Botswana
Botswana — From Water to Dust to Thunder
Okavango Delta's mirrored channels, Savuti's lion-ruled dust, and the roar of Victoria Falls — six days across Botswana's most dramatic ecosystems.
- okavango
- savuti
- victoria falls
- water
- dust
Okavango Delta — Diversity in Motion
We arrived over a map of mirrors — floodwater stitched with islands, a geography drawn by light. Flying in on tiny planes, the Delta looked alive, breathing through its channels.
For three days at Pom Pom Camp, wild dogs chased lechwe through water that caught the sky, and elephants moved like slow currents through the papyrus.
The Delta was not what I imagined; it was more diverse, more immediate — a world stitched from sound and reflection.
Observations
- Wild dogs hunting in water
- Elephant herds navigating flooded channels
- Lechwe adapted to aquatic terrain
- Papyrus channels creating natural corridors
Savuti — Endurance
Two flights and the water was gone. Savuti was quintessential Africa: dry, harsh, and beautiful in its refusal to yield.
Lion tracks cut through dust where the channel used to run. Here, life survives by understanding limits — nothing wasted, nothing taken for granted.
Observations
- Lion territorial behavior in arid landscape
- Dry riverbed ecosystems
- Water scarcity driving behavior patterns
- Contrast to Okavango abundance
Victoria Falls — Power and Echo
For a night we traded silence for thunder. The Falls were majesty bordered by memory — portraits of colonial explorers still hung in Zimbabwean halls, a reminder of how history and nature intertwine.
Mist rose like steam from a world rewriting itself.
Reflections
- Scale and force of natural systems
- History and landscape intertwined
- Brief pause between ecosystems
