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Places to visit around Gaborone

by MikeBird

I was in Botswana for 6 years back in the 1980s so things may have changed since then but ....If you haven't got much time and cannot go too far from Gaborone there's Mochudi village nearby which had an interesting Museum and I recall you can get a terrific view over the village from the site where it's located. It's near enough to get a taxi from Gaborone.Another place a little further and to the south is Lobatse where you can visit the weavers of Tiro ya Diatla. - Great for presents, if a little pricey. There is a Game park near Gaborone - though it had only just opened when we left.Oh and don't forget to read the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency before you go. It's very true to life or at least it seemed that way to me. Mochudi, the village named above is where Mma Ramotswe was born. Image of Mochudi taken from WikipediaPage under construction

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MY FRIEND – MR. BUCKET

by DAO

This is my highly versatile friend – Mr. Bucket. Before you think I have gone totally mad, just read on. I may be mad, but this is a friend you need for any sort of stays in Africa. So what can Mr. Bucket do for you? Well, Mr. Bucket holds water. So he can keep water for emergency drinking, putting out campfires, washing out toilets/ground, and for washing clothes. He is also indispensable for taking a bath when the water stops running. He can even store his own water. On top of all this Mr. Bucket can help you when he’s dry too. He holds things for you to carry or store. He’s great for storing liquid containers like cleaners and alcohol that could leak out. Yep, Mr. Bucket – leave home with it! When you are finished with Mr. Bucket please leave him for a local person to use. Mr. Bucket is available at fine stores, and no so fine stores, all over Africa for about 50 US cents - $2. Now...

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TROPIC OF CAPRICORN

by DAO

I came across this marker while driving towards Gabarone. Unfortunately it has not been well looked after. So what is it? The term Capricorn comes from the Latin words caper (goat) and cornu (horn) and is the name given to one of the 12 constellations in the zodiac. What this means in earthly term is this. This parallel is the farthest point south at which the sun can be seen directly overhead at noon. Located at latitude 23 degrees south of the equator; it is the southern boundary of the tropics. Latitude at 23degrees30' south of the equatorAbout 150 kilomteres north of Gaborone

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Individual travel in the Okawango Delta, - No.

by Odinnthor

There are numerous camps in the spectacular Okavango Delta. When I was there fronting a luxury travel group, some years ago, the only camps I was aware of were run by the Park, and they were all exclusive and expensive. I am inluding a webside, which shows many more camps than I was aware and they are all regulated camps. If I remember correctly the travel into the Okavango is strictly regulated through the Botswana Conservation Policy, for ecological reasons, and guarded to keep out pouchers. I am pretty sure that this has not changed, - I do not think that they allow individual travel in private vehicles into the Delta for the stated reasons, and due to the fact that the ecological balance is extremely fragile. Imagine a river that does not empty out to the sea. However, if you are not put off by not necessarily controlling your own destiny in the Okavango, - it is a wonderland...

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A boerewors braai

by JohanIsWeg

Chances are you'll reach your Botswana safari destination via South Africa. Be sure to purchase boerewors from a butcher as part of your supplies.There is nothing nicer than to sit around a crackling campfire at night, a lion's roar from the darkness and boerewors sizzling on the braai (barbeque).Boerewors is a very popular South African sausage consisting of minced beef and pork with a variety of spices, including coriander seed, black pepper, nutmeg, cloves and allspice.If you're really lucky, you may have a person in the group who knows how to prepare putu pap - a maize-based dish to accompany the meat.Enjoy!

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mokoro trip

by rosequartzlover1

Mokoro trip is fantastic.I loved it.Even it's a bit hot at the moment(nov) but the environment around is peaceful,all we can hear is the sound of our mokoro passing through the grass and water,from time to time we hear some animal sound ...wonderful!.Makoro (dug out canoe)used to be wood made from big tree trunk like..sausage tree,ebony,african mangosteen but now they consider about conserve the big tree,so now we'll see mostly fibre-glass makoros.Those in the picture are all made by fibre-glass but look alike the real wood,the man in the picture is my canoe man,Mr.Sam,he is nice and kind.That day he had to work very hard because the level of water was so shallow ,he had to use lot of force to bring us through to deeper level.There was no other people around that day,which was good,because we love to see pure nature ,not the tourists.He brought us to a big island and did the bush walk...

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Sunset Cruise

by Acirfa

An amazing evening spent on the Chobe River, being centre stage of all that was happening on the shores and in the river. Elephants, elephants and then even more of them, fish eagles, baboons, impala, water buffalo, then there were the hippo, I have seen many over the years but not as many as this all grazing on the land.Do NOT forget your cameras and plenty of room on your cards too. This is a wonderful experience, cruising down the river in a small raft like boat, feeling very little and fragile amongst the giants surrounding it.You will have your sundowners on board and feel really alive, truly disbelieving that the rest of life is real after this sensational event you just don't want to end.Drifting in the boat whilst huge herds of elephant cross the water with the sunset acting as stage background, baby elephants playing by the shore, trying to make their uncontrollable trunks do as...

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Visit A School

by Acirfa

During our stay at Tuli Game Reserve we took a trip to Mothlabeneng School. The Game Reserve is run as part of a community project , therefore benefitting the local people and it's facilities, the school being part of that. We expected to just look around and meet some of the children during our visit but oh so much more than that was to await us. As we arrived, small children ran and greeted us with their beaming smiles and joyous hearts, as we walked further into the grounds older children were lining up chairs for us to be seated on and then appeared a group of traditionally clad youngsters with musical anklets in place and before our unsuspecting eyes, they began to sing and dance. Such an emotional and moving performance and out of the blue, I managed to pick up my camera to snap some memories but a tug at the heart meant I could not contain the emotion that began to spring from my...

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Bush Walking

by Acirfa

At Tuli there are a selection of walks you can enjoy. We went early morning and with a guide naturally, who taught us a few tracking skills, pointed out interesting bush information and worked off the evening meal before we partook of breakfast.It can start off chilly, so a light weight jacket may be required but just after sunrise, your hat and sunscreen will replace it.Great for getting a true feel of the bush.

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Linyanti - Chobe National Park

by Acirfa

We took a drive here from Savuti campsite, it was a true 4 x 4 ride and a fairly long one too, as it is tucked away at the far end of the Park, seemingly wilder and less busy here.We hoped all the way that we did not meet an oncoming car as one of us might then find ourselves fighting with the sand or the bush in an attempt to share the road, never mind meeting an elephant in a bad mood, reversing would have been a huge manoeuvre under such circumstances.The journey's end was stunning and a surprise, lush green foliage surrounding the Linyanti, a tributary river of the Chobe. The Linyanti is a 'little' Okavango, it has it's own permanent waterways, surrounded by reeds, trees and papyrus. At Chobe you can only experience a small fraction of the river, never-the-less, it is still very pretty and we found plenty of elephant in the area, attracted I suspect by the water supply.There are two...

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Q:  Hi, want to do this trip last week in March/1st week April, should we get good weather or is it a bit too early for the Okavanga... 

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A: Hi Chanes are that you'll see far fewer animals if it has flooded, as when the water is scarce, the animals congregate around the little water that's around. Once the... 

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