Kalahari Horse Safari

PRICE:

From $4,733 to $6,128

DURATION:

4 Days

DEPARTURE:

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GROUP SIZE:

n / a

PRICE:

From $4,733 to $6,128

DURATION:

4 Days

DEPARTURE:

Set Departures - Enquire with Reservations

GROUP SIZE:

n / a

4 Days 3 Nights – Camp Kalahari

Why You’ll Love It:

  • Experience wild Africa, on an epic horse riding adventure in the desert.
  • Witness the second largest migration of zebra and wildebeest in Africa (from Nov-May/June).
  • Experience up-close encounters with the habituated meerkats.
  • Join the Zu/’hoasi Bushmen on bush walks through the desert.
  • Take game drives and night drives to see the unique desert wildlife.
  • Camp Kalahari is one of only three camps in a one million-acre private wildlife reserve, bordering the Makgadikgadi National Park.

This itinerary is fully customizable. To change this itinerary, please enquire with us.

What’s Included:

  • Accommodation, guest laundry, all meals & local beverages.
  • Traveling costs as per itinerary and entrance and park fees.
  • Activities (most!) and road transfers.
  • Applicable tourism levies, taxes, and all relevant VAT.

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

Overview

Camp Kalahari sits amongst the acacias and Mokolwane palms of Brown Hyaena Island, on the edge of the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans. Here you’ll get to explore this wild, unspoilt area in the same way many of the earliest explorers, hunters and missionaries did – on horseback! Embark on adventurous outrides around the crusty flats, meeting the habituated meerkats and following the animal highways that bring life to this lunar like landscape.

In-between all your riding explorations, enjoy game drives, a walk with the San Bushmen, and siestas around the swimming pool – a soothing escape from the desert sun. At the height of the zebra migration the adjoining grasslands are awash with zebra, wildebeest and more. Expect incredible scenery, memorable wildlife encounters and above all super horse riding!

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Safari Itinerary

Day 1-3: Camp Kalahari

Camp Kalahari lies on the eastern edge of Botswana’s Makgadikgadi Pans National Park. Charming and understated, you’ll find 12 Meru style tents filled with campaign furniture, comfy four poster beds, old maps and Persian rugs. Eclectic in style, the main area offers a small library and comfy sofas. Dinners are served at the long dining table, the perfect place to chat about you’re day’s riding activities. This is an ideal base to come back to after a day out discovering all the treasures that lie amongst the crusty salt flats.

Day 1-3: The Makgadikgadi Pans

There aren’t many experiences that beat riding a horse through Botswana’s Makgadikgadi salt pans. Here you’ll spend your days unearthing all the delights that thrive in this living desert.

The environment will dictate what you’ll see and do each day, from meeting the habituated meerkat and the desert adapted wildlife that live here. Like the brown hyena – the third rarest large carnivore in Africa, and an animal that’s virtually impossible to see elsewhere on the continent. But that’s just the beginning: look out for bat-eared foxes, aardvark and aardwolves scampering across the salt, elephant plodding through on their nomadic journey and dazzling numbers of zebra and wildebeest during the migration. And where there’s a zebra, a predator will never be far away.

You’ll ride out to the famous Chapmans Baobab, once the campsite of early explorers like Livingstone and Selous when they pioneered the area, and meet the San bushmen learning about the ancient secrets of the desert. In between your outrides, game drives will offer you other exceptional wildlife encounters, in the early evenings keep a look out for all the nocturnals that come out to play whilst sipping sundowners on the pans.

This is your very own wildlife arena to play in, and it’s here in the heart of the great Kalahari that the adventure begins (and ends) on what is guaranteed to be a wild ride.

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This itinerary starts at From $4,733 to $6,128/person* and is fully customizable based on the number of people and travel dates.

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Additional Information

Logistics / Seasons

This safari starts and ends in Maun in Botswana. One of the best times to visit the Makgadikgadi Pans is during the dry season, which runs from May to October. During this time, the pans are dried up and you can easily access them for activities. During green season, which runs from November to March-June, witness the second largest migration of zebra and wildebeest in Africa (and it’s the last remaining one in Southern Africa).

2025 Price from $4,733 green season (10 Jan-31 March) to $6,128 peak season (1 July – 31 Aug).

 

Policies & Access

Child Policy: Please enquire with reservations.

Disabled Access: Please enquire with reservations.

Wi-Fi: Is available throughout this trip.

Excluded: Expenses of a personal nature, such as laundry, telephone expenses, gratuities, and porterage fees; any additional meals or activities; international flights and related taxes; visa fees where relevant; cancellation, baggage, medical, and evacuation insurance; any new government taxes or levies which are beyond our control.

This safari is for experienced riders only. 

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