22 Days Namibia, Botswana & Victoria Falls
Price
Package Features
- 22 Days / 21 Nights
- Namibia, Botswana & Zimbabwe
- Starts: Namibia
- Ends: Victoria Falls
Overview
22 days spent touring through Namibia’s desert terrain, Botswana’s exclusive wildlife conservation parks, and ending with a walk along the edge of Batoka Gorge, from which you’ll be mesmerised by the spectacular Victoria Falls, this epic odyssey through Southern Africa will satisfy your wanderlust but leave you daydreaming about planning your next trip. Complete with a professional guide and some of the region’s best accommodation, this trip is the ultimate African experience.
Tour Features
- A comprehensive overland tour through Namibia and Botswana, concluding at the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe
- A visit and short walk around part of Fish River Canyon
- A guided walk through Kolmanskop
- A stop at Garub
- A pre-dawn excursion to Sossusvlei and the white clay pan of Deadvlei
- A visit to Sesriem Canyon
- A Swakopmund city tour
- A visit to the ancient rock engravings at Twyfelfontein and the Petrified Forest
- A visit to the Damaraland Living Museum
- A full-day guided safari and a half-day game drive through Etosha National Park
- A breakfast boat cruise on the Okavango River
- A game drive through Mahangu National Park
- A traditional mokoro excursion through the waterways of the north-western Okavango Delta
- A sunset boat cruise on the Nguma Lagoon in the Okavango Delta
- A boat cruise on the Chobe River
- A guided walk through the rainforest paths of Victoria Falls
Activities and Transport
Activities: Visit and short walk at Fish River Canyon, the second largest canyon in the world, a guided walk through Kolmanskop, the diamond ghost town of Namibia, a stop at the Garub watering hole in search of the wild desert horses, an excursion to Sossusvlei with a 4×4 shuttle to the dunes and a visit to Sesriem Canyon, a city tour of Swakopmund, a visit to the ancient rock paintings at Twyfelfontein and the Petrified Forest, a visit to the Damaraland Living Museum, a full day guided safari and a half day game drive through Etosha National Park, a breakfast boat cruise on the Okavango River, a game drive through Mahangu National Park, a mokoro excursion in the north-western Okavango Delta, a sunset boat cruise on the Nguma Lagoon, a boat cruise on the Chobe River, and a guided walk through the rainforest paths of Victoria Falls.
Optional Activities
- Sunset nature drive in the Kalahari
- Dune boarding or a catamaran cruise with dolphins during your free day in Swakopmund
- Desert Wildlife Experience in Damaraland, an early morning nature drive or guided excursion in search of the desert-adapted elephants
- A half-day or full-day game drive in Etosha National Park during your leisure day in Tsumeb
- Tsodilo Hills excursion, a UNESCO World Heritage Site home to thousands of ancient San rock paintings
Transport: Comfortable transportation in vehicles typical for the country, with fuel and vehicle insurance included throughout, and an experienced tour guide accompanying you for the full tour.
A private transfer from your accommodation is included at the start of the tour, with the tour concluding by transfer to Victoria Falls Airport.
Rates
Rates (Valid Until 31 October 2027)
| Paying Guests | Rate per Person Sharing |
|---|---|
| 2 paying guests | N$ 194 450 |
| 3 paying guests | N$ 152 950 |
| 4 paying guests | N$ 142 590 |
| 5 paying guests | N$ 129 900 |
| 6 paying guests | N$ 119 800 |
| 7 paying guests | N$ 113 640 |
| 8 paying guests | N$ 107 950 |
| 9 paying guests | N$ 103 100 |
| Single Supplement | N$ 12 340 |
Accommodation and Meals
On this epic 21-night tour, you’ll be staying in various types of accommodation, all chosen for their location and their comfort.
In the Kalahari, you’ll be staying at the Kalahari Anib Lodge, before travelling to Canyon Village set on the rim of Fish River Canyon.
