Natural features

Okavango Delta

Botswana North-West

Okavango Delta
Photo: Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A vast inland delta where the Okavango River spreads into the Kalahari, a UNESCO site, with channels, lagoons and islands full of elephants, hippos, lions and birds. Explore by mokoro (dugout canoe), on foot and by boat.


Most lodges are reached by light aircraft from Maun. Flooding peaks in June to August.

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