Ultimate Botswana: Luxury Fly-in Safari Flagship

Today you savour the Okavango in sublime luxury and total flexibility, with your private guide and vehicle. After coffee delivered to your suite, you set out at your own pace, perhaps a private mokoro glide through mist-wreathed channels, poled silently past waterlilies and kingfishers, followed by a game drive tracking elephant, lion and lechwe across the islands, pausing for a private bush breakfast wherever you please. You return for a leisurely brunch and a lazy afternoon, lounging by your private plunge pool, enjoying a spa treatment, or watching wildlife from your deck. In the golden afternoon your guide takes you out again on a mokoro or boat safari, ending with private sundowners on a quiet lagoon. Tonight, a sublime dinner, perhaps a private bush dinner under the stars, awaits. Rest well in your beautiful suite, wrapped in luxury and wilderness. The finest safari unfolds at your own pace.

Today you continue to explore the Okavango at your leisure, your private guide tailoring every moment to you. A dawn mokoro safari glides you through glassy channels as the water world wakes, mist rising and birds calling, followed perhaps by a guided walk on a big-game island or a boat cruise into hidden lagoons alive with hippo and fish eagles. You linger as long as you wish at every sighting. Back at camp, a lazy afternoon of pampering, spa, plunge pool, fine dining, lets you soak up the serenity of the Delta in sublime comfort. As the light softens, your guide takes you out for a final Delta activity and private sundowners in the wilderness. Tonight, a superb dinner paired with fine wines. Rest well in your sublime suite, the wild Delta night all around. Tomorrow you fly to the legendary Moremi Game Reserve.

After a final morning in the Delta, you fly by light aircraft to the legendary Moremi Game Reserve, the wildlife-rich heart of the eastern Okavango and one of the finest reserves in Africa, gazing down on the shifting mosaic of floodplains and lagoons. Landing on a remote airstrip, you transfer by open 4x4 to your exquisite luxury camp, game viewing as you go, and settle into your sublime suite overlooking the wilderness. After brunch and a restful afternoon by your plunge pool, your private guide takes you out on a game drive through Moremi's rich habitats, with excellent chances of the big cats and the reserve's celebrated wild dogs, amid great herds of elephant and buffalo. You pause for private sundowners as the light turns golden, then return to camp for a sublime dinner under the stars. Rest well in luxury, the sounds of Moremi all around your suite. World-class predator country awaits tomorrow.

Today you devote a full day to the superb wildlife of Moremi with your private guide and vehicle. At dawn you set out across the floodplains and forests, tracking the reserve's celebrated predators, this is prime territory for lion, leopard and cheetah, and one of the best places on earth to find packs of endangered African wild dog on the hunt, amid great herds of elephant and buffalo, giraffe, zebra and antelope, with hippo and world-class birdlife in the waterways. With a private vehicle you can follow a hunt, linger at a leopard sighting, or stop for a lavish bush breakfast, entirely at your own pace. After a pampered midday by your plunge pool, an afternoon game drive follows the wildlife as it grows active, ending with private sundowners in the bush. Tonight, a sublime dinner under the stars. Rest well in luxury, deep in legendary Moremi. Tomorrow, exclusive Linyanti.

After a final morning game drive in Moremi, you fly by light aircraft to the exclusive Linyanti wilderness, a vast private concession along the Linyanti River bordering Chobe, one of Botswana's most exclusive and wildlife-rich regions, shared by only a handful of intimate luxury camps. Landing on a remote airstrip, you transfer by open 4x4 to your sublime camp, game viewing as you go, and settle into your beautiful suite overlooking the river. After brunch and a restful afternoon, your private guide takes you out on a game drive along the river and marshes, tracking big cats and the great elephant herds that gather here in the dry season, all in near-total privacy with barely another vehicle in sight. You pause for private sundowners as the sky flares over the wilderness, then return for a sublime dinner under the stars. Rest well in exclusive Linyanti, the wild night alive around your suite.

Today you devote a full day to the superb, private wildlife of the Linyanti with your private guide. At dawn you set out along the river and through the woodlands, tracking the concession's large lion prides, leopard and endangered wild dog, and watching the great herds of elephant that throng the Linyanti in the dry season, all with the luxury of having the wilderness almost to yourself. Your guide tailors the day entirely to you, lingering at a sighting, setting out on a guided walk, or stopping for a lavish bush breakfast. After a pampered midday by your plunge pool, an afternoon game drive follows the wildlife as the light softens, and a night drive may reveal leopard and other nocturnal hunters. You savour private sundowners in the bush, then a sublime dinner under the stars. Rest well in exclusive Linyanti. Tomorrow, the grand finale along the Chobe River.

After a final morning game drive in the Linyanti, you fly by light aircraft to the Chobe riverfront, the grand finale of your journey, in the park with the largest elephant population on earth. Landing near the river, you transfer to your luxurious riverside lodge or suite overlooking the water, where wildlife is visible the moment you arrive. After settling in and lunch, your private guide takes you out this afternoon on a boat cruise along the Chobe River, gliding close to enormous herds of elephant bathing and crossing the channels, past hippo, crocodile and buffalo, beneath skies full of birds, as one of Africa's great sunsets flares over the water, champagne in hand. The sheer abundance of life is a sublime climax to your journey. You return to your lodge for a superb dinner overlooking the river. Rest well in luxury beside the great Chobe, its banks alive with the sounds of the African night.

Today you savour a final full day along the Chobe by land and water, with your private guide and vehicle. A dawn game drive along the riverfront and into the woodlands brings enormous herds of elephant and buffalo, with lion, leopard, sable and roan all possible, amid giraffe, kudu and zebra. You pause for a lavish bush breakfast amid the wildlife. After a pampered midday by your suite, you choose your afternoon, a private sunset boat cruise gliding among hundreds of elephants coming down to drink, hippos yawning and one of Africa's great sunsets flaring over the water, or a final game drive following the animals as the light softens. You savour a final Chobe sundowner, champagne in hand, amid this abundance of life, then return for a sublime farewell dinner. Rest well in luxury beside the great river, reflecting on the finest safari through wild Botswana.

After a final leisurely breakfast overlooking the Chobe River, and perhaps a last look for elephants along the bank, you are transferred to Kasane Airport for your onward journey, or continue to Victoria Falls on a sublime extension. You leave having experienced the definitive luxury safari through the wild heart of Botswana, gliding by private mokoro and tracking big game in the Okavango Delta and legendary Moremi, seeking out big cats and wild dogs, exploring the exclusive Linyanti, and cruising the elephant-thronged Chobe River, in the finest luxury camps and flying between them, with private guiding and impeccable service throughout. The images stay vivid long after you land, the silent mokoro at dawn, wild dogs on the hunt, private sundowners over the plains, and a thousand elephants along the Chobe at sunset. Botswana offers the finest wildlife and the ultimate luxury in abundance, and you depart already dreaming of a return to the wild heart of Africa.