Safari Honeymoon to Botswana & Tanzania

The Okavango Delta at sunset

What to expect on this itinerary

The safari highlights of a whole continent come alive with this unique luxury honeymoon. Explore Southern Africa's rugged game-filled wilderness and East Africa's renowned grass plains. Discover the world's most abundant havens for lions, elephants, hippos, and wildebeest. And soak up the solitude and serenity of a vacation that radiates romance; this is your shared safari adventure and it bursts with memorable moments and unique experiences.

Countries Visited

Botswana, Tanzania, Zambia

Places Visited

Okavango Delta, Chobe National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti National Park, Victoria Falls

Suggested Duration

11 Days

Customizable Itinerary

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Day 1

Okavango – Welcome to Botswana and Your Honeymoon Safari

Botswana has always rewarded the discerning visitor. It's not a country of mass group tours or a dozen safari trucks surrounding a lion pride. With an emphasis on unique experiences and personal encounters with nature, Botswana makes an idyllic first stop on this honeymoon vacation. After landing in Maun you're transferred to a light aircraft and flown into the wilderness, the blue channels of the Okavango shimmering beneath the wingtips. Relax on your private verandah and a gaggle of four-legged characters saunters past; impala, elephant, zebra, and more. The fenceless camp provides a unique immersion in rugged nature and a honeymoon suite that befits the occasion. A sublime raised bed offers views onto Okavango and the en-suite bathroom is nestled beneath a canopy of green. It's a five-star interior befitting its five-star surroundings.

What's Included:

Transfer
Accommodation
Dinner
Day 2

Okavango – First Big Five Impressions

Day 3

Okavango – Idyllic River and Walking Safaris

Day 4

Chobe – Epic Elephants Herds in Chobe National Park

Day 5

Chobe – More Big Five Action and a Sunset Dinner Cruise

Day 6

Livingstone – A Day of Beauty at Victoria Falls

Day 7

Ngorongoro Crater – Landing in Tanzania and a Luxury Lodge With a View

Day 8

Ngorongoro Crater – Exploring the Wonder of Ngorongoro Crater

Day 9

Serengeti – The Grasslands That Roll On Forever

Day 10

Serengeti – Abundant Big Cats and Hot Air Ballooning

Day 11

Kilimanjaro – Departure

Trip Highlights

  • Combine the diverse beauty of both Eastern and Southern Africa with 11 days of stunning safari in Botswana and Tanzania
  • Discover some of Africa's finest honeymoon suites, deluxe pieces of paradise that overlook landscapes of wildlife and color
  • Experience four vastly different parks and wildlife reserves, and then find the perfect interlude to safari adventure with a stop at Victoria Falls
  • Start with five days in Botswana, the twin wonders of Okavango Delta and Chobe National Park leaving lasting impressions of rugged wilderness, incalculable elephants and hippos, and big cat hunting scenes in the mystical forests
  • Spend five days exploring the world-famous landscapes of Tanzania, Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti bringing endless enchantment and an unrivaled abundance of big game.
  • Unique experiences provide moments to savor as you hot air balloon above the Serengeti, cruise the Okavango in a traditional canoe, and take a luxury sunset wildlife cruise past the elephants of Chobe.
  • This vacation has been handcrafted for honeymooning couples so expect privacy and solitude to accompany the drama and charm of safari

Detailed Description

There's no need to choose a single safari destination as this unique vacation combines the highlights of a whole continent. Botswana's wilderness dances with primitive beauty, a myriad of ecosystems bringing diverse journeys into new realms; weave through the forests of Chobe, cruise tranquil lagoons in the Okavango Delta, and walk together through Big Five landscapes. Tanzania's animal kingdoms are very different. It's here that you find the endless grass plains of the Serengeti, the baffling wonder of Ngorongoro, and the delights of the great wildebeest migration. One country provides intimacy, the other imbues scale, and this honeymoon vacation coats it all in lavish layers of romance. Over 11 days you experience four of Africa's most enchanting safari destinations, a majestic interlude provided by a quick stop at Victoria Falls.

