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Timing The Delta
Why the Delta floods at the wrong time of year, and the one question that prevents the commonest Botswana disappointment.
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Why the Delta floods at the wrong time of year, and the one question that prevents the commonest Botswana disappointment.
- The flood that arrives from another country
- Why the water and the rain run in opposition
- Water camps, land camps and seasonal ones
- The question that prevents disappointment
- Month by month, broadly
- Why the flood varies year to year
- Moremi and the concessions
- What each kind of stay costs
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The first page of Timing The Delta
The Okavango is not a place you choose. It is a place you time.
A camp’s activity list — whether your days are boats, mokoro and walking, or vehicles and night drives — is a function of the month you arrive far more than it is a fixed property of the camp. Most Delta disappointment traces back to that single misunderstanding.
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