Great Game Parks of Southern Africa

Experience the extraordinary wildlife and amazing natural habitats of three of Africa’s most beautiful countries! In South Africa, a spectacular bush flight whisks us to Timbavati, 230 square miles of private African gamelands adjoining famed Kruger National Park. Here on game drives in open vehicles with our expert spotters, we get close encounters with lion, elephant, leopard, rhino, and much more. Mid-trip finds us in Zambia at magnificent Victoria Falls, witnessing the wonder of its two-mile-wide curtain of thundering water before we head out to wild, untamed Botswana to safari across the game-filled Okavango Delta and savannas of Chobe. Candle-lit evenings in the bush, the sounds of the African night, sumptuous meals, romantic Cape Town—it’s all a part of this spectacular adventure.

Itinerary at a Glance

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Days 1-3
Cape Town / Cape Peninsula

Few cities in the world can match Cape Town’s dramatic setting at the edge of Table Bay below the mountainous Cape Peninsula. We ride a cable car up cloud-hung Table Mountain, walk the aromatic pathways of renowned Kirstenbosch Garden, sample fresh-caught seafood, visit a penguin colony at Boulders Beach, and from Cape Point, gaze at the windswept Cape of Good Hope, legendary beacon for sailors and explorers.

Days 4-6
Timbavati Private Game Reserve

Tanda Tula, on Timbavati’s sun-drenched savannas, is one of the most luxurious tented camps in all South Africa, with thatch-roofed tented suites and Victorian-style baths. Here we join our game trackers for world-class gameviewing, and because we are on private land, not in a national park, we can drive off-road in our open vehicles for better views of the “Big Five”—lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, and leopard.

Day 7
Victoria Falls, Zambia

The world’s largest, Victoria Falls is a stunning wonder whose towering columns of spray can be seen 50 miles away. From our lodge on the Zambezi River, we can walk to the falls.

Days 8-9
Chobe National Park, Botswana

A bush flight brings us to Botswana and our remote lodge in Chobe, where we find one of the largest concentrations of game in all Africa. The Savuti region of Chobe is a legendary predators’ enclave with resident lions, leopards, and hyenas (we may hear their calls in the night). And on our game drives we see their prey, including large herds of giraffe, kudu, and roan and sable antelope. Chobe has incredible elephant viewing—the largest surviving elephant population in the world resides here.

Days 10-13
Okavango Delta

Flying right to Xugana Island Lodge, with its thatched chalets on a private island in the Okavango Delta, we safari by boat in quiet mokoros (canoes) poled through the shallow lagoons by our game spotters. Evenings are for al fresco dining and crimson sunsets over the lagoon. Depart on Day 13.

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