Tailor-made journeyPrice on request7 days / 6 nights · per person*

Overview

There is a moment at Victoria Falls when you stop trying to photograph it. The spray climbs higher than the treetops, the ground trembles under your feet, and Mosi-oa-Tunya, The Smoke That Thunders, stops being a poetic local name and becomes a plain description of what stands in front of you.

Over seven days this journey carries you from that roar into the deepest quiet in Africa. You will drift down the Zambezi as the sun drops and the hippos begin to laugh, wake in Chobe where more elephants gather than anywhere else on earth, then fly low over the Okavango: a river that never reaches the sea, spilling instead across the Kalahari into sixteen thousand square kilometres of clear channels, palm islands and lagoons. There you are poled through the reeds in a mokoro, close enough to hear the water part. Three countries, three landscapes, one unbroken arc from thunder to silence.

Trip Highlights

Unlimited access to Victoria Falls, one of the seven natural wonders of the world
A guided tour of the Falls from the Zimbabwean side, with the geology, wildlife and history behind them
A sunset cruise on the Zambezi with sundowner drinks, snacks and hippos surfacing alongside the boat
Two full days in Chobe National Park, home to the largest concentration of elephants in Africa
Game drives in open 4×4 vehicles and unhurried cruises along the Chobe River
A light aircraft flight into the Okavango Delta, where the arrival is half the experience
Mokoro glides, guided walks on Chief’s Island and boat safaris from a solar-powered tented camp

Day 01 :

Day 1: Victoria Falls - Arrival & Sunset on the Zambezi

Your journey begins the moment you clear customs at Victoria Falls International Airport, where your Sevira representative is waiting to drive you into town. Check in at Waterfalls Lodge, a short walk from the town centre and minutes from the Falls themselves, and take an hour to shower off the flight. Then, as the light turns gold, you board a sunset cruise on the Zambezi. Sundowner drinks and light snacks are served on deck while the river carries you past hippo pods, basking crocodiles and flocks of birds coming in to roost, and Zimbabwe introduces itself gently before it overwhelms you tomorrow.

Day 02 :

Day 2: Victoria Falls - The Smoke That Thunders

After breakfast you meet your guide for the tour of Victoria Falls from the Zimbabwean side, where the greater part of the sheet of falling water is visible. It is one thing to see photographs; it is another to walk the rainforest path, soaked by spray that falls upward, while your guide fills in the geology that carved the gorge, the wildlife that lives in it and the history that ran along it. Park fees are included and your access is unlimited, so you can walk it twice if you want to. The afternoon is yours, for the market, the curio stalls or an unhurried nothing.

Day 03 :

Day 3: Into Botswana - Chobe National Park

After breakfast you are transferred by road across the border into Botswana and on to Kasane, a small town on the banks of the Chobe River that sits where four countries meet. There are no fences between the town and Chobe National Park, so elephant and hippo wander the edges of the village as a matter of routine. Check in at Chobe Safari Lodge, set on the riverbank and sharing a border with the park itself. From here the next two days are given over entirely to game activities, and all meals are served at the lodge.

Day 04 :

Day 4: Chobe - Elephants, River & Open 4x4

Chobe holds the largest concentration of elephants in Africa, and today you go looking for them properly. Morning game drives in open 4x4 vehicles take you through floodplains and mopane woodland, where buffalo, lion, sable and kudu are regular company. In the late afternoon you swap wheels for water on a cruise along the Chobe River, drifting close to the herds that come down to drink and cross at dusk. It is one of the few places on earth where you can watch the same animal from a vehicle in the morning and from a boat that evening.

Day 05 :

Day 5: Into the Okavango Delta - Moremi Crossing

This morning you transfer to Kasane Airport for a shared air charter flight into the Okavango Delta, and the flight is very much part of the experience: from a few hundred metres up, the channels and islands resolve into a pattern you simply cannot read from the ground. You land at Moremi Crossing, a sixteen-tent camp built on a palm-fringed island looking across at Chief's Island, run on solar with the lightest footprint the Delta allows. Your tent is en suite and raised on a deck, with a veranda facing the floodplain. All meals, park fees and activities are included from here on.

Day 06 :

Day 6: Moremi - Mokoro, Chief's Island & Delta Water

A full day in the Delta, shaped by the water rather than the clock. Glide out in a mokoro, the traditional dug-out canoe, poled through reed channels so quietly that you hear the frogs before you see anything else. Walk on Chief's Island with a guide, where tracking on foot changes your sense of scale entirely. Depending on water levels there may be game drives, and there is always fishing, birding and boat cruising for those who want them. Evenings belong to the fire, the stars and the sound of the Delta doing what it does after dark.

Day 07 :

Day 7: Farewell to the Delta

After a last breakfast overlooking the floodplain you say goodbye to the Okavango and transfer by shared air charter flight to Maun Airport, in time for your onward connection. You leave carrying the sound of falling water and the silence of the Delta in the same memory, which is precisely the point of putting them in one itinerary. Your Sevira consultant remains on hand should you wish to carry on elsewhere in Southern Africa.