episode description
The Okavango Delta is the prized jewel in Africa’s crown of monumental wildernesses. The largest inland delta in the world, its 2 million hectares of swamp glisten and glean in unrivalled psychedelic displays. In this teeming oasis of giants and gentiles, all creatures’ struggles for survival are inextricably intertwined with the ebb and flow of the river’s life-sustaining and life-severing waters. The Delta’s grandiose scale screams out for awe-inspiring spectacles, and its bustling diversity of inhabitants deliver…and so much more. The underpinning ecological systems operating in the Okavango Delta are as compelling and riveting as the life-stories of its inhabitants. As the dry season reaches its peak on the Delta’s tinder-dry Grasslands, terrific lightning storms seed ravenous fires that scorch through mile-upon-mile in minutes. Vast chim¬neys of smoke rise to meet the clouds, triggering torrential downpours that soak the rich ash into the land. The Delta is rejuvenated, and life begins anew in one of the most astonishing ecosystems on the planet.
