Botswana

October is Botswana’s hottest month, where daytime temperatures can climb past 38°C (100°F). But it is also peak dry season, which means that it is one of the best wildlife viewing seasons of the year as animals concentrate around the…

If you want to visit Chobe National Park but have a tight budget, here are a handful tips to help keep costs down. Botswana is generally one of the more expensive safari countries in Africa, especially if you wish to…

“East Africa or Southern Africa” is one question. “Group overland truck or private 4×4” is a completely different one, and it’s the one I get asked about most often once someone’s already picked a region. I recently sat down with…

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it’s true. So in my eyes, these are the five most beautiful wildlife reserves in Botswana. Botswana has many large, untouched, wild places absolutely brimming with wildlife, birds, and beautiful trees, grasslands,…

Here are nine facts about Botswana I think every traveller should know for the trip to be more interesting, insightful, and meaningful. Botswana is a landlocked country smack in the middle of Southern Africa. It’s an incredibly stable place that’s…

Botswana likes to describe itself as one nation rather than a patchwork of tribes, and in many ways it is. Unlike almost anywhere else in Southern Africa, this is a country that emerged from independence in 1966 with a deliberate,…

I have the answers to all your safari questions, right here…   If waking up to the roar of a lion or watching the rays of a golden sunrise fall over a herd of wildebeest sounds is what you want,…

There’s a moment on this trip when it stops feeling like a holiday and starts feeling like an expedition. It might happen on your first afternoon game drive out of Mdluli Safari Lodge, engine cut, watching a herd of elephants…

The Kalahari Desert is a vast ecosystem in Southern Africa. Here are eight facts that tell the story of this austere, beautiful, and ecologically rich place, which has been home to the San people since time immemorial. 1. It’s the…