A National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project river expedition base camp in Angola, captured via drone—one of many aerial shots of the landscape this technology easily allows.

The Cuito and Cubango Rivers converge at the southern Angolan border, forming a bigger river, the Okavango, which flows across the Caprivi Strip, a narrow band of Namibia, and into Botswana.

Here, where miombo forests stretch toward the horizon and rivers thread through deep sands, the Cubango River begins its long journey toward Botswana’s Okavango Delta. But not all of it makes it ...

The Okavango Delta ... adventure in Zimbabwe and Botswana When the earth shook again and the superlake drained away, it left an improbably flat plain, onto which the river dumped more than ten ...

From here, it slowly trickles south towards Botswana, away from the Atlantic Ocean, eventually forming the Okavango River. While most rivers drain into the sea, the Okavango is instead diverted ...