Places to Explore

• The Central Kalahari Game Reserve

  One of the biggest conservation areas in the world, this huge area has its own unique beauty, that's only enhanced by its vastness, emptiness, grandeur, and desolation. You won't see the prolific game of... (more)

• Chobe National Park

  This 12,000-square-km (4,500-square-mi) reserve is the second largest national park in Botswana and it has four very different eco-systems: Serondela in the extreme northwest with fertile plains and thick... (more)

• Durban

  Just 474 mi (762 km) southeast from Botswana's capital Gaborone, Durban's accessible, beautiful, and safe beaches make it a great escape for this landlocked country (as well as for South Africa). Plus... (more)

• Kwando Reserve

  The 2,300-square-km (900-square-mi) private Kwando concession has more than 80 km (50 mi) of river frontage. It stretches south from the banks of the Kwando River, through huge open plains and mopane forests... (more)

• Linyanti Area

  The Linyanti Reserve, which borders Chobe National Park, is one of the huge concession areas leased to different companies by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks and the Tawana Land Board; concessions... (more)

• The Makgadikgadi Pans

  These immense salt pans in the eastern Kalahari—once the bed of an African superlake—provide some of Botswana's most dramatic scenery. Two of these pans, Ntetwe and Sowa, the largest of their... (more)

• Maputaland Coastal Reserve

  If Robinson Crusoe had washed ashore on the pristine coastline of Maputaland, he wouldn't have found anybody to call Friday—and he certainly wouldn't have cared what day of the week it was. It's... (more)

• Moremi Wildlife Reserve

  Prolific wildlife and an astonishing variety of birdlife characterize this reserve, which has become well-known because it's the first in southern Africa to be proclaimed by the local people (the Batawana)... (more)

• The Okavango Delta

  There's no place on earth like the Okavango. The world's largest inland delta, the Okavanga was formed by the Okavango River, which floods down from the Angolan highlands once a year and fans out into... (more)

• The Tuli Block

  This ruggedly beautiful corner of northeastern Botswana is very easily accessible from South Africa and well worth a visit. Huge, striking red-rock formations, unlike anywhere else in Botswana, mingle... (more)