Maun, and the flight into Moremi

The scale changes at Maun.

You arrive at Maun on a regional flight and leave it in a single-engine aircraft an hour or two later, and the airport is built for exactly that handover. Someone from the light-aircraft operator meets you in the arrivals hall, walks you through the check-in for the onward flight, and tells you how long you have and where the coffee is. The departures for arriving guests fall in the early afternoon, so how long you wait depends on when you landed. Then a strip, half an hour or so away, with your camp's vehicle beside it.

It is not the only way in. A journey that begins at Chobe or the Falls flies out of Kasane instead, straight to the same strips. And the strip is never your decision: it follows the camp, and every camp we sell is listed against its strip.

Maun (MUB): between two aircraft.

Maun is a small international airport at the edge of a small town, and for the whole delta it is the place everything moves through. The regional flights come in through the morning and early afternoon; the light aircraft leave from the same building. You are met in the arrivals hall by the operator's representative, who takes you through the check-in and stays within reach until you board. There can be a wait, and it depends on when you landed; it is spent at the airport, where there is coffee to be had.

A night in Maun before or after the reserve is the exception; the connection is made so that it isn't needed. When a night suits, after a late arrival, before an early departure, or as a pause between two safaris, there are several more than decent places in and around the town, and we book it with the rest. One thing to know if you are already in the area: the light-aircraft times are confirmed the day before, in camp or wherever you are staying, so tell us where that is and the operator reaches you there.

Kasane (BBK): in from the north.

A journey that starts at Chobe or at Victoria Falls does not go back through Maun. The light aircraft leave Kasane for the same Moremi strips, about an hour in the air to Xakanaxa, with the same arrangements on the ground, and a combined itinerary usually flies in through one airport and out through the other. The seats are booked with the stay either way; the airport, the town and the river belong to Chobe's half of the trip.

Your camp chooses the strip; here is where each one lands you.

Find your camp, and the strip, the area and the flying time read off the row. The times are flying times from Maun as the camps state them, rounded; a hop that puts down at another strip on the way runs longer, and a strip that is a drive from its camp says so. The coordinate given is the strip's, not the camp's.

Flying times are the camps' own figures for the direct hop, rounded; the day's routing is the operator's, and it is confirmed the day before.

Four light-aircraft operators fly these strips out of Maun, Safari Air, Mack Air, Moremi Air and Wilderness Air, and which of them carries you follows your camp; we book the seats with the stay.

The road in is a different trip.

Moremi can be driven, in a properly equipped 4x4, through South Gate from Maun or through North Gate at Khwai on the way down from Chobe and Savuti. It is a journey in its own right rather than a way of reaching the camps we sell, and its realities, the sand, the crossings and the campsites, are told once, gate by gate.

The flight is the easy part.

Tell us which corner of the reserve and roughly when; the seats on the light aircraft are booked with the stay, the airport meets you, and the camp meets the strip.