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 Botswana is one of the finest
tourist destinations on the African continent.
The Okavango, which
originates in the uplands of Angola to the north-west, flows into and then
spreads over the sandy spaces of the Kalahari to form an immense and
wondrous inland delta of lagoon and labyrinthine channel, palm-fringed
island and fertile floodplain.
 A
number of safari lodges and camps have been established in and around this
watery wilderness.
This wilderness and the nearby
game-rich Moremi Game Reserve and Chobe National Park reserves, offer the
visitors the best of several worlds, appealing variously to the game-viewer
and bird-watcher, the hunter and the sporting fisherman, the explorer of
hidden places and the lover of Africa in its loveliest and least spoilt
state.
 From
the calcrete floors and ancient baobabs of the Makgadikgadi Pans to the
savannah grasslands of Chobe National Park and the mophane woodland of the
Tuli Block, there is a wide variety of wildlife in Botswana.
However it is in the Okavango
Delta and Moremi Game Reserve that visitors will find unforgettable beauty.
In the lush indigenous forests of the delta and its islands, and along the
floodplains spawned by this great marriage of water and sand, more than 400
species of birds flourish.
 On
the mainland and among the islands in the delta, lions, elephants, hyenas,
wild dog, buffalo, hippo and crocodiles congregate with a teeming variety of
antelope and other smaller animals - warthog, mongoose, spotted genets,
monkeys, bushbabies and tree squirrels.
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