What health precautions should be taken?

We recommend you to inform yourself about necessary vaccinations and health precautions before the trip.

What documents are needed for the trip?

A passport valid for at least six months beyond the return date is required. For entry into certain countries, visas may be required.

What accommodations will be used during the trip?

Depending on the chosen option, participants will either stay in comfortable lodges or in tents.

How is the catering organized?

During the camping phases, meals are prepared and eaten together, with the team taking care of the preparation. With the lodge option, meals are often included in the price and served in the respective facilities.

Victoria Falls Tour to Cape Town via Fish River Canyon

Zimbabwe

The victoria falls tour starts in Zimbabwe, where the Zambezi drops into one of the widest curtains of falling water on earth.

Day 1

Victoria Falls – Arrival

Your victoria falls tour begins in the town of Victoria Falls, where the Zambezi River drops 108 meters into the gorge below. After meeting your group and guide, the afternoon is free to walk the rainforest paths along the falls and feel the spray. Optional activities include a sunset boat cruise on the Zambezi, a gorge swing, or a helicopter flight over the falls. Accommodation: lodge or guesthouse in Victoria Falls town.

Botswana

Botswana brings the chobe national park safari boat cruise, the Nata salt pans, and two nights in the Okavango Delta on this botswana safari tour leg.

Days 2–6

Victoria Falls – Chobe National Park

After breakfast, the group crosses into Botswana and reaches Chobe National Park in the afternoon. The chobe national park safari boat cruise on the Chobe River runs in the late afternoon, putting you alongside elephants, hippos, and crocodiles at close range. Chobe holds the highest elephant density in Africa, and the river cruise is the best way to see them. Included: afternoon boat cruise, breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Kasane to Nata – Salt Pans

The group leaves the Chobe River and drives south through the Kalahari scrub toward Nata. This is classic botswana safari tour landscape: flat, semi-arid, and vast. In the afternoon a guided drive into the Nata salt pans reveals seasonal breeding colonies of flamingos and pelicans. During the rains the pans flood into a shallow lake; in the dry season they bleach white under the sun. Included: salt pan excursion, breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Nata – Khwai Conservation Area

Personal gear for two nights is transferred into smaller 4x4 safari vehicles for the journey into the Okavango Delta. The group arrives in Maun and continues to the Khwai Conservation Area on the eastern edge of the delta. This okavango delta tour begins in the afternoon with a mokoro excursion — traditional dugout canoes poled silently through reed channels by local guides. Included: mokoro excursion, breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Moremi Game Reserve – Full Day

A full-day game drive in Moremi Game Reserve covers wetlands, open water, grassland, and savanna woodland in one circuit. This is a core part of any botswana okavango safari — habitats shift within a few kilometers, and the wildlife variety reflects that range. Expect buffalo, wild dog, leopard, and a broad range of birds. Dinner back at Khwai camp closes the day. Included: full-day Moremi game drive, breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Khwai – Maun

An early departure takes the group from Khwai back to Maun in the 4x4 vehicles, where the main overland truck waits. Maun sits at the southern edge of the delta and serves as the supply and logistics hub for most africa overland tours passing through Botswana. The afternoon is free to rest before the long drive into Namibia begins tomorrow. Included: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Namibia

The namibia overland tour leg runs from the Kavango River through Etosha, down the Skeleton Coast to Swakopmund, across the Namib to Sossusvlei, and ends at fish river canyon namibia before the Orange River border.

Days 7–18

Maun – Divundu, Kavango River

The truck crosses into Namibia and heads northwest toward Divundu on the Kavango River. This is the start of the namibia overland tour proper, moving through the Caprivi Strip — a narrow corridor of riverine forest between Angola and Botswana. An evening boat cruise on the Kavango River rounds out the day with birdlife and river views. Included: evening boat cruise, breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Divundu – Etosha National Park

After breakfast the truck enters Etosha National Park through the eastern gate, beginning the namibia etosha safari. Etosha covers 18,000 km² of salt pan, savanna, and dry woodland and is home to all of the African Big Five. The afternoon game drive through the park en route to the first camp gives an early taste of what the next two days will deliver. Included: afternoon game drive, breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Etosha National Park

A morning game drive around the salt pan edges covers the ground where lions and cheetah hunt in the open. The etosha national park safari mid-morning puts the group at productive waterholes where elephants, rhinos, zebra, and giraffe come to drink in predictable succession. The afternoon is free at camp, with the veranda overlooking a floodlit waterhole for evening sightings. Included: morning game drive, breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Etosha – Full Day in the Park

The third consecutive day of the namibia etosha safari opens with a full circuit of the western pan. No two days in Etosha produce the same sightings — the pan shifts the wildlife distribution daily based on water levels and predator movement. This is the best day to watch the waterhole cycle from dawn through midday heat and back to dusk. Included: full-day safari in Etosha National Park, breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Questions about the tour itinerary?

