#Botswana
This used to be one of my Twitter mantras, so I guess I should restart it here.
For a moment of mindfulness, nothing beats Elephant watching on the Chobe river in Botswana. And you can do so via their webcam. Just sit back, count the elephants, and enjoy.
https://www.chobegamelodge.com/the-chobe-boardwalk-live-webcam/
I've always enjoyed the tales of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency in print and on screen, except for the author Alexander McCall Smith being a white male writing about #Botswana.
This find, from the #Baltimore County Public Library, takes it to another level.
Gothataone Moeng writes fiercely and firmly. Recommended.
Die #Niederlande schaffen mit neuen Mitteln bezahlbaren #Wohnraum 🏘️
das 49-Euro-Ticket hat schon zwei Millionen Neu-Abonnenten hervorgebracht 🚃
und #Botswana zeigt, wie demokratische Entwicklung in #Afrika gelingen kann 🇧🇼
👇Unsere neue Ausgabe ist da
May 7 EWE: Botswana — Hottest may day ever in #Botswana yesterday with 36.1C at Mababe on the highlands in the NE of the country. https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1655176277303730176 #ClimateCrisis
Silent Sunday: Fire grass and termite mounds, Okavango Delta #silentsunday, #okavangodelta, #Botswana
The Okavango Delta is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa. Every year it transforms from a dry barren landscape to a fertile water covered delta in the middle of the desert.
#Botswana #travel #BUCKETLIST https://ift.tt/iA4luTW
@joancarroll I visited Botswana too. — last June. Isn’t the country just magical in the way nature operates there? We used Kwando safaris and the knowledge of the guides was exemplary. Spent time at Lagoon, Labala and Kwara camps in the north. Love the elephant photo! Where did you visit? #botswana #kwandosafaris #nature
We explored the Okavango Delta in #Botswana which was on my #BUCKETLIST since I was a child when I saw on TV how it transforms every year from a dry barren #desert to a fertile water covered delta and back a few months later.
#travel https://ift.tt/iA4luTW
Apr 24 EWE: Fierce heat wave in #Botswana with temperatures rising to 40.4C at Tubu (Northwest) and 38.5C at Mababe. https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1650517185037516806 #ClimateCrisis
Det slås olika värmerekord just nu på alla kontinenter. Botswana är bara ett av många exempel. Nytt aprilrekord.
Över 40 grader 🥵fastän det är en månad efter höstdagjämningen på södra halvklotet.
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Fierce heat wave in #Botswana with temperatures rising to 40.4C at Tubu (Northwest) and 38.5C at Mababe, located at nearly 1000m asl.
It's the hottest April day on records in the country and extremely hotter than anythi…
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1650517185037516806
A Sociable weaver's giant nest in Namibia, probably the most spectacular structure built by any bird.
The Sociable weaver (Philetairus socius) is a species of bird in the weaver family found across #SouthAfrica, #Namibia and #Botswana. This species construct large compound community nests that resemble huts, complete with a sloping thatched-grass roof that sheds rain. These nests are the world’s largest and most populated tree houses, with some weighing up to a ton or more and measuring up to 20 feet wide and 10 feet tall.
Built around large and sturdy structures like acacia trees or sometimes even telephone poles, the nests provide shelter from direct sunshine, rain, drought, and cold. They are large enough to house over a hundred pairs of birds, consisting of several generations at a time. Each breeding pairs tends to its own compartment with its private entrance and line the interior with soft downy plant material. These entrances are packed closely together and when seen from below, the communal nest has a honeycomb appearance. These #birds are constantly making home improvements, adding new nesting chambers, and some nests have remained occupied for over a century!
#Nature #Africa #Amazing #TIL
This image has all the feels. Taken in the Okavango Delta the vast inland river delta in northern #Botswana
photo 📸 @solly_levi
By #AmazingNature
#Nature #NatureLovers #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Photography #Photographer #Video #Science
#geocaching in #botswana (Emsland)
Schön das 4m hohe Schild erklommen unter den Augen der Verkehrsteilnehmer, um den Nano mit verklebten Logbuch zu bergen 🤣
Lustig das trotz über 10 Onlinelogs seit der Wartung niemand im Logbuch steht 🤔
@gratefuldread I feel privileged to have experienced #Okavango and that NW region of #Botswana when it was relatively untouched in the mid 70’s. A jewel of a place.
