Travel planning
Botswana Currency and Money Guide
The pula is named after rain, which tells you most of what you need to know about how Botswana values the thing it has least of.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Botswana: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Travel planning
Botswana Visa and Entry Requirements
Botswana wants three blank passport pages, not two, and if you are traveling with a child it wants their birth certificate at both ends of the trip.
Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Botswana
The flood that makes the Okavango worth seeing arrives in the middle of the dry season, which inverts everything you know about African seasons.
Heritage
Makgadikgadi Pans: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Botswana calls the Makgadikgadi the largest salt pans in the world, and its nomination is for the archaeology as much as the emptiness.
Heritage
Okavango Delta: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A river that never reaches the sea, flooding a desert in the middle of the dry season, is the whole reason the Okavango exists.
Heritage
Tsodilo: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Four thousand five hundred paintings in ten square kilometers of Kalahari, and the people who live beside them still treat it as a place of worship.
Destination
Botswana
An inland delta that floods in the dry season, 4,500 rock paintings at Tsodilo, and a deliberate choice to keep tourism small and costly.