Trying to Get Deep Into the Okavango Delta// EP.52
The Okavango Delta is one of the most inaccessible places on the planet. It is a paradise wetland, and most of the Delta is only accessible by plane. We are taking our Land Rover Defender deep into the Delta to see how far we can get.
We start in Khwai at the east side of the Okavango. here one can find animals everywhere, even have traffic jams due to way too many giraffes. We are going towards Maun. The road connecting Khwai and Maun is incredible, most of the time straight, with a very bright white sand color. We were having fun cruising , when we decided to swap, so I could take the wheel. Just right after, the weather turned bad, really, really bad. Rains in Botswana can be very heavy as we learnt this day. The road turned into a swimmingpool.
In Maun we celebrated Irati's birthday (Okavango brewery) before driving deep into the Okavango Delta. We didn't have a route or plan and we didn't know how far we could get and if we would find water.
After several days exploring we decide to head towards Maun and join last minute a Flying Safari over the Okavango Delta. Let me tell you flying over the Okavango Delta is once in a lifetime experience.
Enjoy the Ride!
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We, Kai & Irati from Germany and Spain, are currently on a full-time Overland journey. We quit our jobs, our apartment and left Germany mid of March 2022. We traveled all the way from Germany to Botswana, and had amazing experiences for the last year. Follow us in season 2 where we will be exploring the Middle East and Africa!
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• Land Rover Defender 11...
Land Rover 110 TD5 (MY 1998)
X-Vision-X PopTop (roof Tent)
BF Goodrich tires 265/75/R16
Land Rover HD springs & Kony Heavy track Raid shock absorbers
GMB "Esel" roof rack
GMB long range fuel tank
GMB Sandboards
X-Vision-X exterior storage box (rear left)
DIY Custom outdoor shower
270° Foxwing Awning - Rhino Rack
200W Victron Energy solar system
- Solar Panel: 2x Offgrittec 100W
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Nolden 7" Bi-LED headlamps
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HELLA Value Fit Exterior lights amzn.to/3F46eso
ExTec rear door folding table
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32 l Engel Fridge / Freezer
Lifesaver Jerrycan water filter amzn.to/3UIybvG
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Пікірлер: 54
Very beautiful area , and what a awesome adventure to take in your Land Rover defender . Am loving your journey watching threw your beautiful videos . Thanks again for sharing your wonderful travel memories with us your over landing friends . . Cheers from Steve Stott in Sutherlin Oregon U.S.A.:) :) 🌍🍻😁👍🏼
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
It was awesome to be able and explore such a beautiful part of the world. The Delta is a must if coming to Botswana 🙌 happy that you enjoyed it!
@stevestott1514
Жыл бұрын
@@Thebluelandy 😁
Fantastic. What an amazing part of Africa! Great videography and good driving skills in the rain too. 👍
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
It really is extraordinary, we enjoyed it immensely. Both on land and in the air. It is truly a once in a lifetime experience 💚
@Badfinger7761
Жыл бұрын
@@Thebluelandy Memories that will remain with you for your whole lives. 😊
Incredible flight over the delta! Wow, what a trip👌
@Thebluelandy
4 ай бұрын
It was amazing to get to this area with our Landy! Thank you for following along and commenting 🤗🙌
Okavango Delta is just amazing man, One one Africa's best kept natural wonder 😍😍😍
@Thebluelandy
11 ай бұрын
We really enjoyed that we could be there!
Another wonderful episode! Andrew St Pierre and Gwynn White wrote a book called Torn Trousers where they gave up their jobs to run a camp in the Okavango Delta.
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
I will need to check that out! Sounds really interesting 😱🤩
@bertplank8011
Жыл бұрын
Not an "entirely accurate account"...with some artistic licence employed.
Would not have guessed that there was a brewery out there. Came in handy for a birthday celebration.
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
We couldn't believe it, but when we started researching at lunch were happily surprised. Amazing beer and burgers, they even do a veggie burger that is at the level of the beef one. Was a good way of celebrating 🥳
¡Deseos de feliz cumpleaños atrasados. Ihre habt eine grosse Begabung für wunderschöne Videos ! ¡Take care ! Beste Grüsse aus Hamburg - Max
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
Muchas gracias Max!! 🥰
Great video, you guys are living my dream!
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
Thanks you. Yeah sometimes I think we do. But it’s not for everyone, and there is quite a lot of work happening behind the scenes to put out this videos
Happy Birthday. Looked like a good birthday lunch. Another beautiful video. Thanks.
