7-Night Victoria Falls, Chobe & Okavango Delta Safari

Day-by-Day Itinerary

Day 1, Arrival at Victoria Falls

Your journey starts the moment you land. A representative meets you at Victoria Falls Airport and transfers you to your hotel. The evening belongs to the Zambezi, a 3-hour sunset dinner cruise on the upper Zambezi River. Three courses, open bar, hippos surfacing alongside the boat, and an African sunset that sets the tone for the days ahead.

Day 2, Full Day at Victoria Falls

A full day dedicated to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe's most iconic destination.

Morning: Guided tour of the falls, all 16 Zimbabwe-side viewpoints with an expert local guide who explains the geology, history, and ecology of one of Africa's most extraordinary places. Wear quick-dry clothing, the spray is real.

Midday: Vulture Feeding at the Victoria Falls Safari Lodge and lunch at Makuwakuwa Restaurant. The vulture feeding at the lodge is one of the most dramatic wildlife spectacles in Victoria Falls, dozens of vultures descend on a clearing overlooking the surrounding bush. Lunch at Makuwakuwa follows, with excellent views over the watering hole below the lodge.

Evening: The Boma Dinner & Drum Show. Traditional African buffet including game meats and Zimbabwean dishes, interactive drumming and dancing performances, storytelling from a Sangoma, and the option to have your fortune read. The finest cultural evening in Victoria Falls, open until late.

Day 3, Victoria Falls to Chobe

Cross into Botswana at the Kasungula border (your guide handles all formalities) and head directly into Chobe National Park.

Morning: Game drive in Chobe National Park, three hours in an open 4x4, targeting the park's famous elephant herds, lion, leopard, buffalo, and giraffe.

Lunch: Buffet at Cresta Mowana Lodge, overlooking the Chobe River.

Afternoon: Boat cruise on the Chobe River, two hours drifting past hippos, crocodiles, and elephant herds coming to drink and swim. The river cruise is Chobe's signature experience and arguably its finest.

Evening: Dinner and overnight at 2 Rivers Hotel, Kasane.

Day 4, Full Day in Chobe

Your deepest day in the park. Two game drives bookend the day, targeting different areas and activity windows.

Dawn game drive (06:00–09:00): The most productive predator window, lions are often still moving, and leopards visible before retreating to shade. The early morning light on Chobe's floodplains is extraordinary for photography.

Buffet lunch at Cresta Mowana.

Late afternoon boat cruise (15:00–18:00): As the sun drops, animal activity increases dramatically along the river. Elephants swim midstream, buffalo graze the islands, and the birdlife is at its most active. This is the prime photography light of the day.

Dinner and overnight: 2 Rivers Hotel, Kasane.

Day 5, Chobe Cultural & Scenic Day

A different kind of Chobe day, exploring the human story of this remarkable corner of southern Africa.

Morning: Guided tour of the Kazungula Bridge, the newly completed 923-metre cable-stayed bridge spanning the Zambezi at the confluence of four countries (Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia). One of the most geopolitically unique engineering structures in Africa.

Village Tour: A guided visit to a local Kasane community, an honest look at daily life in Botswana's northern Chobe district.

Buffet lunch at Cresta Mowana.

Afternoon boat cruise: A final evening on the Chobe River, watching the light fade and the wildlife settle into the evening.

Dinner and overnight: 2 Rivers Hotel, Kasane. Depart the following morning.

Day 6, Kasane to Maun | Okavango Introduction

A short flight from Kasane to Maun, the gateway town to the Okavango Delta. Maun has a frontier character that's part of its charm; it's where safari operators, researchers, pilots, and travellers from across the world converge around Africa's most extraordinary inland water system.

Afternoon: Horseback safari at Thamo Thelele Ranch, a scenic ride through the bush surrounding Maun, where you might encounter wildlife on horseback in a setting that feels completely different from a vehicle game drive.

Dinner and overnight: Sedia Hotel, Maun.

Day 7, Okavango Delta Full Day Mokoro Safari

The centrepiece of the Maun leg. You're transferred to Audi Camp, where a motorboat takes you along the Boro Channel into the outer delta. At Boro Mokoro Station, you transfer into a traditional mokoro, a dugout canoe propelled by a standing poler, and glide silently into the delta's waterways.

The Okavango is unlike anywhere else. There are no roads. No vehicles. No dust. The silence is broken only by the sound of the mokoro pole cutting the water, the call of a fish eagle, and the splash of a hippo surfacing nearby. Sitatunga and red lechwe are common; elephants cross in the distance; the birdlife is extraordinary throughout.

A picnic lunch is served on one of the delta's palm islands. A guided nature walk follows, on foot, at ground level, the delta reveals a world of detail invisible from a vehicle or canoe: tracks, insects, plants, small birds.

The afternoon mokoro session and motorboat return brings you back to Audi Camp before sunset, where your transfer returns you to Sedia Hotel for dinner.

Day 8, Maun Departure

A final breakfast at the hotel, then transfer to Maun Airport (MUB). Your extraordinary eight-day journey ends here, but the pictures, the memories, and the elephants stay with you.

What's Included

✅ All transfers throughout, airport, between destinations, border crossings
✅ Day 1: Sunset Dinner Cruise on the Zambezi (dinner + open bar)
✅ Day 2: Victoria Falls guided tour, Vulture feeding, Makuwakuwa lunch, Boma Dinner
✅ Day 3–5: All Chobe game drives, river cruises, buffet lunches, accommodation (2 Rivers Hotel)
✅ Day 5: Bridge tour + Village tour
✅ Day 6: Maun transfer + Horseback safari at Thamo Thelele
✅ Day 7: Okavango Delta mokoro safari + island walk + picnic lunch
✅ Day 8: Airport transfer from Maun
✅ Professional guide throughout
✅ All taxes and VAT

❌ International flights (to Victoria Falls and from Maun)
❌ Zimbabwe/Botswana visa fees
❌ Tips ($10–20/person/day is customary)
❌ Travel insurance
❌ Some meals as noted (some lunches, personal drinks)
❌ Optional activities not listed above

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