Day 1

Makgadikgadi Salt Pans

Staying at Camp Kalahari

Arrival at Maun airport early, meet with our consultant and street switch to the lodge. It takes about 5 hours to drive to camp, we’ll cease for a break at Planet Baobab. Relying in your flight arrival, one pre-night is perhaps required. Arrive on time for a late afternoon meet up along with your host, while you’re being paired along with your horse and luxuriate in an early dinner. Camp Kalahari is on Brown Hyena Island on the fringe of the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans. The camp is laidback, quirky and enjoyable and the swimming pool is the best spot for some siesta-splashing.

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Day 2

Makgadikgadi Salt Pans

Staying at Camp Kalahari

Kick off the day with a prolonged trip by way of the traditional lakebed, grasslands and sand dunes. Within the afternoon, the horses could have a break as you head out on a sport drive to seek for the desert-adapted species.

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Day 3

Makgadikgadi Pans Nationwide Park

Staying at Xau Xai Fly-Camp

It would take many of the day to achieve Xau Xai Fly Camp by horseback. You’ll canter by way of mopane and acacia woodlands, cease on the well-known Inexperienced’s Baobab for lunch, and seek for historical looking instruments in Gutsa Pan, earlier than arriving on the fly camp because the solar units. Throughout your time at Xau Xai Fly Camp, you’ll be staying in rustic however comfy dome tents. Every has a personal lavatory with a toilet and bucket bathe, and there’s loads of sizzling water too. Meals can be cooked over the fireplace, and you’ll expertise the magic of tenting within the coronary heart of the bush.

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Day 4

Makgadikgadi Pans Nationwide Park

Staying at Xau Xai Fly-Camp

At this time you’ll meet the Kalahari’s fascinating habituated meerkats and luxuriate in a bush stroll to a close-by water gap to search for a number of the Kalahari’s fowl species. There aren’t many experiences than can beat using a horse by way of Botswana’s Makgadikgadi salt pans, particularly when there’s wildlife concerned too. You’ll trip alongside herds of zebra, wildebeest and hartebeest, and can in all probability encounter an ostrich or two alongside the best way. There may be an opportunity to see the black-maned Kalahari lion, and a few magnificent birds of prey. After which after all, the habituated meerkat of the Kalahari. Assembly the cheeky creatures is a particular expertise, and on cooler days they’ll typically snuggle into you for heat.

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Day 5

Makgadikgadi Salt Pans

Staying at Camp Kalahari

Experience again to Camp Kalahari exploring one other space of the pans. Arrive on the camp on supper time and a nicely deserved good night time sleep.

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Day 6

Finish Of Itinerary

If time permits, spend the morning in a standard Zu/’hoasi Bushmen village. You’ll meet the neighborhood elders, earlier than strolling with the Bushmen and studying how they survive within the harsh surroundings. Within the afternoon, it’s time to bid farewell to your horse, and start the journey house. Highway switch again to Maun airport by way of Planet Baobab, or extension of your journey with a constitution to the Okavango delta.