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This is one of most pristine natural regions of the world. Eagle Island Camp is hidden from the world, deep within Okavango Delta, Botswana. The area offers a myriad waterways, vast flood plains and birdlife and mammal sightings. As one of the world’s premier bird-watching locations, Eagle Island Camp is the place of your nature experience. There are 11 luxury tents, and 1 private suite, all luxuriously appointed. Each of them has spacious wooden decks overlooking the lagoon. Furnished with easy chairs and a hammock, they’re offering great views over the surrounding floodplains. 
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Botswana is a country in Southern Africa and home to one of the world’s great natural occurrence, the quiet Oravango Delta, a 15,000 sq km inland foot plain spread out in the northwestern corner of the country.
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The Okavango Delta is the largest inland delta on Earth. Instead of flowing into the sea, the annual flood of fresh water flows inland, spreading over 15 000km of the Kalahari sand in a maze of lagoons and channels. The River Okavango, which rises in the highlands of Angola, never reaches the sea; instead, its mighty waters empty over the sand of the Kalahari Desert. Here the thirst land of the south meets a blue-green wilderness of fresh water, with emerald reed beds and towering trees. Over the aeon the Okavango River has spread its rich sediment over a huge, almost flat area, in the shape of a giant panhandle.

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Hannibal crossed the Alps on an elephant so why not traverse Botswana’s Okavango Delta swamps on one. Siyabona Africa’s five day elephant-back safari starts at the luxury tented Abu Camp on the edge of the swamps where you are introduced to your elephant and get on first-name terms.
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