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Audi Camp Maun BotswanaAudi Camp Botswana accommodation guide – all the information you need about the accommodation at the Audi Camp Maun. Photographs, room types, location and booking information for your stay at the Audi Camp Maun Botswana.
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We also have many shaded camping areas and some of the sites have power points. We have a bar and a la carte restaurant. Features of Audi Camp Facilities Available:
Restaurant and bar area – breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks available all day. Some ideas of what to do at Audi Camp:
Where is Audi Camp? PHILOSOPHY They have never had the opportunities to develop their business skills nor to have control or empowerment over of the local resources. The evolution of these skills requires successes, failures and long term experience. As the communities become more involved with the tourist industry they began to see the value and uniqueness of their culture, skills, and environment. With experience and time we think that the communities will begin not only to see their traditional knowledge and skills as a marketable service but something worth passing on to future generations – rather than being over run by industrial and western values. Our mokoro trips should be viewed as a "cultural" experience as opposed to a "wildlife" experience. In stating this, we do not mean you will not see wildlife, wildlife is an integral part of the local culture, but this should be secondary to experiencing the people you will be with. What the traveller should understand is that different cultures do not have similar "world view" perspectives. Trying to see and relate to the area and environment as the local people do, can be a fascinating experience. We hope that you will take the time and the opportunity to try to do this – but this will require an effort on your part. You will have to do away with many of your own expectations and cultural bias. This is a unique chance to involve yourself with a local culture. Although they now are starting to earn a living from tourism, these people are not "commercial" in any sense of the word. They are just very nice, down to earth people trying to share their world with you. We hope that you will join us, enjoy the people and enjoy yourselves. THE OKAVANGO DELTA Tectonic activity and faulting interrupted the flow of the river causing it to backup and form what is now the Okavango Delta. This has created a unique system of water ways that now supports a vast array of animal and plant life that would have otherwise been a dry Kalahari savannah. The delta’s floods are fed from the Angolan rains, which start in October and finish sometime in April. The floods only cross the border between Botswana and Namibia in December and will only reach the bottom end of the delta (Maun) sometime in July, taking almost nine months from the source to the bottom. This slow meandering pace of the flood is due to the lack of drop in elevation, which slopes a little more than 60 metres over a distance of 450 kilometres. The delta’s water dead ends in the Kalahari – via the Botetle river, with over 95 per cent of the water eventually evaporating. During the peak of the flooding the delta’s area can expand to over 16,000 square kilometres, shrinking to less than 9,000 square kilometres in the low period. As the water travels through the delta, the wildlife starts to move back into the region. The areas surrounding the delta are beginning to dry out (the rains in Botswana occur approximately the same time as in Angola) and the wildlife starts to congregate on the edge of the newly flooded areas, May through October. The delta environment has large numbers of animal populations that are otherwise rare, such as crocodile, red lechwe, sitatunga, elephant, wild dogs, buffalo, wattled crane as well as the other more common mammals and bird life. The best time for game viewing in the delta is during the May-October period, as the animal life is concentrated along the flooded areas and the vegetation has dried out. The best time for birding and vegetation is during the rainy season (Nov.- April) as the migrant bird populations are returning and the plants are flowering and green. Email Audi Camp enquiries and reservations: bookbotswana@madbookings.com |
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