Flood time is the best time, when the big trees stand out in a huge lake, when the fish come to feed where the cattle once grazed, when even the sitatunga float down south on papyrus islands.
Okavango Gods, Anthony Fisher 1998, David Phillip

The best safari you could ever imagine! Unspoiled lands, extraordinary wildlife viewing and stunning camps. And of course, the best guides to make a good safari sparkle and come alive. In the southern hemisphere’s winter months, one could easily mistake Botswana’s famed Okavango Delta for the original Garden of Eden. It is a mosaic of landscapes second to none: lush papyrus, huge seasonally inundated plains, and dense islands of Jackle berry and lead wood. Yet not a single cloud above hints at rain for months at end. How could this possibly be? It is the world’s largest oasis, and the extreme southern extension of the Great African Rift Valley. Water trickles down from the Angolan highlands 1000km away and the river eventually empties 15 cubic kilometers of water on to the Kalahari sands through undulating channels, rivulets and at the very edge, finest fingers of water nourishing the parched semi-desert............