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be part of "The world’s oldest ritual ceremonies"

by kenHuocj

TSODILO HILLS's a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in north west Botswana. There are some hills whose highest point is 1400 metres, at 18°46′18″S, 21°45′15″E. It was inscribed in 2001 due to its unique religious and spiritual significance to local peoples, as well as its unique record of human settlement over several millennia. It contains over 4,500 rock paintings in an area of approximately 10 km² within the Kalahari Desert. source:Wikipedia** when i visited Tsodilo, we climbed up the one hill, opposite was rock formation that i commented as looking like "REPTILE SKIN". lo and behold, the shaman some 70 000 years ago sw the same**There was great excitement in November 2006 when Sheila Coulson of the University of Oslo and her team found as she commented "You could see the mouth and eyes of the snake. It looked like a real python," . "The play of sunlight over...

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Mashatu Game Park

by kucha

In the remote eastern corner of Botswana, at the meeting point of two great rivers, lies Mashatu - an area exceptional beauty and some of the finest game viewing in Africa.The excitement of Mashatu has not changed over time. It is home to large herds of elephant, prides of lion and cheetah. Along river courses, huge Mashatu trees provide shade for eland, impala, wildebeest, giraffe and zebra, whileat night, the bat-eared fox, African wild cat and the magnificent leopard search for prey.Some 350 species of birds may be seen along the riverbanks and marshlandin this beautiful corner of Africa!

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Savuti / Savute in the Linyante Preserve

by kucha

Savuti Camp is situated in the southern part of the Linyanti Reserve. It is built along the Savuti channel, which is a legendary wildlife region, best known for its large number of predators. When the channel flows, water travels from the Linyanti marshes into the interior of Chobe National Park. The channel stopped flowing in 1980 and what was a Hippo-filled river is now wide open grassland.Game concentrations here are high. Besides the normal plains game, the area has good concentra-tions of Roan, Sable and Giraffe. All the predators occur in the area - Lion, Leopard, Cheetah and Wild Dog. (40 different Lion have already been identified along the channel around the camp) The Chobe/ Linyanti area is renowned for its dense Elephant population and for some of the best Elephant viewing anywhere in Africa.

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Moremi Game Preserve

by kucha

Rivaled by few other game parks in Africa, Moremi is a spectacular and beautiful game park .Situated in a corner of the Okavango Delta of Botswana, Moremi Wildlife Reserve covers more than 1,000 square kilometers of grassy floodplains, winding waterways, palm-fringed islands, forest and lush, lily-covered lagoons. With its mix of wetlands and woodlands, Moremi is a park of exceptional beauty - and it is here that most of the game viewing in the famed Okavango delta Although much of the game in this preserve is migratory, the choice grazing ensures game viewing all year round. However, in the dry season large herds of buffalo, wildebeest and zebra swarm back into the park from the Kalahari in search of food and water, and by the time the floods reach Moremi in July, the reserve is bursting with game again! The rare sitatunga and lechwe antelope live in the papyrus banks of the waterways....

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The Okavanga Delta.

by kucha

The Okavango is truly a unique ecosystem, where over 16 000 sq km of inland waterways have turned the red sands of the Kalahari Desert into a land of plenty. With such abundance of water and grazing, it is little wonder that the region teems with wildlife, birds, spectacular trees and breathtaking scenery.A usual day on safari in the Okavango starts with an early morning game drive, followed by a hot breakfast back in camp. Before lunch, one can relax or possibly take a walking safari. There is a siesta after lunch, followed by late afternoon game viewing on open 4x4 vehicles or in makoro dugout canoes. Supper by the campfire or under the dinner tent is followed by a restful (if you like the sounds of nature close up!) sleep in your private tented room.Travelers planning a safari to the Okavango should combine the Delta with another safari region, such as Chobe, which is a short hop away...

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Wildlife viewing!

by travelmad478

This is the big draw in the Okavango. I saw a lot of the same animals that I've seen in South Africa--elephants, giraffes, zebras, buffalo, hippos, impala, waterbuck--plus some others I hadn't seen before, like red antelope and a little jackal that suddenly stood up only about 20 feet from me!

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Mokoro trips

by travelmad478

A mokoro is a dugout canoe, used by the people of the Okavango Delta to get around this wetland area. The specialty while staying there is to pole these craft through the hundreds of small waterways through the Delta, seeing wildlife along the way. Watch out for those hippos!

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Mashatu Game Reserve

by scookie16

We were lucky enough to visit Mashatu courtesy of our friends and what an incredible and unforgettable experience it was ! We drove for hours through the bush only to arrive at the most luxurious accommodation I have ever stayed in - and be greeted by staff in safari suits with sundowners on silver trays ! We really were in the middle of nowhere and this was brought to our attention on opening the door of our lodge to be greeted by a baboon ! We went on two game drives - one in the evening with our guide Actor and spotter Monty and one early the next morning. I have never experienced anything like it - we saw leopard with young ( which we were told is very rare ) lions, impala, giraffe, elephants a cheetah and kudu on the first drive and jackals, genets, klipspringer and wildebeest the next day. The guide was fantastic and we enjoyed gin and tonics as the sun went down on day one and...

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Take a ride in a mokoro

by Radiomom

Some seasoned safari-takers slight this serene activity, but maybe we were just lucky and found it gorgeous. This is how the bushmen navigated through the delta, using channels created by the wildlife (usually hippos, but other animals too). Mokoro are long, thin duggout canoes -- well traditionally that's what they were. Now they are more likely to be aluminum or fiberglass. You ride very low in the water, almost eye-level with the water lily pads. I loved it. Since we were there in the late fall/winter month of May, the mosquito population had died off. Also, the temperatures were ideal, about 75 degrees in the mornings and late afternoons.

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Horseback Safari

by almostacowboy

My wife and I joined African Horseback Safaris for 7 days in Sept '04. It was absolutely an experience of a lifetiime. Riding with, and observing, elephants, giraffes, zebra, lechwe, topi, buffalo, was fantastic.

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Q:  Hi, want to do this trip last week in March/1st week April, should we get good weather or is it a bit too early for the Okavanga... 

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A: Hi Chanes are that you'll see far fewer animals if it has flooded, as when the water is scarce, the animals congregate around the little water that's around. Once the... 

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