• At
Baines' Camp,
ask the staff to wheel your four-poster bed onto your private
verandah for slumber under a canopy of stars
• Okavango Delta, scout wildlife from a mokoro (dugout canoe)
• Visit
Chief's Camp,
arguably one of the best places to see lion and leopard
• Fly to
Chobe National Park
and embark on a game-viewing cruise
• Ride in open vehicles on morning and afternoon game drives
• Visit the magnificent
Victoria Falls
• Embark on a sundowner river cruise
Overview:
Botswana is one of the few remaining destinations in
Africa that
still provides a good sense of the adventure of safari. Its
expansive game parks and preserves, while offering wildlife as
diverse and abundant as that found anywhere else, are still
largely undeveloped and untamed.
Botswana lies immediately to the north of
South Africa. It is bordered on the north and west by Namibia,
on the north and east by Zimbabwe, and is connected by a narrow
strip of land on the northern border to Zambia. Its territory
consists almost entirely of a broad, flat, arid subtropical
plateau, though there are hills in the eastern part of the
country.
The aboriginal inhabitants of Botswana, who
have made the Kalahari their home for at least 30,000 years, are
the San, or bushmen. The San number about 60,000 today,
constituting a small but fascinating cultural minority in the
country. Almost two millennia ago, a Bantu people known as the
Tswana arrived, supplanting the San and now constituting the
great majority of the population.
