10 days

The Wild Divide

THE EXPERIENCE
This journey captures Botswana’s elemental contrast. From the wide, silent pans of Makgadikgadi to the living, breathing waters of the Okavango Delta, it offers reflection and discovery in equal measure. For those seeking solitude, spectacle, and soul, this is Botswana at its most layered and poetic.
KEY MOMENTS
LOCATIONS
ICONIC WILDLIFE

Your Itinerary

Day 1 | Arrival in Maun

Arrive in Maun and transfer to a desert lodge near Makgadikgadi. The air is dry and wide. Sunset lights the pans like fire on glass. You sleep where silence hums.

Day 2 | Salt Pan Adventure

Explore the Makgadikgadi Pans by quad bike; a surreal, lunar-like landscape stretching to the horizon. Stop for a sundowner in total silence. That night, sleep on the open pan if conditions allow, with nothing above you but stars and time.

Day 3 | Meerkats & Dust Roads

At dawn, walk with habituated meerkats as they emerge from burrows and begin their day. Later, transfer toward the Delta region, arriving at a lodge that transitions you from sand to swamp.

Day 4 | Delta by Air & Water

Savuti is where drama unfolds; lion vs hyena, leopard vs impala. Spend the day tracking predators and elephants in this unpredictable, dry wilderness. Your guide reads the land like a book. The evening brings campfire conversations and shooting stars.

Day 5 | Bush Walk & Canoe Safari

Spend the day moving between land and water. Track animals on foot, marvel at birds, and feel the Delta breathe around you. The slower pace allows for deeper presence and connection.

Day 6 | Game Drives Begin

Transfer to a more terrestrial Delta area or Moremi Game Reserve. Begin game drives; lion tracks in dust, leopards in sausage trees, herds of elephant moving like shadowed giants.

Day 7 – 8 | Moremi Wildlife Immersion

Two full days exploring this wildlife-rich area. Each morning and afternoon game drive feels different. The light, the movement, the mood of the land shift. You learn the Delta’s pulse — slow but exacting.

Day 9 | Final Safari

Your last full day is for reflection. One more mokoro paddle, one last elephant herd. Your guide shares quiet stories of floods and seasons; and you begin to understand the land as a living rhythm.

Day 10 | Departure from Maun
Fly out from Maun. What began in silence ends in memory; a journey across opposites, across elements, across time.
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