Cornelius Amann
October 06, 2026
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Southern Africa: Kruger, Matobo, Hwange, Victoria Falls, Chobe and the Okavango
12 days from Johannesburg to Maun: northern Kruger, rhino tracking in the Matobo Hills from Bulawayo, Hwange, two nights at Victoria Falls, two on the Chobe River and a day in the Okavango Delta.
12 days · Johannesburg to Maun · up to 12 guests
Victoria Falls and the Batoka Gorge zigzags from the International Space Station Photo: the ISS Expedition 7 crew, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Satellite_view_of_Victoria_Falls.jpg)
The facts
At a glance
- Length
- 12 days, 11 nights
- Start and end
- Johannesburg to Maun
- Group size
- 7 to 12 guests
- Longest drive
- 8 h on day 5
- Activity level
Moderate
Moderate: rhino tracking in Matobo of two to three hours on rocky, uneven ground, a short climb over bare granite to World's View, about 3 km on the Victoria Falls path, and a guided island walk of about an hour in the Delta. Mokoro trips need you to step in and out of a low canoe. The effort is the early starts, cold dawns in open vehicles from May to August and two long road days: day 5, about 540 km and eight hours of driving plus the Beitbridge border, and day 6, about 370 km and five hours after the morning's tracking. Every walk, drive and boat trip can be sat out.
- Meals included
- 11 breakfasts, 9 lunches, 9 dinners
- Room of your own
- + CAD 1,520 (estimated price)
- Season
- May to October
Highlights
Why this trip
- Kruger's far north: baobabs, fever-tree forest and Crooks' Corner, where three countries meet
- Track white rhino on foot with licensed trackers in the Matobo Hills, then climb World's View
- Elephants coming in to Hwange's waterholes on a dawn drive
- Victoria Falls at opening with a local guide, before the tour groups, and a sunset cruise on the Zambezi
- Two nights on the Chobe River: an afternoon boat among swimming elephants and a dawn drive at the gate opening
- A day in a mokoro on the Okavango Delta with local polers, with a picnic on an island
- Park fees, the Falls entry, rhino tracking and every game drive in the price
What makes this trip different
Short drives, all published
Every drive is listed day by day. The longest is 8 h, on day 5.
Free time is part of the plan
Free time and choices are marked on the days they fall.
Solo without the penalty
A room of your own is + CAD 1,520 (estimated price).
Day by day
Itinerary
The longest drive is 8 h, on day 5.
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Arrive in Johannesburg
OR Tambo Airport to a hotel in the northern suburbs, then the Apartheid Museum
- Dinner
- Stay in Johannesburg
- Drive about 1.5 h
Fly into OR Tambo International Airport (JNB), where a driver meets you at arrivals for the drive of about 25 km to our hotel in Johannesburg's northern suburbs, picked so you can walk to restaurants.
Afternoon
If you land by about noon, your See Sight Tours guide takes the early arrivals to the Apartheid Museum in the afternoon, about 30 km and 40 minutes south. It is the clearest single introduction to the country: the pass laws, the 1976 Soweto uprising and Nelson Mandela's release, told through photographs, film and original documents. Allow two to three hours; the entry is included. Later arrivals can rest instead.
Evening
At about 6 pm the whole group meets for a briefing on the route, the three countries, the borders and tomorrow's early flight north, then we sit down together for a welcome dinner. Bags stay light from here: one soft bag each makes the flights and the vehicle easy.
Included
- Pick-up at OR Tambo International Airport (JNB)
- Apartheid Museum with your guide, entry included, for guests who land by about noon
- Welcome briefing and welcome dinner
Easier option: Skip the museum and rest at the hotel until the briefing.
Free time: Free until the museum visit or the evening briefing
Activity: Plan to land by about noon for the museum, or by about 4 pm for the briefing.