Botswana and Tanzania know how to reward the honeymooning couple. Sublime suites provide endearing solitude and privacy, although you should expect a cast of wildlife to saunter past at all times of day. Private verandahs gaze down on world-renowned landscapes and interiors befit the regality required of a luxury honeymoon. All safari activities are private and the itinerary cascades personal moments. Think sunset cruises past hippos, moonlit dinners in the bush, hot air ballooning above the Serengeti, and pulsating natural soundtracks perforating into camp. For 10 days and nights you become part of these epic landscapes, sharing the space with the Big Five yet rarely seeing another person.

Botswana and Tanzania are chosen here because they encapsulate the complete safari experience. You'll explore almost a dozen disparate ecosystems and four world-renowned destinations, each leaving an alternative impression of delight and intrigue. Start in Botswana and the exuberant waterways of the Okavango Delta, nature's remarkable oasis in the desert. Tranquil, evocative, personal; the waterways and floodplains are all about intimate caresses with nature, from vast pods of hippos to a dozen antelope species splashing around the shallows. Fly above the waterways to the forests of Chobe National Park, home to bulldozing elephant herds and giraffe that grace every panorama. Both these Botswana destinations are graced by the big cats, the bounty of the landscape reflected by predatory abundance.

Take a quick break from the safari adventure and jump across the border to Zambia. Within an hour you're standing alongside Victoria Falls, the world's most powerful waterfall combining narratives of grace and power. From here you fly north and the landscapes change dramatically. It's no longer green and tropical. Yellow hues extend across vast plains, the vistas dotted with a patchwork of zebra and wildebeest. First stop at Ngorongoro Crater, where Maasai warriors and buffalo are visible from a lodge evoking old-world charm. Spend a day exploring the crater floor, the full Big Five visible in a single game drive, then drive into the Serengeti for two unforgettable days that seem to come straight from a wildlife documentary. Like always, luxuriously appointed accommodation provides the antidote to days of shared safari adventures. 

For more itinerary options, visit the additional Tanzania romantic safari options on Zicasso.  

Starting Price

$9,400 per person (excluding international flights)

Your Zicasso trip is fully customizable, and this sample itinerary is a starting place for your travel plans. Actual costs are dynamic, and your selection of accommodations and activities, your season of travel, and other such variables will bring this budget guideline up or down. Throughout your planning experience with your Zicasso specialist, your itinerary is designed around your budget. You can book your trip when you are satisfied with every detail. Planning your trip with a Zicasso travel specialist is a free service.

What's Included

  • Accommodations
  • In-country transportation
  • Some or all activities and tours
  • Expert trip planning
  • 24x7 support during your trip

Your final trip cost will vary based on your selected accommodations, activities, meals, and other trip elements that you opt to include.

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Our first trip to southern Africa was amazing, exceeding all expectations. We saw everything we came to see, and more. The game rides were well structured and safe, the visuals were unbelievable, and taking a side trip to Victoria Falls was a great idea. The accommodations were quite luxurious, despite being considered mid-range. There was always someone there to greet us and guide us at every travel point.

Zicasso's tour operator tailored our itinerary to our wishes and was wonderful to work with. Things couldn’t have gone better.

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We can't speak highly enough about using Zicasso's travel specialist and her company. They put together a complicated package covering three completely separate areas and were able to connect us with local guides in each place. The guides they worked with were all fabulous, as were the locations we stayed at.

At one point, the airline that was handling our trip out changed the flight due to local conditions. I learned of this first through our specialist, who was immediately on the situation and kept us apprised of the change. The company provided us with an online portal that covered every part of our trip. It was constantly updated and we always knew who the next contact was in the new area.

Throughout the process, we had constant questions and changes. Our travel company was very pleasant and accommodating of our concerns. Their work was in the middle of a larger trip. Even though they were not handling the stops before and after their portion, they were more than happy to help out with those portions and added that information to our itinerary at no cost.

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