Botswana Travel Blogs

Back to Botswana
Jan 25, 2006 (2 photos)

... , to the border, across the ferry, got the van and headed south. We camped at a safari camp in the middle of nowhere, Botswana. We woke the next morning and continued south with a stop in Francistown to stock up on food. I got some sandals repaired on ...

Gameless Game Drive in Chobe!
Apr 23, 2006 (14 photos)

... the addition of a pre-scrub, also existed for the washing up the pots and pans. Now on to the important stuff. Tried 2 Botswana beers that evening. Lt. Louis and Hansa. What a load of crap. No offense to Bud drinkers, but this stuff really did taste ...

My First Sangoma
Jan 26, 2006 (4 photos)

... shop where she sells herbs, roots and trinkets of all sorts. Then we headed back to Charles' house for our last night in Botswana. We had a great dinner, and Charles was in the mood to party. He got wasted, spilling wine all over the place and tossing ...

Encounters with elephants and the Okavango Ghost!
Apr 25, 2006 (8 photos)

Up at 5:30 for tea and cereal before heading off for what was a very long 6 hour game walk. Very cool indeed, the highlights were getting within about 15m from a giraffe and 5m from an elephant. The elephant eventually started flapping it ...

The land of donkeys and endless fences
Apr 23, 2006 (1 photos)

... we arrived in Nata, our lunch spot. Thinking back in the whole 5 hours I only remember passing through one small village. Botswana is so sparsely populated. 1.6m people in a country the size of France! We did however spot wildlife on route, elephant, ...

Down in the Delta Blues
Oct 20, 2006 (7 photos)

... a grocery store and could immediately see from the shelves being full of food - I splurged on some wine gums - that Botswana is quite prosperous - but then again after Zimbabwe even Canvey Island looks prosperous. There is one simple reason for this: a ...

Kang, Botswana
Nov 11, 2004 (9 photos)

Well, there is not much to do in Kang but take pictures and enjoy a small village nestled in the Kalahari Dessert. Everyday I find myself taken by a beautiful African sunset and the people that surround me. After work it is typical of me to tour ...

Road Trip
Nov 17, 2004 (14 photos)

... , and a herd of Kudus. I would recommend this Camp any day. It has the best menu I have seen since I came to Botswana. You could get a wide variety of cheap delicious food. Although the game is few and far between this time of year the day trip was ...

More Pictures
Nov 25, 2004 (13 photos)

Just a few photos that I think you might enjoy. Take Care Melissa

A View to A Kill
Oct 11, 2005 (6 photos)

... where moneyed tourist come to spend vast sums of cash to see African wildlife at it's finest and most abundant. In my travels through Botswana I'd heard a lot about Chobe, and had chalked it up to my list of places to visit on my next tour of Africa. But ...

Public Transit in Botswana
Dec 20, 2004

... travel guide they will tell you to Visit all the popular sites and see some wild life. If you really want to see Botswana and experience it from a local¡¦s point of view I recommend you travel with the locals. I departed Gabarone at 6am Monday morning ...

Savute/ Chobe National Park
Dec 27, 2004 (28 photos)

... with a daily reading lesson about wildlife ended in an Obsession. So, here I am. Right smack dab in the middle of Botswana's Best kept secret ready to concur a childhood dream. I booked a Safari through the Booking Company (they were the ONLY people ...

Le Petit Prince
Dec 19, 2007 (12 photos)

...   I was even able to locate the fox, my favourite character.        A particular trip in Botswana in the Okavongo Delta, "Le Petit Prince" re-surfaced when we boarded the very small plane that would fly us over the ...

Into Africa
Feb 5, 2008 (1 photos)

... bus was asleep before long. Later that afternoon we arrived at our campsite on the Kavango River, close to the border with Botswana. We sat and watched another incredible African sunset (they never get boring) and saw crocodiles and hippos swimming in the ...