Fly north to the far end of Kruger
Johannesburg by air to Polokwane, then by road to northern Kruger near Punda Maria
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Northern Kruger (Punda Maria area)
- Drive about 4 h
Morning
After an early breakfast we drive back to OR Tambo for the short flight north to Polokwane, about an hour in the air. It replaces about three and a half hours on the N1, which keeps today's road time near our four-hour cap.
Afternoon
Our own vehicle and driver meet us at the airport, and we head east through Limpopo's farmland and the hills around Thohoyandou, about 270 km and four hours with a stop for a sit-down lunch on the way. We enter Kruger National Park at the Punda Maria gate in the afternoon. This is the park's far north: sandveld, mopane woodland, baobabs and far fewer vehicles than the southern camps near Skukuza. Our lodge for three nights is in or beside the park, so nobody repacks until day 5.
Evening
After check-in there is time for a first slow drive near camp, looking for nyala and elephants in the late light, before dinner. Kruger gate times are strict, so arrival is planned well before the evening closing.
Included
- Flight Johannesburg to Polokwane
- Our own vehicle and driver from Polokwane into Kruger
- Kruger conservation fees for three days
- Lunch on the way and dinner at the lodge
Free time: Late afternoon at the lodge for those who prefer to rest
Activity: Flight time confirmed with your final itinerary; one soft bag each.
Pafuri and Crooks' Corner
Punda Maria area to the Pafuri region and Crooks' Corner, and back
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Northern Kruger (Punda Maria area)
We set out in open 4x4s with a licensed guide when the gate opens, about 6 am in winter, because the first two hours bring the most movement. The road runs north through mopane and sandveld to the Luvuvhu River and the Pafuri region, known for its riverine forest and birdlife: fever-tree forest glowing lime green, huge baobabs, nyala bulls in the riverine bush, and a long list of birds that birders come here for. We stop at Crooks' Corner, where the Luvuvhu meets the Limpopo and South Africa meets Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and look across the sandbanks for crocodiles and hippos.
Afternoon
Lunch is a picnic or a sit-down meal near the river. In the heat of the day we drive back to the lodge, and the afternoon is free: a swim, a nap or the camp's own waterhole.
Evening
Dinner is together at the lodge.
Included
- Morning game drive in an open 4x4 with a licensed guide, at most 6 guests per vehicle
- Crooks' Corner and the Pafuri region
- Lunch and dinner
Optional experiences
- Guided visit to the Thulamela stone ruins, run by SANParks, priced at booking
Easier option: Return to the lodge mid-morning on a shorter drive and rest.
Free time: Free afternoon
Activity: Dawn drives are cold from May to August: bring a warm layer, a hat and gloves.
Northern Kruger at your pace
Punda Maria area, game drives at dawn and sunset
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Northern Kruger (Punda Maria area)
A slower day in the same base.
Morning
Those who want it take a second dawn drive in the open 4x4, this time on the loops and pans around Punda Maria, where the sandveld holds species rarely seen further south, and elephants and buffalo come down to drink as the morning warms. Back at the lodge by mid-morning for breakfast. The middle of the day is free, and the light is too flat for good photographs anyway: read on the deck, walk the camp's short trail if it has one, or sleep.
Evening
Late in the afternoon we go out again on an included sunset drive, when lions and hyenas start to stir and the mopane turns gold. We are back before the gate closes for dinner together and an early night, because tomorrow is the long road day to Zimbabwe. Your guide goes over the border paperwork and the timing tonight.
Included
- Dawn game drive in an open 4x4 with a licensed guide
- Sunset game drive
- Border briefing for Beitbridge
- Lunch and dinner
Easier option: Skip the dawn drive and join only the sunset drive.
More active option: Join both drives and the camp's guided walk if the lodge offers one (priced at booking).
Free time: Free from late morning until the sunset drive
Through Beitbridge to Bulawayo
Northern Kruger to Musina and the Beitbridge border, then Gwanda to Bulawayo
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Bulawayo
- Drive about 8 h
This is the longest day of the trip, and we say so plainly: about 540 km and eight hours of driving, plus the Beitbridge border, which can take one to three hours. That is double our usual cap. There is no shorter road crossing from Kruger into southern Zimbabwe, and flying would route through Johannesburg and lose the day anyway.
