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Victoria Falls and Moremi
Victoria Falls and Moremi are as unlike as two stops get, and a week holds both. The Falls are the Zambezi dropping into its gorge, spray, noise and a town at the edge of it; Moremi is canvas beside a lagoon inside the Okavango Delta, where the loudest thing at night is a hippo. Between them is Chobe, the river, and that is how the two join: one road transfer over the border at Kazungula, two nights on the riverfront, then a flight south-west into the reserve.
This is the one pairing that crosses a border, and the one where part of the trip is on your own terms. The Falls nights come with breakfast only, and the day there, and its cost, are yours. Once over the border the Botswana rule applies: flights, meals, activities and park fees all sit in the rate.
Victoria Falls
Chobe
Moremi Game Reserve
The line marks the order of the stops, not the road or the flight between them.
Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls is the Zambezi going over the lip of its gorge on the border of Zimbabwe and Zambia, with the town beside it on the Zimbabwe side; on a clear day the spray shows from the road before the water does. The Kololo name is Mosi-oa-Tunya, the smoke that thunders. The route sleeps two nights in the town and gives the Falls a full day.
The Falls are the one stop on a Botswana safari that has nothing to do with game. On the Zimbabwe side a path runs the length of the gorge facing the main curtain of water, and the spray falls on it as rain; in the high-water months you come off the Main Falls viewpoint wet through. The remainder of the day is booked and paid for as you please: the gorge from a helicopter, the Zambezi by boat at sunset upriver of the drop, the rapids downriver when the river is low. The border is a single road transfer from the town.
- The main curtain from the path, raincoat on, the spray blowing back up the gorge
- The spray, on a clear day, from the road in, before you have seen any water
- The gorge from a helicopter, or the Zambezi at sunset upriver of the drop, paid for on the spot
- The rapids downriver when the river is low, for anyone who wants them
Chobe
Chobe is the river between the Falls and the reserve. The road from the border brings you to the riverfront in time for a first outing by boat, and the boat is how this river is met: elephant at the bank going on feeding as you come close, hippo grunting in the shallows, crocodile easing off the sand. Two nights here give the river at the end of the afternoon, when the herds walk down to drink, and one early drive inside the park. Its lodges, its riverfront and its seasons have a whole site to themselves.
Chobe, in fullWhere the Falls and the reserve share a ticket.
Safari packages that pair the Falls with the reserve, the border crossed on the way. Request one as it stands.