The first animal we saw in the Okavango was unmistakable. Although far away, we could easily make it out with its telltale trunk: an African elephant—the world’s largest land animal—was striding ...

This video explores the Okavango Delta and surrounding landscapes in Botswana, filmed in 4K. Featuring aerial views of ...

What’s it like to arrive in one of the most pristine, unspoiled oases in all of Africa? Batswana photojournalist Thalefang Charles takes you there. A game safari in Botswana’s Okavango Delta offers ...

On holiday in Botswana, and there was no mistaking the chocolate-coloured humps lumbering through the papyrus reed beds in the darkening light — a big pod of hippos, maybe 15 or 20, pushing their way ...

Ron Glazier knows where the wild things are. The retired director of the Santa Ana Zoo has led 20 safaris to Africa in search of its exotic denizens. Next year, Glazier leads an 11-day trip to the ...

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 ...

At the heart of Botswana is the Okavango Delta, a fragrant oasis untouched by human beings and pristine with wildlife. It is one of nature’s most fleeting yet magical experiences, taking us into a ...

As many as 400 elephants have died in Botswana’s Okavango Delta since March, wildlife experts say. Government authorities say poaching, poison and anthrax have been ruled out as the causes of death.

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 ...

This delta in north-west Botswana comprises permanent marshlands and seasonally flooded plains. It is one of the very few major interior delta systems that do not flow into a sea or ocean, with a ...