Synopsis
How a yearly flood creates the lush wetland of the Okavango Delta in the middle of the vast Kalahari Desert.
- Programme: Earth's Greatest Spectacles
- Episode: 03: Okavango
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2016
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