Botswana birding safari: Chobe and the Okavango Delta in 9 days (8 nights)

9 days · Botswana · Kasane → Maun

A two-stop birding trip with long stays at each place. It opens with three nights on the Chobe riverfront, where boat trips and drives along the floodplain cover waterbirds and riverine species. A light-aircraft flight then reaches the Okavango Delta for five nights among channels, lagoons, woodland and flooded grassland. With only one transfer and long stays, there is time to go back to good spots and look for harder species such as slaty egret and Pel's fishing owl.

The route, stop by stop

1. Chobe, Botswana · 3 nights

Arrive by drive — Road transfer from Kasane to the riverfront lodge

Boat trips and floodplain drives for waterbirds, bee-eaters and other riverine species.

2. Okavango, Botswana · 5 nights

Arrive by fly — Light-aircraft flight from Kasane into the Delta

Five nights across channels, lagoons, mopane woodland and flooded grassland give a wide range of wetland and woodland habitats.

Experts who can arrange this trip

• The Safari Vibe, who works in Botswana.

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