Morning
We leave the lodge at the camp gate opening, about 6 am, with a packed breakfast, and drive about 200 km and three hours to Musina for coffee. Your guide handles the forms at Beitbridge; your part is the Zimbabwe visa, bought at the border in US dollars or as an e-visa in advance.
Afternoon
North of the river we stop in Gwanda for a sit-down lunch, then drive on to Bulawayo. We usually arrive between about 4.30 and 6.30 pm; on a slow border day in June or July, the last hour is after dark on the main tarred road.
Evening
We sleep in Bulawayo, not in the hills, so nobody drives a gravel road at night. Dinner is at the hotel.
Included
- Our own vehicle and driver from Kruger to Bulawayo
- Beitbridge border crossing with your guide
- Packed breakfast, sit-down lunch in Gwanda and dinner at the hotel
Activity: The longest day of the trip; we stop about every two hours. Have small US dollar notes ready for the Zimbabwe visa.
Rhinos on foot in Matobo, on to Hwange
Bulawayo to Matobo National Park and World's View, then back through Bulawayo to Hwange National Park
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Hwange National Park
- Drive about 5 h
Morning
We leave Bulawayo at about 6.15 am for the 35 km to Matobo National Park, part of the Matobo Hills World Heritage Site, because the rhino tracking works best in the cool of the morning. With licensed trackers and a national park ranger we follow white rhino on foot through the bush between the granite kopjes, reading tracks and dung until we can watch them quietly. Expect two to three hours of walking on uneven, rocky ground.
Afternoon
Afterwards we climb the bare granite of World's View, Malindidzimu, a short, steady walk, for the view over the balancing rocks, and eat an early lunch in the hills. Then comes the second long drive: about 335 km and five hours back through Bulawayo and north-west to Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe's largest. It is over our cap because Matobo and Hwange sit on opposite sides of Bulawayo; we break it with a stop halfway.
Evening
We reach our lodge near Main Camp at about sunset. Dinner is at the lodge.
Included
- Rhino tracking on foot in Matobo National Park with licensed trackers, park fees included
- World's View (Malindidzimu)
- Lunch and dinner
Easier option: Stay with the vehicle at the start of the tracking and join the group at World's View, or watch from the vehicle if the rhinos are near a road.
More active option: Stay with the trackers for the full walk.
Activity: Closed shoes with grip for the granite; neutral colours for the tracking. A second long drive: about five hours with a stop halfway.
Hwange at dawn, then to Victoria Falls
Hwange National Park and Painted Dog Conservation, then by road to Victoria Falls
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Victoria Falls
- Drive about 3 h
Hwange is famous for its elephants, and the dry season gathers them at the pumped waterholes.
Morning
We go out at dawn in an open 4x4 with a licensed guide to the pans near Main Camp, when the herds come in and the light is soft, and stay out for about four hours. Back at the lodge for a late breakfast, then a visit to Painted Dog Conservation near Hwange Main Camp, on days it is open (confirmed at booking), where the team explains how they protect the African wild dog, an endangered species, and there is a viewing platform over the rehabilitation enclosure.
Afternoon
After lunch we drive about 190 km and three hours north-west to the town of Victoria Falls, arriving in the late afternoon. Our hotel is within walking distance of the town and a short drive from the Falls entrance.
Evening
The evening is free to find a restaurant on your own, and your guide has suggestions.
Included
- Dawn game drive in Hwange National Park in an open 4x4 with a licensed guide, park fees included
- Painted Dog Conservation
- Lunch
Easier option: Skip the dawn drive, sleep in and join the group for Painted Dog Conservation.
Free time: Free evening in Victoria Falls
Activity: One night in Hwange means one long dawn drive, not two; ask about an extra night if Hwange matters most to you.
