Getting to Moremi by Road
Driving to Moremi Game Reserve restricts visitors to the dry land area east of
the reserve - the South Gate, North Gate, Khwai sections. By road, Moremi can be accessed via two main entrance gates - North Gate near
Khwai River which is accessible from Chobe National Park, and South Gate just
90kms from Maun and 30kms from the North Gate. The road from Maun is tarred for
60kms, and then it is gravel road into the reserve. The roads inside Moremi gate
reserve change with each season, being waterlogged during the rainy season and
dry and sandy in the hot summer months. Driving from Maun to the South Gate of Moremi takes less than 2 hours. The
other access point into Moremi is via the North Gate of the reserve en-route
from Chobe National Park. Self-drivers do
require a 4 x 4 vehicle into the Okavango Delta. To get to the rest of the delta,
however, you
will need to fly in.
Flying Into the Delta
Moremi Game Reserve and the Okavango Delta are most easily reached by light
aircraft or helicopter transfer from Maun
town and other airstrips/airports. Maun is the nearest hub to the delta and has
an airport. There are regional fights into Maun from Johannesburg and Cape Town
(South Africa), as well as local ones from
Gaborone and Kasane, near Chobe.
Charter flights are another option, and inter-camp air transfers are
available when booking packages with sister camps in
Botswana. Flights from
Maun Airport into the delta take no more than 30 to 45 minutes. Almost all
of the private safari camps have a nearby airstrip and charter companies
have service to all of them. The transfers from the airstrips to the camps
vary with location and season, and can be a combination of boat and game
drive transfers.
