Know Before You Go: The Okavango Has Two Wet Seasons
The Okavango Delta’s floodplains are fullest between July and October, in the middle of Botswana’s dry season, because the water comes down from the Angolan highlands rather than out of the local sky, and the local rains do not start until November. That is the whole trick of the place, and the reason a first-time […]
Land and Water, Any Month: Camp Xakanaxa and the Delta Calendar
No, you do not have to time an Okavango trip to the month to get a game drive and a boat on the same day. Camp Xakanaxa, on the banks of the Khwai River where it meets the Xakanaxa Lagoon in the heart of the Moremi Game Reserve, runs land and water safaris all year […]