CONTACT
telephone: + 44 (0)1604 628979e-mail: enquiries@safari.co.uk
Interested in a safari?
Click here to send us your details and we'll call you.
Other luxury safari itineraries
Forty minutes upstream from Victoria Falls in an idyllic spot on the banks of the majestic Upper Zambezi River, lies Tongabezi Lodge and for fifteen years Tongabezi has treated its guests to a wonderfully relaxing stay.
Tongabezi has five ‘river cottages’ each located by the riverbank and beautifully decorated with large bed, elegant furniture and en-suite bath and shower, with an area outside for relaxing. There are also four enormous and imaginatively designed ‘houses’ under immense thatched roofs, with open views to the river and each with a discreetly located sunken outdoor bath also with views right across the Zambezi.
The standard of cuisine is superb and the degree of service and attention to detail at Tongabezi is just right, and there are people on hand to cater for your every need, yet if you want to be alone you will be left to enjoy the day as you please. For those who want to venture to Victoria Falls there are regular trips to see the mile wide waterfall, and you can enjoy flights over the Falls by light aircraft, helicopter and microlite, as well as a day’s white water rafting for the more energetic. If you want to remain at Tongabezi they have banana boats and canoes and you can enjoy watching some of the 450 species of beautiful birds which inhabit this region of the Upper Zambezi.
Tongabezi also has its own private island – Sindabezi – which is located in the middle of the Zambezi about ten minutes boat ride (or an hour’s canoe trip) from the main lodge. It is usually possible to arrange for you to visit the island or stay the night in one of their three charming cottages (either in advance or during your stay).
Activities included in the rate at Tongabezi are: sunset/sunrise boat trips, fishing, bird walks, gorge walks, afternoon canoeing, visit to Zambian side of the Falls, visit to Livingstone markets and local Chief’s village, game drives in Mosi-Oa-tunya National Park and visit to the museum. All other activities are payable direct.
Duma Tau Camp is a sixteen bedded luxury tented camp situated in a 125,000 hectare private concession bordering onto the Chobe National Park in northern Botswana. The camp is situated close to the confluence of the Savuti Channel and the Linyanti River.
Duma Tau is built around a shady grove of mangosteen trees, overlooking a large hippo filled lagoon within the Linyanti waterway system. The grunting of the hippos provides pleasant background sounds for guests staying at the camp.
The tented rooms have been specially designed to give maximum atmosphere and comfort. Raised off the ground each room is under thatch with canvas walls. The bathroom facilities are en suite and well appointed, and each room has an additional outside shower. There is a dining room, bar, lounge and plunge pool.
Due to the wide variety of terrain in the area, activities are diverse and allow guests time on the water, on land and on foot. Game drives are conducted in open 4x4 vehicles. The area is famous for its elephants – towards the latter part of the dry season huge herds congregate along Linyanti waterways and lagoons - as well as at waterholes down the Savuti Channel. There is good game viewing to enjoy along the dry Savuti Channel and along the Linyanti.
Savuti is featured in the National Geographic film "Eternal Enemies" where conflicts between hyenas and lions are well documented. Cheetah and leopard are also regularly seen and a pack of wild dog often dens on the reserve. During the dry months sable and roan traverse down to the waterways to complement the impala, zebra, giraffe, wildebeest, lechwe, tsessebe and other plains game in the area.
San Camp is located on the edge of the Makgadikgadi Pans, deep in the Kalahari Desert to the east of the Okavango Delta. These ‘pans’ where once enormous pre-historic lakes and are now great expanses of salt covered desert plains dotted with palm trees.
This area has a rich history in bushman culture and near the camp is a lot of evidence of this with artefacts, shards of pottery and other proof of bushmen’s habitation; showing that this was once one of the most thriving centres for these fascinating people. Today, bushmen are guides in the camp taking guests on enthralling walks across their homeland showing their tracking skills, explaining the medicinal use of plants and revealing some of the mystery of how these people have managed to survive in this quite inhospitable environment.
The Makgadikgadi Pans is an exceptionally beautiful area of wilderness where you can also find desert adapted plants, and wildlife such as meerkat, bar eared fox, brown hyena, cheetah and other creatures. After the rains have finished in April, the area often has seasonal lakes and waterholes which can attract good numbers of plains game, such as antelope and zebra, and you can explore the area by open vehicle and by quad bike which, with their large gauge tyres, are the most appropriate vehicle for exploring the delicate surface of the Makgadikgadi Pans and are also great fun to ride as well!
The accommodation at San Camp is in six spacious tents set on slightly raised wooden platforms, each with proper beds, en-suite bush shower and w.c.
Jao Camp is an eighteen bedded luxury tented camp located in the huge Jao Private Reserve which lies to the west of the Moremi Wildlife Reserve in the Okavango Delta.
The accommodation is among the most luxurious in the Okavango Delta and each of the nine immense canvas suites is beautifully designed with a wooden structure below the sweeping canvas roof and walls. Inside each suite there are large beds (twin or double as preferred), occasional tables, lamps, dressing table and luxury en suite bathroom with ‘his & hers’ hand basins, flush w.c. and both indoor and outdoor shower. The entire structure is set on a large raised wooden deck with spacious veranda and hammock outside where you can enjoy views of the verdant Okavango vegetation laced with the shallow waterways for which this region is famous.
Because the Jao Reserve is private, you can enjoy a wide range of safari activities in the company of the camp’s expert guides. These include mokoros (dugout canoes) which are punted silently along reed lined channels, boats, open vehicles which head off in search of the bigger herds by day and after dark, as well as walking safaris where your guide will be armed. Each of these means of game viewing provides a new and exciting perspective from which to enjoy the wildlife, birds and scenery.
The abundant grassland and water of the Jao Private Reserve supports a wide variety of wildlife including elephant, giraffe, antelope (including water-adapted species such as red lechwe), zebra, hippopotamus and crocodile. It is also a place where you are likely to encounter big cats and lion, leopard and cheetah are all regularly seen on the reserve.