Eastern Delta Community

Drive-in mokoro trips using wooden dugout canoes. 

Chobe Travelling Agency has collaborated with a number of communities in and around the Delta to provide mekoro tours. The Bayei people came to the Okavango Delta hundreds of years ago, bringing with them their traditional mode of transport, the mokoro, the mokoro.  The mokoro is a dug-out canoe made from a large straight tree such as sausage tree or any ebony tree.

These mokoro trips are led and arranged by the Boro/Morutsha/Ditshipi village guide/polers. The guide/poler will be with you for the duration of your stay in the delta activities will be mokoro excursions and bush walks. You will bush camp on one of the islands in the delta. There are no facilities available there, (no flush toilets or shower). Early in the year the water levels in this area are very low until the new floods arrive in July/August. During this summer months you can expect to spend a very limited time on the mekoros, and due to the heat, activities will be limited to the early mornings or late afternoons.
Chobe Travelling Agency offers the drive-in mokoro trips as two options: Self Catering and catered: 

• For Self-catering you will need your own camping equipment and food.
• The catered option you just need to bring yourself. Chobe Travelling Agency will provide all equipments, water and food needed as well as an assistant, to prepare all your meals, do the washing up and help with the setting up of camp. 

Self-Catered Option
Departs daily from Maun
$250 Per person 1 day trip (includes lunch) [BOOK NOW]
$350 Per person 2 days/1 night trip [BOOK NOW] 
$420 Per person 3 days/2 nights trip [BOOK NOW]

Rates include return road transfer, entrance fees into the concession area, mokoro and guide/poler. Excludes drinks. These can be purchased from camp before departure.

Catered Option
Available on request
$650 Per person 3 days/2 nights trip [BOOK NOW]
$325 Per person 2 days/1 night trip [BOOK NOW]

Rates include return road transfer, entrance fees into the concession area, mokoro and guide/poler. Excludes drinks. These can be purchased from camp before departure.