The river people that became Okavango Delta ambassadors

These are proud Bayei - the river people - from Seronga and Jao Flats inside the Okavango Delta. They are the only four known Batswana men that have ever travelled the entire Okavango River basin from source to mouth, using dugout canoes (mekoro).

It took them 120 days and more than three countries, travelling in mekoro over 2,476km from the source of Cuito River in the Angolan highlands, to the Boteti River mouth in the blinding dusty plains of Makgadikgadi at Lake Xau.