A river runs through it

Friday, May 08, 2020

Tourists in Okavango Delta PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES

Perhaps it is a result of the global lockdowns, but as I, like you, have worked to manage through the immediate crisis and plot the course forward, I have found myself longing for one of my favourite places - Botswana’s Okavango Delta.

The Delta is a place of unparalleled natural beauty, a source of life and renewal for the world and a welcome reminder for me of better days ahead.

The story of the Delta starts far away from Botswana in the highlands of Angola, where almost all the water that will one day end up in the Delta begins as rainfall, collecting in lakes and rivers until it joins the Cuito and Cubango Rivers.

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A river runs through it

Perhaps it is a result of the global lockdowns, but as I, like you, have worked to manage through the immediate crisis and plot the course forward, I have found myself longing for one of my favourite places - Botswana’s Okavango Delta.

Athletics likely to go solo at Olympics

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