{"id":19,"date":"2012-04-13T11:13:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T11:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2024-01-05T12:14:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T12:14:57","slug":"botswana-the-delta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Botswana and Okavango"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BOTSWANA AND THE OKAVANGO DELTA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-139\" title=\"river with trees\" src=\"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/river-with-trees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/river-with-trees.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/river-with-trees-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/river-with-trees-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Botswana landscape is dominated by a platform that lies about 3,300 feet above sea level. The eastern part contains some of the very few hills the country has on offer. The Kalahari Desert covers the southern and the western parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rivier1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-238\" title=\"rivier\" src=\"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rivier1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rivier1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rivier1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rivier1-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the northwest the Okavango River enters the country from the mountains in Angola. It\u2019s the only river in the world that does not end in a sea, but collides with the earth\u2019s fault lines and comes to a standstill in the north of the Kalahari forming the Okavango Delta.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-160\" title=\"baobab en olifant\" src=\"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/baobab-en-olifant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3888\" height=\"2592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/baobab-en-olifant.jpg 3888w, https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/baobab-en-olifant-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/baobab-en-olifant-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3888px) 100vw, 3888px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Delta has become a world famous natural phenomenon that attracts researchers, documentary makers and nature lovers from all over the world who come here to celebrate and enjoy the beauty that pristine nature has to offer.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOTSWANA AND THE OKAVANGO DELTA The Botswana landscape is dominated by a platform that lies about 3,300 feet above sea level. The eastern part contains some of the very few hills the country has on offer. The Kalahari Desert covers the southern and the western parts of the country. In the northwest the Okavango River [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/botswanatrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}