Lilac-Breasted Roller photographed in the Linyati region of Botswana. These birds are so beautiful when they fly.
#photography #wildlifephotography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #Nikon #photo #photographer #wanderlust #travelbucketlist #adventuretravel #travel #TravelInspiration #wanderlust #travelbucketlist #visitafrica #safari #Africa #AfricaTravel #WeAreWilderness
#ExpertAfrica #OkavangoDelta #Linyati #Botswana #DumaTau
Eine kleine Wasserfläche im Okavango-Delta in #Botswana, stundenlang beobachtet. Irgendwann haben sich Giraffen aus dem Busch angenähert. Drei Schritte vor, zwei zurück. Warten. Drei Schritte vor, zwei zurück. Bis ans Wasser.
Irgendwann nimmt die erste die so interessante Trink-Pose ein. Am Himmel bilden sich in der Ferne Gewitter. Eine schöne Szene an einem lauen Abend zum #Fotomontag #Photomonday #Afrika #Africa 🦒
Black Heron #naturephotography, #Africa, #OkavangoDelta, #XiniLagoon, #Botswana
@w7voa
I appreciate most won’t ever have the opportunity to see these majestic animals in their natural habitat, but it still breaks my heart to imagine them living out their lives in captivity. #Botswana #photography
African Jacana (Actophilornis africanus) -male- carrying all four chicks under his wings just leaving their long legs and toes exposed.
Photo taken in #Botswana by Charl Stols.
www.instagram.com/charl_stols
#Animals #Birds #Photography #Parenthood #Aww
In the 1980s, a diamond mine in Orapa, #Botswana 🇧🇼 began to yield gems of a different kind: #fossils of #Cretaceous #flowers and #insects, including #flies, #beetles, #ants, and #wasps. This #lagerstätte (a site of exceptional #fossil #preservation) records one of the most important #evolutionary transitions in the history of #life on land: the spread of #flowering #plants and their #coevolution with #insect #pollinators.
Photos from Rayner, 1993
https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA052550590_225
White Fronted Bee Eater in the Linyati region of Botswana. These resident birds are quite common in this area and nest in colonies on the sand cliff riverbanks. #Wilderness Duma Tau camp, #Botswana
#Botswana #DumaTatu #Africa #safari #ExpertAfrica #WeAreWilderness #AfricaTravel #visitafrica #photography #wildlifephotograhy #Nikon #wanderlust #travelbucketlist #travel #TravelInspiration #adventuretravel #BirdPhotography #OkavangoDelta #Linyati
@mekkaokereke @kamil_bernaerts
A fair point is that there are plenty of long-term stable democracies in the "global South" that could be studied for the same type of question, e.g. #Botswana [2], #Senegal, #India, #Bangladesh, and most of the Latin American states that had temporary interludes of CIA-installed fascist dictatorships.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Botswana - "Each of the elections since independence in September 1966 has been freely and fairly contested and has been held on schedule."
Many #scholarships available at the University of #Edinburgh for PG online and on-campus programmes via the #Mastercard Foundation for nationals of Sub-Saharan African countries. Apply by 27 January. Spread the word if you can. #Uganda #Tanzania #Kenya #Nigeria #Ghana #SouthAfrica #Namibia #Zambia #Zimbabwe #Botswana #Ethiopia
https://www.ed.ac.uk/global/mastercard-foundation/how-to-apply
Lions looking for breakfast. Chief’s Island, Okavango delta, Botswana Oct. 2021. Unfortunately for them and fortunately for the other animals they did not get breakfast that day.
#Botswana #Africa #safari #photography #wildlifephotograhy
#WeAreWilderness #Mombo #ExpertAfrica
Northern Botswana
#wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #photography #africa #botswana
Central Botswana
#wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography #photography #africa #botswana
Northern Botswana
wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #photography #africa #botswana