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What a Moremi safari costs
The park fee, the Khwai levies, the camp, the light aircraft and a short tail of extras: each part on its own, with a figure only where we can stand behind one.
Where the money goes.
A Moremi trip is priced almost entirely per person, per night, and most of it is inside one figure. The camp rate carries the bed, all meals, house drinks, the daily activities and, at nearly every camp we sell, the park fee, the airstrip transfer and your laundry. On top of it sit the light-aircraft legs from Maun and a tail of small things: premium drinks, a private vehicle, tips, insurance. That is the whole anatomy, and each part is taken in turn.
What you will not find is a headline number for the whole trip. Nobody can state one without knowing your dates, your camps and your party. So what we publish is the parts, each dated, and the real number is a quote built from them.
Fees are set by the authorities and change without notice; every figure here carries its date.
Three lands, three fees.
Which side of the Khwai River you sleep on decides who is paid. Inside the reserve, Botswana's Department of Wildlife and National Parks sets the entry fee, per person and per calendar day. North of the river, the Khwai community concession charges its own levy per person per night, and behind it the Khwai Private Reserve charges its own. Three authorities, three units, and no fence between them.
For our guests the split never reaches the wallet. All three fees are settled inside the booking total we send you, usually as part of the accommodation line, so nothing is paid at a gate or at a camp. The tables that follow exist so you can see what you are paying and who receives it, not so you can budget cash for it.
The parks department prices reserve entry at two rates: one for private visitors, a lower one for guests of a licensed Botswana tour operator. Every camp we sell holds that licence, so the lower one is the figure inside the camp rate.
Reserve entry is charged per person for each calendar day spent inside the reserve, so a stay is priced by its days, not its nights. Camps on the Khwai side charge their levy per night instead.
A new fee schedule was gazetted to take effect on 1 April 2026 and was postponed by the ministry the day before, with no new date announced. The figures that follow are the ones in force, and their review date sits close for that reason.
The schedules, as verified.
Here is each schedule we hold. The source and the date are part of each table; read them the way you read the figures. When a schedule lapses, we take its figures down. You may one day see an authority named here with no figures against it, and that is the system working.
Department of Wildlife and National Parks — Reserve entry, non-resident — Moremi Game Reserve
Per person, per day · non-resident · Botswana pula
| Who | Per person, per day |
|---|---|
| Private visitorSelf-drive and independent travellers | P 270 |
| Guest of a licensed Botswana operatorWhat our camps' rates carry | P 190 |
The Khwai concessions — Concession fees, per person per night
Per person, per night · US dollars
| Concession | Per person, per night | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| Khwai Community Concession | US$ 85 | 22 September 2026 |
| Khwai Private Reserve | US$ 60 | 22 September 2026 |
What a trip is made of.
Seven parts, and each behaves differently. Some are set by an authority, some follow your camp, and some stay open until the trip has a shape. Here is each part, how it is priced, and the thing about it worth knowing, with a figure only where we can stand behind one.
The park fee
Set by Botswana's parks department and moved on its own schedule; the current one, dated, stands with the schedules. Inside the reserve it is the only fee the land charges.
Worth knowingIt is already inside the rate at every reserve camp we sell. If a quote from elsewhere shows it as a separate line, check it is not being counted twice.
The Khwai levies
On the community concession, the levy is the village's income from the wildlife on its land; on the private reserve, the fee keeps two hundred thousand hectares under a handful of camps and their vehicles.
Worth knowingThe camp pages list the community levy under what the rate excludes. That is the camps' own accounting; in the total we send you it is already in.
Where you stay
The largest part of almost every trip, and the one that moves most. Rates live with the camps themselves and follow the season: green through the rains, shoulder either side, peak from the flood months into October, with the festive fortnight priced on its own.
Worth knowingA Moremi rate is doing far more work than a hotel price. It is the bed, three meals, house wines and beers, two activities a day, the airstrip transfer and, at most camps, the park fee and your laundry.
From-prices live on the camp pages, kept current by the booking system, never copied here.
Flights we book
Nearly everyone reaches camp by light aircraft from Maun, about half an hour over the water. The airstrips at Khwai and Xakanaxa carry the same rate per leg, and the figure includes Maun's departure tax and the airstrip landing fee. We book the legs; they sit outside the camp rate.
Worth knowingThe thing to watch here is luggage, not price: soft bags only, and a weight limit the aircraft enforces. The packing page has the numbers.
Your flights to Maun
Your flights to Botswana are the one part of the trip we do not book. You fly yourself to Maun, connecting through Johannesburg or Cape Town, and the itinerary picks you up from there; the routes are priced by the carriers and move the way airfares move.
Your own booking — the quote picks up from Maun.
The extras
Premium-brand drinks, a private vehicle and guide, a helicopter flip where a camp offers one. Priced by the camp, booked as part of the itinerary, never included by default.
Priced by the camp — confirmed at quote.
The residue
Tips, travel insurance with medical evacuation cover, visas where your passport needs one, and the odd curio. Real, but small against the rest, and mostly in your control.
What the money buys.
Botswana chose, decades ago, to sell few beds at a high price rather than many at a low one. The park fee is the reserve's income under that choice, and the camps' small size is its consequence: a sighting in Moremi is usually yours, or shared with one other vehicle. The community levy is something rarer. It goes to the people of Khwai village, whose land the concession is, and it is the reason that land stays under wildlife rather than cattle. The private reserve's fee buys the same thing by a different route: a vast tract with a handful of camps on it.
The camp rate carries a whole remote operation: guides, vehicles, boats, a kitchen supplied by air, staff who live where you sleep. That is why the expensive-sounding night is really an all-inclusive day, and why the difference between a simple camp and a famous one is felt in the tent and the table more than in the game.
The season moves all of it. The rains price gentlest, and April and November sit in the shoulder everywhere; the flood months are peak, though many camps only turn full winter pricing on from June, which is why May keeps being chosen by people who have been before. The month-by-month read is on best time to visit.
Getting the real number.
The real total is a quote, and that is not a dodge. A real figure needs your dates, your camps, your flights and your party, priced together against the schedules that apply to them. Tell us roughly what you have in mind, and the number comes back with its parts showing.
Costs & fees, answered.
The questions we're asked most about what a Moremi trip costs, answered without a number we can't stand behind.
How much does a Moremi safari cost?
There is no single number. The total is built from your camps, the light-aircraft legs, the fees the land charges and a small tail of extras, and every one of those moves with your dates and your party. The anatomy shows where the money goes; the real number is a quote, priced for your trip.
Are the park fees included?
At every reserve camp we sell, yes: the park fee is inside the nightly rate, and in the total we send you it is already settled. The current schedule, with its source and date, stands with the schedules.
What is the Khwai levy?
A per-night fee set by each of the two Khwai concessions outside the reserve boundary, the community's and the private reserve's. Camp pages list it among the rate's exclusions because the camps account for it separately; in our booking total it is already in.
What does a camp rate include?
At nearly every camp we sell: the bed, all meals, house wines, beers and soft drinks, two activities a day, the airstrip transfer, laundry and the park fee. Premium-brand drinks, a private vehicle, the light-aircraft legs, tips and insurance sit outside it. Each camp page states its own line.
The parts priced — plan around them.
The number for your trip.
The all-in figure exists, for your dates, your camps and your party. Tell us roughly what you have in mind and we'll price it with the parts showing.