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Chobe elephant - Botswana
Chobe elephant
by JohanIsWeg
Tips and photos of unusual, out-of-the-way Botswana attractions, posted by real travelers and locals.
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Take good look on people...
misterno
  • By misterno on August 24, 2002
  • Botswana Page by misterno
  • Take good look on people (local). They are veary happy even they are mostly veary poor.

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    Moremi Game Reserve
    ALOTT
  • By ALOTT on September 9, 2004
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  • The most untouched and beautyful Game reserve is an absolute must if you are in Botswana!

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    Drotskys Caves
    GrahamHolloway
  • By GrahamHolloway on January 20, 2008
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  • The road to the caves is very difficult and should only be attempted in convoy with other vehicles. You must allow for very heavy fuel consumption and carry more fuel than normal to cater for this. Take everything you will need to stay there, and add an extra day for safety. There is nothing at the caves, no water, fuel or provisions.
    The caves are well worth seeing.
    Please see my travel page for more - Enjoy.

  • Other Contact: e-mail Fieldsale@verref.co.za
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    Walk Africa.
    Flyboy9MR
  • Updated By Flyboy9MR on August 3, 2003
  • Botswana Page by Flyboy9MR
  • Two of my favorite activities were done on foot. We had a ranger who grew up in the bush, and he took us on a walk into the bush. You don't see large game, which is a good thing, but you see quite a bit of Africa you won't get on a drive. Highlight was a lesson on how to get water and stimulants from a tree limb (we got samples to taste). The other activity on foot was a climb to the top of a hill at a ruin site (another ranger with archeological knowledge accompanied us) - exhilarating, and the View! Saw elephant shrews at the top (try spotting these from a moving vehicle). And we walked around and picked up beads from old civilizations - artifacts everywhere!

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    DIY Safari
    RosyDougy
  • By RosyDougy on September 18, 2005
  • Botswana Page by RosyDougy
  • We have been through Botswana 3 times. Each time hiring a fully equiped 4WD and drivng through the national parks and camping in the bush campsites. Nxai Pan we found to be fantastic. Kalahari National Park, Moremi and, if you want to see elephants and plenty of them, Chobe National Park is amazing.

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    Khway river
    Pierangelo
  • By Pierangelo on September 6, 2003
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  • Botswana Off the Beaten Path
    by Pierangelo
    Hippotamuses, crocodiles, a lot of birds, along the river.

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    The Animals!
    kathyceo
  • By kathyceo on March 27, 2004
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  • A pride of lions - Botswana
    A pride of lions
    by kathyceo
    I never thought we would be so close!

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    Sunsets are great in Botswana.
    tompt
  • Updated By tompt on October 10, 2002
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  • Sunset over the Chobe river - Botswana
    Sunset over the Chobe
    river
    by tompt
    Just sit down with a beer, or any other drink you like, and watch the sun go down.

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    Mekoro Trip, Okavango Delta, Botswana
    John195123
  • Updated By John195123 on March 18, 2008
  • Botswana Page by John195123
  • Our guide, Charles, in his Mekoro, OD, Botswana - Botswana
    Our guide, Charles, in his
    Mekoro, OD, Botswana
    by John195123
    Just you, the wild and your guide... in our case, Charles. I described this tip in more detail in the Things To Do section, but wanted to give it mention here, because it is more off the beaten path.

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    BLAZE A TRAIL INTO AFRICA’S UNTOUCHED WILDERNESS
    markeveleigh
  • By markeveleigh on September 22, 2005
  • Botswana Page by markeveleigh
  • Botswana Off the Beaten Path
    by markeveleigh
    The Kalahari Desert, has been described as Africa’s last great wilderness - the ultimate safari destination. Its immensity and isolation have traditionally kept it beyond the reach of all but a few rough-and-ready explorers who were willing to suffer discomfort and hardship to cross what the Boer Voortrekkers once called moedverloor se vlakte - the plain where courage fails.
    Now it is within the means of the average tourist to join a once-in-a-lifetime expedition into the heart of the ‘Lost World of the Kalahari’.
    You will be passing through some of the remotest safari country in the world and your constant companions in the journey will be the African wildlife. You will breakfast amid herds of a thousand springbok and gemsbok. You will fall asleep listening to the roar of hunting lions, under a canopy of stars that are untainted by any man-made light in a hundred square miles.
    An experienced naturalist/guide, in his own vehicle, leads the convoy of fully-equipped, self-driven Land Rover Defenders. The vehicles are in constant contact by two-way radio so that you can ask questions about the wildlife sightings along the trail. You sleep in complete security and comfort in roof-tents on top of your vehicle and eat well from a generous store of provisions carried in the onboard refrigerators. The vehicles are fitted with long-range fuel-tanks, water-tanks, pump showers, tables and chairs and gas-cookers (although a campfire is invariably used for cooking and romantic atmosphere).
    A carefully out-fitted, independently driven expedition vehicle offers the perfect way to explore the wildest regions of southern Africa: be they Botswana’s Kalahari Desert and Okavango Delta or Namibia’s Etosha National Park and Kaokoveld (the wild north-western province).

  • Phone: +27 11 976 3486
  • Website: www.africansafaris.co.za
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