Kenakare Trip Advisors
A UNESCO World Heritage inland delta where the Okavango River vanishes into the Kalahari, explored by mokoro canoe and light aircraft.
The Okavango Delta is one of the world's few major rivers that never reaches the sea, its waters flowing from Angola's highlands each year only to spread and evaporate across the Kalahari sands, creating a 15,000-square-kilometre maze of lagoons, channels and palm-studded islands recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2014. The annual flood — arriving in the dry winter months rather than after local rains — supports an extraordinary concentration of wildlife, explored by traditional mokoro dugout canoe through papyrus channels, by motorboat along deeper waterways, or by light aircraft for a bird's-eye view of its endlessly branching channels. Few landscapes in Africa reward slow, water-based travel as richly as the Delta.
✦Mokoro canoe excursions
✦Scenic flights
✦Game drives on delta islands
✦Boat safaris
✦Birdwatching
✦Fishing