The travel blog for couples - Written by Melanie Waldman
Continued from Botswana: Dreaming on the Delta – Part Five
Elephant damage on walking safari in Botswana's Okavango
On safari in the Okavango Delta, it’s one thing to ride in a cozy truck and look out the window.
It’s another thing entirely to step outside and follow a man with a gun into the wilderness.
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Botswana: Dreaming on the Delta – Part Four
Our suite at And Beyond's Xudum, Okavango Delta
After three nights, we left &Beyond’s Nxabega (Nn-begh-hah) for another swath of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. After a two-hour driving safari and pontoon boat ride through winding, reedy ribbons of river, at long last we came upon Xudum (Kuh-doohm), an oasis on the land.
Sweet Georgia Brown, but this place was amazing.
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Botswana: Dreaming on the Delta – Part Three
Lotus flower in Botswana's Okavango River
As the Earth’s largest inland delta, Botswana’s Okavango is graced with tremendous amounts of water. The Okavango River system fans out like a huge hand, as if welcoming you to come aboard for a sail. (Or, smacking you for being foolish enough to float on a liquid highway for hippos and crocs. Think of it as a Rorschach test.)
One of our greatest joys in Botswana was our time spent on this river, gliding through inlets and lagoons lined with papyrus reeds and scattered with lotus flowers.
*Sigh.*
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Botswana: Dreaming on the Delta – Part Two
When you hear the word “delta,” images of water generally come to mind. But in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, rivers and ponds compete for space with dry land.
And on this open land full of grasses, gnarled bushes and strange trees, you’ll see incredible wild animals just about everywhere – walking, running, sitting, nuzzling, perching, loping away…or staring right at you.
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Botswana: Dreaming on the Delta
Our Nxabega safari guides on the lookout in the Okavango
One early October, we flew halfway around the world to see just about everything that Botswana’s Okavango Delta has to offer.
What we found were fancy coffee breaks, big termite mounds, small unicorns — and a whole new way of life on safari.