2 nights follow at Desert Horse Inn in Aus will place you within reach of Lüderitz and Kolmanskop, and a further 2 nights at Hammerstein Lodge will give you easy access to a pre-dawn excursion into Sossusvlei.
Swakopmund Sands Hotel is home for the next 2 nights on the Atlantic coast, followed by Lodge Damaraland, which has been built among the region’s rock formations and desert-adapted wildlife.
Toshari Lodge provides 2 nights on the edge of Etosha National Park, and Minen Hotel in Tsumeb serves as your base for a further 2 nights, including a day at leisure.
In the Kavango region, 2 nights are spent at Mahangu Safari Lodge on the Okavango River, before three nights at Nguma Island Lodge deep in the Okavango Delta in Botswana.
The final stretch takes you to Camp Kwando on the banks of the Kwando River, Cresta Mowana Lodge in Kasane on the Chobe River, and Cresta Sprayview Hotel in Victoria Falls town for your last night.
Breakfast is included every morning of the tour, and dinner is included on 18 of the 21 evenings, with dinner excluded during your two nights in Swakopmund and on your final night in Victoria Falls, leaving you free to explore each town’s dining options.
Route
- Day 1 - Kalahari
- Day 2 - Fish River
- Day 3 - Aus
- Day 4 - Lüderitz
- Day 5 - Sossusvlei
- Day 6 - Sossusvlei
- Day 7 - Swakopmund
- Day 8 - Swakopmund
- Day 9 - Damaraland
- Day 10 - Etosha
- Day 11 - Etosha
- Day 12 - Tsumeb
- Day 13 - Tsumeb
- Day 14 - Okavango
- Day 15 - Okavango
- Day 16 - Botswana
- Day 17 - Botswana
- Day 18 - Botswana
- Day 19 - Kongola
- Day 20 - Kasane
- Day 21 - Chobe
Day By Day
Day 1 – Kalahari
Your day begins bright and early with your guide meeting you at your lodge. Once introductions are out of the way, you’ll set out on the road south.
The route this morning takes you out into the desert and first passes through Rehoboth, a quaint small town founded in 1871 by the Baster community and built above natural hot springs whose steam gave the area its earlier Khoikhoi name.
From here, the road will take you further into the wilderness, and soon you will begin to see the signs of the Kalahari Desert.
Despite its name, the Kalahari is not a true desert. It receives too much rain for that, and supports far more life than the word “desert” would suggest is possible.
Where the Namib further west is known for its sweeping dunes, the Kalahari is home to low red dunes softened by swaying golden grass, and camelthorn trees that can live for more than two hundred years, their roots reaching an astonishing 60 metres down in search of water.
You’ll arrive at the lodge around midday and the afternoon is yours. You might like to relax by the pool, or, if you want to set out immediately to see the desert, you can go on the optional sunset nature drive.
Once darkness falls, you will have the rare opportunity to see the Milky Way and all its stars with your naked eye. Namibia is the second least densely populated country on Earth after Mongolia, and the lack of light pollution makes it one of the few places left on the planet where you can stargaze without needing equipment.
Dinner will be served at the lodge.
Day 2 – Fish River Canyon
Breakfast is slow this morning, and once you’re ready, you’ll climb back aboard the vehicle and continue south, via Mariental and Keetmanshoop, as the Kalahari’s soft dunes give way to drier, rockier country.
Along the way, the road passes the Quiver Tree Forest, a fascinating, one-of-a-kind place. The San people once hollowed out the branches of the Quiver Tree to hold their hunting arrows, giving the plant its name. Some specimens here are two to three hundred years old!
You’ll also have time to visit Giant’s Playground is an intriguing maze of dolerite boulders, formed some 180 million years ago as molten rock forced its way through the Earth’s crust when Gondwana began to break apart.
From here, the road leads to Fish River Canyon, the second largest canyon in the world after the Grand Canyon.
Arriving at your lodge in the afternoon, you’ll tuck into a delicious dinner, served within sight of the canyon.
