Breakfast with elephants in the Okavango delta
Oct 30th, 2010 by bjoern
The Okavango-delta in Botswana is famous all round the world as one of the pristine areas with an overflow of birds, mamals, trees and flowers – also it is one of the rare areas, where a strong river simply silt up with an enourmous delta in the middle of the Kalahari desert. As I am working together with the Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission (OKACOM) I got introduced to their challenges while conducting a journalist-training by Inter Press Service (IPS) in Maun – please find their publication over here.
Afterwards Susi and me got lost in the delta on a Mokoro-trip, which is a canoe made to get through the delta with its reed and water mixture. For two days we were catch into the beauty of this pristine nature where silence was only interrupted by birds, elephants and spiders – that entered our boat frequently for a ride. And as we went on two nature-walks we experienced how big and magnificient elephant-herds can be if you stand only 20m away from them, which is an astonishing and reverential feeling after all. And too top this feeling the Okavango delta awarded us with a stunning sunset in the end of the day. Find here the video-file from Susi live from the Okavango.
