Fleet Foot Safaris

27/12/2024

Cape Town

Cape Town has been called the Mother City for centuries – a favorite destination of South Africans and tourists alike. Whether you’re looking for the excitement of street life, dramatic scenic beauty or thrilling activities, a holiday in Cape Town has it all. With our help, you can travel Cape Town and the Western Cape on a self-drive holiday with confidence.

Take the cable car up Table Mountain, Cape Town’s famous backdrop, or catch a ferry to the historic Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. Explore the steep cobblestone streets and colourful houses of the Bo-Kaap and visit the Bo-Kaap Museum showcasing the heritage of this area that once became the home of the Cape’s Islamic community and freed slaves.

The V&A Waterfront is the most popular spot for shopping, pubs and restaurants set on the edge of a natural working harbour. Join the Hop-on, Hop-off bus on a city tour to visit the Castle of Good Hope and Greenmarket Square. Enjoy a picnic lunch at the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens or sip on award-winning wines at Groot Constantia, the country’s oldest wine producing estate.

26/12/2024

Some of the great activities and excursions to be done in Zambia include:

White Water Rafting – 23 Wild Zambezi rapids below the Victoria Falls. The Zambezi White Water Rafting is regarded as the most exciting rafting in Africa and possibly the world!
Flights over Vic Falls – Take a Microlight, helicopter of fixed wing plane for the most spectacular views over the Falls and the deep Batoka Gorge.
River boarding – Surf the Zambezi rapids on marvelous standing waves.
Bungy Jumping off the Victoria Falls bridge and feel the spray of water on your face while jumping into a gorge.
Abseiling & Gorge Swinging up the gorges of Victoria Falls and Zambezi River – fantastic fun and completely safe for the whole family.
Kayaking: An experienced kayaker will take you through the raging rapids of the Zambezi.
Canoeing
Game viewing safaris along the Zambezi River.
House boating excursions on Lake Kariba.
Walking Safaris with an experienced guide in the surrounding Game Reserves.
Livingstone Island Tour including Devil’s Pool (Dry months only) and High Tea.
Fly fishing & Tiger fishing – some of the best fresh water fishing is available in Zambia and on the Zambezi River.
Horse Back Trails along the Zambezi River or in the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park.
Quad-biking – Explore the amazing geographical formations of this area on a quad bike.
Golf – Set in a veritable botanical garden with over 118 tree species, an 18-hole course provide a unique African golfing experience.
Birding Safaris – Zambia has 740 bird species and offers superb safaris to see them.
Photographic Safaris- Excellent photo opportunities with small groups.
Safari Game Drives: Guided game viewing in open safari vehicles.

25/12/2024

Zambia

The great British explorer and professional hunter, Frederick Courtenay Selous, wrote about his travels up the Zambezi, “As I travel north on the western floodplain of this great vein of water, I feel sure this must be the lifeblood of southern Africa and its most powerful water mass.”

Zambia has slowly awakened as a tourist attraction centre in the immediate area of the Victoria Falls nearby Livingstone. The country is well-known for its impressive waterfalls, vast floodplains, mighty rivers and protected wilderness areas attracting a great variety of African wildlife.

The Zambezi is the main river – a source of living for thousands of Zambians and a magnet for adventure seekers. White-water rafting, river boarding, jet boating and kayaking are but some of the adventure activities offered on the Zambezi while game viewing safaris are a great way to observe the wildlife residing around the river.

24/12/2024

Kgalagadi

The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park straddles the border between South Africa and Botswana and comprises two adjoining national parks. Approximately three-quarters of the park lie in Botswana and one-quarter in South Africa.

The terrain consists of red sand dunes, sparse vegetation, occasional trees, and the dry riverbeds of the Nossob and Auto rivers. The rivers are said to flow only about once per century! However, water flows underground and provides life for grass and camelthorn trees growing in the river beds. The rivers may flow briefly after large thunderstorms, a cause for celebration among the wildlife, who will flock to the river beds and slake their eternal thirst.

The Park has abundant, varied wildlife. It is home to large predators such as black-maned Kalahari Lions, Cheetah, Leopard and Hyena. Migratory herds of large herbivores such as Blue Wildebeest, Springbok, Eland, and Red Hartebeest also live and move seasonally within the park, providing sustenance for the predators. More than 200 species of bird can be found in the park. Raptors and vultures are abundant. The weather in the Kalahari can reach extremes. January is midsummer in southern Africa and the daytime temperatures are often in excess of 40 °C (104 °F). Winter nights can be quite cold with temperatures below freezing.

23/12/2024

Kalahari

Derived from the Tswana word Kgala, meaning “the great thirst”, the Kalahari has vast areas covered by red sand without any permanent surface water. Drainage is by dry valleys, seasonally inundated pans, and large salt pans such as the Makgadikgadi Pan and Namibia’s Etosha Pan. The only permanent river, the Okavango, flows into a delta in the northwest, forming marshes that are rich in wildlife. Ancient dry riverbeds – called omuramba – traverse the Central Northern reaches of the Kalahari and provide standing pools of water during the rainy season. This is a major attraction to all sorts of wild animals from Elephant to Giraffe, and for predators such as Lion, Leopard and Cheetah.

The Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) is an extensive national park in the Kalahari Desert. The land is mostly flat and gently undulating with bush and grasses covering the sand dunes. Many of the river valleys are fossilized with salt pans. Four fossilized rivers meander through the reserve including Deception Valley which began to form around 16,000 years ago. During the rainy season, this is regarded as one of the best game viewing areas in Africa.

The Bushmen, or San, have inhabited this land for thousands of years and are the last Bushmen to largely depend on hunting in Africa. Since the mid-1990s the Botswana government has tried to force them out of their ancestral homelands in the Kalahari Desert in the name of conservation. Being traditional hunter-gathers, the Bushmen won a historic legal battle in 2006 when Botswana’s high court ruled they had been illegally removed and should be allowed to return. On a guided tour, travellers can learn about the Bushmen’s culture and rock paintings and learn the secrets of survival in the Kalahari Desert.

20/12/2024

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20/12/2024

Makgadikgadi Pans

The Makgadikgadi Salt Pans in the Kalahari basin are the world’s largest salt pan landscape and consist of many pans, the largest of which are Sua, Nwetwe and Nxai Pans. A visit here is all about the landscape and a sense of space than about the wildlife. The pans themselves are salty desert with little plant life, fringes of the pan are salt marshes and further out these are circled by grassland and then shrubby savanna.

Baobabs are the most iconic trees in this area, having survived due to their ability to efficiently retain water. These beautiful trees are scattered around various parts of the pans and also appear on the well-known Kubu Island, an isolated ‘’rock island’’ in the salt flat of Sua pan featuring prehistoric artifacts and stone ruins.

Very little wildlife can exist here during the harsh dry season of strong hot winds and only salt water, but after rains the pan becomes an important habitat for migrating animals including wildebeest, zebra and large predators that prey on them.

The wet season also brings migratory birds such as ducks, geese and White Pelicans. The pan is home to the only breeding population of Greater Flamingos in southern Africa.

19/12/2024

Savuti & Linyanti Game Reserves

Bordering Chobe National Park to the east and the Delta to the west, Savuti is famous for its predators especially its resident lions and spotted hyena populations. The Savuti Marsh area is covered with extensive savannahs and rolling grasslands, which makes wildlife particularly dynamic in this section of the park.

North of Savuti is Linyanti, a stunning unspoiled area of palm tree islands, waterways and lagoons, and riverine forests. The bird life is astounding and game viewing is excellent in both the wet and dry season. Large concentrations of Lion, Leopard, Wild Dog, Roan and Sable Antelopes, Hippopotamus and enormous herds of Elephant all live here. With the Okavango Delta part of the reserve, visitors can go on a game drive in the morning and in the afternoon enjoy a boat ride on the channels to watch birds such as eagles, herons and egrets soar overhead.

18/12/2024

Chobe National Park

The remarkable Chobe National Park in northwest Botswana is the country’s oldest National Park and best known for its huge concentration of elephants. Not only does it support the largest surviving elephant population in the world, but is also home to a very large diversity of wildlife that varies greatly from area to area. This makes game viewing extraordinarily exciting.
Guided game drives on open 4×4 vehicles in Chobe National Park deliver great sightings and one may spot rare species such as African Wild Dog and Brown Hyena as well as Zebra, Elephant, Wildebeest, Lion and Leopard. The bird life in particular is phenomenal. A Chobe River Boat cruise is a great way to get close to Hippopotamus and Crocodile and observe animals drink from the riverbank like herds of Buffalo, Impala and Elephant.

17/12/2024

Khwai Concession

Located on the north-eastern edge of the Okavango Delta, the vast Khwai Concession belongs to the local villagers. Previously a hunting concession, the area is now actively managed by the local community as a conservation area offering fantastic eco-tourism activities. The Khwai River, floodplains, sweeping grasslands and Mopani forests attract a high concentration wildlife such as migrating herds of Elephant, the rare Roan and Sable Antelope and stable populations of predators like Lion, Spotted Hyena, Leopard and African Wild Dogs.

16/12/2024

Moremi Game Reserve

The Moremi Game Reserve covers much of the eastern side of the Okavango Delta and combines permanent water with drier areas – making for some startling, and unexpected contrasts. Prominent geographical features of the reserve are Chiefs Island and the Moremi Tongue (a peninsula with a triangular shape in the eastern part of Moremi). Only about 30% of the reserve is mainland, with the bulk being within the Okavango Delta itself. In this surprisingly diverse reserve consisting of mopane woodland, acacia forests, floodplains and lagoons, one can experience excellent game viewing and bird-watching by 4×4 as well as on the lagoons by boat. Some of the wildlife that roam these areas include Buffalo, Lion, Leopard, Hyena and Giraffe. Exploring the 4×4 tracks in Moremi Game Reserve is great fun, though it is only recommended for experienced 4×4 drivers or the very adventurous!