Day 3 – Aus
The day starts with an early breakfast, after which you’ll drive out to Fish River Canyon, the scale of which only becomes apparent when you are standing on the edge of it.
The second largest canyon in the world after the Grand Canyon, its walls were created by the Fish River over close to 500 million years.
After ample time spent enjoying the sights of the canyon, the tour moves towards Aus, a small town best known for the wild horses that roam the nearby Garub plains.
Their origin remains debated, with theories pointing to a shipwreck, an abandoned stud farm, or the First World War when a skirmish frightened the horses and caused them to scatter, though no single account has been confirmed. What is certain is that they have survived here, largely undisturbed, for more than a century.
You’ll arrive at your lodge for the next 2 nights, and after checking in, you can relax a while before dinner.
Day 4 – Lüderitz & Kolmanskop
Today will be a lot slower, and you won’t be on the road as much as previous days.
Your first stop today will be Lüderitz, a beautiful coastal town with pastel German colonial buildings, including the iconic Felsenkirche which was built on a rocky rise, and stands out in the desert landscape.
The town was founded in 1883, when the German merchant Adolf Lüderitz purchased the land, though Portuguese sailors had named the bay Angra Pequena centuries earlier.
After you spend some time seeing the sights, you’ll take the road that leads to Kolmanskop, once one of the richest diamond towns on Earth.
Founded in 1908 after a railway worker spotted a diamond in the sand, the settlement briefly enjoyed abundance and popularity, before richer deposits further south drew everyone away. By 1956 it stood empty, and the desert has been moving in ever since, filling rooms and hallways with sand.
The return route passes back through Aus and the watering hole at Garub.
You return to your lodge in the late afternoon, with the rest of the day free to rest.
Day 5 – Sossusvlei
After a slow breakfast, the road turns north.
There are no fixed stops today, only kilometre upon kilometre of open country as gravel plains give way to distant mountains.
You are crossing the edge of the Namib, believed to be the oldest desert on Earth, being somewhere between 55 and 80 million years old. Its name is thought to come from a Nama word meaning something close to open, empty space, a fitting description for what surrounds you.
By the early afternoon you’ll arrive at your next lodge, and later on, as evening falls and the stars appear, you’ll have dinner and an early, relaxing evening.
Day 6 – Sossusvlei
Today you’ll be up before sunrise, and after a cup of tea or coffee, and a light snack, you’ll be heading out into Sossusvlei, arriving just as the day begins to lighten.
A 4×4 shuttle will take you right to Sossusvlei, whose name is thought to combine the Nama word for “no return” with the Afrikaans word for marsh, a fitting description for a pan where rare floodwater has nowhere left to go.
From here, a short walk brings you to Deadvlei, where dead camelthorn trees stand black against the white clay. They died when the dunes cut off their water, but the desert air is too dry for them to decompose, so they remain standing exactly where they once grew so proudly.
Afterwards, you’ll visit Sesriem Canyon, a narrow gorge cut by the Tsauchab River over millions of years. It takes its name from the six rawhide thongs early ox-wagon travellers once tied together to lower a bucket to reach the water below.
Back at the lodge, the rest of the day is yours.
Day 7 – Swakopmund
After a hearty breakfast at the lodge, you’ll leave the Namib behind and turn west, travelling towards the coast.
The road will bring you to Solitaire, a small stopover that has become something of a legend, and for the most unusual reason.
The settlement began in 1948, when Willem Christoffel van Coller bought the surrounding farmland to raise Karakul sheep. It was his wife who named it Solitaire, a word she chose for its double meaning of a single set diamond and isolation.
Its bakery, though, is what put the town on the map. Made famous by the late Percy “Moose” McGregor, it is still the reason most people stop by during their tour, and the apple crumble makes the town worth the detour.
From here, the road will take you to the Atlantic, and soon Swakopmund appears on the horizon.
Founded in 1892 as the main harbour for German South West Africa, the town still has some of its colonial character, which can be seen in the pastel buildings and palm-lined streets.
