with Hyun

In Botswana’s Okavango Delta, there’s a lodge that seems designed to vanish. Not in a dramatic way, but softly—like a structure that was always part of the land. &Beyond Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge feels like one of them. It sits deep in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, where the forest leans low and the floodwaters arrive months late. Here, seasons don’t shout—they seep. The land breathes on a delayed cycle, and so does the lodge. Even from afar, it felt built not to stand out, but to step back. And maybe that’s why it stayed with me.   The lodge rests on a 22,500-hectare private concession that it manages exclusively. No convoys of vehicles. No need to rush toward a sighting. Just space—open, shared, undisturbed. The kind that lets things happen on their own terms: a lion emerging from the grass, a bird lifting soundlessly into the sky. What first drew me in wasn’t the wildlife, but the architecture. The main lodge echoes the form of a resting pangolin—scaled, curved, low to the ...