Country Info
- Gaborone
- Capital
- Pula (BWP)
- Currency
- 1,586,119
- Population
- BW
- Country Code
Maun Slideshow
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Riley's Hotel Maun
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Magkadigkadi Camp Maun
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Travel Blogs from Maun, 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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
Maun
This is a top pick! ... . Si souvent, nous arrivons à un endroit et je meurs d'envie de boire un verre d'eau froide! Le camping que nous avons trouvé à Maun, si même il a une piscine (verte et pas claire) est assez sec. Nous semblons camper de plus en plus sur du sable et de ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Public Transit in Botswana
This is a top pick! ... your 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 ...
a fool's plea
This is a top pick! I could tell you about the Okavango Delta, the beauty of the swamp, its colours, nature, the sounds and smells. The way the sun reflects on the water, the lilies and the reeds. I could try and describe how it feels to surrender to the clear, fresh water, ...
Mokoro Trip
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Painted Hills and Kalahari Bushmen
This is a top pick! ... , the hills--named Male, Female, Child and Grandchild--run to over 20 kilometres in distance between the first and last. Botswana's answer to Uluru, or Ayres Rock, in Australia, Tsodilo towers out of nowhere and dominates the surrounding flat, sun-baked ...
Christmas at Camp Okavango
This is a top pick! ... the Okavango Delta. They say Camp O serves the Delta on a silver platter, and boy were they right. My adventure started in Maun at the Safaris Air. I paced, fidgeted and stirred for my plane to arrive. I have been dreaming of flying over the delta ...
Mokoro madness
This is a top pick! ... away! That evening was pretty chilly and I had to sleep with my bag zipped up most of the way. Very nice sleeping weather though. Botswana has been very cool on the evenings. So far this trip seems to have been very well run. Eman the guide has done ...
Botswana
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Botswana in our entry from Cape Town, South Africa entitled 'Cape Town at Last!!!'. Cheers, K & ...
Goin' Up the Country
This is a top pick! ... dry riverbeds, salt plains, and the thorn bush-bordered kraals, or paddocks, that cover even the most remote portions of Botswana. Straight lines and intersecting right angles mark the cattle fences, the system of fence "highways" that divide almost ever ...
My hubby, my hero
This is a top pick! ... We have 630 km to drive and here, you never know how long it will take. The road LOOKS OK. We are heading for Maun, in the centre of Botswana. We cannot go straight: that road is only accessible for 4X4. We have to do a big detour triangle. Elephants are ...
Where Dr T and M ALMOST rent a toilet
This is a top pick! ... shine to chairs flying over the terrace and pouring; pouring! We have to go inside. At 19h, we go for diner: I take a typical Botswana dish: oxtail. It is yummie but very fat. Will we have a rim tomorrow? With no spare tire: we are prisoners! ...
Will we have a rim today ???
This is a top pick! Check out of our Sedia and check into Maun Lodge. On our way to the new lodge, we drop buy at AVIS. No tire, or what do you think? I get upset with this chick. 'like I told him, yesterday, ...' (where I come from, one does not refer to people as him or ...
Homeless in Botswana
This is a top pick! ... he knew a good place and after letting off several of his other riders, we were delivered to this beautiful hotel in Botswana. Explaining our situation to the manager, we were promptly set up with rooms and the staff reopened their kitchen to prepare ...
A Venetian gondola in Africa
This is a top pick! We arrive at the Audi camp, only 5 minutes late. The drive to the Okavango Delta is supposed to take 1,5 hours. But that is OK, I'll sleep in my air-conditioned van. Dr T points an open primitive vehicle out at the camp: he must be kidding! He is not. We ...
réserve de Morémi
... déjà, et JF était persuadé que c'était le bruit de personnes lavant leur linge (assez probable à 21h au beau milieu du Botswana...merci scherlock!!). Tout le monde pensait qu'il s'agissait d'un éléphant, et le matin ,après examen des traces et ...
Just a little plane, nothing to worry about
Ghanzi, Botswana to Maun, Botswana We had a really short driving today, which was nice for a change. We headed up to Maun, which is considered to be the gateway to the Okavango Delta. We head to the Delta tomorrow where we begin our 2 night/3 day bush ...
Walking with the Bushmen
... street with your typical shops that we quickly run into get supplies. (ie. Water and beer). I find the people of Botswana to be very nice, and somewhat reserved. Botswana itself is one of the wealthier African countries although you would never know ...
Hitchin' to the delta
In our attempts to get all the way from Victoria Falls to Maun in Botswana on the same day, we needed to conduct the now infamous very early rise to get there. So you can imagine our surprise to find out that having crossed the border at around ...
Deep in the Okavango Delta
... , we took our small aircraft captained by a British pilot, who had simply decided one day to quit his job and come fly in Botswana, to Baobab Island. We were the only two passengers on the plane and were the only two staying at the camp for all four ...
Botswana
... ; The shoe I brought from that store later broke within 3 days. Though my experience hanging out with people was fun. I think Botswana was my least favorite country. Everyone I met from the country yelled at me. The lady in the supermarket yelled at ...
Botswana & Namibia
... oil), we cyphoned off some petrol from an abondoned vehicle and dragged ourselves to Maun just before the sunset. Maun is the main tourist hub of Botswana and the centre for arranging trips into the Okavango Delta, which we duly did. The Okavango ...