Motorhome free in half of the Delta of the Okavango it is an incredible experience. To you allow to be in contact with the nature and to we allowed to see one of the most incredible evenings of our trip for South Africa. The special of this evening was that we saw it from a mokoro in half of the calm and transparent waters of the delta of the Okavango in Botswana.
The mokoro (mocoro or makoro canoes) is a canoe or canoe that originally was done of ebony wood, although at present they are of fiberglass. Normally it is led by a guide (poler) that he leads them with a jumping pole. It has also capacity for two passengers and the support material for the night in the camp. In our case we were sitting down on the mats that then served to us to sleep. Advice: if you have the opportunity to choose it is important that the poler speaks at least a little about English and that it is young and with desire of communicating. Our experience with these people was frankly very good, in the night along with the fire they were counting histories and sharing the dinner with us in an island in the delta of the Okawango.
How do we come? We go out in plane from the Airport of Maum, to go to the airport or better described the Sepupa landing strip. From there in truck up to coming to the shores of the river to take the mokoro. I have no words to describe what means to fly over the biggest interior delta of the planet, but the few ones that I could already find were used by me in the article to Fly over the Delta of the Okavango
The impressive thing of the mokoro there is the calmness that is breathed and the silence that allows to approach and see wild animals, we saw hippopotami, elephants, eagles … but the best of this day was the putting sun. Since we were going to sleep in an island in tents in half of the river, we did not need to return promptly to continue the route for the lost river, so we could remain up to seeing the putting sun. Instead of describing it I leave to you some photos that they speak for themselves.
Photo: I walk in mokoro in the Delta of the Okawango in Botswana.
I bathe in the river. The waters are crystalline and in the places with current it seems that it is not dangerous to bathe, whenever the guides or polers they authorize it. I do not bathe for the possibility of taking coccidios (a local parasite). They are usually in stagnant waters, and principally in the river Zambece. Some friend if that I bathe and if it was returning I would bathe, because I did not do it there for precaution but one week later doing extreme white-water rafting in the river Zambeze I overturned in more than 14 occasions, and I believe that I swallowed so much water that I contributed to the drying of the delta (Videos of our extreme white-water rafting in the Rio Zambeze).
In our trips blog normally we do not put the exact location, but in Africa of South we had to take GPS for precaution so we can geoposicionar these photos with enough accuracy. You can see that we were in the point in which the delta begins expanding. (Linkage of Google Maps of our Position in the Delta)
Location:-18 ° 48 ′ 24.00 ″, +22 ° 17 ′ 48.00
Linkage:
Information of the Delta in Tripadvisor
Missviajes Delta of the Okavango
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The smallest antelope of the world, Magadigadi Pans
Lions in to the reservation of Moremi, Delta of the Okavango
Route Rio Perdido in pasaporteblog.com
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Lions wallowing in the Delta of the Okavango
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