Ghanzi, Botswana Travel Blogs

Egos and Icons
Sep 13, 2005 (3 photos)

... 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 D' ...

Dancing in the Moonlight
Sep 15, 2005 (7 photos)

... , 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. ...

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

Joining the GAP tour
Jan 14, 2008 (9 photos)

... 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 the ...

Ghanzi
Apr 17, 2008 (4 photos)

... 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 necessary. Very ...

Stone Age Live (@Kalahari)
Oct 5, 2006 (7 photos)

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 ...

Ghanzi
Nov 10, 2008 (15 photos)

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 they ...

Windhoek to Ghanzi
Jul 23, 2008 (3 photos)

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 bushman).& ...

San Bushmen
Apr 14, 2006 (3 photos)

Stayed in a San Bushmen camp this evening. They took us for a walk to show how they find edible plants - we found some large truffles. During dinner the campsite was invaded by an ostrich, which was all fun and games until it tried to eat the cheese and ...

Ghanzi with the Bushmen
Jul 8, 2008 (9 photos)

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 ...

Off to the Wilderness
Jan 26, 2007

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
Jan 27, 2007

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 ...

A sunset walk with the San
Sep 3, 2009

Today we crossed over into Botswana and the Kalihari Desert.  On our first night in Botswana we camped near a san bushman settlement, and went on an evening walk with them to learn a little more about them. In the san tribe the youngsters learn from ...

A lost culture ????
Jul 21, 2009

... western influence, I am sure that the next generation will have lost much of what I saw a glimpse of in a few years. Botswana while rich in diamonds, has a major alcohol problem (so the government are increasing the prices), over 50% of the population has ...

D'kar
Dec 5, 2008 (5 photos)

Week end dans le village de D'kar, ou la majorite de la population est composee de San. Messe le dimanche matin : incroyable Gospel!!! Week end in D'kar village, where most people are San people. Church service on the sunday morning : amazing gospel!!

Sleeping under the stars in the Kalahari Desert
Jun 21, 2006 (2 photos)

Although we didn't plan this stop, it was one of my trip highlights.

Into Botswana and Bush
Sep 20, 2006

Managed to get through passport control with out too much hastle. Did a bushman's walk today. Bushmen being native to Botswana. Learned there way of life and bits about their culture. I'll fill this in later honest : )

Ghanzi
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Day 1 Windhoek to Ghanzi
Dec 6, 2008

... kilometres before we reached our first stop, Gobabis, to pick up food and drink for the evening. Then across the border into Botswana (one of the more painless land border crossings I've made), and on to Ghanzi. Gobabis and Ghanzi are both decent sized ...

Bush walk for virility
Sep 16, 2009 (20 photos)

... before and so we got a few games going. Eventually we crossed into Botswana without fuss and made our way to a campsite in Ghanzi Botswana. When we arrived we discovered straw covered little huts that we could upgrade to for $10.00. We were excited at ...

The wisdom of the San
Sep 6, 2007 (5 photos)

We arrive in time for lunch at our campsite in Ghanzi; a town seemingly in the middle of nowhere, with nothing in sight for as far as the eye can see, except for the dried brush around and a few lone surviving trees in the distance. By this time, the sun ...

Botswana - After 8 Mints (The San)
Mar 3, 2009 (6 photos)

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 local ...

St. Patrick's Day
Mar 18, 2009 (10 photos)

... cloths! Around 10:30 am someone opened the first beer. It led to a fun drive of singing and dancing. We arrived in Ghanzi around 1:30 and made lunch. Our campsite is in the middle of the African bush. The Bushmen people....the ones who make clicking ...

Ghanzi - on our way home
Aug 28, 2008

... to be able to walk around rather than watch everything from your car. Then it was time to leave Motsentsela and on to Ghanzi. The road from Maun to Ghanzi has to be one of the most boring rides and incredibly straight and unfortunately there is nothing to ...