You’ll be given an introduction to the town by going on a walking tour soon after you arrive. Later in the day, you’ll check into your hotel, and tonight, you can dine at one of the town’s restaurants.
Day 8 – Swakopmund
After a couple of days on the road, today is left free, and you can spend as little or as much energy as you like.
For those wanting more, there is dune boarding on the surrounding sand, or a catamaran cruise out into Walvis Bay, where Cape fur seals and bottlenose dolphins are frequently seen, alongside the occasional sea turtles or even whales.
If you’d rather take things slower, the Swakopmund Jetty makes for a good walk.
Built originally out of wood in 1905 and replaced with iron in 1911, it was meant to stretch much further out to sea before the outbreak of the First World War halted construction, leaving it at just over 260 metres.
You can also visit a few of the town’s cafes and small galleries, while enjoying the fresh ocean air.
In the evening, you can again decide where you’d like to have dinner.
Day 9 – Damaraland
After breakfast, you will leave Swakopmund behind and head inland again, this time travelling to dry and enchanting Damaraland.
This is a place of extremes.
Its elephants, though the same species found elsewhere in Africa, have proportionally larger feet and longer legs, having become adapted to crossing the sand and living in the harsh desert conditions. These elephants are known to travel more than 70 kilometres in a single day, walking between the area’s few water sources.
Along the way, you stop at Twyfelfontein, Namibia’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site, named for a “doubtful fountain” that once ran dry too often to be trusted.
Its sandstone slabs have more than 2000 rock engravings, made by San hunter-gatherers between 2 and 6 thousand years ago. The art depicts giraffes, rhinos, and elephants, and, oddly, a seal, which must have been carved by people who had travelled to the coast.
You will arrive at your lodge in the late afternoon, and after some time settling in, dinner will be served.
Day 10 – Damaraland
The mornings in Damaraland are picturesque, and today you’ll have breakfast looking out over the open plains that surround the lodge.
The rest of the day can be spent however you choose, whether that is resting at the lodge or joining a nature drive in search of the region’s desert-adapted elephants.
If the light cooperates, sunset here often falls against the backdrop of the Brandberg, Namibia’s highest mountain, whose pink granite is said to glow like fire as the sun drops, giving the mountain its name.
In the evening, dinner will be at the lodge.
Day 11 – Etosha
After a delicious breakfast, you will leave Damaraland and head north toward Etosha, one of Africa’s oldest protected areas, first proclaimed a reserve in 1907.
Etosha takes its name from the Oshindonga words for “great white place,” a reference to the park’s unique and enormous salt pan.
Once a lake, the pan dried out thousands of years ago when the river feeding it changed course. The white salt of the pan is large enough to be seen from space, filling with water only rarely, when it briefly draws in thousands of flamingos.
In the afternoon, a game drive will take you into the park, in search of its wildlife, with elephants, giraffes, zebras, and antelope all common sightings, and if fortune allows, you might even see lion or leopard.
Back at the lodge, you’ll have dinner, and then you can do some stargazing as the night skies here are quite extraordinary.
Day 12 – Tsumeb
Just before dawn, you’ll be up and about, having coffee or tea with rusks and preparing to venture into Etosha National Park for a full day game drive.
The best time to be in the park is early, before the heat settles in, and when visiting Etosha, rather than searching endlessly for wildlife, the more effective approach is often patience and finding a waterhole.
Throughout this day’s game drive, you’ll spend some time sitting near a waterhole and letting the animals come to you, spotting springbok, zebra, giraffe, and elephant over the course of a day. You might also see a few of the park’s resident predators, like lions.
By late afternoon, you will leave Etosha and travel to Tsumeb, a town built on one of the most unusual mineral deposits ever found.
Mined from 1897 until about 1996, the Tsumeb pipe has yielded more than three hundred distinct mineral varieties, roughly 40 of which have never been recorded anywhere else on Earth, making it one of the most studied ore bodies.
