Heritage
Central Kalahari Game Reserve: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Botswana's largest protected area, nominated as a mixed property for its landscape and for the hunter-gatherer communities that still live inside it.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Botswana: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Chobe Linyanti System: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The river everyone photographs, the channel that switches itself on and off, and a nomination Botswana filed in 2010 that has not moved since.
Travel planning
Accessible Travel in Botswana
Botswana safari camps are built on decks, stilts and sand, which makes access a question about each camp rather than about the country.
Heritage
Botswana and Diaspora Reconnection
Botswana was never colonized in the way its neighbors were, and the story it offers a returning visitor is about what happened after independence.
Events and Festivals
Botswana Festivals and Celebrations
All four of Botswana’s UNESCO listed traditions are on the urgent safeguarding list, which is the opposite of what that label usually means.
Culture
Botswana Culture and Etiquette Guide
Get the words for the country, the people and the language right, and Botswana will notice; get them wrong and it will notice that too.
Food
Botswana Food Guide
Botswana eats meat and grain, in that order, and its national dish is a method rather than a recipe: boiled slowly, then pounded.
Travel planning
Botswana Travel Safety Guide
Botswana is one of the safer countries in the region and its own advisory is specific about where that stops, including one named stretch of river.
Travel planning
Getting Around Botswana
Botswana has good tarmac and genuinely dangerous roads, and the reason is not the surface but what walks onto it after dark.
Travel planning
Botswana Packing List
Botswana packs like a desert that floods, which means layers for cold mornings, dust protection, and far fewer clothes than you expect.