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Okavango Delta Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Okavango Delta, Botswana
Floating through a flooded oasis
This is a top pick! ... dinner which we enjoyed, before having marshmallows and some impromptu singing around the campfire – an entertaining evening. I enjoyed the Okavango Delta, but I had hoped to see a little more than we did. The delta is so large that we really only ...
Okavango Delta
... the night sky is full of stars and it’s time for a final trip to the loo with my dump partner. Tomorrow we fly over the Delta; I’m keen to see this intriguing landscape from the sky. Just where are we in the grand scheme of ...
I'm only happy when it rains
... a stove to keep the wind out, or hide from hippos. This trend didn't stop on this trip into the delta. The Okovango Delta is a very large swamp with island between the channels. Animals swim between the islands in search of food and there ...
All I want is to take a picture without the zoom
Thursday, September 8 - Saturday, September 10 For the last 2.5 days our group relaxed in the beautiful area of the Okavango Delta. It took us about 45 minutes by speedboat to get to the mokoro station before we loaded up again. The mokoros are ...
Hungry hippos
... (the curse of beetroot) I was feeling fine, and after an ice cream so was Ruth. The next 2 days were spent on the Okavango Delta. After a long, long ride to the delta we were paired up to be driven (?) around in mokhoros - small, traditional canoes. ...
Okavango delta
... clear as it is filtered by the thousands and thousands of reeds. They have had a lot of rain recently so only a few little islands were left and most of the delta was submerged under a couple of feet of crystal clear water. The hippos seemed very ...
Maun and the Okavango Delta
... our last night in Botswana. We had a much needed shower and the headed to Maun airport for a scenic flight over the MASSIVE Okavango Delta. It is 18K sqm. Our flight was 55mins and it was bloody top notch. Its totally different to see hippos, ...
How fresh is it?
... was loaded onto a fleet of makorros from tents and sleeping bags to cool boxes and even the bbq. We travelled along the Okavango Delta which is the worlds largest in-land delta covering some 15000 square kilometres. It took almost 2 hours to ...
May 17, 2011
I Like Mokoro. I don't like Flying ants.
... age old wet weather activities - playing cards in the bar and toad herding... Up early today to cross the boarder to Botswana and travel to the Okavango Pan Handle - this is the start of the delta formed by the Okavango River (Kavango River in Namibia). ...
Okavango Delta
This is a top pick! We had a 3 day bush camp into the south eastern part of the delta which was amazing... Highlight being walking with a guide (but with no guns) up to a watering hole with about 25 hippos ... Pretty hairy stuff in hindsight, especially as we were actually ...
Camping under the stars - all 5 of them
... into 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 ...
best camp ever!
... like clean hand towels by the sinks and all the paths have been raked. It might sound silly but you really notice stuff like that after a while. I recommend it to anyone heading this way. I love the Delta - definite trip highlight so far... Lizzie x ...
Deep in the Delta
The Okavango Delta (or Okavango Swamp), in Botswana, is the world's largest inland delta. It is formed where the Okavango River empties onto a swamp in an endorheic basin in the Kalahari Desert, where most of the water is lost to evaporation and ...
Okavango Delta
... to Maun, from where we would set off into the Delta. We woke up early on Wednesday morning and were driven into the Okavango Delta where we met our guides and had our first encounters with mokoros (an African canoe before you pretend to know what I'm ...
The Okavango Delta
DAY 2 Drive from Gobabis to Maun - Gateway to the Okavango Delta What is the Okavango Delta? The Okavango Delta in Botswana is the worlds largest inland delta. Botswana isn't all desert. Every winter, 11 Trillion (11,000,000,000,000) litres of water ...
Okavango Delta
... pool to watch the hippos wallowing about which was great. We had dinner and the Botswanian guides told us a bit about Botswana and sang us their national anthem. Friday 21st - We left the delta early by mokoro and arrived ...
Okavango Delta
Today, which is Wednesday we think? was a good day. We did a full day on the Okavango delta. This is the world's largest inland delta, it floods every year in dry season (now) as the rains from further north (11 cubic kms of it!!) take 6 months to filter ...
A Dream-Like Delta
We were up at 7:00 to begin our journey in the African Okavango Delta. Awaiting us at the ier were 2 motorboats - one we stuffed full of our tents, mats, food and all of our bags and supplies for one night. The second boat had benches for us to sit and ...
Near Death -by- Elephant!
... and past reeds still loyally bowing as we floated by. The next morning we would be on our way back to Namibia down the Caprivi Strip, a sliver of land seperating Angola, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. How exciting! Hugs and Love, Dana and ...
Okovango delta
went on a huge walk today and got some more great photos, saw two giraffes, . Slept all after noon, it was so nice having absolutely nothing to do or to worry about, falling asleep wherever the shade was nice. Oh yea, the toilet! This was a really ...
Okavango Delta
... huge burrow dug, we were told, by an aardvark, who can smell an ant's nest a metre under ground - a key skill at the Okavango labour exchange. Now aardvarks have a special place in the heart of anybody who went to Monash Uni in the seventies. Every first ...
Okovango delta
... . It was literally in the middle of no where, tents, fire, meat, giraffes, zebras, hippos, total nothing ness. We went to the river delta, and met our guides, got in a canoe and got poled(sounds so wrong!) to our destination! Set up tents and went on an ...
The Okavango Delta
... hotspots must be preserved so that the rate of extinction of valuable species can be slowed and eventually stopped. The Okavango Delta and Linyanti Swamp are two of the places that the world has set aside for permanent protection. This ...
Okavango Delta
So we sacked Killer. When the knock came on the tent flap at 4am - kill me, kill me now - we decided that if we were going to get up, we were going to make sure that it was worthwhile. So we went with the other guide, a tall, native bushman by the name ...
Where A River Vanishes In The Kalahari
... have never visited but for them. Always ready with more ideas, Wendy urged us to visit Etosha National Park (in Namibia) and Okavango Delta (in Botswana) during our stay in SA. While we did not manage to get there then, these places have always been on ...
Bush Camping in the Delta
... water, out of the water, playing in the water – another 'intervention’ is in order… January 8-11 (Okavango Delta) Today is a driving day on a circuitous route to Maun (the smaller, sandier direct roads simply cannot accommodate our big ...