Things to do in Botswana

Botswana is Africa’s last remaining pristine wilderness. The magnificent oasis unlocks the mystery of nature, offering the perfect safari where game sanctuaries have remained completely unspoiled.

Botswana is a land-locked country of which two thirds is arid amid the Kalahari savannah. The desert’s immensity, silence and bareness offer an out-of-this-world experience. To the north are the wetlands of the Okavango Delta. Born among the mist and lushness of Angola’s Highlands, the delta is an ecological enigma comprising some 18,000 square kilometers of ever-changing crystal clear channels, lakelets, swamplands and lagoons in a fan-shaped haven of green and fertile plains.

The Delta is the only inland waterway in the world that runs into the desert and bursts upon the drabness of northern Botswana in an exuberant flourish of green. It is a startling contrast amid the Kalahari Desert into which it flows and vanishes. This unique environment creates one of the most diverse habitats in the world, with its 36 species of large animals, 200 species of birds and over 80 species of fish.

The game reserves offer a diversity of wildlife, including herds of elephant, buffalo, giraffe and antelope. On the eastern fringe of the Delta lies the Moremi Game Reserve, an area of diverse habitats including floodplains, reed beds and permanent wetland, mopane forest and dry savannah woodland. The Linyanti Region is also a unique area especially during the dry season where the concentration of game is very vast.

The Chobe National Park is in the north of the country and is famous for an abundance of game concentrated in quite small areas. It is a magnificent place with a variety of terrain only matched by the variety of its wildlife, which ranges from hippo and crocodile, otter and fish to great numbers of wild animals, including lion, cheetah, leopard, zebra, buffalo, giraffe and its famous elephants.

In this land the pure spirit of freedom thrives in the timeless, untamed splendor of nature.