Autumn in northern Botswana and the annual floodwaters are beginning to fill the channels of the Okavango Delta. The tendrils of water unfold south and east, greater than 1,000km from the place the rains first fell within the distant highlands of Angola. Flood, soak away, repeat.
It’s a pure cycle that has continued for about 60,000 years, ever since a shift in tectonic plates rerouted the waters of the Kavango River to seep away into the Kalahari, as an alternative of emptying into the Zambezi River and Indian Ocean. Ever since, it’s been a land in fixed flux.
Virtually as predictable as the approaching of the annual floods is the arrival every year of latest luxurious safari lodges, sprouting just like the Mokolwane palm islands throughout the Delta. Ever since journey reopened post-pandemic evidently international travellers merely can’t get sufficient of the Okavango’s completely distinctive aquatic safari expertise.
