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- Gaborone
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Botswana Slideshow
Top Hotels in Okavango
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Gaborone Sun Hotel
55 reviews -
Peermont Metcourt at The Grand Palm Gaborone
23 reviews -
Cresta Marang And Residency Francistown
7 reviews
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Cresta Lodge Gaborone
5 reviews
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Mowana Safari Lodge Kasane
51 reviews
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Cresta President Hotel Gaborone
14 reviews
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Cresta Thapama Hotel Francistown
1 review
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Cresta Mowana Safari Lodge Kasane
51 reviews
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Riley's Hotel Maun
9 reviews
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Chiefs Camp - All Inclusive Maun
48 reviews -
Peermont Mondior, Gaborone
18 reviews -
Magkadigkadi Camp Maun
1 review
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Inisfree Apartments Gaborone
5 reviews
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Chobe Safari Lodge Kasane
175 reviews
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Diggers Inn Francistown
5 reviews
Okavango
Travel Blogs from Okavango, Botswana
The muppets from Overland Club
This is a top pick! ... ! Unfortunately they only had 3 full chickens left and I ended up with 'The Complete Burger'. We were also running short on Botswana Pula so with about as much decorum as a bunch of baboons we also dragged all our own beers into the restaurant hidden in a ...
Encounters with elephants and the Okavango Ghost!
This is a top pick! ... whether the words coming out of my words were actually singing. They sung some traditional songs, before one of them very cleverly attached burning embers to himself and came in to camp as the legendary 'Okavango Ghost'. It really was quite a ...
Down in the Delta Blues
This is a top pick! ... souvenir is my new book mark: a one Zim dollar note worth about 0.005 of a penny then but probably 0.003 at time of writing). Botswana is how an Africa country can work. For the first time on the trip we were not hassled at the border and we didn't ...
Down on the Bayou...African Style
This is a top pick! ... that was shaped and painted to look like a traditional handmade dugout log canoe. Turns out that the government of Botswana was getting concerned that too many ancient trees were being felled to build boats to transport tourists around the delta, so they ...
Mokoro madness
This is a top pick! ... out of sausage trees. Nowadays to stop tree felling many of them are made of fiberglass. For some reason my preconceptions of the Okavango Delta had been somewhere that would be a lot more wooded with open areas of water in the middle of the trees. It ...
Okavango Delta
This is a top pick! ... was great. From Kasane we drove south to Maun, Maun is a small town and is basically there as the gateway to the Okavango Delta. Matt decided to treat us and instead of camping in the grounds of the hotel we upgraded and stayed in a beautiful hotel, ...
Chilling in the Delta
This is a top pick! Into Botswana, for a complete change of scenery... After weeks of nothing but sand and very parched landscapes, the Okavango Delta is quite a shock to the system - suddenly the landscape is lush green, with lots of plants and trees! We spent 3 days ...
The Okavango Delta
... payload in a 16,000 square kilometer maze of lagoons, channels and islands known as the Delta. In the desert environment of Botswana, this influx of water draws animals from the land and sky in great numbers. Rain is so rare and valued here ...
Mokoros and lily bombs
... an impala, and a dead elephant with a hyena and vultures eating it. -The past couple of days we have been in the Okavango Delta camping. We were staying on an island covered in elephant footprints. :) We had to travel 2 hours in a little mokoro ...
Our First True Tented Camp
... told that 3 old bull cape buffaloes had slept beside our tent. We saw lots of hoof prints to support that! The Okavango delta was a wonderful game area. Here we spotted cheetah, leopards, elephants, mating lions (we managed to drive up ...
Between harmony and serenity
Passer la nuit au milieu du delta est un expérience unique. Les animaux sont tout autour. Respect est le maître mot ici. Sauf pour les hyènes et les lions peut-être. Mais du plus gros au plus petit, tout est harmonie. Les hippopotames qui se ...
Landie leads the way, our first night in the wild!
... this we would have never made it as newbies. We drove to a destination point called 3rd Bridge which was deeper into the Okavango Delta. We started seeing more and more water, flooded roads and new paths which had been formed. Along this ...
Mokoros...what are those?
From Chobe National Park we moved into another wetland area, the Okavango Delta. Only local people who have lived off the land for generations, inhabit the delta. We were met by a group of Polers who took us in their mokoros (traditional dugout ...
Oct 09, 2011
Shambles In the Okavango Delta
Ali v Foreman in Zaire may have been called the “Rumble in the Jungle” but our Okavango experience could be called the “Shambles in the Delta”. It certainly wasn't the most organised part of the trip. Up in the morning and onto the ...
Delta Dawn
... is formed by the Okavango River which floods down from the Angolan highlands once a year and fans out into northwestern Botswana in a meandering complex network of channels, deep still pools (where crocodiles and hippos lurk), secret waterways (where ...
Xugana Lodge: Part 1 - Going Up River
... system in the world. Fed by the wet season runoff from the highlands of Angola, the delta spreads out in northwestern Botswana into a maze of channels, islands, and lagoons - all disappearing into the sands of the Kalahari, its southern-most point around ...
"We All Live In A Wooden Submarine" - Botswana
Hi all - sorry its been a bit again. Been through Botswana and am now in Swapukmond, Namibia... so this post will be for both. In Botswana, we departed from Maun and headed on a 2 hours drive through the bush to the pickup point for the delta. At this ...
Camping under the stars - all 5 of them
... nature. 'How's the serenity?' springs to mind. We were camping (and i humour myself when I say 'camping') in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. The delta is described as the jewel of the Kalahari - it's a tranquil and isolated oasis set ...
Safari Continued
... since our last e-mail and all were unique in their own setting. We started up north in Chobe and made our way down to Okavango Delta. The animals in Chobe were amazing as there was a lot of water there which brought in many varieties of animals. In one ...
Music and Drama in the Delta
... . Africa pours herself out through the music of her people. Rundu was also the jumping-off point for our 3-day tour into the Okavango Delta in Botswana. It was a relief to get to an ecosystem with water, and lots of it. The Delta was at its highest ...
The dustiest ever delta
... cake. Oh well all included in the price anyway. The poler led us all slowly and almost noiseless through some channels of the okavango to the wild campsite, an obvious hippo-playground with plenty of dung everywhere (nice and soft to lie on) The last ...
Part 2: An Africa that Works
... . We all headed off to the dinner table to listen to our nervous host announce the menu for the evening. Another fine meal. Botswana sits on a mantle of sand three to four hundred feet deep. Underneath all that sand the earth is alive with seismic ...
Entre harmonie et sérénité
Passer la nuit au milieu du delta est un expérience unique. Les animaux sont tout autour. Respect est le maître mot ici. Sauf pour les hyènes et les lions peut-être. Mais du plus gros au plus petit, tout est harmonie. Les hippopotames qui se ...
Wild Camping in the Delta...Part 1
... have imagined that we would experience more land animal life than aquatic while in the midst of the Okavango Delta! Out guide was a Botswana fella named Timan, whose English has been entirely learned on the Delta resulting in animals being called ...
Okavango Delta
After Chobe we went to the famous Okavango Delta, which is the largest inland Delta in the world. Here we went on a canoe safari through the delta. We were taken to the edge of the delta, where several canoe polers (local people with a canoe) were ...
Delta Cruise
Raining again, very strange weather for this time of the year normally very hot and little water. The delta is still full thus the animals are not concentrated around the water holes.. Camp packed we head off having a great time wandering the various ...