A mobile safari is the classic way to do Botswana, and still one of the best. You travel overland in a safari vehicle with your own guide, while a small crew leapfrogs ahead to pitch camp inside the reserves, proper beds, hot bucket showers, dinner around the fire. It is wilder and simpler than a lodge, and it is also the best-value way to spend real time in Moremi, Savuti and Chobe.
Camps are pitched inside the reserves, not outside the gates, so lions calling at 3am are part of the deal. There is nothing like it.
The same expert guide travels with you from first day to last, learning what you love and finding more of it.
Walk-in tents, real beds, hot showers and remarkably good cooking. Simple, yes, but never a hardship.
From around £1,370 per person for nine days on safari, a mobile trip costs a fraction of a fly-in and gives up nothing in wildlife.
Three guided routes through Botswana's wild north. Join a small group departure or take one privately.
A classic guided group adventure through the great parks.
Follow the wildlife across the desert and the Delta by 4x4.
An adventurous mobile camp safari through the wild north.
Mobile safaris involve some long drives on rough tracks, that is simply the geography, and facilities are shared on some group departures. Days start early and the schedule follows the wildlife rather than the clock. For most people that is exactly the point, but if you would rather trade the adventure for more comfort and shorter transfers, our fly-in safaris are the other way to do it.
Families with older children take these trips very happily. For younger ones, see our advice on family safaris.
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