Tag: boat_ride

Wetlands in low sun
Gallery: mokoro rides in the Okavango Delta

Gallery: mokoro rides in the Okavango Delta

Please don’t ask me to pick my favourite landscape – it’s impossible. I love the drama of high mountain ranges, and the huge open skies of the desert; the haunting light that illuminates certain lands close to our poles, and grassy savannahs strewn with baobab trees; gentle green rolling hills, and roaring waterfalls.

View of beach with icebergs and mountains beyond
Glacier Grey – or should that be turquoise?

Glacier Grey – or should that be turquoise?

Battling across the dark grey stony beach, hardly able to stay upright in the wind, which was whipping grit into my eyes and cheeks, I wondered if it would all be worth it. But one look at the turquoise blue icebergs floating on the water to my left reassured me that it would be. And it was.