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31.05.2015 - News From HQ

2015 Okavango Flood Update

Another flood season is upon us and it's good news and bad news for the 2015 flood. The good news is that we will have a lot more game drive roads this year as an average flood swells through the central Okavango. For anyone that has been on a camping safari in Botswana, you have probably heard you...
01.04.2014 - News From HQ

Record rainwater in the Okavango

With all the crazy weather around the globe this year, the Okavango Delta also received record breaking rainfall. For the first time in over thirty years, the local rainfall has raised the water levels in the rivers of the Okavango to above the peak level of the previous year's flood. The graph belo...
26.02.2014 - News From HQ

Bringing North America to Botswana

Every year I travel to the US and Canada to try and promote Botswana as a safari destination and it always amazes me how little the North American market knows about safaris in Botswana. Strangely enough, one of the reasons for this is also one of the best reasons to visit. No one has heard of Botsw...
28.01.2014 - News From HQ

Letaka Safaris with Jeff Corwin

January 2014 - Okavango Delta, Botswana. In December last year, Brent and Grant spent a couple of days in the bush with Jeff Corwin and his talented film crew searching out all kinds of creepy crawlies for the Ocean Mysteries television series. One of the highlights of the trip for us was the ama...
27.11.2013 - News From HQ

A missed opportunity for Botswana’s elephant crisis

What follows is an article which was cut and pasted from the Ngami Times website A missed opportunity on elephants When word started getting around that Botswana is to host an emergency African Elephant Summit on December 2-4, 2013, residents of Chobe and Ngamiland naturally started rekindling...