Country Info
- Gaborone
- Capital
- Pula (BWP)
- Currency
- 1,586,119
- Population
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Botswana Slideshow
Top Hotels in Botswana
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Gabarone Sun Gaborone
46 reviews -
Metcourt Inn At The Grand Palm Resort Gaborone
19 reviews -
Cresta Marang And Residency Hotel Francistown
7 reviews
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Cresta Lodge Gaborone
4 reviews -
Cresta President Hotel Gaborone
12 reviews
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Cresta Mowana Safari Lodge Kasane
48 reviews
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Cresta Thapama Hotel Francistown
1 review
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Riley's Hotel Maun
8 reviews
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Chiefs Camp - All Inclusive Maun
41 reviews -
Mondior Summit Gaborone
17 reviews
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Inisfree Apartments Gaborone
5 reviews
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Chobe Safari Lodge Kasane
155 reviews
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Diggers Inn Hotel Francistown
5 reviews
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Magkadigkadi Camp Maun
1 review
Botswana
Travel Blogs from Botswana
Okavango Dreaming!
This is a top pick! ... stereotypical engagement conjured up, and encountered, when people speak of taking a mokoro ride in the Okavango Delta, in northern Botswana - a beast, frisson of deadly danger ... and safety. The wetland is the largest inland delta on the planet, ...
Zambia via Botswana
This is a top pick! ... We were shooting for Livingston, Zambia, but we were not allowed to drive into Zambia according to our rental agreement. The Namibia-Botswana border was no problem, though we did have to press all of our shoes on a mat soaked in biocide. The Botswanan ...
Bovu Island and Mr. John
This is a top pick! I woke this morning to find myself in paradise. It felt like I was near the ocean, because the ground was sand and I knew I was on an island. But, no, just on the Zambezi River. We were to go back to mainland Zambia for a few hours of plant walking ...
Victoria Falls and to the Middle of the River
This is a top pick! Today I woke feeling 100%. I continued with the meds that obviously helped. The plan for the day was to head to Victoria Falls. We hired a dready cab driver and got to the Falls around 9. It was $10 to enter the park to see the Falls. At first site ...
Back to Botswana
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...
The Caprivi Strip
This is a top pick! Today we tried to make it across the border into Botswana. We first had to get to and across the Caprivi Strip, a small strip of land who's people resisted Namibian and South African governments for over a decade. They were finally brutalized into ...
Decisions, Decisions...
This is a top pick! ... , ostriches and the odd giraffe running out infront of the car. Veterinary inspections and police inspections. Yes, driving in Botswana is exhausting. However, we finally arrived safe and well in Maun, ready to make arrangements for the Okavango Delta. ...
The muppets from Overland Club
This is a top pick! ... ! Unfortunately they only had 3 full chickens left and I ended up with 'The Complete Burger'. We were also running short on Botswana Pula so with about as much decorum as a bunch of baboons we also dragged all our own beers into the restaurant hidden in a ...
time and place
This is a top pick! I'm going to rush through the last part of the trip now. After the impact of the Okavango the rest of the trip almost escaped me. Gweta, a lovely place to stay, our tents placed under the fairytale baobab trees. How can these ancient trees, some ...
Kev...is that...an elephant standing by our tent??
This is a top pick! ... behind the door and all they can hear is the very heavy breathing and growling from the dinosaur. This, was Jurassic Park in Botswana...only with elephants! Insane! And then the elephants (there was by now of course more than one) started to rip apart ...
Gameless Game Drive in Chobe!
This is a top pick! ... , with 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 ...
breath of fresh air
This is a top pick! A new morning, and, as more often than not, we are taking down our tents at the crack of dawn. Only once did we spend 2 nights at the same place, but we are covering great distances so many hours are spent in the truck. Sometimes to my ...
My First Sangoma
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Monkey business and blabbering, by Roman
This is a top pick! Nous voici au Botswana...je ne traduirai pas l'anecdote suivante (de Roman)... du bla bla, pour rire et nous rappeler nos conversations, disons souvent débiles! Gros bisous Corinne Oct 18, Chobe Safari Lodge, Bostwana Monkey Business and blabberingBy ...
Encounters with elephants and the Okavango Ghost!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The land of donkeys and endless fences
This is a top pick! ... 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, ...
Safari in Chobe
This is a top pick! ... ... Nous savons plus ou moins l’endroit où nous souhaitons aller... alors, quand j'ai entendu les nouvelles des parcs nationaux au Botswana, mon cœur a sombré et tout ce que j’ai pensé: un autre endroit! Le Kenya et la Tanzanie ont ...
Baobabs galore
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Oct 21, Baobabs galore, Gweta We camped at Planet Baobab "It's hard!! Laughs Fabyan... his hands at the wheel, at the same time looking at the rpms on the dash board, trying to change feet at the pedals and shifting gear at the ...
Maun
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Oct 22, Maun We camped at Island safari lodge "Yesterday was a good day: I had an English muffin getting up and smores in the evening!" exclaims Peggy laughing... Hum, how happiness lies just above the belt (and not below as ...
Into Africa
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Botswana - Bushmen and Mokoro trip
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Drifting down the Zambezi
This is a top pick! A... Once we'd got used to Zimbabwean inflation in Harare we headed North East to Lake Kariba, lying between Zimbabwe and Zambia. In 2001 US$1 would buy you ZIM$38, today it'll get you ZIM$5,500 in a bank, or ZIM$8,000 on the black market, and it ...
Down in the Delta Blues
This is a top pick! ... souvenir is my new book mark: a one Zim dollar note worth about 0.005 of a penny then but probably 0.003 at time of writing). Botswana is how an Africa country can work. For the first time on the trip we were not hassled at the border and we didn't ...
Being Rescued from the Sand
This is a top pick! ... that they were 6 South African / Zimbabwean friends who were enjoying their retirement by going on a 4x4 expedition through the Kalahari and Botswana. I could have kissed them when they said they had a tow rope. And so we all set to work, with one eye ...
Arrived
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The 'tough" life of the catered ones, Okavango
This is a top pick! ... ones, Okavango Delta It took only a few minutes to Tristan to sweet talk our life story to this woman and we had Botswana prices for a 2 nights all inclusive safari in the Okavango... so, though it is quite expensive still, it is a good deal compared to ...
"In the jungle, the mighty jungle......
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Okavango Delta Day Two Day : 461 Temperature : Always the same Weather : You know what it's like by now... ......the LION sleeps tonight!" After the elephants left us last night we slept soundly for most of the night, the only noises ...
Down on the Bayou...African Style
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Botswana - Chobe National Park
This is a top pick! ... took 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 ...