Botswana

I’m in Gabs now and loving it! I’m really looking forward to exploring the country more over the next few months.

I grew up here, spending 14 years of my life in the capital city, Gaborone. I love it, and Africa’s slow easy rhythm and the smell of dry earth freshly sprinkled with rain never leaves you.

I finally secured my internship so I’ll be heading to Gabarone for the first time this summer!

I am soooo excited and should get a chance to explore the southern part of the continent a little while I’m there (defintely jozi, cape town and maybe even Victoria falls).

Elephants, culture, elephants, elephants.

My main 6 areas that should be discovered when visiting Botswana are:

Kalahari Desert – the vast area receives too much water to be regarded as a ‘classic’ arid zone. However desert areas exist and are inhabited by the San people.

Okavango Delta – The Okavango River rises in Angola and empties in the Kalahari Desert and produces a wonderful delta where birds and animals enjoy abundance.

Chobe National Park – provides an ideal opportunity to do some bird watching as it encompasses the Chobe River (personally not as great as Etosha NP in Namibia) but there are a myriad of animals to be seen.

Makagadikgadi & Nxai Pans National Park – These cover over 80,000 sq km and the landscape is like no other. The pans sizzle in the heat of the day creating mirages.

Kgalakgadi Trans-Frontier Park – the Mabuasehube-Gemsbok NP and South Africa ‘s Kalahari-Gemsbok NP have combined to form a wilderness of over 28,00sq km. Mixing red dunes and salt pans.

Ghanzi – The San People who were formally know as the bushmen are indigenous to Botswana (and Namibia) and have lived here for over 30,000 years. It was truly an incredible experience to get an understanding of what Africa was like so many years ago and how the people survived in these desert conditions when their very existence was based on the land.

When I was 16 years old, I read “Lost Trails of the Kalahari” by Sir Lourens van der Post. Since that time, a visit to the Okavango Delta has been on my dream list. My challenge now is to turn the dream into a reality.

Visit! See animals! And Elephants! And freak out when they rush your jeep!!

BOTSWANA is the little country right above south africa and it’s great! i mean people don’t know muh about it but it’s actually quite great… get to know it instead of south africa… plz do it’s AWESOME

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coz i was born there…^_

—Emothetic Princess

Beautiful Botswana! Had an amazing time in Chobe and the people were incredibly friendly. Just wish we had more time there.

I’ve wanted to go to Botswana since I read Alexander McCall Smith’s #1 Ladies Detective Agency series.