Luxe Okavango Safari - 5 dagen

The tents have been great - 5 points for that minus 1 because there was not the promised water heater there). Food was also very nice - but only 3-4 points because you could not get more, have no choice and always at fixed times. Drinks sometimes run out. Mokori trip an the camp and the flight also okay (5 points) but for real safari you are one the road for 45-60 Minutes (longer Mokori trip with bush walk) or 3 hours (so six with return) for the game drive to Moremi. That makes absolutely no sense - 1 point. WiFi very slow and only in the meeting tent und all in all we had to pay in cash, because (widi was working) the card machine had no connection. So: There are better places in town and for safaris you really have to think about if it is not better to take a camp on the national park.

The camp is very good, clean and comfortable, good food and great staff. The problem is the program - it’s actually 2 days of excursions and 4 nights at the camp. First day, after arrival there is a 2 hours boat trip on a river - very good and interesting. Second day, after late breakfast two hours drive to take the boat once more (extremely uncomfortable) to go to the island , arriving at the hottest hours of the day and walking, supposedly to look for animals, which everybody knows that at these hours are hidden. After two hours walk on the sun and seeing nothing, another boat trip back and drive. Third day is a Moremi trip. Great, but it’s a 4 hours drive, you are arriving once more , when most animal are hiding because of the heat. Than is a few hours drive to see nothing and when the animals are starting to go out and can be seen again in the evening , you have to leave, because it’s another 4 hours drive back . You’ve spend 8 hours to go there and back and 5 on site, seeing nothing during the game drive . The only animals you can see is when you enter -last hours in the morning and first in the evening when you leave. And hours of game drive in hottest hours in the sun are kind of misunderstanding. You are driving back, instead of spend the night in park with the evening and next morning game drive just to spend the next fourth day, doing absolutely nothing, except the 45 minutes scenic flight, that is really nice experience. The fifth day just doesn’t exist, as that’s the day to drive you back to the town or the airport, that can be done the day before.