Mababe Depression
Magnet for thousands of animals
Huge buffalo herds and lion prides
Migration of zebra twice a year
South of Chobe National Park, and east of Moremi Game Reserve, Mababe is the nearest water source for thousands of animals in the dry season. Its permanent marshland is fed by the perennial Mababe River and the seasonal draining of the Okavango Delta, linking to the Linyanti through the Savuti Channel, to create the enormous grassland of the legendary Mababe Depression.
The Mababe Depression marsh fills in the summer season, creating a wetland of some 2,600 hectares. This progressively disappears in the dry season, although never completely, with permanent water feeding nutrient-rich grasslands, welcoming great herds. Here it’s not uncommon to see vast buffalo herds, tsessebe in their hundreds, and large prides of lions following in their wake.
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An extraordinary migration of massive herds of zebra pass through twice a year, at the turn of the season in December, and again in March. The zebras move south to the Nxai Pans where they give birth at the beginning of the rainy season and return north once the rains stop.
There is a good chance to fly over a buffalo herd for a solid ten minutes, the spectacle stretching the breadth of the horizon. And with the buffaloes come the lions. Lion kills can happen every day, perhaps even multiple times a day.
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