Our tour guide is happy to answer any questions about the day-by-day route, stops, and details.

Etosha – Khorixas, Twyfelfontein

The group exits Etosha and drives toward Khorixas, stopping at the Petrified Forest — prehistoric tree trunks frozen in alluvial sand for 280 million years. The route continues to Twyfelfontein, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with over 2,500 San rock engravings dating back 6,000 years. A local guide explains the shamanistic significance of the site. This stretch is a highlight of any namibia safari tour. Included: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Khorixas – Cape Cross – Swakopmund

The drive to Swakopmund passes Cape Cross, home to a colony of more than 200,000 Cape fur seals — one of the largest seal colonies in the world and a key stop on the namibia lodge safari coastal circuit. The route also crosses lichen fields along the Skeleton Coast, where the guide explains how these organisms survive in one of the driest places on earth. Arrival in Swakopmund in the late afternoon. Included: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Swakopmund – Free Day

Swakopmund is Namibia's most visited coastal town and the adventure capital of the country. Sand-boarding on the dunes, quad biking, skydiving, and kayaking with dolphins are among the optional activities on offer. The town itself carries strong German colonial architecture and excellent bakeries. This free day in Swakopmund is a standard rest point on every cape town to victoria falls tour run in reverse, and the infrastructure reflects that. Included: breakfast.

Swakopmund – Sesriem

The truck leaves the Atlantic coast and drives east into the Namib Desert, crossing the Tropic of Capricorn en route to Sesriem. In the afternoon a local desert guide leads a walk through the dune ecosystem, covering the animals and plants that survive here. An early night at the desert camp prepares the group for a pre-dawn start at Dune 45 tomorrow. Included: desert excursion, breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Sossusvlei – Namib-Naukluft Park

Pre-dawn transfer into Namib-Naukluft National Park reaches Dune 45 at sunrise — the classic viewpoint of the Sossusvlei dune field with shifting light across the red sand. A 4x4 transfer pushes further to Sossusvlei and Deadvlei, where ancient camel thorn trees stand preserved in the cracked white clay pan. This is the photographic centrepiece of the southern africa safari itinerary. Included: Sossusvlei and Deadvlei transfer, breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Sesriem – Keetmanshoop

A long drive east takes the truck from the dune fields to Keetmanshoop, the main town in southern Namibia. Today is primarily a transit day, covering ground to position the group for the fish river canyon namibia and the Quiver Tree Forest tomorrow. The landscape shifts from red sand to grey rock and sparse Karoo scrub as altitude drops into the south. Included: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Quiver Tree Forest – Fish River Canyon

The morning opens with the Quiver Tree Forest and Giants Playground near Keetmanshoop — dolerite boulders stacked in natural formations beside aloe dichotoma trees that can live 300 years. The afternoon drive reaches Ais-Ais and the thermal springs before the main event: a rim walk along fish river canyon Namibia, the second-largest canyon on earth at 160 km long and 550 meters deep. Sunset at the canyon rim closes the Namibia stage. Included: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Fish River Canyon – Orange River

The truck drives to the Orange River, Namibia's southern border, for the final Namibian night on the river bank. The victoria falls to cape town tour route uses the Orange River as both a natural landmark and a practical rest point before the border crossing. An optional canoe trip on the river this afternoon lets the group move through the canyon scenery at water level. Included: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

South Africa

The final two days cross into South Africa via Namaqualand, pass through the Cederberg Mountains, and finish at Cape Town.

Days 19–20

Orange River – Cederberg Mountains

The border crossing into South Africa moves the group through the desert landscapes of Namaqualand — famous for its spring wildflowers from July to September but striking in its arid clarity at any time of year. The route ends in the Cederberg Mountains, where the evening brings a traditional meal and the closest thing to a wrap party this africa overland tours itinerary allows. Rooibos grows wild on the slopes here; the smell of the bush changes from the dry north. Included: dinner, breakfast.

Cederberg – Cape Town – Tour End

The final drive from the Cederberg descends through wine country and rounds Table Bay to reveal Table Mountain from the north shore. This is the endpoint of the victoria falls tour to Cape Town — a 20-day arc through Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa that covers Chobe, the Okavango, Etosha, Sossusvlei, and fish river canyon Namibia in a single continuous journey. The tour ends on arrival in central Cape Town. Included: breakfast.