Botswana

A country with room to wonder.

Start with the contrasts. City streets, salt pans and living wetlands make very different journeys through one country.

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Makgadikgadi salt panDiego Delso, delso.photo, License · CC BY-SA 4.0 · SourceResized / cropped

Gaborone skylineNjengabenngugi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · SourceResized / cropped

Okavango wetlandDiego Delso, delso.photo, License · CC BY-SA 4.0 · SourceResized / cropped

Let each place change the scale of your trip. Begin with Gaborone’s city life, make time for the open pans, or follow the channels of the Okavango. These are different chapters; choose the ones you want to read closely.

Choose your
next scale.

Begin with one setting. Give it enough time to become more than a stop between places.

Chobe River at KasaneDicklyon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · SourceResized / cropped

Along the Chobe

A riverfront, a town and a wider park landscape. Make the exact route part of the choice.

Makgadikgadi baobabDiego Delso, delso.photo, License · CC BY-SA 4.0 · SourceResized / cropped

Across the drylands

Look closely at the changes between a pan, its grassy margins and the trees beyond.

Gaborone

A city chapter
of your own.

Give Botswana’s capital time for a gallery, a museum or an ordinary meal. Learn the names behind the work and let the people hosting a visit set its pace.

Find your bearings in Gaborone

Put the journey
in order.

The details between places matter.

Choose the setting.

Water, city life or open ground: start with the interest you want time for.

Read the regional guides

Name the base.

Confirm where you will stay and how you will reach each activity.

Compare the practical arrangements

Leave an interval.

Give transfers, questions and changing conditions enough room in the plan.

Understand an Okavango journey

Experiences, with context.

Read the place, meeting point and full inclusions in each provider’s current description.

Current provider listings are not available in this view. Keep the exact region and meeting arrangements in mind when comparing an experience.

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The latest guides.

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Choosing a base across Botswana

Compare location, transport and the shape of each day before selecting a town stay or a remote camp.

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Chobe riverfront and the route beyond

Use the riverfront as a clear starting point, then compare the exact areas and transfers in a wider Chobe journey.

Diego Delso, delso.photo, License · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source. Resized; responsive crop.

Pans & drylands

Reading the pans and drylands

Compare open salt-pan surfaces, adjoining grassland and wooded dryland without treating them as one uniform environment.

A base that fits
your journey.

Live hotel listings are not available yet.

Compare the exact location, onward transport and daily arrangements before choosing a place to stay.

Find the right starting point