, thanks to its wonderful location between the magnificent wildlife areas of the world famous Moremi Game Reserve and the Khwai Concession, you will have the unique opportunity to explore both of these areas from one comfortable base. Wildlife activities included in your stay are open vehicle game drives both in the Moremi and in the Khwai concession area, guided bush walks, night drives and mokoro trips. With a combination of permanent water, seasonal floodplains, open grasslands, riverine forests, and dry woodlands this incredibly rich habitat supports a diversity and abundance of mammals and birds rarely matched in northern Botswana. Hope and expect for sightings of leopards stalking lechwe in the long grass, lions swimming from the banks to save their cubs’ during territorial disputes and crocodiles competing with wild dogs for a midday meal of impala. Unprecedented wildlife photography opportunities await!

During your time here you may also wish to learn first hand about the unique lifestyle and experiences that come from living and growing up in one of the most wildlife-rich areas of Botswana on a visit to the local village community.

As your thrilling Botswana photo safari comes to an end, it will be time to check out and transfer back to the airstrip for a bush flight to Maun. Many options for further connections are available from Maun, but please enquire should you require assistance in organising onward arrangements.