Wagon Trails | Kruger to Vic Falls Extended itinerary

Kruger to Vic Falls extended itinerary

Day 1 Johannesburg

Sawubona! Welcome to South Africa.

You can arrive at any time on day 1 as there are no activities planned until the important welcome meeting tonight at 6pm. Your leader will leave a note at reception telling you where this important meeting will take place. Please ask a member of reception for this information. At this meeting your leader will collect your kitty payment, sight your travel insurance and complete some other administrative tasks as well as give you more information on your upcoming itinerary.

After the group meeting there is the option of joining the group for dinner.

Meal plan- no meals included

Our accommodation for these nights is at our safe private camp in Johannesburg. You will sleep in large tents with beds. There are ablution blocks with hot showers and flush toilets, a relaxing pool area, bar and restuarant to enjoy with your fellow travellers.

Why not arrive early and head out to see the sights of Jo'burg, such as the chilling Apartheid Museum, landscapes-filled Art Gallery or fun-filled Gold Reef City, an amusement park or head out on a fantastic tour of Soweto. We can help you book this on arrival.

Days 2-3 Kruger National Park

After breakfast we continue to southern Africa's most famous premier game reserve, the Kruger, where we spend the next two nights. Enroute we visit the spectacular viewpoint for the Blyde River Canyon. We enter Kruger through one of the central gates and immediately begin game driving enroute to our campsite. Total drive time from Johannesburg to Kruger National Park including lunch and visiting Blyde River Canyon is approximately 9 hours (600kms).

Meal plan B,L,D

This morning before breakfast there is the option of a dawn walk with a qualified, armed ranger. This is a great chance to see game up close and from a totally unique angle.

We have a full day in Kruger National Park on day 3 to explore the diversity of the Kruger landscape ranging from rolling hills with granite outcrops to savannah grasslands during a full day game drive. We will enjoy our lunch in the Park on this day.

In the evening, there is the option of taking an additional night drive with park authorities to spot nocturnal animals and perhaps even night-time predators.

Meal plan B,L,D

We camp for these nights with hot water showers and flush toilets in clean shared ablution blocks.

Day 4 Polokwane Game Reserve

After one final game drive in Kruger, we exit the Park and make our way to Polokwane Game Reserve. The travel distance today is about 280km, approximately 3.5 hours on a scenic mountain road.

Once in Polokwane town there will be around an hour free for you to head to the bank, or explore town.
We set up camp at a campsite with good facilities within the Polokwane Reserve.

This afternoon, after taking lunch at the campsite, we head out on a game drive aiming to spot white rhino and with a bit of luck, rare antelope such as sable and eland.

Meal plan B,L,D

Day 5 Nata

Today we have a long driving day as we travel 260km, crossing the Limpopo River to the Botswana border which will take us around 3.5 hours. After making the crossing we head to Nata approx. another 5 hours, 460 kms making todays total travel time around 9-20 hours including lunch and a border crossing.

Tonight's campsite has a swimming pool as well as a fully stocked bar and the chance to see bush babies ('little night monkeys') up close!

Meal plan B,D

Day 6 Chobe National Park

We begin the day with an early morning excursion to the Makigadikgadi Salt Pans (about two hours driving time for the excursion). This magnificent expanse has to be seen to be believed- if there is water in the pans (seasonal) it is also a great chance to see flamingos.

We cover approximately 300km on the journey between Nata and Kasane our base for exploring Chobe National Park (approx., 4 hours). There may be the chance for some great wildlife viewing on our drive. We head to our campsite at the edge of town and after setting up camp and having a late lunch.

In the late afternoon, we enjoy a fish-eagle cruise on the Chobe River, a very relaxing way to see hippos in the shallows and maybe even a herd of elephants coming down to the river's edge for bath time.

Meal plan B,L,D

Tonight we camp. There are hot showers and flush toilets at our campsite as well as a bar to enjoy a couple of cold drinks and perhaps a relaxing swim in the pool.

Day 7 Victoria Falls/Livingstone

There is a chance for an optional dawn game drive before we depart Chobe.
We then drive the 10kms from our campsite to the Zambezi River which forms the border between four countries Botswana,Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia. We cross the river on a car ferry and after completing border formalities it's not far to Livingstone (a total distance of 90kms, around 1 hour driving time today excluding border formalities and any delays with the car ferry).

We begin our time in Livingstone with a visit to the famous Victoria Falls- an unforgettable experience. The falls are an enormous curtain of water, about a mile wide, falling 108m into a narrow chasm below. In the wet season, the spray created can rise up an incredible 400m and the falls are an impressive raging torrent. In the dry season, the view of the falls is unobstructed by spray and it's possible to see little islets in the river below.

Our tour finishes in the early afternoon on day 7. We recommend extra nights in Livingstone to fully appreciate the Victoria Falls area. There are various activities and excursions to choose from both on the water, on land and high above it all. Choose from white water rafting and canoeing, or go horse-riding, abseiling or gorge swinging. You could also take a ride in a micro-light, helicopter or small plane for a bird's eye view of the falls. The spray from the falls can sometimes be seen from kilometres away. It's no wonder the locals name it Mosi oa Tunya, means the "smoke that thunders".

There is no accommodation provided for tonight but we are able to organise extra nights- please ask at time of booking.

Meal plan B