South Africa & Botswana Safari Adventure

Your journey begins in Cape Town, where your driver meets you at the airport and transfers you to your accommodation. Most international flights from the US and UK arrive via Johannesburg with a short onward connection.

Cape Town sits within a UNESCO World Heritage Site, surrounded by the Cape Floristic Region, one of the six floral kingdoms on Earth. Table Mountain rises to 1,086 meters above the waterfront and can be reached by cable car, providing a view of the peninsula, Robben Island, and both coastlines from a single point.

Four days here allows time to move between the different experiences the Cape offers. The Winelands, centred on Stellenbosch and Franschhoek around 45 minutes from the city, produce some of the southern hemisphere’s most finest wines alongside restaurants that draw visitors from across the world.

The Cape Peninsula drive takes you south past Boulders Beach, where a colony of African penguins has established itself on the sand, all the way to the Cape of Good Hope at the southwestern tip of the continent.

Back in the city, Bo-Kaap’s painted houses and Cape Malay history sit above the centre, while the V&A Waterfront provides access to the harbour and the ferry crossing to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held for 18 of his 27 years of imprisonment.

A light aircraft transfer from Kasane carries you southwest into the Okavango Delta, and the view on descent tells you where you are before the wheels touch the grass strip. Channels cut through islands of palm and fig below, with elephant visible along the banks and the scale of the Delta spreading in every direction.

The Okavango is one of the world’s last remaining intact wetland wilderness areas. Unlike most river systems, the water that arrives from the Angolan highlands never reaches the sea. It spreads across the Kalahari basin, sustaining an ecosystem that supports elephant, hippo, crocodile, lion, leopard, wild dog, and around 550 species of bird within a landscape of papyrus-lined channels, open lagoons, and tree-covered islands.

Your first three nights are spent in a concession in the northern Delta, where the depth of the permanent water channels allows boat safaris and mokoro excursions year-round alongside morning and evening game drives.

Each morning a local poler takes you out by mokoro at dawn, moving through the channels at water level and pausing when wildlife warrants it. Afternoons shift between motorboat excursions on the open lagoons, game drives through the island’s interior, and walking safaris with a guide who has spent years learning the waterways and the land around them.

A light aircraft transfer from the Delta connects to Maun, from where flights link to Johannesburg for onward international connections to the US, UK, and Europe.

The itinerary can be extended with additional nights in the Delta, a connection to Victoria Falls, or a night in Johannesburg before departure.