After your arrival in Maun, you are transferred by light aircraft to Oddballs Palm Island where you spend your first and last night including all meals and activities. Accomodation is in 3 man dome tents on wooden decks, complete with camping mattresses and bedding. There are communal flush toilets and hot showers. The bar serves a wide range of soft drinks, beer, wine and spirits. There is also a shop which stock a basic range of provisions for your mokoro trail such as dried starches (rice, pasta), frozen meat, sauces, tinned vegetables, fish and fruit and some fresh produce. The Kitchen can also bake fresh bread for your camping trip - the tastiest in the Delta!
Day two sees the start of your MOKORO TRAIL. A Mokoro is a canoe hewn from the trunk of a massive tree: in the stern is your poler - a man in perfect balance, he silently pushes you and your mokoro through the endless floodplains, channels and islands of the Okavango.
Your nights will be spent on whatever island presents itself; your days will be divided between silently drifting in your mokoro through crystal clear waterways; discovering the unlimited facets of the Okavango - plants, animals, birds, insects and fish; swimming near sun bleaches sandbanks, basking in the hot African sun, relaxing and generally getting close to nature. Your poler will take you for nature/game walks on the larger islands and Chief's Island in partcular, where the experience of stalking game is second to none- your poler is an expert in this regard.
There will be no facilities at your bush campsite. We will provide you with all the camping and cooking equipment that you will need as well as food. It is completely up to you whether you wish to include your guide when planning and cooking your meals out in the bush. He will not expect it, but cooking together is one of the things which helps to create a good rapport and is nice to consider. Your last night is spent back at Oddballs before your light aircraft transfer to Maun.
Price includes:
Airfare, on light aircraft transfers Maun-Oddballs-Maun, accomodation at Oddballs Palm Island Lodge on first and last night including all meals and activities, two night mokoro trail including food (on a self prepare basis), your mokoro and poler, full camping equipment kit containing: 2 man tent, folding mattress, cutlery, crockery, pots and pans, braai grid and cooler box, park fees.
Price excludes:
Visa (if required), health requirements, travel insurance, all items of a personal nature, any service not specified, on the mokoro trail: sleeping bag, towel and pillow.
Please Note:
There is a strict maximum baggage limit of 10kgs per person on light aircraft soft bags only. From approximately December to May the water dries up considerably and for part of this period we may need to stop running Mokoro trips please check with us regarding updated seasonal information.
See our Itinerary to get a more detailed layout of the Mokoro Safari.
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