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\"Okavango<\/p>\n

A trip through national parks and wilderness areas of northern Botswana in rainy season: gliding through a channel of the Okavango Delta in a mokoro; flying above the Delta in a small helicopter above rivers and islets, water lily-studded lagoons and marshes full of birds; falling asleep in a canvas tent while lions roared outside; fuschia dawn skies; going on game drives for hours and not seeing another car; the sound of elephants wading through a stream in the dark; getting our Land Cruiser stuck in the muddy roads of Moremi and having to dig it out; giraffes, elephants, foxes, jackals, buffaloes, mongoose, hippos, red lechwe, zebra, wildebeest, hyena; Rex, our guide and driver, spotting a leopard tortoise the size of a palm in the middle of the road, stopping in time to help it cross; spectacular afternoon thunderstorms; baobabs full of leaves; flocks of yellow and white butterflies; the cry of fish eagles; a baby baboon doing a handstand on a picnic bench; one pink and purple sunset over the Chobe River that seemed to last forever; seeing two leopard lazing in a tree in the last moments of our last game drive in Chobe National Park; monkeys throwing seed pods at us from the roof of the Zimbabwean border post; standing under the mist of the Smoke that Thunders (Victoria Falls) and looking into a white roaring abyss.<\/p>\n

To read more about my safari to Botswana, read my blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My 9-day Botswana safari <\/a>was hosted by Jenman Safaris<\/a>. Find out more about this overland trip<\/a> and other African safari trips\u00a0Jenman offers here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"OkavangoPoling in fibreglass mokoros through a channel of the Okavango Delta<\/p>\n

\"OkavangoFlying above the Okavango Delta in a four-seater helicopter, going up and down from 100 metres down to two metres above the ground\"Okavango\"Okavango\"OkavangoExploring the community-owned Khwai concession, which borders on Chobe National Park<\/p>\n

\"Khwai\"Botswana\"Khwai\"Safari\"KhwaiExploring Moremi Game Reserve, seeing elephants, buffalo, hippos and red lechwe, and getting stuck three times on muddy roads with deep puddles filled with rain water from a huge thunderstorm the night before\"Moremi\"Moremi\"ElephantsDriving for nine hours under a huge sky of puffy white clouds through Chobe National Park to get from the southern end to the northern end, game viewing and rock art spotting along the way<\/p>\n

\"ChobeWe reached northern Chobe National Park, which borders on Zambia, Nambia and Zimbabwe, exploring the park by land and by water, seeing two leopards lazing in a tree in the last moments of our last game drive and watching the best sunset of the trip on our river cruise
\n\"Chobe\"Chobe\"Chobe\"ChobeMosi-oa-Tunya: the Smoke that Thunders<\/p>\n

\"Victoria<\/p>\n

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