Botswana Travel Guide and Lodging Directory

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Republic of Botswana was previously known as British protectorate of Bechuanaland. It is a landlocked country sharing its border with Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The major cities are Gaborone and Francistown and the total population is a little more than million people.

Although a dry country, it has diverse untapped exotic flora and fauna that lures tourist every year. Tourism has the main role in the economy, with natural parks and wildlife sanctuaries are the main attractions. Botswana is famous for cheetahs, leopards, antelopes, lions and hyenas and has been mentioned in the book “Cry of the Kalahari” by Mark and Delia Owens.

The most attractive feature is the Okavango Delta which covers approximately 15,000 sq. km. of wetlands as is home to an incredible profusion of birds like Pel's Fishing Owl, Wattled Cranes, Slaty Egrets, Rufous-Bellied Heron, Swamp Boubous and a host of eagles, vultures and other raptors that will make you a bird lover. Other than that it hosts an innumerable species of wildlife in its natural habitat still, untouched by man and urban growth. It has become Africa’s main tourist destination with breathtaking beauty and galore of wildlife.

South of Maun and the Okavango delta lay the open expanse of the Kalahari Gemsbok National park which during the months of March and April, blossoms with life and huge open spaces of the Makgadikgadi pans fills with water, attracting huge migrating herds of animals. Chobe National Park has a wonderful concentration of animals but has become very commercialized due to the number of camps and lodges in the area.

The Savuti Channel area, which borders the Delta to the west and Bedford Park to the east, is one of Africa's most popular big game parks. Linyanti and the western reaches of the Savuti Channel lay 38 kilometers northwest off the main tourist track and rank among the most beautiful regions in Botswana.

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