Bouncing with the updrafts in the back of a single-engine Cessna, I watch the slim shadow of our aeroplane dance across the marbled expanse of the Okavango Delta, some 500ft below. “If we go down out ...

We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. The noise was deafening as 40 or 50 Vervet monkeys started shrieking loudly from ...

Rendering of a guestroom at the Atzaro Okavango camp, which is scheduled to open in March. Photo Credit: Atzaro The hotel company Atzaro has revealed plans for its upcoming Atzaro Okavango camp, ...

Partway through our first afternoon game drive at North Island Okavango, a new luxury camp in northwestern Botswana, our guide, Diesel Tshosa, said, “I can be quiet because I can get lost in the ...

Rendering of a tented suite at the Wilderness Mokete tented camp, slated to open in September in the Mababe wilderness area on the eastern fringe of Botswana's Okavango Delta. Photo Credit: Wilderness ...

Secluded on its own island (arrival is by motorboat most of the year), this nine-tent camp within a roughly 62,000-acre private concession in the southern Okavango Delta is one of two camps there by ...

It seems, on some level, like an im-possibility. In the semi-arid highlands of Angola, hundreds of trickling streams join forces with two mighty rivers, the Cuito and the Cubango, which flow through ...

Botswana’s Okavango Delta, a mazelike series of freshwater lagoons in the middle of the Kalahari Desert, swells to some 6,200 square miles during the wet season of March to September, before shrinking ...

A harrowing expedition through one of the world's great delta regions reveals the threats it faces––and the wealth of life it ...

The first animal we saw in the Okavango was unmistakable. Although far away, we could easily make it out with its telltale trunk: an African elephant—the world’s largest land animal—was striding ...

Makgowa Ronald Manyanga – Ronald to all – is a talkative man who loves to spin a yarn, but not this morning. He sips his tea, hands cupped around the warm enamel to combat the morning chill, and then ...