You’ll check in for the evening at your hotel, and once you are settled and have relaxed a while, you’ll have dinner at the hotel.
Day 13 – Tsumeb
Today is another free day, and you can go on another game drive in Etosha, looking out for the animals you missed the previous day or you can explore the town.
Tsumeb is a beautiful town. Its jacaranda-lined streets, which turn purple from about the end of September and well into early November, have given the town its nickname, garden town, and its museum displays relics from Lake Otjikoto, a sinkhole lake just outside town where retreating German troops dumped cannons and ammunition in 1915, when the war turn against their favour.
Several pieces have since been recovered, though at least two cannons, along with a rumoured chest of gold marks, are still said to lie somewhere in its dark water.
In the evening, you’ll return to the hotel for dinner.
Day 14 – Okavango
Following breakfast, you will take the road out of Tsumeb, and the dry savannah will begin to turn into taller trees, denser bush, and small farming villages, with markets and cattle posts marking the roadside as you travel further north.
The change in scenery becomes most apparent as you get closer to the Kavango River, the river after which this region is named.
Rising far away in the Angolan highlands and flowing south for some 1600 kilometres, it is one of the few substantial rivers on Earth that never reaches an ocean. Once it crosses into Botswana further east, it spreads out and disappears into the sand of the Kalahari, forming the Okavango Delta.
For now, though, it flows unassumingly past reed banks and riverine forest, creating a rare stretch of green in an otherwise dry country.
After a morning on the road, you’ll settle into your lodge, which will be along its banks, with the rest of the afternoon free to take in your new surroundings, before you have dinner.
Day 15 – Mahangu National Park
The morning starts spectacularly, out on the water, on a boat gliding along a still stretch of river, the calm broken only by its own wake and the calls of African fish eagles overhead, a sound so closely tied to the continent it is often described as the voice of Africa itself.
Breakfast is served on board, as you gaze out at the stunning scene and perhaps catch sight of a crocodile stretched across a sandbank, antelope drinking cautiously at the water’s edge, or buffalo grazing on the far bank.
In the late afternoon, a game drive will take you into the Mahango area, part of Bwabwata National Park.
At only 245 square kilometres, it is a small stretch of ground, but the permanent water of the Okavango River draws an outsized concentration of wildlife.
Roan and sable antelope, both considered rare enough elsewhere to be prized sightings here, share the floodplains with red lechwe and sitatunga, while herds of buffalo and elephant move freely between the water and the nearby woodland.
There will be time to stop along the way and enjoy the sight of the sheer density of life this stretch of river supports, and later in the day, you’ll return to the lodge for some quiet time and the most delicious dinner.
Day 16 – Okavango Delta
Once you’ve eaten a hearty breakfast, you will leave Namibia’s Kavango Region behind as the tour continues east into the Zambezi Region. The road will take you past villages, riverine forest, and open bush before crossing the border into Botswana.
On the far side lies the Okavango Delta, one of the most iconic places on Earth.
One of the interesting things that makes this place so unique is that the river that feeds it never reaches the sea. Instead, floodwater that falls in the Angolan highlands during the rainy season takes months to travel south, arriving here only in the dry winter, so the delta floods precisely when the rest of the region is at its driest, drawing in some of the largest concentrations of wildlife in Africa.
In 2014, it became the 1000th site inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Your lodge for your time in the Delta sits right on the edge of a permanent water channel, with views across the wetlands and little else to do but settle in, it is the perfect place to relax. Later on, you’ll have dinner at the lodge while enjoying the views.
Day 17 – Okavango Delta
Breakfast is early today, because your morning will start with a trip down the river in a traditional dugout canoe, the mokoro.
A mokoro is propelled by hand using a long pole, and though it was once always carved from a single tree trunk, most often a sausage tree or ebony, most used today are made of fibreglass instead, since a hand-carved hull lasts only a few years before it begins to rot, and the hardwood trees it needs take decades to grow.
