ENDEAVOUR SAFARIS

The podcast episode: "From Accessible Travel to Inclusive Travel Today" featuring your interviews is now live and can be accessed here.

The conversation touched on the points:

1. The Educational Sphere around Accessible Travel: the training needed amongst the tourism operators in order to deliver great travel experiences for travellers with limited mobility or disabilities.
2. The Supply Chain and all the parts involved in delivering the perfect travel experience: from the travel enquiry to the accommodation, the transport and all the logistics.
3. The Hotel experience and how can hotel rooms & suites be more accessible and inclusive without compromising the look and feel of the space.
4. Normalise Accessible Travel and the conversations we have both with the clients and the suppliers: how do we shift from accessible to inclusive.
5. The Business Volume: is it big enough to prompt more investments and much needed changes?
6. The role of Governments and the public authorities in tourism and travel in Accessible Travel, where do the private operators feel supported and where, instead, lack of support negatively impacts the outcome of the travel experience.

https://kite.link/episode68

Walking Safaris in Botswana can be achieved by almost anyone willing orenthusiastic to try. We are fortunate to live in one of the most pristine and famouswetlands on earth, prolific with Wildlife. The flatness of the Okavango Delta alsomeans that walking can be easily achieved by many, providing the walk embarkedupon is pre-discussed and decided according to the abilities of the guests.

There are many options of walks available and can be tailormade to better suit thewalkers. The days of thinking that walking can only be assosciated with tough andrough conditions are long gone. We can do walking as a part of an itinerary,whereby it just compliments all the other activities on offer at the Lodges ortented camps, or the other possibility is to actually walk between some of theplaces that you stay at, so instead of flying or boating or driving, you walk.

Having the luxury of sleeping at some of our finest lodge type accommodation and combining it with the excitement and adventure of a walking safaris is definitely an amazing experience.
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Last night we had a big celebration at Endeavour Safaris offices. After 20 years in Tourism in Botswana we felt that a fun party would have been the best way to say 'THANK YOU' to:
- our amazing staff
- Flavour Baron, Okavango Cooking School, Okavango Gin, YM online
- our partners in Tourism who have worked with us for the past 20 years!!!!!!!

watch out for videos and photos to come from the mid-week party!!!

Flavour Baron
Okavango Cooking School
Okavango Gin
YM online

05 May - second longest day, they walked from Macatoo to Nxabega
06 May - easy 10 km loop north of Nxabega Lodge
07 May - great spectacular walk from Nxabega Lodge to Kanana Camp. They are 500 mt out of camp 💪
Andbeyond Nxabega Okavango Tented Camp Kanana - Ker & Downey Macatoo Helicopter Horizons

Update on Okavango Walking Challenge - Across the Western Delta from lodge to lodge!

02 May: from Xigera to Abu - 20 km done in over 7 hours LONG TOUGH DAY
03 May: from Abu to Seba - too short, they have added an extra 7 km loop north of Seba
04 May: from Seba to Macatoo - today is another long day but they left at 8 and they seem to have covered already half way.

Mike Hill ENDEAVOUR SAFARIS has started a new Walking Okavango Challenge - Across the Western Delta from lodge to lodge!
01 May: walking around Xigera
02 May: from Xigera to Abu
03 May: from Abu to Seba
04 May: from Seba to Macatoo
05 May: from Macatoo to Nxabega
07 May: from Nxabega to Kanana
08 May: from Kanana to Pom Pom
09 May: from Pom Pom to Xaranna

Yesterday they did a orientation walk around Xigera of 15 km:
“I’m just back from first warm up walk, did 15 Km, saw lots of Buffalo, elephant, hippo, and one male lion while we stopped for some water, then just out of camp got a female leopard on the hunt as well, so was a good first day, tomorrow between 20-25 Km”

At the moment they seem 5/6 km out of Abu!!

Will post maps and satellite images tomorrow!!!

Xigera Camp
Wilderness Safaris
Helicopter Horizons

Some photos of the Trans-Okavango by kayak done by Mike and his client. Thank to everybody who helped us to make it possible and finishing it in 'one piece' 🤣😅

thank you Hennie Rawlinson for the photos!!!

Mike and team passed Xigera lagoon do***ng lots of hippos and arrived or I should say got stuck in the Xore Flat. Today they will dig their way out of the flattest part of the Delta and enter the Southern part.
In the meantime the flood has beaten them through the Buffalo Fence, yehhhhhhhhhhhhhh. 4 more days to go.....hopefully the volume of water will increase and they will be able to paddle through it.




Mike Hill Walter Smith Grant Reed David Steyn

Today they are slowly but surely reaching the Jao Concession! Yesterday they found a blockage in the main channel and changed direction but today it seems smooth 🦛🐊🐘Mike Hill

They arrived at Setari Camp. The wide open channels are done now they have to go through the small narrow channels….it might be a bit trickier if they meet hippos 🦛 🐊Setari Camp

on this amazing map you can see the route they have planned. They are almost at night 3 campsite. The flood is not in Maun yet but it's on its way.......let's see who gets here first the kayakers or the flood???

The start of a new expedition: this time they cross north to south the Okavango Delta by kayak starting from Nxamaseri Island Lodge Mike Hill Walter Smith Andrew James Flatt map to follow

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Mobile Camping Safaris in Botswana offer the best possible experience - adventurous, authentic and wild!!!! the real African Safaris.



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