Detailed Itinerary

Day One: Upington to Kgalagadi
Leave Northern Cape and Upington behind in the morning. Travel to Kgalagadi Trans Frontier. This is the largest camp in the area.

In the afternoon, you will game drive and witness one of the largest conservation areas in the world. It's remarkably well preserved. Encounter Park's common game such as gemsbok, springbok, eland, giraffe, blue wildebeest and red hartebeest roam the sparsely vegetated red sand dunes and the dry river valleys of the Nossob and Auob where a variety of acacia species thrive. The Park is also well known for sightings of lions, leopards, cheetahs and spotted brown hyena. Because of an abundance of prey in the form of mice, whistling rats, birds and insects, smaller predators thrive in the park. The park is home to caracal, honey badgers, black-backed jackals, bat-eared foxes, cape foxes, African wildcats, mongoose and the ever-popular suricate (meerkat). After your game drive you will have the option to take a 3 hr sunset drive or 2 hr night drive and a 3 hr morning walk (if available).

Accommodation: Twee Rivieren. Meals: BD

Day Two: Kgalagadi Trans Frontier Park
Depending upon rainfall and game migration, travel to different places all around the park to see spectacular game and landscape. The park is a paradise for bird watchers. You will find more than 300 species recorded including at least 20 larger raptor species. The world's heaviest flying bird, the Kori bustard and the stately secretary bird patrol the riverbeds while the noisy northern black korhaan rule in the dunes. After your game drive you will have the option to take a 3 hr sunset drive or 2 hr night drive and a 3 hr morning walk (if available).

Accommodation: Camp in Park. Meals: BD

Day Three: Kgalagadi - Upington
Your last game drive until is noontime. After the drive, leave for Upington. While returning back, you will stop to see the Khomani, the last indigenous San tribe in South Africa. These earliest residents of the Kalahari has lived here for 40 000 years, consist of only 400 people. They live in an area between 40 and 70 km south of Twee Rivieren. You will also have the opportunity to view and purchase their handcraft at one of the roadside stalls.

Accommodation: None. Meals: B

This itinerary is a sampled one and subject to change depending upon the field conditions.