Guided by a local poler, you will move almost without a noise through channels lined with reeds and water lilies, close enough to the water to see things you’d miss from a vehicle.
The rest of the day is left free, with the lodge deck a good place to put up your feet at watch the Delta.
Again, dinner will be at the lodge later in the evening.
Day 18 – Okavango Delta
You’ll have a quiet, slow morning today, and after breakfast you can enjoy the views of the Delta or relax in your room, or you can visit Tsodilo Hills on an optional trip.
Often called the Louvre of the Desert, Tsodilo Hills is spread across just 10 square kilometres, and has 4500 rock paintings, some dating back thousands of years, on ground where archaeologists have found evidence of human presence going back around 100 000 years.
The four main hills are known locally as Male, Female, Child, and an unnamed fourth, each with its own story that is told by the San people, who consider this location sacred.
In the afternoon, you’ll head out for another cruise, this time at sunset. As the mokoro drifts across the still water, the sky turns orange, pink, and crimson, giving you the most brilliant view to close off a perfect day.
Day 19 – Zambezi Region
After breakfast, you will begin the drive back into Namibia, crossing into what is now called the Zambezi Region, but was once known as the Caprivi Strip.
The name and the shape of this narrow strip of land can both be traced back to an 1890 treaty, in which Germany traded its claim to Zanzibar for a corridor stretching east from its South West African colony toward the Zambezi River, hoping it would open a route to German territory on the east coast.
The plan failed almost immediately as the Victoria Falls made the river impossible to navigate.
The land was only renamed Zambezi in 2013, more than 10 years after Namibia gained independence.
The route the tour takes today will again be passing rural villages, woodland, and floodplain on the way to Kongola, where on the banks of the Kwando River, a green, water-fed landscape that feels far removed from the dry country most visitors associate with Namibia, you’ll find your lodge.
After resting a while, you’ll have dinner, followed by the most peaceful evening, surrounded by the intriguing and peaceful sounds of the African bush.
Day 20 – Chobe National Park
You’ll eat your breakfast while overlooking the Kwando, and then set out for your guide, as the tour continues east, taking you through Namibia’s Zambezi Region as you make your way to the Botswana border and the town of Kasane.
Kasane sits close to the point where Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are commonly said to meet, one of the few places in the world where four countries come this close together, though geographers still debate whether a true single point exists in the river below.
A fun fact most travellers don’t know, but one movie buffs might enjoy, is that in 1975, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton chose it for their second wedding to one another.
Kasane is best known, though, as the gateway to Chobe National Park, home to an estimated 50 000 elephants, thought to be the largest concentration on the continent.
These are Kalahari elephants, the largest in body size of any African elephant population, though their tusks tend to be shorter and more brittle, a trait linked to the low calcium content of the local soil.
In the late afternoon, you’ll set out on a peaceful sunset cruise on the Chobe River where you might just see elephants crossing or bathing at the water’s edge, buffalo grazing nearby, hippos surfacing and making their distinctive grunting sounds, and crocodiles stretched along the banks, slipping out of sight once the afternoon gets too cool for their liking.
Tonight, dinner will be on your own account.
Day 21 – Victoria Falls
You will leave the banks of the Chobe River soon after breakfast and continue to one of Africa’s most famous natural landmarks, the Victoria Falls, checking into your hotel in the town that has grown up around it.
The afternoon is set aside to explore the falls. Known locally as Mosi-oa-Tunya, a name usually translated to “the smoke that thunders,” a reference to the spray that can be seen rising for many kilometres before the sound of the water is even heard, the Victoria Falls are an astonishing sight to behold.
At 1 708 metres wide and 108 metres high, the falls are considered the largest single sheet of falling water on Earth, not the tallest waterfall nor the widest, but the largest by that combined measure.
This afternoon, you can walk along the network of rainforest paths that lead to a series of viewpoints along the gorge, each giving you its own angle on the curtain of water below.
David Livingstone became the first European to see the falls in 1855, naming them after Queen Victoria, though the site had obviously been well-known to local communities for centuries before that.
