Africa Brochure 5-22-20

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botswana’s timeless wilderness

Botswana’s Okavango Delta & Moremi Game Reserve

Victoria Falls

12 days door-to-door  Includes days en route to/from Johannesburg

f we had to pick the most miraculous

African place of all, it might well be the Okavango Delta, where the 1,000-milelong Okavango River gives up on its search for an outlet to the sea and seeps lifegivingly into the sands of one of the world’s most uncompromising deserts, creating a vast and mesmerizing oasis. As Frans Lanting wrote in his elegiac book Okavango: Africa’s Last Eden, “The [Delta’s] very existence in the middle of the Kalahari Desert is nothing short of miraculous . . . like a dream.” Botswana’s wilderness is expansive and—to our scurrying senses — timeless and the Okavango isn’t its only dreamy place. Our under-two-week safari takes us to three others, right up near the top of African marvels: the lush and pacific Gomoti Plains Camp, the exemplary Moremi Game Reserve, quite close to another phenomenon of miraculous rarity, Victoria Falls.

The word wonderful does not fit into science, for from one point of view every natural occurrence is as wonderful as another. But we are justified in using the term when we meet a phenomenon which is such an exception to the ordinary rules of nature that it appears to be a miracle. —Eugène N. Marais,   The Soul of the Ape

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The Skyscraping Dunes of Namibia

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pages 163-171

Victoria Falls

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page 162

Ballooning Over Africa

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page 157

Tracking Majestic Mountain Gorillas

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pages 158-159

Zanzibar

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page 156

The Great Namibia and South Africa Adventure

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pages 141-146

Botswana’s Timeless Wilderness

7min
pages 135-140

Passage Through Botswana and Zimbabwe

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pages 129-134

Jewels of Southern Africa

6min
pages 123-128

The Stanley Wing Safari

9min
pages 81-86

African Splendour

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pages 99-104

The Heart of Kenya and Tanzania

9min
pages 93-98

Tanzania Spectacular

8min
pages 87-92

The Micato Grand Safari

10min
pages 69-74

The Hemingway Wing Safari

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pages 75-80

Micato Private Classic Safaris

2min
pages 64-68

Micato Classic Safaris

1min
pages 62-63

A Day on Safari

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pages 50-52

Micato-AmericaShare

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pages 38-41

Huru International

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pages 42-43

The Micato One for One Commitment

1min
pages 36-37

Flying Over Africa

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East and Southern Africa Custom Safaris

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pages 56-61

A Letter from Felix and Jane Pinto

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Three Ways to Safari with Micato

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