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be opportunities to fish along the banks, as well as a off the day with a traditional braai (barbecue) served DAY 15 • Fly to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
sundowner cruise in the afternoon. around the campfire. • Controversial Topic: The Plight of Sex
B,L,D — Lufupa Tented Camp , Musanza Tented Camp or similar B,L,D — Baobab Safari Lodge or similar Workers and the Spread of HIV and AIDS •
Home-Hosted Dinner
DAY 9 • Fly to Livingstone • Transfer to DAY 12 • Fly to the Okavango Delta • Game- After breakfast, we depart our camp and board a
Chobe National Park • Game-viewing drive viewing drives flight to Kasane, where we will then transfer by road
This morning, we fly by light aircraft to Livingstone, Today, we depart for the Okavango Delta, where we’ll to Victoria Falls. You’ll take part in a very sensitive
and travel by road and boat to Chobe National Park, spend the next three nights in our wilderness tented Controversial Topic: The lives and struggles of local
enjoying a light packed lunch on our way. After camp. We enjoy a game-viewing drive en route to our sex workers here, including the threat of HIV and
arriving at our lodge, we’ll get a briefing on the area camp, and, upon arrival, a briefing about the lodge AIDS with Matilda Ramotswe, a sex worker who,
and share an afternoon tea. This evening, take a and surrounding area. You are free to relax before like many of her peers, is HIV positive. Later, we’ll
game-viewing drive before dinner. another game-viewing drive. enjoy a Home-Hosted Dinner with a local family in
B,L,D — Baobab Safari Lodge or similar B,L,D — Santawani Camp or similar Chinotimba village.
B,L,D — Shearwater’s Explorers Village or similar
DAY 10 • Explore Chobe National Park DAY 13 • Explore Okavango Delta
Today, we’ll explore Chobe National Park during both Today, we’ll explore the Okavango Delta by mokoro DAY 16 • Explore Victoria Falls •
morning and afternoon game-viewing drives. Chobe’s (if conditions permit) in smaller groups, followed Optional Tours
abundant wildlife may be due to the park’s variety of by a game drive. After lunch in camp, we enjoy an You may enjoy some personal time today, or join an
habitats and ecosystems, ranging from floodplains afternoon game-viewing drive in the neighboring optional tour: Elephant Encounters or a Helicopter
to verdant grasslands. This afternoon, we’ll get one- savannah. Ride. Later, we’ll enjoy our Farewell Dinner while
on-one time with some of the local women of Mabele Please note: On Days 13 and 14, Mokoro excursions are cruising along the Zambezi River.
Village, who will come to our lodge to show us the dependent on safety and water levels, which fluctuate B,L,D — Shearwater’s Explorers Village or similar
intricate craft of basket-weaving. constantly in the Delta, regardless of the season. When
B,L,D — Baobab Safari Lodge or similar you arrive in the Delta, your Trip Experience Leader will DAY 1 • Return to U.S.
monitor conditions and advise you of whether it’s possible After breakfast, we’ll gather for a talk on the life of
DAY 11 • Explore Chobe National Park • to explore by boat. David Livingstone before we drive to the airport,
Controversial Topic: Death and poaching or continue on to your post-trip extension to New!
with a veteran game ranger B,L,D — Santawani Camp or similar Uganda Discoveries or Cape Town & the Cape of
During a full day of game-viewing in the park, we’ll DAY 14 • Explore Okavango Delta • Good Hope.
likely spot elephants, zebra, Cape buffalo, hippo, and Game-viewing drives
crocodile. In the afternoon we’ll join a veteran game Today, we continue to search for wildlife in the B
ranger for a conversation about a Controversial Topic: Okavango Delta region. We’ll again split into smaller
Whether Botswana should reinstate its controversial groups and explore the area by mokoro (if conditions
“shoot to kill” anti-poaching policy. We’ll explore all permit), followed by a game-viewing drive. After
sides of the issue during our conversation, then we cap lunch, we enjoy an afternoon game-viewing drive in
the neighboring savannah.
B,L,D — Santawani Camp or similar

Unique Accommodations

Baobab Safari Lodge
Chobe National Park
In Botswana’s Chobe National Park, we spend
three nights at the intimate Baobab Safari Lodge,
a 30-minute drive from Kasane. Its location just
outside the park gives us more time to spend on
game-viewing drives. Recently renovated, the
open-air lodge overlooks the Chobe River. In the
evening, the dining room and bar are perfect spots
to view the sun setting over the river. We’ll stay in
nine comfortable bungalows, each with two beds
and a private bathroom.
Discover Victoria Falls—one of the world’s Seven Natural Wonders—on Days 15 and 16.

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