Okavango Delta: Six nights on Chief's Island
This journey stays in one place. For six nights, your camp sits near Xaxaba on Chief's Island, the largest island in the Okavango Delta. Instead of moving on every day, you get to know one landscape properly: its waterways, its game paths, the sounds of early morning and of the hours after sunset.
You travel almost entirely on foot and by mokoro, the traditional dugout canoe of the Delta. A motorboat, or a 4x4 vehicle when water levels are low, is used only to arrive and depart. Throughout the year, the water level shapes the Delta: when the floodwater from the Angolan highlands arrives, the lagoons fill and much of the wildlife concentrates on the dry islands.
You are guided by experienced local guides and accompanied by a tour leader. The group is limited to eight guests.
Highlights
- Six nights in one place, with time to truly understand a landscape
- Daily walks with a focus on tracking and species identification
- Mokoro excursions through channels and lagoons, silent and close to the water
- A small group of eight guests at most, with a tour leader
- A dome-tent camp in the wilderness of the island
- Wilderness without vehicles: on foot and by mokoro
Locations
Chief's Island
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Included in the programme fee
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Why Chief's Island
Chief's Island is around 70 kilometres long and up to 15 kilometres wide and lies within Moremi Game Reserve. When the floodwater fills the surrounding plains, the island becomes a refuge for elephant, buffalo, zebra and antelope such as red lechwe and reedbuck. Predators follow, including lion, leopard and hyena. Nobody can promise particular sightings in the wild. What this journey offers is time and closeness: you move at the pace of the land and learn to read signs that stay invisible from a vehicle.
Accommodation on Chief's Island
You stay in a mobile camp in dome tents. Each tent has two camp beds with mattresses, linen, towels and interior lighting, plus a private bush bathroom with a simple toilet and a bucket shower, for which the camp team prepares warm water. A wash basin and water jug stand in front of the tent. Only the canvas lies between you and the wilderness. How warm or cool the days and nights are depends on the season.
A day in camp
The day starts shortly before sunrise with coffee and breakfast by the fire. Then comes the morning walk, the longest activity of the day at four to five hours, since it gets hot later on. After lunch there is time for a siesta. In the afternoon, following tea, there is a shorter walk or a mokoro excursion, often with a stop at sunset. The evening ends with dinner and conversation around the campfire.
All meals and drinks are included.
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Day 1
Arrival and transfer
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Day 2
Reading the island
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Day 3
Tracks and signs
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Day 4
On the water
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Days 5 and 6
Deeper into the Delta
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Day 7
Departure
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Notes
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1. Chief's Island
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At 70 kilometres long and 15 kilometres wide, Chief's Island is the largest island in Botswana's world-famous Okavango Delta. When the water level of the delta rises, an unsurpassed wealth of animals gathers here, including the fascinating Big Five – lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard and black rhino.
On Chief's Island the Okavango Delta presents itself the way you always imagined it. During guided bush walks and water safaris in the mokoro, you will be able to immerse yourself in the magnificent natural landscapes of the region and its astonishing biodiversity.
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