Mokoro
A mokoro is a four-meter-long dugout boat of the Kavango on the Okavango River and its inland river delta in the north of Namibia and Botswana . In the Kavango region a Mokoro in Kwangali-language Wato called.
In the Okavango delta, which is often only 50 cm flat , mokoros are slowly pushed away from the river bed with a pole and thus moved (compare: poke pole ). Traditionally, mokoros were used for fishing . Today, a mokoro ride is a typical tourist attraction in the region, especially in the Mamili , Moremi and Mudumu National Parks .
The Mokoros were made mainly from the trunk of the liver sausage tree by the inhabitants of the Okavango Delta region and could be used for about a year before they became too leaky. Slowly penetrating leakage water was scooped up during the journey. The floor of the mokoro (mainly for tourists) could be covered with straw to enable sitting in spite of the leakage of water . Modern mokoros are now made of fiberglass-reinforced plastic to prevent large trees from being cut down.
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Tourists in mokoro on the move in the Okavango Delta
Mokoros in Rundu (2018)
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