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Ghanzi Slideshow
Ghanzi
Travel Blogs from Ghanzi, Botswana
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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 ...
Kang, Botswana
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... Ostriches, 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 ...
Egos and Icons
This is a top pick! ... San advocate and one of the founders of the movement for Bushman self-determination. Braam and his wife, Willemien, came to Botswana as missionaries from South Africa in the early eighties, and settled in the Bushman village that had sprung up around ...
Dancing in the Moonlight
This is a top pick! ... , and for generations have been mistreated, neglected, and in some cases, used as slave labour on cattle farms. The Botswana government has looked on the Bushman as an embarrassment, a backward people little prepared or willing to adapt to modern life. ...
Bill's Farm
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Lodge Life
This is a top pick! The Kang Ultra Stop is located along the Trans-Kalahari Highway and is just south of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Most people that stay in Kang are just passing through (not living here) When I was researching Kang I found little information on ...
Joining the GAP tour
... . We stop every two hours for a break and then at noon we stop for a lunch. The problem was that when we reached the Botswana border, one of the Finnish girls realized that she can't find her passport. Steve, our guide makes some call and finds out ...
Les dieux sont tombés sur la tête/Gods must be cra
... . Everything is quiet. No ellies this morning. Finally breakfast is ready and the host arrives. We spend almost two hours talking about Botswana or France without noticing it. She's happy to speak French, I'm under the charm of her stories. But time to ...
De retour au bureau / Back to the office
Je suis plutôt content d'être de retour à Kang. J'aime bien ce petit coin d'enfer. La vie y suit son propre rythme. Les problèmes que nous avons avec les instruments à bord de l'avion ne font rien pour améliorer ce sentiment... Ou si peu. On se ...
Ghanzi
... Foxy previously fixed things in their own way which makes it that much more difficult for others to diagnose and fix. Crossing into Botswana was almost too easy. We were finished everything in under 30 minutes. No lineups, no fussy questions, no bribes ...
Ghanzi
After Okavango we came to Ganzi. Ganzi is on the way to Etosha National Park in Nambia. Here we camped and got to see how the bushmen in this area had once lived. Due to the white man and modern amenities the bushmen people don't live in bush as ...
Stone Age Live (@Kalahari)
Yesterday we not only crossed the border to Botswana (free male condoms @ Namibian side, free female condoms @ Botswana side) but we also saw a glimpse one of the very most endangered cultures in Africa, that of the San people, aka Bushmen. This was a ...
Botswana's beautiful people and places
... rights record. It is also the world's largest producer of diamonds and the trade has transformed it into a middle-income nation. Botswana protects some of Africa's largest areas of wilderness. It is sparsely populated, because it is so dry. The Kalahari ...
Ghanzi & the Bushmen
... . The Bushmen traditionally were nomadic, hunting animals for food/clothes/etc. for thousands of years. In 1997 the Botswana government relocated all of the Bushmen to settlement camps, which completely disrupted everything about the life they ...
Windhoek to Ghanzi
It was a long day of driving from Windhoek, and we crossed the boarder into Botswana after lunch. There was a few more hours of driving before arriving at Ghanzi. In the morning we had a facinating walking tour with the San people (or ...
Windhoek, Namibia to Ghanzi, Botswana
... reality right now, but looong truck days are. We had a big day of driving ahead of us as we were crossing the border into Botswana. Luckily, we had an easy crossing that took very little time. We stayed in Ghanzi today, an area that has a few camps ...
Kalahari desert with the san bushmen
... all went wrong, it was Sunday and there was a huge queue at the Namibian boarder post, and again an even bigger queue at the Botswana boarder post, eventually we all got our stamps and we headed off into Botswana, we think there was a good deal of queue ...
Bushman have jokes
On to Botswana. Pit stop in Gobabis just before the border. Pissed on side of building to save a Rand that shell gas station was collecting. In the middle of nowhere. Our campsite is remote, away from everything. Trail Blazers Restcamp in Ghanzi is an old ...
Botswana - After 8 Mints (The San)
March 3rd - Maun to Ghanzi On the way to Ghanzi in western Botswana we passed through a few inevitable vet checks, Ghanzi was our destination to visit the San tribe (the traditional bushmen). We arrived at about lunch time and went straight to the ...
Ghanzi with the Bushmen
After a short drive the next morning we arrived at our next campsite in Ghanzi. The local tribe here are known as the San Bushmen and are famous for their ancient language where most of the sounds they make are clicks instead of speech as we would ...
The Bushmen of Africa
... to be the ancestors of the San people, who hang on to their unique culture in only a few isolated pockets in Namibia and Botswana. The San are referred to as an early race. Some use terms like "less developed" or "less evolved". What is ...
Dining in the Kalahari
... Sahara style sand dunes you'll probably have to go a little deeper in but at only a few miles away from the Namibian border, Ghanzi was fine for us. With the odd spare day here and there we visited this region because despite all the things we have done ...
A lost culture ??? San Kalahari Desert bush people
... current generation will have lost in only a few years much of what I saw a glimpse of. Thank you San bush people. Botswana while rich in diamonds, has a major alcohol problem (so the government are increasing the prices), over 50% of the ...
Moremi National Park
After one night at the Delta, we got back to Sitatunga campsite and stayed there for one more night and the following morning we left to Moremi National Park. We drove through Chobe which consists of many different smaller National Parks. The rides here ...
Compare the Meercat? Didn't see a single one!
Our last day in Namibia, today we would be crossing the border into Botswana but before that there was another early morning start to contend with as well as 540km to drive. We got to the border fairly early and everything passed through without a ...
Off to the Wilderness
Wow, what an incredible evening we've had! We arrrived at the Grassland Safari campsite after a luxurious coach ride followed by a three hour bumpy stint in land rovers. The site itself is really nice, clearly made for tourists. There's ...
At the lodge
Today I feel like we've experienced the Africa you see in movies and photographs. We woke up early, had breakfast on the patio area and left at 8 am for a bushwalk with the San people. While it was really cool to see how the San people know ...
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