Mokoro Trip
Dec 22, 2004 (9 photos)

... someone to come with you to bring the cost down. I became very familiar with the ¡§single supplement¡¨ while traveling alone in Botswana. Everything costs more if you are on your own, so find a friendfº There are several options with the Mokoro, 3 days ...

Botswana - Bushmen and Mokoro trip
Mar 27, 2006 (18 photos)

... funny to see a bushman smoke modern day cigarettes. The following day we went into the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana for a two-night bush-camping excursion using traditional dugout canoes called a 'mokoro'. Each mokoro had a poler who ...

Arrived
Oct 26, 2005

... I have got a job...working for the Botswana Harvard Partnership (BHP), and they are paying me to travel around Botswana gathering information - hurrah! This partnership has been running for nearly 10 years and is dedicated to researching and studying the ...

And the rains came
Nov 24, 2005

... could be heard throughout the night inbetween the clashes of thunder and ever pounding rain. Religion is big business in Botswana, where most will claim to be Anglican. Christianity is mixed with traditional beliefs so the Batswana believe that if the ...

Bill's Farm
Nov 23, 2004 (8 photos)

Anyone what has spent some time in Kang will know that there is little to do other than relax. Just as I though I had DONE IT ALL we stumbled across a beautiful lodge is the makings. The couple that owns the local butchery also owns a huge farm. It is ...

Down on the Bayou...African Style
Nov 12, 2006 (2 photos)

... that was shaped and painted to look like a traditional handmade dugout log canoe. Turns out that the government of Botswana was getting concerned that too many ancient trees were being felled to build boats to transport tourists around the delta, so they ...

Christmas at Camp Okavango
Dec 25, 2004 (13 photos)

Christmas at Camp Okavango Spending Christmas alone and overseas was more than I had bargained for. So, in an attempt to make myself feel better I decided to book myself into a luxury lodge in the Okavango Delta. They say Camp O serves the Delta on a ...

Leaving gabs
Mar 13, 2006

This is for the purpose of following my travels and not an update... see the next one for that

Back in Botswana
Apr 10, 2006

This is just for a map pin entry - no update!

Mokolodi Nature Reserve
Nov 30, 2004 (11 photos)

... is located just outside gabs and it a must see if you are planning on being in the area for some time. Unlike Northern Botswana Mokolodi is a home for injured and orphaned wildlife, it functions more like a zoo than a game reserve. So why did I go ...

Botswana - Chobe National Park
Mar 29, 2006 (12 photos)

... a leisurely cruise on the Chobe river along the edge of the park. The Chobe river is the border between Namibia and Botswana, and many animals are found along the shores or crossing the river. The number of hippos and elephants that we spotted during ...

Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Apr 18, 2006 (15 photos)

... know its bad when you can smell yourself, you know its really bad when you can no longer smell yourself!!! Botswana is haunting, mesmerising, frustrating, amazing, beautiful, breath-takingly awesome... the people are friendly, open, warm and inviting, ...

Driving with Rhinos
Sep 25, 2005 (4 photos)

... reins again than the Khama Rhino Sanctuary an hour outside Palapye. When I heard that the place existed--one of the only areas in Botswana where you can see rhino--I put it high on my wish list. And when Catherine heard that I didn't drive she put driving ...

Oasis in the Bush
Sep 7, 2005 (4 photos)

... Of course it wasn't always like this. A protectorate rather than a colony, with little arable land or resources, Botswana was never developed as much as other British-controlled African countries. When it gained independence there were just 7 kilometres ...

House of Hope
Sep 21, 2005 (11 photos)

... to work, an hour each way. With three kids at home and one in university, her monthly wage is not nearly enough. Next year Botswana is introducing school fees, so Alice will have to find the money to pay the bill on top of what she already pays for ...

Camping through Botswana
Nov 7, 2006 (5 photos)

... elephants and antelopes grazing were positively sublime. Our next big stop is to be the Okavango Delta. Because the roads in Botswana don't go through the marshy delta region we are heading into Namibia tomorrow to cross the Caprivi Strip, which is the ...