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Bobo-Dioulasso, home to the Bobo people, is another laid-back, friendly city. It's even smaller and easier to negotiate than Ouagadougou but has the same airy boulevards, tree-lined streets and thriving market places. The old Kibidwé district is full of artisans and is well worth exploring. The Musée Provincial du Houët, housed in a Sudanese-style building,...
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Your starting point for lodges and tours to Africa's premier wildlife destinations of Okavango, Chobe, Moremi & more... Botswana offers the traveller to Africa the ultimate in safari destinations - from the riverine woodlands of Chobe where the great elephant herds are unsurpassed on the African continent, through the Linyanti swamps and magnficent...
Window to Botswana, with extensive information, a pan African calendar of events, photo albums and many relevant links. For travel, business and education.
Visas, Embassies & Border Crossings We don't like monkeys very much and already have had bad experiences with them in Africa and Asia. Ihaha, just like any other place along the Chobe river, is full of baboons and vervet monkeys. When we set up camp, there were tens of them in the bush around us, barking, yelling, playing and fighting. We were thinking...
archaeological site ; mountain The four Tsodilo Hills rise abruptly from a rippled, oceanlike expanse of desert and are threaded with myth, legend and spiritual significance for the San people. More than 2750 ancient rock paintings have been discovered at well over 200 sites. And as in most of southern Africa, the majority of these are attributed to...
The Mokolodi Wildlife Foundation was formed in 1991 with the aim of promoting wildlife conservation and environmental education for the children of Botswana. The first project of the Foundation was the creation of the Mokolodi Nature Reserve in 1994 on 30 square km of donated land outside Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. In addition to naturally-occurring...
archaeological site ; island Comprised of two great salt pans, Sua and Ntwetwe, the vast Makgadikgadi Pans are like no other landscape on earth; they represent all that's left of a vast lake. Especially during the sizzling heat of late winter days, the stark pans take on a disorienting and ethereal austerity. Heat mirages destroy all sense of space...
Described as 'the river which never finds the sea', the Okavango disappears into a 15,000 sq km (5850 sq mi) maze of lagoons, channels and islands in north-western Botswana. It's the largest inland delta in the world, and it teems with wildlife. Most obvious are the birds - thousands upon thousands of them - but there are also elephant, zebra, buffalo,...
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