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Scenic slideshow Chitabe area

A scenic slide show taken around the Chitabe area bordering Moremi game reserve in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.

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photos courtesy of © Dave Hamman, Michael Poliza and wilderness

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Moremi, hunted by the Bushman as long as 10,000 years ago, was initiated by the Batawana tribe and covers some 4,871 km2, as the eastern section of the Okavango Delta.

Moremi is mostly described as one of the most beautiful wildlife reserves in Africa. It combines mopane woodland and acacia forests, floodplains and lagoons. It is the great diversity of plant and animal life that makes Moremi so well known.

Best time to Visit

Moremi Game reserve is best visited in the dry season and game viewing is at its peak from July to October, when seasonal pans dry up and the wildlife concentrates on the permanent water.

Climate

The winter months of May to August can be very cold at night, but pleasantly warm, under clear blue skies, during the day.

From October until the rains break in late November or early December, the weather can be extremely hot - both day and night.

The reserve enjoys a wide diversity of habitat and is well known for the height of the trees in the mopane tongue, which covers the central area. However, the mainland part forms only about thirty percent of the reserve and is, in many ways untypical - the remaining area being part of the Okavango Delta.

Wildlife to be found

Birdlife is prolific and varied, ranging from water birds to shy forest dwellers. Elephants are numerous, particularly during the dry season, as well as a range of other wildlife species from buffalo, giraffe, lion, leopard, cheetah, wild dog, hyena, jackal and the full range of antelope, large and small, including the red lechwe.

Rhino, both black and white, were here in the past, but most of the few remaining have been sought out for translocation to the protection of a sanctuary, away from the attentions of illegal hunters.

Wild dog, whose numbers are so rapidly dwindling elsewhere, are regularly sighted in the Moremi

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