A country, seen in context.

Destination Botswana is an independent guide to a country with many scales of experience. A city visit, a salt-pan landscape and a wetland journey call for different kinds of attention. We help readers understand those differences before deciding where to spend their time.

Waterside settlement and boats beside an Okavango Delta channel
Okavango watersideDiego Delso, delso.photo, License · CC BY-SA 4.0 · SourceResized / cropped

Place comes first.

Our guides start with geography, then ask the practical questions that connect it to a visit. Where is the actual base? What does the transfer involve? Which details need confirmation with the people running an experience?

We use primary destination and heritage sources for context. We do not present desk research as firsthand travel, invent local contributors or promise wildlife encounters.

Names belong in the picture.

Photographs are individually sourced and credited. They show a particular place at a particular time, rather than a guarantee of the conditions on your dates. Where the image includes a lived landscape, its residents are not presented as unnamed performers in a travel story. Artist and community visits should be arranged with clear consent and credit.

A useful next question.

Editorial comparisons help you identify what to ask. Current opening arrangements, transfers, rates and inclusions must be confirmed with the responsible provider. The site does not operate the tours or accommodation linked from its pages. Some provider links may support this guide through affiliate commission.

Help improve the guide.

If a place is misidentified or a detail needs correction, use the available route on our Contact page. Include the page and the specific issue so it can be reviewed. You can also read the photography credits or begin with the regional guide collection.