Victoria Falls and the Zambezi
Victoria Falls Rainforest at opening, then a sunset cruise on the upper Zambezi
- Breakfast
- Stay in Victoria Falls
- Drive about 30 min
We walk into the Victoria Falls Rainforest at opening, around 6 am, with a local guide, before the day's tour groups arrive. The path runs about 3 km along the edge of the gorge through the spray forest, with a series of viewpoints from Devil's Cataract to Danger Point, and the guide explains the geology of the zigzag gorges and Livingstone's arrival here. Between about March and May the spray can hide the view and soak you; from July to October you see more rock face and more of the drop. Victoria Falls is a World Heritage Site, shared with Zambia. The entry is included. The middle of the day is free for the optional extras people come here for, priced when you book: a helicopter flight, white-water rafting in the low-water months, or the bridge.
Evening
In the late afternoon we board a boat on the upper Zambezi for a sunset cruise, with hippos and elephants on the islands.
Included
- Guided walk of the Victoria Falls Rainforest at opening, entry included
- Sunset cruise on the upper Zambezi with snacks
Optional experiences
- Helicopter flight over the Falls
- White-water rafting on the Zambezi (low-water months)
- Victoria Falls Bridge activities
Easier option: Skip the 6 am start and walk the Rainforest later in the morning (entry included), or walk only the first few viewpoints, about 1 km, and wait at the café.
More active option: Add rafting or the bridge in the free middle of the day.
Free time: Free from late morning until the cruise, and a free evening
Activity: Bring a rain jacket or rent one at the entrance; keep cameras in a dry bag.
Into Botswana: the Chobe River
Victoria Falls via the Kazungula border to Kasane, then a boat on the Chobe River
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Kasane
- Drive about 1.5 h
A short road day, so no early alarm.
Morning
After breakfast we drive about 80 km and an hour and a half west to the Kazungula border, where leaving Zimbabwe and entering Botswana usually takes under an hour, and on to our lodge in Kasane near the Chobe River, for two nights.
Afternoon
After lunch and a rest we board a boat for the afternoon on the Chobe River inside Chobe National Park, Botswana's first national park. From the water, the riverbank is the show: elephants come down in family herds to drink, swim and cross to the islands, buffalo and hippos graze the floodplain, and crocodiles lie on the sandbanks. The boat stays out until the sun goes down over the Namibian bank.
Evening
Dinner is at the lodge, and with two nights here there is no need to repack.
Included
- Our own vehicle and driver from Victoria Falls to Kasane
- Kazungula border crossing with your guide
- Afternoon boat cruise on the Chobe River, park fees included
- Lunch and dinner
Free time: Free morning in Victoria Falls before we leave, and time to rest after lunch
Activity: Botswana pula or cards in Kasane; US dollars are often accepted for tips.
Chobe at the gate opening
Chobe riverfront game drive, then a free afternoon in Kasane
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Kasane
We enter Chobe National Park at the Sedudu gate when it opens, in an open 4x4 with a licensed guide, to drive the riverfront tracks while it is cool.
Morning
The Chobe riverfront in the dry season holds some of the largest gatherings of elephants in Africa, and the morning drive also turns up giraffes, sable or roan antelope with luck, lions on the floodplain and fish eagles calling over the water. We are back at the lodge for a late breakfast. The rest of the day is yours: sleep, swim, or take a second boat trip if the river grabbed you yesterday.
Afternoon
Late in the afternoon your guide offers a short walk to a sundowner spot near the lodge.
Evening
Dinner is together, and tonight the guide explains tomorrow's flight to Maun and the Delta day, including the light-aircraft luggage rule if the flight is a charter.
Included
- Dawn game drive in Chobe National Park in an open 4x4 with a licensed guide, park fees included
- Lunch and dinner
Optional experiences
- A second Chobe River boat trip or a photographic boat, priced at booking
Easier option: Skip the dawn drive, sleep in and rejoin the group at lunch.
Free time: Free afternoon
Activity: Dawn drives are cold from May to August.
