The Namibian and Botswana governments may be risking their water resources for oil and gas revenue. They have licensed a Canadian firm, ReconAfrica, to prospect for oil in the Cubango Okavango River ...

Jack’s Camp is vintage safari chic, featuring Moroccan styling with glamorous antique furnishings. It’s like stepping into a ...

On September 23, 2025, it was time once again: The TRAVELBOOK AWARDs were presented in Berlin. One of the categories: the most sustainable safari destinations in the world. Among the nominees was a ...

Botswana’s Okavango Delta, a mazelike series of freshwater lagoons in the middle of the Kalahari Desert, swells to some 6,200 square miles during the wet season of March to September, before shrinking ...

Visitors may want to consider a combination of land- and water-based activities to see the full scope of what the Okavango Delta offers ...

The hot African sun is turning cool and big and a deep soft orange, and the impala are getting mighty jumpy. They ought to be. A half-kilometer across the grassy bush, we’re watching a pack of eight ...

In a momentous occasion, Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi recently opened the 1 billion pula (£36.4 million) Okavango River Bridge in Mohembo. In 2016, Government of Botswana contracted Italian ...

Bouncing with the updrafts in the back of a single-engine Cessna, I watch the slim shadow of our aeroplane dance across the marbled expanse of the Okavango Delta, some 500ft below. “If we go down out ...

The Okavango Delta in Botswana is a rare inland delta where rivers disappear into dry plains. Arkansas to become first state ...

UNESCO’s World Heritage list hit a milestone of sorts last week when it proclaimed the Okavango Delta in northwest Botswana as its 1,000th site. The African delta was among 26 new places on the globe ...

When is a diamond more than just a diamond? That question might be best answered by the Okavango Diamond Company (ODC). The Botswana-based firm, which is recognized as one of the world’s premier rough ...