Seven nights: one in Maun on arrival, then six inside Moremi across two camps. The same team throughout: James hosts the photography, while either Joe or Rocky leads the fieldwork as your licensed Botswana guide. Joe has guided in the Delta since 1992; Rocky qualified after working every part of camp life from the ground up.
Staying in one region gives you an intimacy with the landscape that brief stops cannot offer. You start to recognise individual animals, know which channel holds what, and read ground you were driving past blind on day one.
Joe, Rocky and James
The team in the vehicle matters.
Every departure is hosted by James and led in the field by either Joe or Rocky: father and son, licensed Botswana professional guides who know this water as home. Joe has guided in the Delta since 1992. Rocky qualified after working every part of camp life from the ground up.
Both are Bayei, of the Wayeyi, so their knowledge of the Delta is rooted in family as much as training. James travels with every group as the photographic host, not the guide. With four guests at most, the guide and the photographer can make decisions around the behaviour in front of you and the people in the vehicle.
The week
Day 1 · Saturday · Maun
Met on arrival in Maun, the town on the edge of the Delta where every trip into it begins, and taken to your guesthouse. A slow introduction to Botswana, time to settle in, and dinner at the Okavango Craft Brewery with a relaxed talk through the week ahead. Overnight in Maun.
Day 2 · Sunday · Into the Delta
Your safari begins on the ground, tracing the route north as civilisation quietly drops away. Watch the landscape transform as tar yields to sand tracks, offering a real sense of scale and local life along the edge of the Delta. We can pause en route at Elephant Havens before crossing the boundary into Moremi, where the rest of the week is spent. From the fence onward, the safari is live: track wildlife straight into camp, arriving just in time to toast your first evening under canvas.
Camp One · Three nights
Three nights in classic Delta country: winding channels, open floodplains, and the predators that work them. Time enough to learn a piece of ground rather than pass through it.
Camp Two · Three nights
Midweek we move. The second site is deliberately a different environment from the first: deeper water, or mopane and riverine forest, or open plain. Three more nights, new ground to learn, and a different set of animals working it.
Day 8 · Saturday · Back to Maun
One last morning drive through the Delta to wrap up the week, then the journey back to Maun in time for onward flights.
The rhythm
Most days settle into something like this. It is a shape, not a schedule: because the camp is ours and nobody is waiting on us, we can break it whenever the day is worth breaking.
5.30 · Wake, coffee, rusks.
A quiet start in the dark, coffee and rusks by the fire before the cold lifts.
6.00 · Morning drive.
Out as the sun comes up, when the bush is busiest: early photographic opportunities, scenic spots with a low sun, and predators to look for if there are fresh tracks overnight.
8.00 to 10.00 · Coffee in the field.
Somewhere good, we stop. Coffee, something small to eat, a stretch and a chance to take the scene in.
10.00 · Breakfast back at camp.
A proper breakfast, and the drive winds down.
Or not back at all.
If the morning is building into something, we take lunch with us and stay out: leave at half six, back at five, the whole day in the bush. And if it has been a long hot one, we come in early and everyone sleeps. Both are normal, and it is your call either way.
10.00 to 14.00 · The middle of the day is yours.
The hottest hours, when the bush goes quiet and so do you. Rest in the shade, watch the camp from your porch, take the camera for a wander, edit the morning’s photos, or do nothing at all. Lunch somewhere in there. This is the pause that keeps a safari from wearing you out, and it’s rarely as still as it sounds, because the camp is unfenced and the bush comes to you.
14.00 to 15.00 · Afternoon drive.
Out again as the heat eases, exact time depending on the day. The afternoon is for animals heading to water, elephant herds on the move, and following up on anything the morning turned up: a pride resting in the shade, a leopard someone clocked earlier. Sundowners somewhere with a view before the light goes.
19.00 onwards · Dinner and the fire.
Dinner, then the fire: drinks, the day talked over, photos and an informal image review if you’re in the mood. Bed when you feel like it.
The Okavango is a river that never finds the sea. Rain that fell in the Angolan highlands months earlier arrives just as the land dries out, and spills into the sand: a flood in the middle of the dry season. Wildlife gathers on the water exactly as the country around it dries and thins.
Winter here is the dry season, and it is when this place is at its best. The flood arrives from Angola exactly as the land dries out, so the water is rising while everything around it thins, and the game draws onto it.
The mornings are cold, near freezing at dawn and warm by mid morning, the skies are clear and the dust has not built. Bring layers for the first drive; you will shed them by brunch.
Dry season · Flood in · Clear skies · Cold dawns · Concentrating game
Moremi sits inside the Okavango Delta and it is where the whole of your week in the bush is spent. It was declared by the Batawana people themselves in 1963, one of the first protected areas in Africa set aside by the community who lived alongside the wildlife. It still holds the best of the Delta: permanent channels and lagoons on one side, mopane and riverine forest on the other, floodplain in between. That much variety inside a short radius is why six nights here never repeats a morning, and it is some of the finest wild dog country left in Africa.
Included
One night in Maun on arrival
Six nights full board across two camps in Moremi
All meals, water and soft drinks
The bar (beer, wine, spirits) throughout
All park, camping and conservation fees
All game drives in a private vehicle (max four guests)
Two mokoro excursions
Daily photographic coaching
Evening image reviews and an optional Lightroom session
Road transfers to and from Maun
Two gimbal heads and bean bags on every seat
Not included
International flights to and from Maun
Travel and medical insurance (mandatory)
Visas where required
The Day 1 dinner in Maun (paid directly)
The optional Elephant Havens visit ($100pp)
Gratuities
Personal items
Peace of mind
Okavango Skimmer Safaris is a UK company and this trip is a package under the UK Package Travel Regulations 2018. Your deposit and balance are financially protected against insolvency, set out in plain English before you pay anything.
The price
Per person
Full board, the bar, all park fees, all game drives, two mokoro excursions, a walk-in canvas tent with proper bed and fresh linen, private ensuite bathroom, solar lighting and charging, a night in Maun on arrival, and road transfers to and from Maun. No ‘from’ prices, no hidden extras.
Travelling alone? Your own tent, no supplement. Two solo places on each departure.
We do not take card payments online. A 25% deposit confirms your place, with the balance due 90 days before departure, both by bank transfer.
Departures
5 to 12 June 2027
Four places available
17 to 24 July 2027
Four places available
Maximum four guests · Booking open for 2027