Boteti River

The Boteti River is a natural waterway and is located deep in the Kalahari Desert. A river believed to be as old as the Desert itself; it meanders its way from the Okavango Delta through the Thamalakene River in Maun heading inland to what used to be the Makgadikgadi lake - now salt pans. This river stopped flowing in 1993 due to shifting tectonic activity under the Delta. The Boteti River is now reliant on the flooding levels of the Kavango River and the Okavango Delta and therefore ranges from periods of ample water and droughts.

However, its riverbanks are steep and afford excellent views of the river, to which animals flock in the winter months as the pans dry up. Game viewing on the banks of the Boteti River can be very satisfying. Roughly three percent of the water of the Okavango Delta is flows away through the Boreti River and some two other channels. This outflow sustains the Delta's fresh water ecosystem as it carries away salts and various minerals, which would settle in the Delta.