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Chronicle from the Delta of River Okavango
 At Bostwana fuímos to see the delta of the Okavango river, this river ends at the Desert of the Kalahari (desert) and the water in the desert has formed everything a very great marshy ecosystem. The river basin of the Okavango river includes Angola, Namibia and Bostwana. In Okavango you find crocodiles, hippopotami, liches (a species of antelope, pigs anthills and an immense amount of birds: fishing storks, herons, marabúes and eagles, among others.
We encamp in an island within the delta of the Okavango, to arrive it was necessary there to leave “to Stevie” the truck and to take vehicles todoterreno that were of the Israeli army to cross the sandy banks and to arrive at the border where we approached speedboats with motor outside hut to they put that us to the low ones and the marsh.
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It travels to the Delta of the Okavango - Namibia
While our personal dust cloud dissipated, it appeared in the not very distant horizon the moon, that, full and orange, raised without hardship and projected a line of the same color that arrived to us almost until the feet, leaving to see a neighboring liquid surface. It was the Okavango Delta, that the previous dark did not allow to perceive “That is the moon? I cannot believe it! ”, Macarena, incredulous said.
We arrive at Ngepi, a simply incredible camping to borders of the Okavango. Torches on canes guided us to bamboo by the dark towards the place from where a sound of drums came.
We were approached, the atmosphere it was become africanized, the drums now were intermingled with beautiful songs. A harmonica and frenetic dance of colors bounced and penetrated our bodies. The tribal dance congealed the eyes warmly to us, it filled to us of emotion and skin of hen. We perceive the human necessity of the critical moment state.
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It travels to Africa - Namibia - Delta of the Okavango
Deserts in a camping in Palapye, very pretty, with a bar taken care of by a New Zealand one. An interesting thing is that when one travels by the route, as in Argentina one sees hares or cows or cuises, in Africa are seen thousands of antelopes, monkeys, giraffes, elephants, ostriches, etc.
On the following day we followed course Maun, that is the town entered the Delta of the Okavango. The Okavango river is disarmed in a very interesting delta, very great. There we rose early, took in one land Land Rover 4×4 to us to the Delta of the Okavango by pure sand way, with a car one remained safe. In a while we had ourselves to turn aside of the track because an elephant had thrown a tree on the way.
We happen through an establishment of huts of African, was donkeys, goats and negritos that requested sweets to us or something. Of this establishment she was the people who were going to us to guide by the delta of the Okavango. We arrive at an arm of the delta, and they were waiting for the guide and 3 women to us. To read the Newspaper….It travels to the River Okavango Expedition to Namibia - Delta of the Okavango
At average afternoon we arrived at Maun, the city that gives entrance to the national park of the Delta of the Okavango. The passage during these two days has been long and dusty. The monotony of the landscape, sprinkled by small acacias, palms and many termiteros, almost has finalized. We smell at night African the humid air. From this point the paradise of the wild animal in the amplitude of the Delta of the Okavango begins.
We leave the Sitatunga camping very early, in the outskirts of Maun, towards the Okavango. In little more of hour and a half we cross 65 kilometers of dusty ways until arriving at one from the borders of the delta, where they wait for sinfín to us of canoes will take that us to our new camping in spurs of the Chief¨s Island. The fauna is diverse. hippopotamus or the aquatic buffalo, and other typical of the forests and savannahs like antelopes, zebras, ñus and oryx.
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