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10 Days / 9 Nights

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Botswana - Chobe, Delta & Kalahari Photo Safari

Botswana

Created by Karolina Noree - Wildest Kruger Safaris

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Created by Karolina Noree - Wildest Kruger Safaris

The Ultimate Botswana Photo Safari

This photo safari, made in collaboration with Pangolin Photo Safaris, brings you to three of Africas most pristine wildlife areas and creates some incredibly unique photo opportunities.

Highlights

Okavango Delta

Chobe River

Central Kalahari Game Reserve

Wildlife Photography

Use of bunker hide

Scenic Helicopter Flight

Boat Safari

Map

Botswana

Start Point: Kasane

Day 1 - 3

Chobe River Pangolin Voyager Houseboat

Day 4 - 7

Okavango Delta Pangolin Photo Camp

Day 8 - 9

Central Kalahari GR Dinaka Camp

Day 10

Maun Airport (No accommodation)

End Point: Maun Airport

Day 1 to 3

Chobe River

Separating Botswana from Namibia, the Chobe River is both an international border and a fantastic place to see wildlife. It offers many different subject matter with everything from large mammals such as elephants, buffalo and hippos, as well as resident crocs and antelope, and endless amounts of birds that call Chobe their home.

The reason Pangolin was started in the Chobe is because there is always something to photograph here. No matter what animals we see, we are sure to start with a bang and plenty of “keepers”.

Personally, this is also where I've experienced the most beautiful sunsets in all my time traveling across Africa. With the open flood plains along the river and the low angle from the boat, we have the perfect opportunity to capture silhouettes of the bigger mammals against the setting African sun.

Activities Day 1

You'll arrive at Kasane Airport, where you'll be picked up and taken to the Pangolin Chobe Hotel for a meet and greet with the rest of the group.

The Pangolin Voyager is moored on the Namibian side of the river, so you will enter Namibia with a very straightforward and simple border experience.

Afternoon

After settling in, we will head out on our first boat safari on the Chobe River in the search for great photographic opportunities.

Activities Day 2

Morning & Afternoon

Boat Safari, Chobe River

Around Lunchtime

After a delicious brunch there will be a hosted image review and group editing sessions in-between game activities. For this to be truly effective you will need to have your laptop with you with the latest version of an editing programme installed and updated.

Activities Day 3

Morning & Afternoon

Boat Safari, Chobe River

Around Lunchtime

Photo review and group post processing session.

Accommodation Day 1 to 3

Pangolin Voyager Houseboat

Safari houseboat

On Pangolin Voyager Houseboat you're staying on Chobe River which is a very unique way to experience the river, since you in the mist of all the action.

The Pangolin Voyager has five cabins which mirror the five tents at the camp in the Okavango Delta, so the group will have exclusivity for the first week of the safari. We have three different mooring spots along The Chobe River and we will visit them all while onboard. Alongside the houseboat is one of our eight-seater photo boats, which we will use for our morning and afternoon activities out on the river looking for subjects to photograph.

The house boat gives us the unique possibility to travel further down the river away from the other boats coming from Kasane, and we often have the sightings all to ourselves.

Please note: in 2025 a completely new houseboat is being built, and the photos will be updates as soon as they're available.

Meal Plan Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner All drinks

Day 4 to 7

Okavango Delta

You can look forward to one of southern Africa's best wildlife experiences when you visit the Okavango Delta. The Pangolin Photo camp, Shinde Footsteps, sits on a private concession of around 10,000ha in size and we have the freedom to explore and spend as much time at each sighting as we require. We can off-road at special sightings and also conduct night drives.
There are healthy populations of big cats on this concession most of whom are very habituated and make for excellent subjects. Wild dogs are frequently seen in the area too along with other large predators like hyenas. All the other larger fauna are present in good numbers such as giraffe, wildebeest, topi, hartebeest, and buffalo as well as several herds of elephants.

Activities Day 4

Early Morning

We do our final Boat Safari on the Chobe River before departing for our chartered flight to the Okavango Delta.

The flight from The Chobe takes just over an hour and is in itself a beautiful scenic flight from both sides of the aircraft. We land at our private airstrip and will be driven to our private camp in our two customised game viewers (maximum four photographers per vehicle).

Afternoon

We head out to explore the world famous Okavango Delta in Pangolins two customised game viewers (maximum four photographers per vehicle).

Activities Day 5

Morning & Afternoon

You'll be heading down more safari trails in search of animals in Okavango Delta when we take you on a guided game drive.

Around Lunchtime

Optional photo review and group editing session between game drives.

