Highlights

• Take your kids on a wild and exciting expedition through Botswana’s most pristine and animal-rich wilderness areas.
• The Makgadikgadi offers encounters with habituated meerkats, quad biking expeditions and night game drives – surely every child’s dream come true?!
• Seek out unique desert species, including the black maned Kalahari lion and the elusive brown hyena on 4×4 game drives.
• At Meno a Kwena, join the San bushmen for a morning or afternoon and listen as they reveal the secrets of the bush (and how to make an arrow out of a leaf…)
• Game drive across the safari utopia of Khwai Private Reserve, full to bursting with the icons of animal world; lion, leopard, elephant, giraffe and zebra to name but a few.
• Float down the quiet waterways of Khwai by boat or mokoro, spotting waterbirds, crocs and hippos as you go.

The Essentials

Pricing Information: From $5,063 per person sharing (based on a minimum of 2 people travelling). Single supplements apply for groups of 3 and above. Please contact reservations for single traveller pricing, as rates will vary. Please note that the price is dependent on actual travel dates. Prices are valid until 31 December 2019.

Included: Accommodation, all meals & local beverages, all light aircraft and road transfers to and from Maun, all light aircraft and road transfers between camps, guest laundry, daily activities, expert guiding, park entrance fees & VAT.

Excluded: Premium brand drinks, gratuities and fully comprehensive travel insurance.

Child Policy: Children aged 6 years and older welcome. Families travelling with children under 12 years must book a private vehicle (US$600 per day).

Disabled Access: Please enquire with reservations.

Wifi: Limited Wifi is available at Meno a Kwena and Sable Alley, but not at Camp Kalahari.

Can this itinerary be customised? Yes, this itinerary can be fully customised.

Extension ideas: For an added thrill, book your brood into the Skybeds in Khwai private reserve. The five-metre high platforms take camping to the next level! (12 years and above)

When to Go & What to Pack

We run this trip throughout the year, and each season has its own unique characteristics. The dry season months are from roughly April to October and it’s at this time of year that you can quad bike from Camp Kalahari and witness the continent’s second largest migration at Meno a Kwena. If you’d like to visit in the summer months of November to March, you won’t be able to quad bike but you’ll still witness the migration on the Makgadikgadi Pans, as the zebra migrate to the green grass.

As well as your usual safari wardrobe, we highly recommend packing a few bits and pieces to amuse the kids: games, cards, pencils, pens – whatever you can fit in your bag! Please also remember plenty of high factor suncream, hats for the whole family, good walking shoes, swimming things and any required medicines. All your kit should be packed in soft-sided bags too, so they can be squeezed into the bush planes in Botswana.

Our Guides

As guides ourselves, we are only too aware of the importance of great guiding on safari. At Natural Selection, our guides live and breathe the bush. They know its rhythms, its beats and its quirks. They can spot a leopard’s whisker from around a corner, and they have an innate ability to expect the unexpected. Most importantly, they love to share their knowledge and delight for all aspects of Africa’s ecosystems, from the smallest plant to the hairiest mammal, and everything in between. Many of our guides are from the local communities, and they are always happy to discuss their cultures, backgrounds and upbringings. After all, understanding the way of life of the local people can bring a whole new perspective to the land you’re exploring. And did we mention that they are all fantastic company, with some of the biggest personalities in the business? But we can’t vouch for their jokes…

Our guides will also work hard to find the animals that you and your family would like to see. They won’t bump you around in a 4×4 for hours and hours, or talk about things you aren’t interested in. They’ll keep things fresh and stimulating, and most importantly, they’ve got plenty of tricks up their sleeves to keep young minds entertained.