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The Best of the Okavango Delta: Sandibe Lodge
The three days we spent at Sandibe are among the most memorable travel days I’ve ever experienced! In my prior post I’ve discussed an overview of the Okavango Delta and our stay at the Xudum Delta Lodge. As great as that experience was our stay at Sandibe (pronounced San-dee-bee) was even more wonderful.
Like Xudum, Sandibe is situated in the Okavango Delta just south of the Moremi Game Reserve. It’s a large private concession — a former game hunting preserve, but now a photo-safari destination — in a much drier part of the delta than Xudum. While there are still …
Tagged Botswana, Okavanga Delta, Safari, Sandibe, wildlife
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The Remarkable Okavango Delta: Xudum Delta Lodge
After 2 years of planning, dozens of hours of traveling (literally to the other side of the world), the four of us were finally there. Our small Safari Air plane was taking your humble narrator, lovely wife Sylvia, and dear friends Greg and Oscar over the Okavango Delta. We took in the sights of channels of water, branches of the Okavango River, with interspersed ponds and marshes. There were islands of dry land and sand, and — yes, there they were — our first animals sightings; hippos bobbing in the water, herds of elephants working their way through the brush, and buffalo on the plains. It is the water of the delta that provides its life …
Tagged Botswana, Okavanga Delta, Safari, wildlife, Xudum