Maun and a day in the Okavango Delta
Kasane by air to Maun, then a mokoro day on the Delta's edge
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Maun
- Drive about 1.5 h
We fly south-west from Kasane to Maun, by scheduled or chartered light aircraft, confirmed at booking, about an hour over dry woodland and the edge of the Okavango. From Maun Airport we go straight out by 4x4 or motor boat, about an hour, to a poling station on the Delta's south-eastern edge. There local polers, from the communities that hold these channels, take us out two to a mokoro, the traditional dugout now usually made of fibreglass, through the reeds and water lilies.
Afternoon
We land on an island for a guided walk and a picnic lunch in the shade, looking for elephants, red lechwe and the birds of the papyrus. The water here depends on the flood, which usually peaks from June to August; if it is too low late in the season, we replace the mokoro with an included scenic flight over the Delta.
Evening
We are back in Maun by evening for a farewell dinner together.
Included
- Flight Kasane to Maun (scheduled or charter, confirmed at booking)
- Mokoro day in the Okavango Delta with local polers, island walk and picnic lunch, community fees included
- Farewell dinner in Maun
Easier option: Stay in the mokoro or at the picnic spot during the island walk.
More active option: Join the full island walk with the polers.
Activity: If the flight is a light-aircraft charter, bags are limited to about 20 kg each, soft bags only.
Fly home from Maun
Maun to Maun Airport, then by air to Johannesburg
- Breakfast
- Drive about 15 min
The trip ends in Maun.
Morning
Breakfast is unhurried, and if you want one more look at the Delta, there is time for an optional early scenic flight of about 45 minutes before your flight home, priced at booking and best booked early in the high season. Your guide checks everyone's departure times the day before, and our vehicle takes you the few minutes to Maun Airport (MUB).
Evening
Scheduled flights connect Maun with Johannesburg in about an hour and three quarters, and many guests connect there to the evening long-haul flights. If you would rather stay on, we can quote extra nights in Maun or a fly-in Delta camp, or a few days in Cape Town; ask when you book, and the guide can help with ideas on the way. The guide stays with the group until the last airport transfer has left.
Included
- Transfer to Maun Airport (MUB)
Optional experiences
- Scenic flight over the Okavango Delta, about 45 minutes
Activity: Book a flight from Maun to Johannesburg leaving after about 11 am, and a flight home from Johannesburg after about 7 pm; check the Maun schedule before you buy, as it changes by season.
- Johannesburg1 night
- Northern Kruger (Punda Maria area)3 nights
- Bulawayo1 night
- Hwange National Park1 night
- Victoria Falls2 nights
- Kasane2 nights
- Maun1 night
- Overnight stop
- Day trip
- By boat or train
Wildlife and weather: May to October is the dry season in all three countries. As the bush dries out, animals gather at the rivers and at Hwange's pumped waterholes, and the grass is short enough to see them. Dawns from May to August are cold, sometimes near freezing in open vehicles; September and October are hot, often above 35°C. The Okavango flood usually peaks from about June to August; by late October the channels near Maun can be too shallow for a mokoro, and we switch to a scenic flight. Victoria Falls is fullest from about March to May, when spray can hide the view, and lowest in October and November.
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Before you book
Right for you?
Good for you if you want
- Travellers who want Kruger, Victoria Falls, Chobe and the Okavango in one trip, in lodges rather than a truck and a tent
- Safari travellers curious about Zimbabwe beyond the Falls: rhino tracking in Matobo and a dawn drive in Hwange
- Travellers who prefer the quiet far north of Kruger to the busy southern camps
- Solo travellers and couples who like a small group and one guide throughout
Not for you if you want
- Travellers who do not want long road days: day 5 is about eight hours of driving plus the Beitbridge border, and day 6 about five hours after the morning's tracking
- Anyone who wants several nights deep in the Okavango Delta; our 9-day Botswana trip does that
- Travellers who want guaranteed sightings of big cats
- Travellers who need step-free access, or who cannot manage uneven, rocky ground at Matobo or stepping into a low canoe
- A budget overland or camping trip
Book flights after we confirm your seat.
