Mokoro

I'd seen the pictures of mokoro but I didn't know what it was, the word to use, the history, before planning my trip. A couple of friends live in Lesotho and they took a third friend on a similar tour to mine, to ours, through the same areas.

Their pictures and their stories reinforced my decision, my trip, my plan. The mokoro picture, especially. It just looked so peaceful.

According to a safari website I found (though not my own), the mokoro are associated with the BaYei people.

"The BaYei people came to the Okavango Delta hundreds of years ago, bringing with them, their traditional mode of transport, the mokoro, a dug-out canoe made from a large straight tree such as a sausage tree or an ebony tree. The mokoro is ideally suited as transport in the delta as in can move quietly through shallow water, being pushed by the boatman using a long pole, moving along the narrow channels or cutting through the long grasses or papyrus."

I'll post my own pictures when I can.


Written on December 15 and autoposted to correlate with the trip.

Tag: Botswana Vacation Travel