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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.

All four of Botswana’s UNESCO listed traditions are on the urgent safeguarding list, which is the opposite of what that label usually means.

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 safari camps are built on decks, stilts and sand, which makes access a question about each camp rather than about the country.

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.

The desert in Namibia has no bad season, which means the month you choose is really a decision about Etosha and about the rain.

Namibia started requiring a visa on 1 April 2025, so any advice written before that date is now wrong about the most important thing.

Namibia runs two currencies at once, and the useful half of the fact is the one direction in which the arrangement does not work.

Namibia is a desert with real winters and a coast that is cold and foggy, so the packing problem is range rather than heat.

Most visitors drive themselves across Namibia, and the single most expensive thing to misunderstand is what the hire insurance does not cover.

Namibia is calm and empty almost everywhere, and its two real risks are Windhoek after dark and the road surface between towns.