The waters are already rising in the Okavango delta, the miraculous annual "flood" having come several weeks early this year.  If you're lucky enough to go in the next few months look forward to crisp mornings with champagne air and long sunny days on safari under immense Okavango skies.  We loved our time at Little Kwara Camp in late April with its views across the watery floodplains and its charming confident Botswana staff.  Herds of tsessebe, kudu, reedbuck shimmering in the grass, thousands of impala everywhere.  Breeding herds of elephant, playful adolescent bulls and lazy lions which couldn't care less.  But we also witnessed the most harrowing sights and sounds in our twenty years on safari, as a pack of five wild dog cornered and killed a heavily pregnant alpha female from a rival pack in a shallow lagoon right in front of us.  A reminder that behind those deceptively idyllic scenes there is a fierce competitiveness to life and death in the bush.  We have just heard that specially discounted rates will apply at Kwando Safaris Botswana camps through to 20 July as space has been released that was being held for the World Cup.  Contact John and book your dream safari to Botswana.