BOTSWANA: Is Always a Good Idea

AFRICAN HORSEBACK SAFARIS, Botswana

There is never a bad time to ride the Okavango Delta. Water shifts, seasons turn and the whole place changes outfit, so every trip feels like new magic. Rock up when it suits you, ride out from a luxe camp and roll back in for bubble baths with a view while animals graze past your tub. Vehicles get stuck. Horses do not. This is how you savour the Delta.

With African Horseback Safaris the guides are walking encyclopedias with excellent bush gossip, and the horses are even sharper. Watch their ears to see what they have spotted before you do. When they drop their heads to graze, the message is clear: all is calm. The wildlife believes them and you get front row seats to the show.

LEVEL: Enthusiastic Intermediate. Up to six hours a day in the saddle, keeping up with the herd at all paces. If rising trot and steering at the canter sound fun, you are our kind of trouble.

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