11 nights
Where you'll stay
Your hotels are named in your trip confirmation.
- Johannesburg1 night
- Northern Kruger (Punda Maria area)3 nights
- Bulawayo1 night
- Hwange National Park1 night
- Victoria Falls2 nights
- Kasane2 nights
- Maun1 night
One price
What's in the price
Included
Accommodation
- 11 nights: 1 in Johannesburg, 3 in northern Kruger near Punda Maria, 1 in Bulawayo, 1 near Hwange National Park, 2 in Victoria Falls, 2 in Kasane on the Chobe River and 1 in Maun
- Hotels and lodges, every room with its own bathroom, no camping; at least a 3-star-plus standard where the area has it, named when we confirm your dates
- Rooms shared, or your own for a supplement
Transport
- Pick-up at OR Tambo International Airport (JNB) on day 1 and drop-off at Maun Airport (MUB) on day 12
- Flight Johannesburg to Polokwane (day 2) and flight Kasane to Maun (day 11, scheduled or charter, confirmed at booking)
- Our own vehicle and driver for the road days from Polokwane into Kruger, through Beitbridge to Bulawayo, Matobo, Hwange, Victoria Falls and Kasane
- Open 4x4s with licensed guides for the game drives in Kruger, Hwange and Chobe, at most 6 guests each
- Boats for the Chobe River and Zambezi cruises, and mokoros with local polers in the Delta
Your guide
- A See Sight Tours guide with the group for the whole trip, including both flights and both land borders
- Licensed guides for the game drives, licensed rhino trackers and a ranger in Matobo, a local guide at Victoria Falls, and local polers in the Okavango Delta
Activities
- Johannesburg: the Apartheid Museum on day 1 for guests who land by about noon
- Northern Kruger: two dawn game drives, a sunset drive, the Pafuri region and Crooks' Corner
- Matobo National Park: rhino tracking on foot and World's View
- Hwange National Park: a dawn game drive and Painted Dog Conservation
- Victoria Falls: a guided walk of the Rainforest at opening, and a sunset cruise on the upper Zambezi
- Chobe National Park: an afternoon river cruise and a dawn game drive
- Okavango Delta: a mokoro day with an island walk, or an included scenic flight if the water is too low
- All park, conservation and community fees, and the Victoria Falls entry
Meals
- Breakfast daily (11)
- 9 lunches, including a sit-down lunch in Gwanda on the long road day and a picnic on a Delta island
- 9 dinners: a welcome dinner in Johannesburg, three in northern Kruger, one each in Bulawayo and Hwange, two in Kasane and a farewell dinner in Maun
Not included
- International flights to Johannesburg and home from Maun (we can quote the Maun to Johannesburg flight)
- The Zimbabwe visa, and any visa your passport needs for South Africa or Botswana
- Travel insurance, which should cover medical evacuation from remote areas
- Dinners on days 7 and 8 and lunch on day 8 in Victoria Falls, and lunch on day 12
- Drinks
- Tips
- Optional activities: the Falls helicopter flight, rafting, bridge activities, the Thulamela visit, a second Chobe boat trip and the Delta scenic flight on day 12
- Luggage over the light-aircraft limit if the Maun flight is a charter
- Extra nights before or after the trip
- Personal expenses
Local fees
- Zimbabwe visa fee for most passports, paid in US dollars at the border or online; any Botswana visitor levy, if one applies when you travel, confirmed at booking.
Extras
- Room of your own
- CAD 1,520 (estimated price)
When you can go
Dates and prices
Pick your start date when you request to book. We check that date and confirm it in your quote.
Prefer to travel without a group or guide? Ask us about arranging hotels, transport and city tours for you to travel independently.
