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PARCHED KALAHARI
3 nights/4 days - US$1115 per person (no single supplement)

Serviced camping at exclusive campsite in Nxai Pan National Park.

Tour Direction: Maun to Nxai Pan to Maun

The Parched Kalahari Exploration links effortlessly in Maun at the end of some of the Migration Route departures and is highly recommended.

Experience a nostalgic camping safari that recreates a sense of wildlife viewing adventure reminiscent of the times of the early African explorers. The 3m x3m dome tents (at Nxai Pan), complete with mini-verandas, allow you to feel more connected to nature, accentuating the feeling of the wild and untamed. Pure cotton linen bedrolls with duvets on GI stretchers, bedside table with silver lantern and mini luggage benches add to the atmosphere. Shared separate toilet and shower ‘bathrooms’ with old-style tin bucket showers and basins create simple serviced comfort. At Nxai Pan there are 2 bucket shower “bathrooms” and 2 short-drop toilet enclosures per 8 guests. Adventurer camping aims to bring the guest closer to nature, by means of lively campfires, hurricane lanterns, diverse activities and a warm atmosphere to create that camping feel with a clear emphasis on essential comforts and pristine wilderness experience. To ensure as much privacy and exclusivity as possible, the Explorations camp at Nxai Pan is private and for the use of Adventurer Exploration guests only. The route provides guests with a unique Kalahari Desert experience combined with the famous Baine’s Baobabs on the edge of one of the Makgadikgadi Pans as an additional highlight. As no airstrips are in the remote Nxai Pan region, transfers are by road on comfortable tar and 4 x 4 tracks. The duration of our road transfer to Nxai Pan and back to Maun is between 4 – 5 hours and travels through small villages and through Nxai Pan National Park. 4 x 4 tracks in wilderness areas are not maintained, take time to navigate and may be bumpy.  

ITINERARY

Days 1, 2 and 3:  Nxai Pan, Nxai Pan National Park
On arrival in Maun and once all guests are assembled, depart overland to the pre-erected private Adventurer campsite in the Nxai Pan National Park. The Kalahari Desert pans around Nxai Pan are fossilised and covered with short nutritious grasses and stunted acacia trees, creating wildlife-rich areas surrounded by vegetated dune savannahs. Extensive game drives explore the surrounding pans, with an excellent chance of seeing spectacular dry-season predator-and-prey interaction at the waterholes. Possible game sightings include gemsbok (oryx), springbok, even the elusive black-maned lion and a range of other different uniquely adapted wildlife not often seen in the savannah regions found in northern Botswana. Close by is the famous Baine’s Baobabs tree island, a series of enormous old baobab trees on the edge of the shimmering white Kudiakam saltpan. These trees were painted by Thomas Baines on his exploratory expedition in the late 19^th century.

Day 4: Road transfer to Maun
After an early breakfast, travel by road back to Maun, arriving in time to bid farewell and board your departing flight.

SCHEDULED DEPARTURE DATES FOR 2008:
MAY 25, 28
JUNE 12, 18, 21, 30
JULY 3, 30
AUGUST 8, 11, 20, 23, 26, 29
SEPTEMBER 7, 10, 16, 22, 25
OCTOBER 4, 7, 16, 22, 25, 31
NOVEMBER 3, 12, 15

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