Botswana Safari Guide – Bradt Guides

Botswana Safari Guide – Bradt Guides

This updated Bradt Botswana Safari Guidebook remains the only full-blown, standalone guide to one of Africa’s most popular and rewarding safari destinations. This is the sole guide to focus on Botswana’s key safari locations: the Okavango Delta, Chobe National Park and the Northern Kalahari.

Botswana’s wilderness is pristine, a virtue underpinned by governmental commitment to sustainable tourism. The Okavango Delta’s permanent waters attract year-round wildlife, now including all the ‘big five’: rhinos have been successfully re-introduced.

Outside the Delta, this English-speaking country offers tremendous variety in landscapes, from the arid Kalahari to lush forests. Riverine areas harbour spectacular herds of elephants and buffalo, and mighty predator populations. Dusty savannahs attract hardier game such as oryx and springbok. On Makgadikgadi’s great salt pans, zebra gather in huge congregations after rain. Birdwatching is brilliant throughout.

Then there’s Botswana’s rich history, from the ancient rock paintings at the Tsodilo Hills, to Stone Age arrowheads on the Makgadikgadi Pans.

Bradt’s Botswana Safari Guide offers detailed descriptions of many lodges, from traditional tented camps to those offering five-star luxury and top-class cuisine, plus detail on what animals occur where, enabling you to select the optimum approach.

With this book’s comprehensive GPS co-ordinates and detailed maps, independent travellers can drive themselves around. But perhaps you prefer bespoke mobile safaris with a private guide? Either way, take a night drive to see creatures of the dark: genets and hunting leopards.

For a different feel:-

• Explore rivers on gentle motorboat cruises, including on multi-day trips, or get closer to the water in a traditional mokoro (dug-out canoe), with a poler escorting you along shallow waterways
• Or seek out a specialist walking camp for the excitement of bush walks – when meerkats might even pose atop your head for a great lookout
• And why not use this book’s advice to book-end trips by visiting Livingstone (Zambia) and the Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe)?

Written and updated by Chris and Susie McIntyre, experts on all things Africa, the updated Bradt Botswana Safari Guidebook is the definitive companion to discovering this thrilling destination.

Introduction

PART ONE GENERAL INFORMATION
Chapter 1 The Natural Environment
Chapter 2 Botswana Wildlife Guide
Chapter 3 History, Politics and Economy
Chapter 4 People and Culture
Chapter 5 Planning and Preparation
Chapter 6 Health and Safety
Chapter 7 Into the Wilds

PART TWO THE GUIDE
Chapter 8 Maun
Chapter 9 Kasane and the Northeast
Chapter 10 Chobe National Park and Forest Reserve
Chapter 11 Linyanti, Selinda and Kwando Reserves
Chapter 12 The Okavango Delta – Moremi Game Reserve
Chapter 13 The Okavango Delta – Private Reserves around Moremi
Chapter 14 The Okavango Panhandle and Northwest Kalahari
Chapter 15 The Kalahari’s Great Salt Pans
Chapter 16 The Central Kalahari
Chapter 17 Livingstone and the Victoria Falls

Appendices Tracks and Signs, Language, Further Information
Index

• Published:  08th Nov 2024
• Edition:  6
• Number of pages:  520
• ISBN: 9781804692233