Sample Itinerary: 2 Nights Ichobezi Safariboat

The Ichobezi River Lodges pride ourselves on our ability to tailor make each client experience. Access to your own private guide and tender boat ensures that you are able to participate in those activities that interest you, and in your own time.

However we do know that some clients would like a better understanding of what staying at either or our properties entails and for their benefit we have put together some sample itineraries for those staying at either Ichingo Chobe River Lodge; the Ichobezi Safariboats; or a combination of the two.

This is a sample itinerary for 2 nights on the Ichobezi Safariboat.

Day One

Arrive at Kasane immigration office on the banks of the Chobe River in Botswana at 13h30. The staff from the Ichobezi Safariboat will meet you there and assist you in exiting out of Botswana and then take you by tender boat across the Chobe River to Impalila Island (about ten minutes) where you will enter into Namibia. Both of these border controls merely entails filling out a form and getting a stamp in your passport.
Once you have entered into Namiba it is a short boat ride to the Ichobezi Safariboat.

On arrival the Safariboat manager will greet you with a welcome drink and show you to your cabin. Once you have settled in a light lunch will be served in the dining area. During lunch the Safariboat will begin to cruise along the Chobe River giving you the opportunity to enjoy this beautiful part of Africa from the comfort of the boat. A few hours later the Safariboat will dock for the evening and your guide will pack an ice box with your favourite drinks and take you by smaller tender boat to meander along the banks of the Chobe National Park and appreciate the spectacular beauty of the Chobe sunset.

A 3-course plated dinner is served at 20h00 and this will give you the opportunity to meet your hosts and to leave the table with a greater understanding of the area, the history, the local people and the importance of this very unique part of Africa.

Day Two

The day is entirely yours and you are free to spend it as you like. You can laze around the sun deck just watching the constant coming and goings of the wildlife and birds around you. You can take a tender boat with a guide and go looking for up close and personal sightings of the game and get extraordinary photo opportunities. Or you can go off fishing to try and catch (and then release) the elusive Tiger fish.

Generally breakfast is served at 08h30 and lunch at 13h00 but we are very flexible so if you would like to re-arrange these times to suit you better you would just need to let us know at dinner the night before (i.e. if you want to get up really early and then come back for brunch at 10h30 or 11h00 this would be perfectly fine with us).

Dinner is served at 20h00.

Day Three

Transfer by tender boat from the Ichobezi Safariboat at 09h00 to the customs office on Impalila Island to exit out of Namibia. From there you will again cross the Chobe River to enter into Botswana at the Kasane immigration. Your transfer company will meet you at 10h00 for your transfer onto your next destination.