Join us as Jerry Connolly will describe the birds and wildlife of Namibia and Botswana that he and his tour group saw on their 16-day, 1500 mile Safari Spectacular. Namibia, the dry south-western corner of Africa, hosts all three of southern Africa’s great desert systems - the Karoo in the south, the Kalahari in the east, and the driest of the three, the Namib, sprawling along the west coast. Namibia has, arguably, the world’s best desert birding, or certainly some of the world’s best desert birds. The Okavango Delta in Botswana, in the midst of the great Kalahari Desert, is Africa’s largest and most beautiful oasis. It is one of the world’s greatest mysteries – water in a desert! The Okavango features an amazing expanse of waterways, floodplains, forested islands, and lagoons that covers about 18,000 sq. kilometers and is home to a myriad of animal and bird species.
