| Highlights |
| Okavango Delta - The river that never finds the sea’ is how the Botswana is best described. The river is teeming with wildlife with a maze of waterways and islands. |
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| Chobe National Park - Thousands of elephants are within the park and you can sit on a river boat and watch them drinking at the river banks |
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| Useful Information |
| Visa - None, on entry all visitors are granted a 30 day stay. |
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| Vaccinations - Yellow fever, Hepatitis A, Typhoid, Malaria, Polio |
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| Driving Regulations - International driving permit and a temporary local driving licence. |
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| Embassies - 6 Stratford Place, London W1C 1AY 244 4990 or Plot 1079-1084 Main Mall, off Queens Rd, Gaborone, 395 2841 |
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| Country Code - 267 |
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| Introduction |
| Botswana is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. It has land borders with Zimbabwe in the northeast, South Africa in the south and southeast and with Namibia to the west. |
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| Botswana experiences extremes in both temperature and weather from soaring temperatures to flooding that can paralyse the country and make driving conditions extremely difficult. The summer months are generally dry but do have a summer rainy season, which is roughly from November to March. The days are normally clear, warm and sunny, whilst the nights are cool with a bitter wind. |
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| People |
| Botswana has one of the world’s most predominantly urban societies. The bulk of the population is concentrated in the south-eastern strip of the country between Lobatse and Franistown. Botswana is considered to be a lucky country in terms of having safe water as 95% of people have access to clean safe water. Also most people now have been vaccinated against disease that causing so many preventable deaths in Africa. However, the life expectancy is only 47 years in Botswana compare to 87 here in the UK. |
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| The Botswana people are extremely friendly and eager to help where ever they can, they are generally more interested in you and where you have come from or going and they way of life you lead in your home country then you might be of them. |
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| Food |
| Tourism in Botswana is extremely strong, however the country does not have a great national dishes that would knock your socks off, so eating out is not particularly exciting here, even though around tourist hotspot food will be expensive like most tourist things in Botswana. Even open markets here are not that popular and therefore food even home cooking is generally basic. Forming the basis of most meals are Mabele, which is a porridge like consistency and often referred to as similar to Maize. |