Exclusive highlights of Botswana
During this exclusive 14-day trip, you will enjoy the many benefits of touring Botswana by helicopter. That travel between various destinations is fast and comfortable is just the beginning. In the process, you will have an insanely beautiful view of the extraordinary landscapes from the air, and you will get a good impression of the vastness of natural areas and the enormous contrasts between ecosystems. What makes this helicopter tour truly unique is that you can get to places that cannot be reached by other means of transportation. Where the world can't find you...
Makgadikgadi salt pans
Gliding across the landscape, you will see how Ntwetwe pan, Sua pan and Nxai pan are linked into an insanely vast area, the Makgadikgadi salt pans. Between the desolate salt flats, you will see vegetated areas where animal tracks make a tangle of stripes through the field, basalt formations and groups of baobabs. In this almost unearthly landscape is your luxury San camp, the more than benevolent base from which you will make very diverse tours.
Okavango Delta and Tsodilo Hills
You will be guests in a simple but comfortable mobile camp located on the Kweene River. This is a little-visited corner of the world's largest inland delta because the location can only be reached by helicopter. Surrounded by exceptionally pristine nature, you will experience the Okavango Delta to the fullest. You will search for game both by 4WD, by mokoro (canoe) and on foot. By helicopter, you will take an excursion to the remote Tsodilo Hills.
Moremi game reserve
The final days will be spent at the luxurious Xigera safari lodge in the Moremi Game Reserve, in the heart of the Okavango Delta. Game drives and a boat ride, sundowners, relaxing and looking out over the watery landscape, moments of rest at the spa...you decide how to fill these days. At least take advantage of the opportunity to take a helicopter flight to the "panhandle" of the Okavango Delta. It is the area where the waters of the Okavango River fan out over the flat land, providing magnificent panoramas, and a unique opportunity to spot wildlife from the air. Swamp antelopes make the water splash, while herds of elephants wade quietly through the water.
Tips & Tops Botswana by helicopter:
- Luxury trip where helicopter transportation and all activities are entirely on a private basis
- Starting point of this trip is Maun; end point is either Maun or Vic Falls, at your choice
- You will stay in two luxury lodges and an adventurous but comfortable camp in the middle of the Okavango Delta, serving as a base camp for all your activities
- The best characterization for the mobile camp near the Kweene River is ' simplistic luxury.' You will have your own canvas tent with simple but comfortable beds, simple but very clean private bathroom facilities, and you can use a lovely lounge area. Every evening a campfire is lit
- Various helicopter excursions, sometimes flying at low altitude so you can spot wildlife from the air. During some excursions, it is permitted to leave the helicopter doors open for an unobstructed view of the landscape
- Heli excursions to Kubu Island, Lost Island of Baobabs and the village of Eretsha
- Heli excursion to the heart of the Ntwetwe salt pan, where it is bizarrely quiet
- Heli-flight over lake with flamingos
- Hiking with Bushmen (aka: San)
- Heli excursion to the Tsodilo hills, where thousands of petroglyphs testify that humans and animals have lived here for many thousands of years
- Multiple excursions in the Okavango Delta, whether by 4WD, by mokoro (canoe) or on foot. You will look for elephants, lions, hyenas, puku, hippos, giraffes, buffalo, leopards, crocodiles and more....
