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Patricia
US
Visited:
March 2011
Reviewed: Aug 17, 2011
50-65 years of age
It's a beautiful place with great scenery, animals, and birds.
Linda Hoernke
US
Visited:
April 2007
Reviewed: Jul 29, 2011
Email Linda Hoernke | 50-65 years of age
Botswana has some very beautiful areas, such as Makgadikgadi, Chobe, Moremi and Okavango Delta, with loads of wildlife. However, it's close proximity to South Africa makes it a busy place. Many campsites in National Parks need to be booked more than a year in advance. This pre-arrangement doesn't give the country a real 'bush-vibe', although some gems, such as Makgadikgadi still feel very much like the real deal.
Botswana is giving freedom to the wildlife animals and have a wide variety of animals.
John
DE
Visited:
June 2011
Reviewed: Jul 15, 2011
20-35 years of age
Very pristine, untouched wilderness, yet 5 star service and offering in Wilderness camps.
Bruceontour
NZ
Visited:
July 2009
Reviewed: Jul 6, 2011
50-65 years of age
Being "poled along" like a gondola, the thousands of stars & evening constant animal noises (frogs).
- lying in and being poled along in a mokoro, a dug out canoe. Listening to the bird and insect life with the reeds being brushed aside. Thank goodness we had a modern fiberglass mokoro as the wooden ones made out of single sausage tree that takes 80 years to grow, but only last 5 - 6 years leak! We had to take everything in and then take out again everything including all of our rubbish. The sky was blue, few clouds and the sun was rising. It was a simply a magic feeling moving along at a gentle pace. So different to the truck travel.
- On the bush walks saw more
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homo sapiens from other overland groups moving across the open plain than the few animals - zebras, buffaloes plus bird life.- The evening will be remembered for the brilliant display of stars with a little light spillage plus hearing the hundreds of frogs croaking away ...
- To cap off our visit, the flight over just a small part of the 16,000 sq km Okavango Delta where the 360 degree vista from above rewarded me with my pictures of "textures and colours". We saw elephants and wildebeests from above. It was well worth the US$60 cost. To cap it off, as we left on the last flight, it was sunset as we headed back to Maun airport.
So ... yes, I was a bit disappointed with both Chobe National Park and Okavango Delta re seeing animals living in their natural environment, but I still have many wonderful memories to take away with me: being "poled along" like a gondola - the thousands of stars and evening animal noises.
Read and see my Botswana photoblog at:
http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/bruceontour/2/1268479817/tpod.html
http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/bruceontour/2/1268480129/tpod.html
Di G.
Visited:
December 2010
Reviewed: Jun 27, 2011
Although we found Botswana beautiful, it did not have the typical majestic beauty many people assume is present throught Africa. There were no giant mountains or lakes, just simple unadulterated lovely wilderness.
In my oppinion Botswana offers some of the best wildlife viewing and birdwatching in Africa, combined with friendly people, knowledgable guides and comfortable accommodation in various price classes.
Amit
Visited:
October 2008
Reviewed: Jun 25, 2011
Botswana is very developed in terms of facilities and wildlife viewing. They are very ecologically conservationists and have taken great care of their parks.