If you’re after a large body of open water with an abundant food supply then you’re a fish eagle. Or a tourist trying to find your way to Audi Camp. Keep going. 12km out of Maun, through the bushes, by the river, it’s there. The eagle has landed. It’s got a restaurant, a bar and the same name as Namibia’s national bird. In the local lingo.

Island Safari Lodge is a 300 acre private island reserve on the banks of the Thamalakane River in Maun.

It has no beginning, no end. Like infinity, or a circle, perhaps a doughnut? Ooh, yes please. Warm. With extra sugar. Thanks. That's what people say about the Thamalakane River.

Old Bridge Backpackers is a campsite in a riverine forest on the banks of the Thamalakane River.

Thamalakane River Lodge on the edge of the Moremi Game Reserve offers an Okavango Delta experience without the expense of flying in to a remote and luxuriously-priced safari lodge inside the park.

For those long haul flights when the last thing you want is to step onto another plane and fly to your safari camp, Thamo Telele (previously known as Royal Tree Lodge) just outside Maun is a convenient safari-lite overnight stop.