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Okavango and Moremi
Moremi is inside the Okavango Delta, not beside it: the reserve is the delta's eastern third and the one part of it formally protected. So this pairing is two ways of being in the same water. In Moremi the day is on the ground, game drives through country that is close and dense, mopane and floodplain, with a mokoro or a motorboat on a lagoon at many camps. Out in the permanent Delta to the west there is no ground to speak of, and no vehicle. A poler sets the pace, the channels are the roads, and the islands are walked.
One light aircraft separates the two, and the order is a choice. Water first, then the reserve, is the shortest route we sell from Maun that has both in it; reserve first, then the water, then on to Chobe's river, is the middle length. Either way the change shows from the window: one moment mopane and open grassland, the next water in every direction.
The Okavango
Moremi Game Reserve
The line joins the delta to the reserve inside it. It is a sequence, not a flight path.
The Okavango
The Okavango is the water leg. A camp stands on an island in the permanent swamp, reached by boat from a bush airstrip, with no vehicle on it. A mokoro takes the morning: a jacana walking the lilies, reed frogs at head height, the sand of the channel floor plain under the hull. Afternoons go by motorboat to the wider lagoons, hippo at every bend, or on foot across a neighbouring island; the birding runs through every month, Pel's fishing owl among them for anyone patient in the ebony trees at dusk. The delta's concessions, its camps and its seasons have a whole site to themselves.
The Okavango, in fullRoutes that hold both halves.
Safari packages that take in the permanent Delta and the reserve, flown between. Request one as it stands.
Delta Essentials Fly-In
Two camps, four nights, one light aircraft: the Delta by mokoro first, Moremi by vehicle after.