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Okavango Delta Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Okavango Delta, Botswana
Okavango Delta
... the night. The campsite manager told us about the next 2 days as we would be travelling by Makoro (a dugout canoe) into the Delta and then camping there for a night. There wouldn't be any showers or toilets there for the night. Then he ...
Jul 09, 2011
Mokoro cruising
... . A mokoro is a dugout canoe. Sitting in the front and Nikki in the back we set off onto the waterways of the okavango. There is something peaceful about paddling along these waterways, until you hear a hippo, then you get a little scared and worried ...
Okavango Delta
... over the delta in the evening. Six of us were squeezed into a Cessna to get a bird's eye view of the Okavango Delta. The delta is the largest inland delta in the world and in the wet season the Okavango river drains here from the highlands of ...
Day Seventeen - Ngepi Camp
Early-ish start this morning and we are heading to the infamous Ngepi camp (18 shots at the bar!). We arrive early afternoon and quickly set up tents (in the middle of another overlander's group Frisbee game, but we don't care!) and set off to check out ...
In The Land of Cheese and Meat
... . We saw elephants, giraffe, hippos, crocodile, buffalo and even some snakes. Next we had an option to spend 3 days in the Okavango Delta. This was a complete bush experience and unlike anything we had done so far. First our guides poled us in to the ...
Okavango Delta, Botswana
... getting warm again. We enjoy dinner but the best part is after dinner when Thompson tells us about the marriage process in Botswana. The boy does not introduce girlfriends to parents unless it is the one he wants to marry. Instead he ...
Driving through Lakes
New camp, very different feel. Once we landed in the Okavango Delta we could tell that we were in the middle of a LOT of water. Driving from the air strip to our new camp, we came across severely flooded roads where our trusty guide, ...
The Okavanga Delta
Navigating through one of the world's most tranquil and breath-taking water features, the Okavanga Delta is a must-see for all nature enthusiasts. Unbeatable calm where flora and fauna remain ...
Okavango Delta - Zepa Camp
The next member of our group, Renata, arrived around 4, having been slightly delayed by a pair of lionesses waiting to greet her at the airport. Renata is from Melbourne. She is a wildlife artist, traveling to Africa to collect photos to turn into ...
Okavango Delta - Zepa Camp
Following a nap and tea yesterday afternoon, we set out again in search of sitatunga. Once again, they proved elusive, but we did not go without reward. near the end of our trip we stumbled upon a lone bull elephant. After it looked at us and ...
Okavango magic
The Hippo Highway turns out to be no laughing matter. Deep in the Okavango the only means of transport is a boat. The Okavango is made up of 120,000 mostly small islands separated by water no more than one metre deep with the exception of the main ...
Okavango Delta 4
... early in the morning so the sun was not too bad thankfully. Back at the camp had an hour or so until the scenic flight over the delta was ready. There was 5 of us doing the flight so we headed off to the airport and got loaded up the pilot was nice ...
Okavango Delta
... torch so i could avoid all the ants nests. Then had a meeting at the bar for everyone that was going into the Okovango Delta for 2 days. Only 5 people didnt want to go in either because of the cost or the high probability that ti will rain every day ...
Delta dreamin'
... of namibia, we travelled on minibuses and local transport (a TOTAL nightmare by the way) for over 2 days to Botswana to see the famous Okavango Delta, the biggest in the world. Let's start from the beginning. From Swakopmund, we were pretty ...
Gone Fishin!
Well, welcome to the largest land locked delta in the world. The Okavango Delta. Fed by four primary river systesm, it empties out into the heart of the Kalahari desert to form a green and lush bayou like river system aof swamps and such. This ...
Day 49: Okavango Delta 2
We woke up at 6.00am, before the dawn, had a little breakfast and off to morning hiking. We managed to see the same elephants again such as elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests….. Heaps of them walked in front of us which was incredible. This ...
Day 2 Ghanzi to Okavango Delta
... an air of gloom, the English/Irish contingent trudged back on the bus. We headed north, over increasingly rough roads, towards the Okavango delta, and our stop for the next two nights, nGuma. The scenary started to change from desert scrub to bush as ...
Funny/Interesting Things That Have Happened
Hi everyone, its me Matt here and i am going to tell you some funny things that have happened: 1. Ok we got back to our room at 10pm and mum was going to plug the camera into the wall socket, and she did. Then all of asudden we went into darkness ...
An Elephant and Hippo in the bar
... day including me doing a spectacular spill on a Mokoro and ending up in the drink. We had survived a night out on the delta with Africa biggest killers (Mosquitoes, Hippos, Lions, and Crocodiles). After an early breakfast we went for a game walk. Not ...
Poling through the Delta
We sopent three days in the Delta with our poler friends...camping on an island amongst ...
Through the reeds
... 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 ...
Day 3- Okavango
A long day today, and lots of suntan lotion. We left the lodge on a couple of flat-bottomed motorboats and headed into the delta. The Okavango Delta is unique in that it's a delta that doesn't empty into the sea, but rather into the Kalahari desert (it ...
Tranquility
We crossed over to the border to Namibia for a night before crossing back over to Botswana for 2 nights in the Okovango Delta. The Okovango Delta is very famous and I remember seeing it on the Discovery Channel special “Planet Earth.” ...
Mokoros and bush camp in the Okavango Delta
The Okavango delta is the largest inland delta in the world. We drove from our campsite about 2 hours in to the bush to the polling station and met the polers. There were 5 men, young and old, and 2 old ladies. These stand at the back of the mokoro (a ...
Pom Pom Camp
I woke up to the sound of chomping right outside my window around 5:00 a.m, so I had to investigate. It was a huge hippo. They stay in the water all day then come onto the island (where our camp is located) to eat at night. It's amazing how ...
Canoeing with Hippos
Another of the trip's highlights, the Okavango Delta is an inland delta where the Okavango river melts away into the Kalahari desert. Thousands of square kilometres in area, it is home to a large array of wildlife and would be our first opportunity to ...
Into the delta....
... murky water where we couldnt see the bottom - and then back to our base camp for one more night. Then finally we left the delta by speed boat and were driven back to some sort of civilsation. What a great experience!!! No showers for 3 days - ...
Bushcamping in the Okavanga Delta
The Okavango Delta is the world's largest inland delta. We started out our trip by taking a 1.5 hour trip in a 4X4 safari vehicle. It was such a bumpy ride! I'm glad I don't get motion sickness. Once we arrived, we each were placed in a mokoro(a ...