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Family Botswana Safari

A Remarkable Family Adventure in One of Our Planet’s Last Wild Places

The circle of life seems so close in Africa. Botswana is filled with generations of animals following generations; and parents and children both marveling at the same things: the sights on the plains by day and the sounds on the breeze by night.

On your Family Botswana Safari, you and your children will take a flight to the water-and-land paradise of Xigera, located within the Moremi Game Reserve of the Okavango Delta. You'll journey through the waterways in "mokoros," tradtional dugout canoes. where you may see …

… lechwes, sitatungas, and elephants. According to biologists, an elephant's trunk may have over forty thousand individual muscles in it, making it sensitive enough to pick up a single blade of grass, yet strong enough to rip the branches off a tree.

In the game-rich region of the Okavango Delta, you'll stay in a secluded, dome-tented camp that is placed under shade trees. Here, you’ll conduct your explorations on game drives, game walks, and night drives. This is an area of exceptional diversity, and you may encounter lions, wild dogs, cheetahs, and leopards on the open flood plains.

On game drives, our four-wheel drive vehicles give us the opportunity to get off-the-beaten path and into the wildlife action in comfort and safety.

Lions prey on cape buffaloes in the Okavango Delta. The buffaloes, however, are very powerful creatures. They will return a big cat's aggression, sometimes fatally injuring a lion. It typically takes multiple lions to bring down a single adult buffalo.

This part of northern Botswana hosts one of the largest migrations of zebras in Africa. Zoologists believe that a zebra's vertical striping helps it hide in grass, since the zebra's main predator, the lion, is color blind. Additionally, since zebras are herd animals, the stripes help to confuse predators — a number of zebras standing or moving close together may appear as one large animal.

Linyanti is one of the great, big game areas of Botswana. You'll travel along part of the Selinda spillway, which lies on the Great African Rift Valley fault line. You and your family will enjoy a picnic lunch along the way. Elephants historically use this route, and if you’re lucky, you may see breeding herds on the move.

After a lunch taken in the shade with a spectacular view of the Linyanti waterways, a leisurely canoe trip (depending on hippo movements) will allow you to glide silently past wildlife before returning to camp at dusk.

Chobe National Park is the second largest national park in Botswana. It's famous for its predators, particulaly its resident lions. The roar of a lion is audible for miles and serves to indicate that an area is occupied. The females do most of the hunting; and despite the fact that the males play little part in most kills, they feed before the females.

The Chobe zebra and wildebeest migration is one of nature's great spectacles. It provides a bounty for the predators which depend upon them to survive.

You may see four of the Big Five in Chobe: elephants, lions, leopards, and buffaloes. Sadly, very rarely is a rhinoeros spotted. Their numbers have been decimated. Rhinoceroses have acute hearing and sense of smell, but poor eyesight over any distance.

You'll depart Botswana and enter Zambia by way of the Kazungula border, a point where the four countries of Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Zambia meet. You'll stay at luxurious Toka Leya overlooking the Zambezi River, where bird life is abundant.

More than a mile wide, Victoria Falls is the most expansive curtain of water in the world, plummeting more than 300 feet into the Zambezi Gorge. Image (C) Wilderness Safaris

The space between generations seems to disappear in the wilds of Africa, where life is always close-up.

Natural Habitat Adventures
Box 3065
Boulder, CO, USA 80307
(303) 449-3711
(800) 543-8917

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