Aerial Views from Savute Elephant Camp, Chobe National Park and from Eagle Island Camp...

Aerial views from Savute Elephant Camp by Orient Express in Botswna in Chobe National Park and Eagle Island Camp by Orient Express , outside the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana. The Okavango River is a long African river: it originates in Bie Plateau in Angola, in a very rainy area , and after a journey of almost 1,000 km it enters a closed basin and Botswana (alluvial region improperly named and known worldwide as the Okavango Delta) . As it then leads to an area with a very arid climate , it is an allochthonous rivers, such as the Nile River in Egypt, or the Niger River in Mali. Its watershed drains an area of 721,277 km. The rainy season in the delta coincides with that of Angola, which takes place between October and April and produce the flood of the Okavango River, which begins to be felt in December and takes nine months to complete due to the low gradient of the river , about 60 m to 450 km. The rains are more abundant in the north and lower in the south, where the river goes into the Kalahari. Photographed in 2013