Africa's Great Inland Delta
THERE'S a place in Africa which has become synonymous with a wildlife safari - the Okavango Delta, a place where burning desert sands surrender to the clear streams of a magnificent watery labyrinth.
The dry north-west corner of Botswana is the starting point for the annual summer floods of the Kavango River, which spills down through a vast network of narrow waterways, lagoons, oxbow lakes and floodplains to create this luscious wilderness.
Covering 22 000 sq km of Botswana, these life-giving waters ultimately surrender to the searing heat and thirsty sands of the Kalahari Desert.
In these clear waters which filter through reedbeds and papyrus, across plains and past forested islands, nature and life abounds.
