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Botswana has built its reputation as the continent's leader in low impact tourism. Few visitors, huge spaces and a travel model designed around exclusivity make it the ideal country for experiencing nature in near total privacy.
At its heart lies the Okavango Delta, where a great river spills into the Kalahari sands and turns desert into a paradise of water and life. The country is remarkable culturally too: the Tsodilo Hills hold more than 4000 ancient rock paintings, a concentration so rich that UNESCO has likened the site to a great gallery of the desert.
Close to half of Botswana's land enjoys formal protection, providing refuge for dense populations of endangered and vulnerable species including black rhino, wild dog, cheetah and elephant.
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Botswana sits at an average altitude of around 1,000 metres, with a dry, subtropical to semi arid climate that shifts by region. Winter days are mild and sunny with cold nights, while summer brings heat and moderate rain.
The Okavango is the largest inland delta on the planet and a World Heritage Site. Rising in the highlands of Angola, its river never finds the sea; it fans out instead across the Kalahari, flooding around 15,000 square kilometres of desert and sustaining an extraordinary wealth of wildlife. Flood water from Angola's summer rains reaches the Delta between March and June and peaks in July and August, right in the middle of Botswana's dry season, drawing great movements of plains game in from the parched hinterland. Explore its papyrus lined channels, lagoons and wooded islands on foot, by 4x4 or from a traditional mokoro canoe.
Moremi is the oldest protected part of the Delta. In 1963 the Batawana people, alarmed at the disappearance of wildlife from their ancestral lands and led by the widow of Chief Moremi, took the initiative of declaring it a reserve. In the central and eastern Delta, where land and water meet, grasslands, floodplains, small lagoons, mopane woodland and winding rivers support big herbivore herds and a striking density of predators: lion, leopard, cheetah and wild dog.
Chobe is the land of giants, celebrated for enormous herds of elephant drawn to the river that gives the park both its name and its life. Lying close to the borders with Zimbabwe and Zambia, it makes an easy day trip from Victoria Falls, and a boat cruise here, watching elephants bathe, play and swim along the banks, is one of Africa's unforgettable sights.
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