Although Botswana lies thousands of miles from the ocean, life in this land-locked country is shaped by water. At the Chobe River, the world’s highest concentration of African elephants gathers to drink. In the Okavango Delta, seasonal rainwater flows down from the Angolan highlands creating a network of silver veins pumping life into swamps and lagoons.

In Moremi Game Reserve, lions, leopards and lechwes live on islands studded with terracotta termite mounds, as awestruck travellers paddle silently past in mokoros in traditional canoes. Right across this crowd-free country, nature’s survival strategies offer extraordinary spectacles. In the Makgadikgadi Pans, a vast bed of crusted salt, thousands of zebras migrate between December and March to feast on surrounding nutrient-rich grasses, while meerkats dig for insects in the dust. And in the burning red sands of the Kalahari, communities of San people practice skills handed down by their ancestors.

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