Water channels and wildlife in Botswana's Okavango Delta
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Okavango Delta experience

Weave a Botswana basket in Maun

Learn palm preparation, natural dye and coiling beside women artisans whose baskets carry patterns from northern Botswana.

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The experience

Learn the work held inside Botswana's baskets

In Maun, women artisans turn mokola palm into tightly coiled baskets patterned with names drawn from animals, water and daily life.

A workshop slows the object down into its real stages: splitting fibre, preparing color and building the coil by hand.

Journeys

Journeys into the Okavango Delta

Experience FAQ

Weave a Botswana basket in Maun

Q01Can we make a complete basket?

A full basket takes longer than most visits, so the workshop focuses on core technique and a realistic small piece.

Q02Who leads the workshop?

The artisan depends on the date; I do not promise a named master weaver until she has agreed to host.

Plan with Alex

Plan the basket workshop

Cross Deadvlei at dawn, follow desert wildlife tracks near Swakopmund and wait beside an Etosha waterhole as elephants emerge through the dust.

We will begin with your dates, your pace and the image that brought Namibia into your mind. From there, I will draw the journey that belongs to you.

Portrait of Alex

I want Namibia's defining moments at their best: Deadvlei before the heat, the living desert while tracks are still sharp, Etosha as elephants approach the water. Around them, we make time for the guides, makers and conservationists who turn a beautiful road into a journey you understand.

Alex

Journey designer