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Booking terms
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Questions
Prices in these answers apply from Jan 1, 2027. Black Friday offer: 11% off the small-group price for requests received by Dec 1, 2026. From CAD 6,775 per person. Dec 2 to Dec 31: from CAD 7,155. From Jan 1, 2027: from CAD 7,610.
What does the price include?
Eleven nights in hotels and lodges with private bathrooms; flights from Johannesburg to Polokwane and from Kasane to Maun; breakfast daily, 9 lunches and 9 dinners; every game drive, boat cruise and the mokoro day; the Falls entry, Matobo rhino tracking and all park fees; our own vehicle and driver on the road days; and a See Sight Tours guide throughout. International flights, visas, tips and drinks are extra.
Is this a camping trip?
No. Every night is in a hotel or lodge with your own bathroom, at least a 3-star-plus standard where the area has it, and we name each one when we confirm your dates. The overland versions of this loop camp for 11 to 14 nights and help cook; here meals are served, and there are no tents to pitch.
How big is the group?
The small-group trip runs with 7 to 12 guests, against up to 22 on the overland trucks that run this loop. Game drives use open 4x4s with at most six guests each, so everyone has an outside seat, and in the Delta it is two guests to each mokoro with a local poler.
Who leads the trip?
A See Sight Tours guide travels with the group from the Johannesburg arrival to the last transfer in Maun, through both flights and both land borders. In the parks we add licensed local guides, Matobo rhino trackers with a ranger, a local guide at Victoria Falls and community polers in the Delta, as the parks require.
How fit do I need to be for this safari?
Moderate fitness is enough. The hardest part is the Matobo rhino tracking, two to three hours on rocky, uneven ground, followed by a short granite climb to World's View. You also need to step in and out of a low mokoro and cope with early, cold starts and two long road days. Every walk, drive and boat trip can be sat out.
I am travelling solo. What does a single room cost?
The single supplement is CAD 1,520, about 20 percent of the price, and it is shown before you book, not at checkout. It buys your own room every night. Solo travellers get the same seats, vehicles and terms as everyone else. If you would rather share a room, tell us when you request to book and we will say whether a match is possible.
When is the best time to go?
We run this trip from May to October, the dry season, when animals gather at rivers and waterholes and the bush is thin enough to see them. May to August has cold dawns and mild days; September and October are hot but excellent for game. The Delta flood usually peaks from June to August, and the Falls are fullest from March to May.
How does booking work?
You send a request to book for your chosen departure, with no payment taken at that stage. We check availability and provide the final quote, itinerary and booking terms before you accept. No payment is taken when you send the request. Prices are indicative per person sharing, in Canadian dollars with taxes included, until we confirm.
Can I do this trip on my own dates?
Yes, in two ways. The Private version is the same route for your party only, on a date you choose, from CAD 13,700 per person sharing. If you would rather travel independently with drivers and local guides but no See Sight Tours guide, ask for a quote; that is an inquiry, not one of the trip styles we sell.
Do I need visas for South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana?
Canadian, US and UK passport holders do not currently need visas for short visits to South Africa or Botswana. Zimbabwe needs a visa for most visitors, including Canadians, bought at the Beitbridge border in US dollars or as an e-visa before you travel. We confirm the current rules and fees for your passport when you book.
Why are there two long road days?
Days 5 and 6 are the price of seeing Zimbabwe beyond the Falls. Day 5 is about eight hours of driving plus the Beitbridge border, the only direct road crossing from Kruger into southern Zimbabwe; day 6 is about five hours after the Matobo tracking. We stop every two hours, have sit-down lunches, sleep in Bulawayo so no one drives gravel after dark, and your guide handles the border.
How is this different from your other Southern Africa trips?
This 12-day loop links all three countries by road, with Matobo and Hwange in Zimbabwe, and ends in Maun. Our 10-day South Africa and Zimbabwe trip pairs southern Kruger and the Panorama Route with Victoria Falls; the 9-day Botswana trip spends three nights in a Delta camp. The 15-day Southern Africa trip covers the same countries in more depth.
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