Cape Town & the Cape Coast
This is a great safari that combines the wonderful Mana Pools and Hwange National Parks with a few days at Victoria Falls.
You get around using small inter-camp flights. Both Mana Pools and Hwange are renowned for their game viewing and walking safaris and offer diverse and contrasting habitats.
Botswana is known as the last true wilderness of Africa, mainly but to its reputation of private concessions with small personalised lodges in remote areas where you don’t have to share with many other people.
These days there are lots of Lodge options to choose from to suit all budgets and the time of year also helps to maximise your budget.
This itinerary features the enigmatic Central Kalahari with the classic Okavango Camp and then to the Savuti region of Chobe NP.
South Luangwa is arguably the best-known National Park in Zambia and has become very popular, especially with good scheduled flight links from Lusaka to Mfuwe, the main hub,
From here you either head north or south to a great selection of lodges, from fairly large lodges and small intimate bush lodges to choose from.
This itinerary features owner-run Kafunta Lodge with its sister camp Island River Camp in the south.
South Luangwa also connects well with Malawi with a direct flight from Mfuwe to Lilongwe