African Adventures

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D oes walking next to a herd of giant elephants sleeping in a tent with a hippo just outside or having lunch with a mountain gorilla sound exciting to you? Sign up for an African safari. As large areas of the continent of Africa are designated as national parks Africa is one of the last places where you can see animals in the wild.

Off to the Okavango

In the middle of Botswana’s harsh Kalahari Desert lies the Okavango Delta the largest and most beautiful oasis in Africa. (An oasis is a place in a desert where there’s water and plants.) This great oasis is made by the Okavango River which each year sends 2.9 trillion gallons (10 trillion liters) of water into the middle of the Kalahari Desert creating a 6 000-square mile wetland.

The Okavango Delta is considered by many the most beautiful place on earth. In addition to its beauty there’s almost nowhere else you’ll find so many kinds of animals in one place. When temperatures soar vegetation withers and familiar drinking holes dry up a multitude of animals head for the Okavango Delta in search of food and water. The place is so astounding it’s nicknamed the Miracle Delta.

Who Lives Here?

You don’t need binoculars to see wildlife here as lions cheetahs elephants giraffes rhinoceroses baboons and other regional animals are out enjoying the refreshing waters of the Okavango. One traveler wrote “hippos are virtually everywhere sometimes as in our case right outside our bungalows!”