Botswana Birding Safari

Today you will return to Kasane Airport for your scheduled light aircraft flight to Moremi Game Reserve. On touch down, a lodge representative will welcome you and accompany you to Khwai River Lodge – an historical lodge famed for being one of the first lodges to promote safaris with a conservation ethos. Located in the heart of the Okavango Delta, this lodge is a birder’s paradise and gives you access to over 400 bird species including the Wattled Crane, Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill and Meves’s Starling. Enjoy the drama of the wild on day and night game drives in Moremi Game Reserve, at the lodge’s private hide, as well as an epic 35 minute scenic helicopter flight over the Delta’s patchwork of verdant islands and lagoons. After exhilarating days you can unwind at the lodge’s 20 meter outdoor pool, get active at the fitness center, or enjoy a rejuvenating treatment at the spa. As the evening descends, head out to Mothupi’s Boma  where you can tuck into a feast of African dishes.

After a refreshing breakfast overlooking the banks of the Khwai River, your driver will meet you and transfer you to the local airstrip for your charter flight to the Okavango Delta. En route, be sure to glance out of your window for a breathtaking display of seasonal floodplains, riverine forest and verdant grasslands that make up this UNESCO World Heritage Site.  You will be welcomed on arrival at Xigera Safari Lodge’s private airstrip, and transferred to one of the most opulent and exclusive lodges in the Delta. The lodge is situated in an International Birding Area (IBA) and delivers some of the best land- and water-based birding Botswana has to offer with more than 400 species recorded. Explore this birding paradise on daily game drives, traditional mokoro canoe safaris, guided bush walks and Zambezi river cruises in search of some of Botswana’s lesser known birds including Lesser jacana, Brown firefinch and African pygmy goose.