Off-season Okavango wildlife wonder: Moremi's newest camp offers South Africans sun-soaked discounts

Summer in the Okavango Delta is hot. It’s the kind of hot that turns suncream, stashed safely in the depths of your bag, tepid; that evaporates temporary respite from cold showers immediately upon reentry into the atmosphere; and that grips any exposed flesh an hour after dawn.

The heat lingers throughout the day until about halfway through that first sunset gin and tonic, typically drunk to honking hippos or sloshing elephants or storks sailing silently in the amber skies. Which, not coincidentally, is when everything feels right in the world.