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Makgadikgadi Pans | Botswana | Makgadikgadi Salt Pans |
| This fly-in Safari takes you deep into the heart of the Makgadikgadi pans to Jacks Camp, an authentic evocation of a classic 1940’s safari camp. At the tented safari camps you gain a unique appreciation of the Kalahari and an insight into the traditions and culture of the nomadic Bushmen. You explore the pan by quad bike, visit majestic baobab trees and take fascinating walks with skilled Bushman trackers, where you learn about survival and tracking techniques and perhaps observe the desert-adapted wildlife of gemsbok, suricate and rare brown hyena. |
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| Meals |
Fully Inclusive |
| Accommodation |
Comfortable tented camp with adjacent private facilities - flush toilets and bucket showers |
| Departure Dates |
On request |
| Transport |
Light aircraft transfers and 4x4 transfers |
| Price Includes |
Meals and accommodation as shown above, safari flight from Maun & transfers, all game activities on safari |
| Price Excludes |
International flights, visas, items of a personal nature, meals not specified |
| Minimum Number |
2 |
| Climate |
Sub-tropical climate with hot, rainy summers and warm, sunny & dry winters |
| Best time to go |
Suitable from February to end December. Camp closed in January. |
| Health Requirements |
Anti-Malarial precautions essential |
| Combines well with |
Other Botswanan itineraries
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| Other Ideas |
Can also fly there directly from one of the Delta lodges for small additional cost.
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| Notes |
12kg luggage restriction, $20 departure tax payable locally. Daily flights into Johannesburg with SAA or BA, from £560pp including taxes, then connecting flights to Maun with Air Botswana. |
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 Day 1 : Depart Maun for 2 nights Jack’s Camp, Makgadikgadi Pans, Fully Inclusive
On arrival in Maun, you are met and transferred by light aircraft to Jack’s Camp in the Makgadikgadi Pans. Two vast shallow pans and a number of smaller pans make up an extraordinary landscape covering 12,000 square kilometres. Jacks Camp is an authentic evocation of a classic 1940’s safari camp. Eight tents, complete with Persian carpets, canvas washbasins, paraffin lamps, even a wind-up gramophone, are idyllically set on a palm covered island in the vast golden grasslands. It offer a traditional safari experience - there is no electricity or running water - but en suite bucket showers and loos behind each tent. Jack’s offers a holistic understanding of Botswana’s wildlife, geography, geology and its people, both past and present.
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Day 2 : On safari at Jack's Camp
The salt pans are the legacy of a great lake, larger than Lake Victoria, which covered most of Southern Botswana about two million years ago. This is a magical place away from all people. You explore the pan by quad bike, visit majestic baobab trees and take fascinating walks with skilled Bushman trackers, where you learn about survival and tracking techniques and perhaps observe the desert-adapted wildlife of gemsbok, suricate and rare brown hyena. With the summer rains, the pans partially fill with water and attract spectacular birdlife including pelicans, cranes and flamingos - a majestic spectacle. The surrounding sweet summer grasses offer a seasonal home to thousands of free-roaming zebra and wildebeest.
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 Day 3 : Return to Maun
After a final morning activity, followed by brunch, you are transferred to the airstrip for your light aircraft flight back to Maun.
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