Sample Itinerary

Cape Town is a wonderful place to start your Southern African adventure. You can choose from a number of activities and tours including: a Cape Town/Table mountain tour, Peninsula tour, Winelands and Cheetah Outreach tour, Simon's Town's Penguin colony tour, and a tour of Robben Island.

Accomodations:
Cape Grace Hotel
West Quay Road, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
PO Box 51387, Waterfront 8002, South Africa
Tel: +27 21 410 7100    Fax: +27 21 419 7622
E-mail: info@capegrace.com
Concierge: concierge@capegrace.com
www.capegrace.com

You'll fly through Johannesburg and board a private light aircraft for your final flight to Rocktail Bay. Door-to Door approximately 9 hours. You will arrive at Rocktail by 5:00pm get a tour of the camp, have dinner and enjoy the rest of your evening.

Accomodations:
Rocktail Bay Lodge
www.rocktailbay.com

Rocktail Bay is situated in the northern reaches of the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. This whole area has been declared a World Heritage Site. The lodge is situated just meters inland from the warm Indian Ocean and one of the most incredible beaches in all of South Africa.

Rocktail Bay is not Big Game country. Although they have their own "Big Five": Leatherback Turtle, Loggerhead Turtle, Buitons Skink, Zululand Cycade and Red Duiker. Whales and Dolphins are seen offshore. There are Hippo pools nearby. And birding is great.

Activities include boating, fly fishing, scuba, snorkeling, swimming, boogie boarding, horseback riding, bird watching, and turtle drives, as well as excursions to Black Rock, the nearby Hippo Pools, and the surrounding community in open 4x4 land rovers.

Rocktail Bay is integrally involved in ongoing turtle research. Guests are able to accompany the resident turtle expert on research drives at low tide at night helping to monitor the turtles' nesting numbers and behavior. Activity can be pre-booked, but the movements of the turtles will determine the day. Researchers look at tracks from 9pm - 1am. You may see 3 or 4 turtles, both Leatherbacks and Loggerheads.

Private flights to Vumbura Plains Camp. Door-to-Door approximately 5 hours.

First flight on private light aircraft to Polkwane takes approximately 3 hours. Here you clear customs. Second flight to Maun Airport in Botswana is short, approximately 45 minutes. There you'll be picked up by 4 x 4 Land Rover and transferred to Vumbura Plains Camp. Drive time approximately 45 minutes.

Accomodations
Vumbura Plains Camp
www.vumburraplains.com

Vumbura Plains is a luxury camp situated to the north of Mombo, in a private concession bordering the Moremi Game Reserve in the extreme north of the Okavango Delta. The Vumbura Reserve offers both land and water activities in a park that has a wonderful variety of habitats and a great diversity of wildlife.

The main activity at Vumbura Plains is game viewing in wonderful and varied countryside. Open 4x4 Land Rovers allow close proximity to animals in the savannah and forested areas. The Vumbura area is possibly the only area in the Okavango where one can see Red Lechwe and a Sable antelope on the same game drive. Add in Lion, Leopard, Elephant, cheetah and Buffalo along with all the plains animals and one has an excellent all round wildlife experience. Birding too is great with large varieties and quantities. Walks, mokoros and boating give Vumbura's guests the opportunity to enjoy Africa from many different perspectives.

You'll arrive early enough to get settled in, get an introduction to the camp and its wildlife, and go on a game drive.

Today you'll board a private light aircraft to Abu Camp. You will be given exact transfer time by your camp manager the night before. Flight time is 20 minutes.

Accommodation reserved for 3 nights
Accomodations:
Elephant Back Safaris
Abu Camp
www.abucamp.com

Abu is situated in a 400 000-acre private reserve in the heart of the Okavango Delta. The camp has 6 luxurious tents that are located under a shady canopy in an ancient riverine forest. The tents have a unique and wonderful design with a private viewing deck overlooking the beautiful lagoon.

Guests at Abu Camp are invited to share with the resident elephant family what is, without doubt, the ultimate elephant education safari. The elephant experiences offer many magical moments including interacting with the resident herd of eight elephants by riding or walking with them, as well as getting an elephant's eye view of the delta, forests and other game. You'll see giraffe, zebra, elephant, impala, tssessebe, lechwe, wildebeest, buffalo and warthogs. The camp's resident pride of lion should announce their presence at some time during your stay, and it is very likely that you will hear them calling at night.

As soon as you arrive and are settled, you're given an introductory tour around the elephant camp to meet the elephants and hear about the camp's special work with elephants, how them come to them, how they care for them and ultimately how they release them back into the wild.

Today you'll board a private light aircraft to Mombo Camp. You will be given exact transfer time by your camp manager the night before. Flight time is 15 minutes.

Accomodations:
Little Mombo Camp & Mombo Camp
www.mombo.co.za

Mombo and Little Mombo are situated on Mombo Island within the Moremi Game Reserve, and in an area set aside for "low intensity" safari use. So both camps are remarkably exclusive and remote. The luxury tented guest rooms and connecting walkways are up to two meters off the ground, allowing game to wander freely through the camp, while at the same time allowing for guest safely.

When you first arrive, the guides will take you around the camp and talk about the smaller animals and birds that are around the tents. Don't be surprised to see baboons sunning themselves on the decks, or see an elephant walk by on its way to a favorite watering hole.

The main activity is game drives. This may be the best place in Botswana for game viewing. The sheer numbers and variety of large mammals in this area defy description. Lion, leopard, cheetah, zebra, giraffe, antelope, monkeys, elephants, rhinos, white rhinos, hippos. Herds of wildebeest, buffalo, wild dog and hyena. Prolific birdlife.