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. 

Attractions are geared towards exploring the area’s scenic and wildlife but the activities are dependent on the water levels. Between June and September when the water is high, Eagle Island Camp offers bird and game viewing by mokoro (dugout canoe), motorboats and walking trails. Activities include: Safari, Wildlife Game, Canoeing, Fishing, Photography, Cruise and dusk excursions in the 14-seater Sundowner cruiser, Swimming. The flying is avaible if you would like to watch the animals from the air, there is a inclusive helicopter safari.

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.

Okavango Delta is a paradise of palms, papyrus, crystal-clear channels and backwaters. The surrounding atmosphere is filled with sounds of birds calling, frogs trilling and antelopes running in the reeds. Wildebeest, hartebeest, buffalo and zebra roam the islands. Elephants, hippos and crocodiles wade across channels. The predators rule the night.

So but not only animals are centralize in this oasis. The area is very sensitive and for that reason Botswana government operates a politics of high-income tourism, which makes southern Africa a pricey holiday destination. Of course this doesn’t stop visitors from all over the world to reached these wilderness areas.

There’re many companies which will help tourists to arrange their own trip, that should cover the delta and surrounds, also including flights, transfer, accommodations and game-viewing trips. It’s advisable to spend in the delta three nights or four because of its own unique mood and rhythm.

As well as there’s a lot more to explore in Botswana. To the northeast is sitted Chobe National Park, which is 12, 000 sq km home to 100, 000 elephants. To the south are the splendid Makgadikgadi and Naxi pans and many many Africa’s wilderness zones.

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.

It now forms the world’s largest inland delta, containing 95% of all Botswana’s surface water. Around its perimeter are scattered the exclusive tourist lodges and camps, unlike any others in Africa. The Okavango’s water is remarkably clean and pure and this is almost certainly due to the fact that it passes through very sparsely populated areas on its journey from Angola. Despite this, a staggering 660 000 tons of sediment a year are delivered to its great alluvial fan. The slow drift of the annual flood into the Delta, taking weeks to push in from Shakawe on its upper reaches to Maun, on its eastern edge, causes minimal turgidity. This, combined with the very effective filtration action of the dense reed beds and papyrus groves, results in water of almost startling clarity. Part of the Delta has been incorporated into the Moremi Game Reserve, set aside in 1963, by the local community to preserve the wildlife.

The delta has a number of Lodges and Camps, many of which are in private concessions, bordering the Park, and therefore allowing for more intimate game viewing. Game drives are not possible at many lodges, therefore walks and mekoro excursions are the order of the day – and there is possibly no better way to experience nature than on the tranquil waters of this magnificent place.

During the study, Bird Life Botswana was in particular interested in the slaty egret a vulnerable water bird living only in Southern Africa. The egret, which has its main breeding grounds in the wetlands of Zambia, Mozambique and Botswana’s Okavango Delta, is by now estimated to have a total population of only about 4,000 birds. The survey team managed to collect “valuable data on the ecology” of the egret, Pete Hancock of Bird Life Botswana says. The familiar favourites are there in force too – various antelope, elephant, giraffe, hippo, lion, leopard and the like.

In most places the delta canals are shallow, so a safari generally takes place in dug-out canoes called mokoros, which can hold two people plus the poler, who stands in the back of the mokoro like a Venetian gondolier and pushes you through the marshy delta, only he doesn’t sing or try to sell you a phoney hat at the end of the ride. He just tries to keep you from getting attacked by hippos.