We spent two nights sleeping in the bush of the Okavanga Delta. According to some reviews, the bush camping is a highlight of the tour. I don’t think I would go so far as to say it was a highlight. It was interesting, but kind of boring.
We packed up everything we could possibly need: tables, chairs, mattresses, tents, kitchen stuff and food. The only thing we lacked at this campsite was facilities.
We rode a speedboat halfway, and then transferred into mokoros, carved out wooden canoes. The mokoro ride was the highlight of my bush camping experience, it was so relaxing! They set up our sleeping pads as chairs, so we could just lean back and lounge as the canoe was poled along. Since the delta isn’t deep, they use long poles that are just pushed into the ground to move and manoeuvre the mokoro. At the camp we got to try it out, and it was incredibly difficult to keep balance and steer this giant canoe through all the reeds.
Other than that, we did some game walks (but didn’t see many animals), played some cards, and laid around.
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