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!! It was really a treat to fin a brewery in such a location. Perfect timing as well 🎉thank you for following along!
Superbe ! Merci beaucoup !!
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
🤗🤗Merci!
A place I'm proud to call home.
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
Hey Moram, you should really be! It’s beautiful
Nice video 🤙 Thank you
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching 😊
Bonjour, merci pour ce partage et pour vos vidéos. C’est un plaisir de les regarder. Quel matériel utilisez-vous pour filmer ? Canon g 7x ? Merci :-)
@Thebluelandy
7 ай бұрын
Merci beaucoup d'avoir regardé ! Dans cette vidéo Sony zv1 et Canon 80D. Dans les dernières vidéos le Canon 90D!
Great video's 👍🏻. Recently found them and just finished watching all the Africa episodes. The rest will follow. I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers and likes. Maybe you have a chance to meat up with GrizzlyNBear or other YT Overlanders and that will help boost your channel. You 2 definitely deserve it because the video's and narration are high quality. Safe and awesome travels 🤟🏻
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
Hey Rob! Thanks for watching, glad you enjoy following us along in Africa! We’re not that good is self promotion and it’s also not our stile. But feel free to promote the Chanel in your community, we would really appreciate it! We did and will meet other Overlanders and KZreadrs. but also in this occasions sometimes it’s better to put the camera down and enjoy the moment with some instead for shooting everything to get more traction.
@rberkel1
Жыл бұрын
@@Thebluelandy Haha ... just watched the last video of GrizzlyNBear and saw you met up with them 😃🤟🏼
@njorogekiarie-PPS
8 ай бұрын
@@rberkel1I was hoping so too.😂😂😂
I think you made a mistake not going into Moremi … but glad you enjoyed the area.
@Thebluelandy
10 ай бұрын
Yeah, we had heard many good things about Moremi. In the end we picked and chose NPs to limit our spendings. We wanted to do something different after Chobe and as we got our birthday gifts we decided to choose the the safari flight. 🤷We enjoyed it a lot! Sometimes one cannot do everything 😅
The Delta is a fantastic place, spent a night camping on an island listening to Lions hunting Zebra on the neighbouring island which we had been walking around earlier that day. Also had an encounter with a Croc that didn’t like us using his stretch of river
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
It is really a fantastic place. And pretty untouched in most of the Delta! We cannot afford going to any of the lodges deep in the Delta. But it needs to be really incredible. We had our share of lion and hyenas at night in Khwai 😱
@Jabber-ig3iw
Жыл бұрын
@@Thebluelandy yeah I’ve never done any of the fancy Lodge camping in Africa, my budget is more 2 man dome tent with minimal facilities, the delta is definitely a place I’d like to return to when my wife and I do our big trip in a couple of years.
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
@@Jabber-ig3iw then we are in the same page!! Reach out to us if you need any place in the bush to camp, when you start your journey. We save all our spots in the wild 🤩
Okavango
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
So beautiful ❤️
Hi Guys. How do you get to follow such small tracks and roads? Wikiloc or just your GPS. I find Wikiloc quite helpful
@Thebluelandy
3 ай бұрын
Hey, thanks for watching! We use Google satellite pictures quite a lot and the rest is trial and error 😜
Fantastic drone work there. Ironic about the EU fence ?
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! The place helps 🤪 yeah, it is really shocking that Europe can have such an impact in the other corner of the world.
Very nice video! Question for you when it is just the two of you do you use German or Spanish to communicate with each other, just wondering?
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
Thank you and happy that you liked it 🎉 currently we talk most of the time in English. When we were living together in Germany we used German all the time, so I (Irati) could improve. But on the road it's difficult to keep this! Kai cannot talk Spanish (yet 😉) so the only things we say to each other in Spanish are simple, but important words: comida, cerveza, hasta mañana 🤣🤣🤣
@coloradoridgerunner791
Жыл бұрын
@@Thebluelandy Thank you
how much did you pay for your flight
@Thebluelandy
Жыл бұрын
Hey!! I think we paid 120$ per person. This was the price for 6 people on a plane. There are bigger planes with more passengers and I guess price would drop to 100$ per person. We normally don't do expensive activities, as we don't have the budget, but we both had birthday in March and our family gave us some money for such an event.happy that we did, totally worth it!! 🙌🙌🙌
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11 ай бұрын
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11 ай бұрын
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