Botswana Mobile Camping Safari: Moremi, Khwai & Savuti

This morning you leave Maun and drive by 4x4 into the legendary Moremi Game Reserve, the wildlife-rich heart of the eastern Okavango, game viewing as you go. On arrival your crew has your comfortable walk-in tents pitched in a private wilderness campsite, with proper beds and en-suite bucket showers, deep in the bush. After settling in and lunch cooked over the fire, you set out on an afternoon game drive through Moremi's floodplains, lagoons and forests, with excellent chances of lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and the reserve's celebrated wild dogs, alongside giraffe, zebra and superb birdlife. You pause for sundowners as the light turns golden, then return to camp as the African night comes alive. Around the campfire you enjoy a hearty dinner under a canopy of brilliant stars, the roar of distant lions carrying across the dark. Rest well in the wild heart of Moremi.

Today you devote a full day to the superb wildlife of Moremi, exploring its rich habitats by 4x4. Setting out at dawn when the bush is cool and active, your guide tracks the reserve's celebrated predators, lion, leopard and cheetah, and one of the best places on earth to find packs of endangered African wild dog on the hunt, alongside great herds of elephant and buffalo, giraffe, zebra and antelope, with hippo and abundant birdlife in the waterways. You pause for coffee amid the wilderness, learning to read the bush from your expert guide. Returning to camp for brunch and a restful siesta through the heat, you head out again in the golden afternoon, following the animals as they grow active, and pause for sundowners as the sky flares. Back at camp, your crew has dinner waiting by the fire. Rest well beneath the stars, the wild night alive around you.

This morning, after an early game drive, you break camp and travel to the Khwai community area, bordering Moremi, one of Botswana's finest and wildest game regions, your crew moving ahead to pitch your new bush camp. Khwai's unfenced mosaic of river, floodplain and woodland teems with elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard and wild dog, and as a community area it offers freedoms the national parks do not, off-road tracking and, tonight, a thrilling spotlit night drive. After settling into camp and lunch, you enjoy an afternoon game drive along the Khwai River, rich with game coming down to drink. As darkness falls you set out on a night drive, the spotlight sweeping the bush for leopard on the hunt, prowling hyena, bushbabies and other nocturnal creatures rarely seen by day. You return to camp for a late dinner by the fire. Rest well in wild Khwai.

Today you journey north into the wild heart of Chobe National Park, to the legendary Savuti region, a long but rewarding drive through changing wilderness, your crew moving ahead to establish camp. Savuti is one of Africa's most famous and dramatic wildlife areas, a landscape of open savannah, rocky outcrops and the mysterious Savuti Channel, renowned above all for its big predators. Arriving at your bush camp pitched beneath the wide Savuti sky, you settle in over lunch, then head out on an afternoon game drive across the savannah in search of Savuti's famous lion prides, spotted hyena, cheetah and leopard, alongside great herds of elephant. The raw drama of this predator country is immediately apparent. You pause for sundowners as the sky flares over the plains, then return to camp for dinner by the fire, the night alive with the calls of hyena and lion. Rest well in wild Savuti.

Today you devote a full day to the dramatic predator country of Savuti, exploring by 4x4 from dawn. Savuti's large lion prides are famous across Africa, some are even known to hunt elephant in the dry season, and your guide tracks them across the savannah, alongside spotted hyena, cheetah and leopard, in one of the continent's great arenas of predator and prey. You explore the mysterious Savuti Channel and Marsh, the rocky outcrops with their ancient San rock paintings, and the open plains where great herds of elephant gather and, in the green season, zebra migrate in their thousands. You pause for coffee amid the wilderness, drinking in the drama. After a midday rest, an afternoon game drive follows the predators as the light softens and the hunt begins to stir. You savour sundowners over the wild plains, then return to camp for dinner by the fire. Rest well in legendary Savuti.

This morning, after a final Savuti game drive, you break camp and journey north to the Chobe riverfront, the grand finale of your safari, in the park with the largest elephant population on earth, game viewing along the way. Arriving at your campsite or comfortable camp near the river, you settle in over lunch amid the abundant life of this great waterway. This afternoon you swap the 4x4 for a boat and take a cruise on the Chobe River, the classic Chobe experience, gliding close to elephant families bathing and crossing the channels, past hippo, crocodile and buffalo coming down to drink, beneath skies alive with birds, as one of Africa's great sunsets flares over the water. The sheer abundance of life is a fitting climax to your wild journey. You return to camp for a farewell dinner by the fire beside the great river. Rest well along the Chobe.

After a final morning game drive or a last look for elephants along the Chobe, and breakfast in camp, you transfer to nearby Kasane for your onward flight, or continue to Victoria Falls on an easy extension. You leave having experienced a genuine, immersive African safari, sleeping under canvas in the wild heart of Botswana, exploring the legendary Moremi and its wild dogs, the game-rich Khwai with its thrilling night drives, the dramatic predator country of Savuti, and the elephant-thronged Chobe riverfront, cared for by a dedicated crew and led by an expert guide. The memories stay vivid long after you land, the roar of lions at night, wild dogs on the hunt, a leopard in the spotlight, and a thousand elephants along the Chobe. A mobile safari offers adventure, intimacy and true wilderness in abundance, and you depart already dreaming of a return to the wild north of Botswana.