Upon arrival in Johannesburg, you will be met by our representative at the International Arrivals Terminal who will bear a name board with your name on. He will hand over your travel documents and assist you to your onward flight to Maun.

Upon arrival at Maun Airport, you will be welcomed by a representative from your safari camp and assisted to your onward light aircraft transfer to your camp in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Upon arrival at an airstrip near your lodge, your ranger will meet you and transfer you to your lodge for your 3 night stay.

The Central Kalahari game Reserve (CKGR) is the largest, most remotely situated reserve in Southern Africa, and the second largest wildlife reserve in the world. Waist-high golden grasses seem to stretch interminably, punctuated by dwarfed trees and scrub bushes. Wide and empty pans appear as vast white stretches of saucer-flat earth, meeting a soft, blue-white sky. At night the stars utterly dominate the land; their brilliance and immediacy are totally arresting.

The park contains wildlife such as South African giraffe, bush elephant, white rhino, cape buffalo, spotted hyena, brown hyena, honey badger, meerkat, yellow mongoose, warthog, South African cheetah, caracal, Cape wild dog, black-backed jackal, bat-eared fox, cape fox, African leopard, Kalahari lion, blue wildebeest, plains zebra, common eland, sable antelope, gemsbok, springbok, steenbok, impala, greater kudu, aardvark, cape ground squirrel, cape hare, cape porcupine, chacma baboon, red hartebeest and ostrich. The land is mostly flat, and gently undulating covered with bush and grasses covering the sand dunes, and areas of larger trees.

Many of the river valleys are fossilized with salt pans. Four fossilized rivers meander through the reserve including Deception Valley which began to form around 16,000 years ago.

This morning you enjoy your morning game activity and brunch before you are collected and transferred to the nearest airstrip for your light aircraft transfer to your lodge in Makgadikgadi Pans National Park. You bid farewell to the Central Kalahari.
Upon arrival in the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, you are met at the airstrip in the Park and transferred by road your lodge along the Boteti River for your 3 night stay.

You have time to settle into your lodge, before you depart on your first afternoon game activity in the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park.

The Makgadikgadi Pans Game Reserve, a salt pan– with an area of 3 900 sq. kms is situated in the middle of the dry savanna of north-eastern Botswana. It is one of the largest salt flats in the world. The pan is all that remains of the formerly enormous Lake Makgadikgadi. Lying southeast of the Okavango Delta and surrounded by the Kalahari Desert, Makgadikgadi is technically not a single pan but many pans with sandy desert in between, the largest being the Sua (Sowa), Nwetwe and Nxai Pans.

The pans themselves are salty desert whose only plant life is a thin layer of blue-green algae and Very little wildlife can exist here during the harsh dry season of strong hot winds and only salt water, but following a rain the pan becomes an important habitat for migrating animals including wildebeest and one of Africa’s biggest zebra populations, and the large predators that prey on them. The wet season also brings migratory birds such as ducks, geese and Great White Pelicans. The pan is home of one of only two breeding populations of Greater Flamingos in southern Africa, and only on the Soa pan, which is part of the Makgadikgadi pans.

This morning you enjoy your morning game activity and brunch before you are collected and transferred to the nearest airstrip for your light aircraft transfer to Maun Airport. Upon arrival at Maun Airport you bid farewell to this African Wonderland.
You check in for your connecting flight to Johannesburg.