Heritage & Culture

Botswana's largest protected area, nominated as a mixed property for its landscape and for the hunter-gatherer communities that still live inside it.

Namibia chose English as its official language in 1990, and almost nobody grew up speaking it, which shapes every conversation you will have.

The first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Namibia, and more than a century later the question of what is owed is still open.

Namibian food is German butchery, Afrikaner farming and Ovambo staples on the same plate, and the country is honest about all three.

Twyfelfontein carries one of the largest concentrations of rock engravings in Africa, and its second name is older than its first.

The Namib Sand Sea is the only coastal desert in the world whose dune landscape is shaped mainly by fog rather than by rain.

Namibia’s highest mountain holds one of the densest bodies of rock art in the world, and its most famous figure was misnamed twice.

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.

Botswana was never colonized in the way its neighbors were, and the story it offers a returning visitor is about what happened after independence.

Botswana eats meat and grain, in that order, and its national dish is a method rather than a recipe: boiled slowly, then pounded.

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.

A river that never reaches the sea, flooding a desert in the middle of the dry season, is the whole reason the Okavango exists.