[{SlideShowNav}] !!!Okavango Delta [{Image src='110bc.jpg' width='603' height='650' alt='Okavango Delta' caption='Image Courtesy of USGS' class='image_left' popup='false'}] [{SET customtitle='Okavango Delta'}] Like a watercolor in which a brushstroke of dark green has bled into a damp spot on the paper, the Okavango River spreads across the pale, parched landscape of northern Botswana to become the lush Okavango Delta [{GoogleMap location='Okavango Delta, Nordwest, Botsuana' zoom='8'}] - the largest inland delta in the world. This false-color satellite image shows where the river empties into a basin in the Kalahari Desert, creating a maze of lagoons, channels, and islands where vegetation flourishes, even in the dry season, and wildlife abounds. The delta originally fed into an ancient, now-dry Lake Makgadikgadi.