Okavango Delta: An Oasis of Majestic Beauty and Adventure Awaits You

The Okavango Delta is one of the most stunning places to visit in the entire world. With its crystal blue lagoons, vibrant wildlife, and lush plant life, it’s no wonder this stunning oasis is rated as one of the world’s top luxurious destinations for an African Safari Vacation. The wildlife seen at the Okavango Delta is arguably the greatest in all of Africa. The waterholes outside of lavish accommodations are a haven for exotic birds, vivacious colored fish, and mesmerizing game.

Footsteps in Africa, a company which represents the luxurious Delta Camp and Mapula Lodge in Botswana, works together with Hills of Africa Travel to create an intimate, quality, game rich and rewarding Botswana safari experience for their clients. The exceptional accommodations, adventure, wildlife, and dining characteristic to this camp and lodge offer a vintage Botswana safari in the Okavango Delta.



• The Mapula Lodge is perfect for families and honeymooners, with its ten spacious chalets, perfect to retreat to after a long day on an enchanting Botswana African safari. Outdoor showers and screened in porches allow the bush to come to life all around you. Located in close proximity to the private Moremi Game Reserve, this lodge is the perfect place to enjoy a wide spectrum of spectacular game, and adventurous activities. Private, sprawling decks offer a great opportunity to observe a family of hippopotamus playing in the majestic lagoon at close proximity. This lodge’s casual atmosphere allows for a comfortable and playful stay.



• The Delta Camp is tastefully decorated with legendary African artifacts, and soothing colors, reminiscent of the Kalahari Desert. The nearby waterhole boasts spectacular bird viewing, and is the perfect place to watch animals satisfy their thirst in the hot sun. The Delta Camp has seven chalets, and offers an Old-African charm, as it is thirty years old. This vintage camp is the perfect location in the majestic Okavango Delta oasis. If you’re looking for a green stay, the Delta Camp offers just that. Each chalet is built from natural materials, is powered by solar panels, and is raised from the ground. The combination of these green elements never compromises the Camp’s luxurious feel.

There’s never a shortage of adventure at the Mapula Lodge and Delta Camp . . .

• The Mapula Lodge’s location makes it one of the most exceptional places to enjoy a walking safari, and become one with nature. Its surroundings celebrate a plethora of bird species, game, and other captivating mammals. The Mapula Lodge is also an excellent place to experience night safari drives, when the elusive nocturnal animals come out of hiding. The nearby Mopane Woodland and Savanna boast some of the most spectacular creatures in Africa. Species including the cape buffalo and elephant (members of the Big Five), the fish eagle, red hornbill, and spoon-billed stork (bird species), are just some of the few creatures found throughout the lively Okavango Delta.

• The Delta Camp’s dedication to the preservation of the fragile ecosystem forbids game vehicles to be present in the area. Visitors travel the same way the locals do, in dugout canoes along the Zambezi, a haven for sensational wildlife. The Delta Camp is renowned for its excellent, authentic canoe safaris and bush walks on Chief’s Island. Both the walking safari and canoe safari open tourists’ eyes to a world of unmatchable beauty. Kudu, springbok, black-backed jackal, and wildebeest, are some of the many creatures seen on these rewarding safaris. The area is also a prime location for bird viewing. Species such as vultures, goshawks, sand grouse, pied crows, and bee-eater can be found singing in the trees and flying overhead.


The Okavango Delta is a true treasure in Botswana, and is filled with exciting activities for those on a Botswana honeymoon safari, or African family safari. Let Hills of Africa Trave and Footsteps in Africa help you plan your African safari vacation of a lifetime. Contact Hills of Africa Travel today at (877) 845-4802 and build memories that will last a lifetime. An experience of unimaginable proportions awaits you.

Amazing Botswana: Free Flights!

Hills of Africa Travel is pleased to offer a great 7-night package to Botswana that will simply add to the incredible value of getting international airfare free.

If you book 6 nights or more on an African Bush Camps mobile tented safari, your charter flights are free!!! Botswana is one of the best safari destinations in the world. It offers incredible wildlife, stunning scenery, an exclusiveness found in few other places, and an enormous variety in game viewing. The cost of flying from camp to camp makes it price prohibitive for many, many travelers. Thanks to this deal, it is affordable for lots more people. But you must book by February 28 to take advantage of this deal.

We have put together a lovely itinerary that consists of 7 nights at 3 camps in Botswana, for travel February through end of May. The total package price is $4,550 per person and includes:

• 7 nights accommodation at 3 different camps throughout Botswana;
• All meals and drinks;
• All game-viewing activities;
• All charter flights for transportation between camps;
• Round-trip airfare from Johannesburg to Maun

The only additional cost is international airfare. If you put this together with the South African Airways special, you will be making out like bandits!!!

Talk about a great Valentine's Day gift!!!!

Call (704) 296-2644 or e-mail sandy@hillsofafrica.com to book!

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Animal Spotlight: The Cheetah

Known as the world's fastest land animal, the cheetah falls at the bottom of the hierarchy of big cats, with the lion first and the leopard second. The cheetah is mostly a solitary animal and does not benefit from pooling of resources when it comes to kills, like the lion prides.

The secret to a cheetah's speed is its supple spine, which coils and uncoils like a spring, catapulting the cat forward. In the cheetah, the hind limbs push sequentially, rather than together, as in slower animals. Thus for about half the time, a running cheetah has all four feet off the ground and is literally flying. In the air, the flying cheetah moves so fast that it uses its tail as a rudder.

Such speed demands a short, enormous surge of energy. On its hunts, the cheetah is well aware of the limits of its built-for-speed body. Most other cats hunt at night and ambush their prey. Cheetahs will hunt at night, but are frequently seen hunting in the early morning or late afternoon. A cheetah stalks its prey until only about 50 yards separate the hunter and the hunted. At this point the cheetah charges, its elongated eyes giving it a wide-angle view as the prey tries to evade with tight turns. Lions give up the chase after 100 yards or so, but cheetahs can run more that three miles, at an average speed of 45 miles per hour. The hunt may end in a sprint that lasts from 20 seconds to 60 seconds.

Here are five fantastic safari destinations to see the cheetah:

1. Kruger National Park
2. Okavango Delta
3. Hwange National Park
4. South Luangwa National Park
5. Madikwe Game Reserve

Another exciting and educating way to spend time with cheetahs, is to visit The Cheetah Outreach program at Spier in Stellenbosch. You can visit for the day and spend time with the cheetahs. Cheetah Outreach is a fantastic program by promoting the survival of the cheetah through environmental education.

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