Activities Day 6

Morning & Afternoon

Head out once again, to see the best of Okavango Delta as we take you out on a guided game drive.

Around Lunchtime

Photo review and editing session.

Activities Day 7

Morning & Afternoon

Guided game drive.

Around Lunchtime

Photo review and editing session.

Accommodation Day 4 to 7

Pangolin Photo Camp

Tented camp Inside Okavango Delta

There's so much for you to enjoy when you stay at Pangolin Photo Camp, Shinde Footsteps, the concession is bisected by the Moanachira River which is a significant water source. The open plains across the area lend themselves to large herds of herbivores and their pursuant predators – lions, wild dogs, leopards and hyenas.

Meal Plan Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner All drinks

Day 8 & 9

Central Kalahari

One of the best places to see desert wildlife in southern Africa, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve has big cats, gemsbok, bat-eared foxes, ostriches and more. These are the traditional lands of Botswana's First People, the San, and their homeland is a stirring mix of salt pans and golden grasslands.

After one week of early starts and over-excitement, The Kalahari by its very nature tends to be a slightly more relaxed environment and the perfect third destination for this safari. As a desert, the animals tend to congregate more around the waterholes which makes it the perfect location for some hide photography. Dinaka, the camp that we have chosen to partner with, has an excellent waterhole hide.

Activities Day 8

Around Lunchtime

You'll fly to Maun for your next flight.

Afternoon

As a camp, Dinaka is very flexible with their timings and earlier starts or later finishes to game activities are all accommodated. The vehicles all have beanbags and again is a maximum of four per vehicle for the game drives with the photo host alternating between the two game viewers.
Use of bunker hide, Dinaka

Activities Day 9

Morning & Afternoon

Game drives to explore the Central Kalahari.
Use of bunker hide, Dinaka

Around Lunchtime

Learn the techniques for taking pictures on safari at our photo workshop.

Accommodation Day 8 & 9

Dinaka Camp

Tented camp Just outside Central Kalahari Game Reserve

Dinaka sits on a private reserve, bordering the massive Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Here you will find an environment very different from what you have experienced in The Chobe and Delta before.

The camp is owned and managed by safari legends Ker and Downey Botswana and is certainly the most luxurious of the three, but by now you will have earned a little pampering. The communal areas of the camp are fantastic and the rooms are spacious with private verandas looking towards a busy waterhole. The vehicles all have beanbag camera mounts and again is a maximum of four per vehicle for the game drives with the photo host alternating between the two game viewers.

The waterhole hide at Dinaka is a sunken “bunker type” hide and can seat the whole group together with the host. You will be photographing out at water level as the animals arrive, to slake their thirst right in front of you. It’s a very special place to be and photograph from.

Meal Plan Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner All drinks

Day 10

Your last day with us

Even the best safaris must end, and it's time for your Botswana experience with us to finish. We hope that you have enjoyed the experience, and we wish you the safest of onward journeys.

Botswana - Chobe, Delta & Kalahari Photo Safari

Botswana - Chobe, Delta & Kalahari Photo Safari

The Ultimate Botswana Photo Safari

Highlights

Map

Chobe River

Activities Day 1

Afternoon

Activities Day 2

Around Lunchtime

Activities Day 3

Around Lunchtime

Pangolin Voyager Houseboat

Okavango Delta

Activities Day 4

Afternoon

Activities Day 5

Around Lunchtime

Activities Day 6

Around Lunchtime

Activities Day 7

Around Lunchtime

Pangolin Photo Camp

Central Kalahari

Activities Day 8

Afternoon

Activities Day 9

Around Lunchtime

Dinaka Camp

Your last day with us

Pricing

Detailed Price Information

Overview Tour

10 Days / 9 Nights

Botswana - Chobe, Delta & Kalahari Photo Safari

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Botswana - Chobe, Delta & Kalahari Photo Safari

The Ultimate Botswana Photo Safari

Highlights

Map

Chobe River

Activities Day 1

Afternoon

Activities Day 2

Around Lunchtime

Activities Day 3

Around Lunchtime

Pangolin Voyager Houseboat

Okavango Delta

Activities Day 4

Afternoon

Activities Day 5

Around Lunchtime

Activities Day 6

Around Lunchtime

Activities Day 7

Around Lunchtime

Pangolin Photo Camp

Central Kalahari

Activities Day 8

Afternoon

Activities Day 9

Around Lunchtime

Dinaka Camp

Your last day with us

Pricing

Detailed Price Information

Overview Tour

10 Days / 9 Nights

Botswana - Chobe, Delta & Kalahari Photo Safari

Included

Excluded