Mokoro, meerkats, boat trips and big cats: a family safari with short flights and a different activity every day.
Botswana is a wonderful country for a family safari, because the camps are small, the guides are patient, and every day offers something different: a mokoro through the reeds, a meerkat on your shoulder, a boat among hippos, a game drive among lions.
This twelve-day route keeps the flights short, uses camps with space for families, and gives children their own tracking and bush skills with the guides. Many camps have minimum ages, which we confirm for each child when you enquire.
Botswana
Luxury safari
Handpicked luxury lodges and camps, chosen for their setting, service and guiding.
Private safari
Your own vehicle and guide for the whole journey, never shared with other travellers.
Made to measure
Change the pace, a lodge or an activity and we rebuild the itinerary around you.
Start any day
Travel on the dates that suit you, subject to lodge and permit availability.
Solo travellers welcome
Priced for one on request, with the single supplement shown under Rates.
Pace and fitness
Relaxed, fitness: easy.
Meet your driver at Maun airport and transfer to Riley’s Hotel, in the centre of town. The evening is for a briefing and a quiet dinner, and the early flights of tomorrow.
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A long-established hotel in the centre of Maun, with a garden, pool and bar.
Fly over the Delta to the camp airstrip and settle in at &Beyond Xaranna Okavango Delta Camp, with a first boat trip in the afternoon.
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&Beyond Xaranna Okavango Delta Camp (opens the property’s website in a new tab)
Nine tented suites with plunge pools, deep in a private Delta concession.
Glide through the channels in a mokoro in the early morning, then walk on an island with your guide, with a long lunch and a late game drive.
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&Beyond Xaranna Okavango Delta Camp (opens the property’s website in a new tab)
Nine tented suites with plunge pools, deep in a private Delta concession.
Take a boat trip through the lagoons for hippos and birds, and a game drive on the larger islands for elephants and lions, with the guide teaching the children to read tracks.
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&Beyond Xaranna Okavango Delta Camp (opens the property’s website in a new tab)
Nine tented suites with plunge pools, deep in a private Delta concession.
Fly to the Khwai airstrip and drive to Belmond Khwai River Lodge, arriving for lunch and an afternoon game drive on the floodplain.
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Belmond Khwai River Lodge (opens the property’s website in a new tab)
Tented rooms on the Khwai river at the edge of Moremi, famous for leopard and wild dog.
Spend the day on game drives with your guide, with an early start for the cats, a long lunch at the lodge, and an evening along the river.
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Belmond Khwai River Lodge (opens the property’s website in a new tab)
Tented rooms on the Khwai river at the edge of Moremi, famous for leopard and wild dog.
Drive into Moremi Game Reserve for a day among the lagoons and the woodland, with a picnic lunch and a long afternoon looking for leopards.
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Belmond Khwai River Lodge (opens the property’s website in a new tab)
Tented rooms on the Khwai river at the edge of Moremi, famous for leopard and wild dog.
Fly south to the Makgadikgadi and settle in at Jack’s Camp, a classic canvas camp on the edge of the pans, with a first sunset over the salt.
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Jack’s Camp (opens the property’s website in a new tab)
A romantic 1940s-style camp in a palm grove on the edge of the Makgadikgadi Pans.
Meet a habituated meerkat family in the early morning, then ride a quad bike across the salt pans in the afternoon to watch the sunset over the horizon.
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Jack’s Camp (opens the property’s website in a new tab)
A romantic 1940s-style camp in a palm grove on the edge of the Makgadikgadi Pans.
Take the flight to Kasane and transfer to Chobe Game Lodge, on the riverbank, for an evening cruise among the elephants.
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Chobe Game Lodge (opens the property’s website in a new tab)
The only permanent lodge inside Chobe National Park, on the riverfront.
Take a morning game drive along the riverfront, then a boat cruise in the afternoon, when the elephant herds come down to the water.
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Chobe Game Lodge (opens the property’s website in a new tab)
The only permanent lodge inside Chobe National Park, on the riverfront.
Take a last early game drive or river cruise, then breakfast and the transfer to the airport for your flight.
&Beyond Xaranna Okavango Delta Camp (opens the property’s website in a new tab)
Nine tented suites with plunge pools, deep in a private Delta concession.
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
Belmond Khwai River Lodge (opens the property’s website in a new tab)
Tented rooms on the Khwai river at the edge of Moremi, famous for leopard and wild dog.
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
Jack’s Camp (opens the property’s website in a new tab)
A romantic 1940s-style camp in a palm grove on the edge of the Makgadikgadi Pans.
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
Chobe Game Lodge (opens the property’s website in a new tab)
The only permanent lodge inside Chobe National Park, on the riverfront.
Breakfast, lunch & dinner
Important to know
Rates per person
| Season | Solo | 2 people | 3 people | 4 people | 5 people | 6 people | 7+ people |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High season (Jun to Oct) | US$16,940 | US$14,360 | US$13,498 | US$13,498 | US$13,498 | US$13,498 | Get quote |
| Low season (Nov to May) | US$14,870 | US$12,600 | US$11,844 | US$11,844 | US$11,844 | US$11,844 | Get quote |
Prices are per person, in US dollars, and depend on the number of travellers sharing the vehicle and guide. They are sample rates for planning and will be confirmed when you enquire, as lodge and permit prices change each year. Many camps in Botswana have minimum ages, and we will confirm the rules for each child when you enquire. The flights depend on aircraft availability.
Best time for this trip May to Oct
Pack light, neutral colours for game drives, a warm fleece for early mornings, a sun hat, good sunscreen and insect repellent. Binoculars are provided in the vehicle, but bring your own if you are a keen birder or photographer. Light aircraft have a soft-bag limit of 15 kg per person including hand luggage, so leave the hard suitcases at home.
Made to measure
Every Uwera safari is private. Slow the pace, add a night by a lake, swap a lodge or bring the children: tell us in your request and we will rebuild the itinerary around you.
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