It’s one thing to look at an elephant from a game viewer; your eyes level with the tusks of the world’s largest land mammal.
It’s another thing entirely to look up from ground level at an elephant towering over you from a riverbank; your heart beating in your throat and your eyes capturing the detail in the animal’s toenails.
The Okavango Delta is alive with elephants, bathing triumphantly in the endless waterways, and this is where Afrika Ecco Safaris takes you in the seat of a mokoro to view elephants from the ground up.
A press release says this is a safari experience on another level: an intimate, unforgettable, and somewhat dwarfing view of the largest mammal on earth in an environment that is completely theirs.
BThe Okavango Delta is known as the ‘jewel of the Kalahari’ . Elephants migrate to ensure a year-round supply of water, but here they remain throughout the seasons. In winter, when the feeding rivers have swelled and filled the Delta streams, the water levels are high, and the season for mokoro safaris arrives.
On an Afrika Ecco safari, professional guides invite you to relax into the seat of their dugout canoes, and get your camera ready for action. Using a long, hand-sanded pole equipped with a carved fork into one end for effective grip on the floor of the Delta rivers, they guide you effortlessly through the water. The mokoro safari transports you into the world of elephants, which emerge from the reeds to cross the water in front of you, feeding noisily on the lilies they pluck from the water.
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IOL, adapted from a press release