Botswana Tours - Tour 6.2

KGALAGADI-MABUASEHUBE -BOTSWANA.
10 Days / 9 Nights

This tour is for the true adventurer! Most of the time we will have enough water to have a small shower under Acacia tree.  All the camps are unfenced- giving us the true Kalahari feeling…….

MALARIA FREE!!

DAY 1- UPINGTON – NOSSOB (210 km)
Depart 8h30 from your Guest House in Upington – stop at the Bushman craft at Molopo. Enter the Kgalagadi Park, have lunch and do the game drive up in the Nossobriver. We visit all the waterholes on the way to Nossob camp.
The Botswana and South African Wildlife authorities have cooperated in the management of the two parks since 1948. In 1999 the presidents of the two countries signed a treaty that would link the two parks under one name the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and become one of the largest parks in the world.

The size of the park is quite overwhelming, the South African side is 9591 square kilometer with a further 28400 square kilometer on the Botswana side. The two conservation areas encompass two of the three Kalahari eco- types. The south-western part comprises duneveld with his unique semi-desert vegetation, and the north-eastern part comprises Kalahari plains thornveld. This area incorporates salt pans which play an important role in the life patterns of the Kalahari game. The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is one of the most pristine conservation areas on earth.

Accommodation: Chalet or Camping
Meals: Lunch, Dinner

Day 2 and 4 – Mabuasehube (360 km)
Early morning departure through this unspoiled part of the Kalahari on a two track sandy road through dunes and overnight at Matopi 100 km from Nossob. This is a bush camp. After breakfast we depart further through the dunes to Mabuasehube.
Important: These camps in Botswana are an unfenced camp. The magic of these camps are the fact that we are very close to the magic of the Kalahari, making you feel much closer to nature.
We spend our time doing several game drives. This is prime predator area, and if we are lucky, we might see the big cats, or if we are lucky, the big cats will visit us every morning, we walk to inspect the animal tracks around our camp. Many times the lion visit us, most of the time the only evidence will be his tracks in the Kalahari sand.
Accommodation: Mabuasehube camping – unfenced- water available
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 5 – KAA. 4X4 Trail (270 km)
After breakfast, we leave on a safari drive to Mabuasehube Gate and depart to KAA Gate on a sand road to the northern entrance gate. What can we expect today? In the Kalahari, we say always “expect the unexpected.”
Accommodation: KAA Camp- basic facilities
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 6 – KAA 4X4 Trail (100 km)
Swartpan overlooks a water point and we can see the animals coming to drink. We do several game rides in the rolling sand dunes and flat pans.
Accommodation: Swartpan – no facilities
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 7- KAA 4X4 Trail (100 km)
After breakfast we depart to Thupapedi. We do a game drive through the savanna veld and dunes. Today we can maybe see the King of the Kalahari.
Accommodation: Thupapedi – no facilities
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner