Botswana for senior travelers: pacing an itinerary around light aircraft, choosing boats over mekoro, managing cold dawns and heat, and evacuation cover.
Articles tagged with "Botswana"
Accessible travel in Botswana: which lodges are genuinely step-free, what a mokoro transfer involves, light-aircraft realities, and the questions to ask before booking.
Botswana and heritage reconnection: Tsodilo’s rock art and San history, Seretse Khama and the making of a democracy, and the Kalahari land dispute.
Botswana’s festivals: Domboshaba, Dithubaruba, the Kuru Dance Festival and Maitisong, plus the four traditions UNESCO lists as needing urgent safeguarding.
Botswana culture and etiquette: Setswana greetings, botho, the kgotla as a living institution, basketry, and the traditions UNESCO lists as at risk.
Botswana food explained: seswaa the national dish, sorghum and maize porridges, morogo, mopane worms, and why the beef is as good as it is.
Staying safe in Botswana: where malaria is and is not, the animals that actually cause harm, unfenced camps at night, driving hazards and where advisories are published.
Getting around Botswana: Maun and Kasane as the safari gateways, why light aircraft do the work, the mokoro, self-driving, and the border crossings.
What to pack for Botswana: the camouflage restriction, the light-aircraft weight limit, cold Kalahari dawns, and what a mokoro trip actually needs.
Money in Botswana: the pula and what its name means, where cards work, why camps are prepaid, and how much cash to carry into the bush.