Tonight, you can have dinner at one of the restaurants in Victoria Falls town.
Day 22 – Departure
There is time for one more look at the falls, after breakfast, before it is time to gather your things, and climb aboard the transfer to Victoria Falls Airport for your onward flight.
This tour comes to an end in Victoria Falls Town.
Inclusions/Exclusions
Inclusions
- 21 overnights in locally standard accommodation
- 21 breakfasts
- 18 dinners (Swakopmund and Victoria Falls excluded)
- Comfortable transportation in vehicles typical for the country
- Fuel and insurance for the vehicle
- An experienced tour guide
- All national park entry fees as per the itinerary
- Visit and short walk at Fish River Canyon
- Guided walk through Kolmanskop
- Trip to Sossusvlei and 4×4 shuttle to the dunes
- Visit to Sesriem Canyon
- City tour of Swakopmund
- Visit to the ancient rock paintings at Twyfelfontein and the Petrified Forest
- Visit to the Damaraland Living Museum
- Full-day guided safari in Etosha National Park
- Half-day game drive in Etosha National Park
- Breakfast boat cruise on the Okavango River
- Game drive in safari vehicles in Mahangu National Park
- Mokoro excursion in the waterways of the north-western Okavango Delta
- Sunset boat cruise on the Nguma Lagoon in the Okavango Delta
- Boat cruise on the Chobe River
- Guided walk through the rainforest paths of Victoria Falls
Exclusions
- Flights
- Travel insurance
- Optional and recommended Excursions
- Expenses of a personal nature
- Visa fees (where applicable)
Getting There
This tour begins with a private pick-up from your accommodation in Namibia.
After three weeks travelling through Namibia and Botswana, the tour comes to a close at Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, with a transfer included to Victoria Falls Airport for your onward flight home.
Offered By
Kurt Safari, founded by Kurt Schultz, is one of the oldest independent Kruger Park tour operators.
For the past 17 years, the company has built a reputation as one of the park’s most established tour operators, employing local guides from the Greater Kruger region and running a long list of tours that reach as far as Namibia.
Named TripAdvisor’s top Kruger Park safari company for 9 consecutive years, and backed by SATIB insurance and SATSA accreditation, Kurt Safari’s approach to safaris is to keep the experience authentic and wild, which has proved popular with clients.
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Do I need a visa to visit Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe?
Visa requirements vary by nationality, so it is worth checking directly with the relevant consulate before you travel. Namibia and Botswana are visa free for a wide range of visitors on short stays, while many nationalities can obtain a Zimbabwean visa on arrival. As border rules can change, a quick check a few weeks before departure is the safest approach.
What is the best time of year for a tour through Namibia?
Namibia is a year-round destination, though the dry winter months from May to October bring cooler days, clear skies and easier wildlife viewing around waterholes in places such as Etosha. The summer months from November to April are warmer, with the chance of afternoon rain in the north, and offer their own rewards in greener landscapes and dramatic desert light.
Which currency should I use in Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe?
Namibia has its own dollar, which is pegged to and used interchangeably with the South African rand. Botswana uses the pula, and Zimbabwe operates largely on the US dollar. Card payments are widely accepted at hotels and lodges, though cash is useful for markets, tips and smaller roadside stops.
Do I need any vaccinations or malaria precautions for this route?
This tour passes through malaria risk areas, particularly around the Okavango Delta, Chobe and Victoria Falls, so antimalarial medication is generally recommended and should be discussed with a travel doctor or clinic well ahead of departure. Routine vaccinations should also be kept up to date, and a good insect repellent is worth packing for riverside evenings.
How much travelling is involved on a tour through Namibia, Botswana and Victoria Falls?
This is a comprehensive route covering considerable ground, with driving days that range from a couple of hours to a full day behind the wheel. The pace is designed to balance travel with proper time to settle into each destination, though travellers who prefer shorter drives may wish to discuss a more focused itinerary with their consultant.