16/12/2024

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16/12/2024

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13/12/2024

The Okavango Delta

One of the world’s largest inland deltas, the source of the Okavango Delta flood lies in the extremely wet highlands of Angola. This seasonal flooding happens once a year and it takes months for the flow of water the reach the Okavango where it fans out into north-western Botswana in a maze of papyrus-lined channels, secret waterways, natural lagoons and deep pools where hippos and crocodiles hide.

One of the most exciting activities in the Delta is a traditional mokoro (dug-out canoe) ride where a skilled poler will stand at the rear of the boat guiding you through the maze of channels and lagoons. Bird-watching from these boats is a highlight; your guide will be on full alert for any hippos or crocodiles in the way. One can also enjoy a microlight flight over the Delta or river rafting in the Okavango River.

12/12/2024

Kaokoland

Kaokoland is an unspoiled wilderness area with amazing mountain sceneries like the Otjihipa Mountains and the Hartmann Mountains. This is where the Marienfluss boundary is formed. The Marienfluss Valley is beautiful with breathtaking views of green valleys. Different types of animals live here such as rare desert dwelling elephants, black rhinos and giraffes. Kaokoland is also home to the Himba people. A river runs through this very dry landscape with beautiful waterfalls along it. The Ruacana Falls are 120 m high and 700 m wide. Also along the Kunene River, you find the Epupa falls. Epupa is a Herero word for the foam that is created by all the water that is falling on the water.

11/12/2024

Sossusvlei

The sand dunes of Sossusvlei in the Namib Desert are often referred to as the highest dunes in the world. Sossusvlei is surely one of the most spectacular sights in Namibia. Located in the Namib Naukluft park, the largest conservation area in Africa, and fourth largest in the world – the sand dunes at Sossusvlei are just one excellent reason to visit Namibia.

The best time to view Sossusvlei is close to sunrise and sunset; the colours are strong and constantly changing, allowing for wonderful photographic opportunities. The midday heat is intense and best spent in the shade while sunset also offers excellent photo opportunities.

‘Vlei’ is the Afrikaans word for a shallow depression filled with water (well, a depression that might sometimes be filled with water!), and the name ‘Sossusvlei’ should strictly only be applied to the pan that lies at the place where the dunes close in, preventing the waters of the Tsauchab River from flowing any further – that is, on the rare occasions that the river does flow as far as this. During exceptional rainy seasons, Sossusvlei may fill with water, causing Namibians to flock there to witness the grand sight, but normally it is bone dry. This particular ‘vlei’ is actually a more-or-less circular, hard-surfaced depression that is almost entirely surrounded by sharp-edged dunes, beyond which lies a formidable sea of rolling sand, stretching in unbroken immensity all the way to the coast. However, the name ‘Sossusvlei’ nowadays applies to the whole area – an area that encompasses the great plain of the Tsauchab River together with the red dunes that march along like giant sentinels to south and north of the plain.

10/12/2024

Palmwag and Damaraland

Palmwag is technically not a town or village. It is actually a concession area. It was put on the maps of Namibia as it has an oasis surrounded by large makalani palm trees, which made a useful stop for travellers. Many travellers with an interest in conservation, ecology and wild places prefer the Palmwag Concession to Etosha, as it is a true wilderness area. In addition to the extremely wild and rugged landscape, Palmwag also offers opportunities to see the desert-dwelling black rhino, and the desert adapted elephants. Due to the extremely wild terrain and environmental sensitivity, inexperienced travellers should be discouraged from entering the area unescorted. Experienced travellers should use a 4×4 vehicle.

Visitors can trek the length of the sandy river, passing local Herero farmers and the pink granite ‘inselbergs’ (islands of rock left behind after volcanic activity) dotted throughout the region. These bizarre stones have been shaped over the years into vaguely recognisable shapes, some look like toadstools, while others are eerie hollow structures known as the ‘Petrified Ghosts’. Quite a few plants grow there; much of the visible vegetation is the exotic wild to***co, Nicotiana glauca. Also found there indigenously are some stunted acacia trees, nara bushes, Acanthosicyos horridus, with their (almost leafless) spiky green stems, and improbably large melons.

09/12/2024

Fish River Canyon

The Fish River Canyon is located in the south of Namibia. It is the second largest canyon in the world and the largest in Africa, as well as the second most visited tourist attraction in Namibia. It features a gigantic ravine, in total about 160 km long, up to 27 km wide and in places almost 550 meters deep.

The Fish River is the longest interior river in Namibia. It cuts deep into the plateau which is today dry, stony and sparsely covered with hardy drought-resistant plants. The river flows intermittently, usually flooding in late summer; the rest of the year it becomes a chain of long narrow pools. At the lower end of the Fish River Canyon, the hot springs resort of Ai-Ais is situated.