Mokoro

We also took a traditional mokoro canoe ride through the delta, stopping along the shore for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We touched at the beautiful tree-covered island of Kalabi, opposite where Tuba-mokoro lectured the lion in our way up. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It wasn't what I'd had in mind when I'd signed up for our trip, a three-day mokoro, or canoe, safari through the placid channels and lagoons of the Okavango. ❋ Unknown (2011)

While many of the tour operators in Maun were charging more than $100 a day for tours of the delta in traditional mokoro canoes, I booked a three-day, two-night trip for just over $140. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The ride on mokoro back to the 4x4 pick up area was nice and sunny with no hippos bothering us anymore. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Being poled along by Ellisa in a mokoro, 2 people sitting/lying in a dug out canoe for 3 hours, listening to the bird and insect life and reeds being brushed aside, we headed to an overnight stay 4.5 km away on a island in edge of the 16,000 sq km Okavango Delta. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Drift through the Okavango Delta, in a traditional mokoro ❋ Unknown (2010)

One mokoro had the cooking gear/food and another all of our tents piled on it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thank goodness we had a modern mokoro ie a fiberglass one as the wooden ones made out of single sausage tree that takes 80 years to grow but only last 5 - 6 years leak! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fishermen in mokoro boat at sunrise, Chobe River, Namibia ❋ Unknown (2010)

· A choice of twice daily game drives, mokoro (dugout canoe) excursions, powerboat cruises and bush walks as offered by the lodge ❋ Unknown (2010)

The hippos sounded very close to the mokoro, but were mostly about 5 metres away under the water (according to the polers)! ❋ Unknown (2010)

The men use a 6 foot long stick to pole the mokoro along the delta, by putting the stick into the water and pushing the canoe off the bottom of the bed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After a 3 hour mokoro ride, we ended up at our campsite. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Once we arrived, we each were placed in a mokoro (a traditional wooden canoe) with our tent mate and our poler. ❋ Unknown (2009)