The Miraculous Delta: Botswana's Okavango

The news about The Miraculous Delta is that our Africa team has scheduled departures to coincide with two particularly apt seasons to explore the Delta’s subtle and spectacular sceneries, from shady, pacific lagoons and meandering waterways and riverine forests to some of Africa’s finest game viewing. We go to delightful and wisely chosen camps, exemplars of the joys of safariing in Africa. In green season (April and May), we’ll pay close attention to the Kalahari, which is in top form, bursting with new life. We’ll drive into the well-named Deception Valley and walk with a shaman of the San bushmen, learning about ancient tracking, hunting, and gathering ways. In high season ( July, August, and September)—a very “productive” time of year, as our guides say—we’ll spend time at Discoverer Camp in the Linyanti, north of the Delta, with canoe trips and the chance to see swimming elephants. We also have special access to the Khwai Discoverer Camp in the remote reaches of Moremi National Park. (All these seasonal variations include quality time in the heart of the Delta, of course.)

Don’t forget to ask about our optional extension to Victoria Falls, one of the planet’s most thunderously great cataracts. (It’s one of the planet’s most thunderously great anythings, actually.) We fly to Livingstone, Zambia, and drive to cool, comfortable, tented Toka Leya Camp, a few minutes’ drive upriver from Mosi-oa-Tunya, the “Smoke That Roars.” That smoky mist often gives us the impression of flying over the Falls, joining in our electrified imaginations the “angels in their flight” David Livingstone saw dancing airily “over sights as beautiful as this.”