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Botswana &
Namibia
Victoria Falls
p183
Namibia
p215
Botswana
p44
Anthony Ham, Trent Holden
P LAN
ON THE ROAD
YOUR TRIP
Welcome to Botswana BOTSWANA . . . . . . . . 44 Nogatsaa/Tchinga Area . . . . 87
& Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Gaborone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Savuti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Greater Gaborone . . . . . . 55 Linyanti Marshes . . . . . . . . 90
Botswana Matsieng Rock Carvings . . . 55 Okavango Delta . . . . . . .93
& Namibia’s Top 16 . . . . . . . 8 Mochudi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Maun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
Need to Know . . . . . . . . . .16 Gabane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Shorobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Manyana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Eastern Delta . . . . . . . . . . 105
If You Like… . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Thamaga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Inner Delta . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Month by Month . . . . . . . 22 Mokolodi Nature Reserve . . 57 Moremi Game Reserve . . . 112
Itineraries . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Otse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Okavango Panhandle . . . . . 117
Planning a Safari . . . . . . 29 Kanye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Northwestern
Botswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Eastern Botswana . . . . .58
Regions at a Glance . . . . 39 Tsodilo Hills . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Palapye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Lake Ngami . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Serowe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Aha Hills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Khama Rhino Sanctuary . . .61
Gcwihaba
Tswapong Hills . . . . . . . . . . 62 (Drotsky’s Cave) . . . . . . . . 124
Francistown . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Kalahari . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
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Sowa Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Kang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Ntwetwe Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Kgalagadi Transfrontier
Makgadikgadi Pans Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
National Park . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Understand Botswana . .144
Nxai Pans National Park . . . 77 Botswana Today . . . . . . . . 144
OSTRICH, ETOSHA Chobe National Park . . .79 History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
NATIONAL PARK P250 Kasane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 People of Botswana . . . . . 150
Chobe Riverfront . . . . . . . . 84 Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
2630BEN/SHUTTERSTOCK ©
HIMBA WOMAN, NAMIBIA
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Contents
SURVIVAL
GUIDE
Arts & Crafts . . . . . . . . . . . 153 The North . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Kavango Region . . . . . . . . 258
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 The Caprivi Strip . . . . . . . 261
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Otjozondjupa . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Northwestern Map Legend . . . . . . . . . . 407
Botswana Cuisine . . . . . . 157 Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Damaraland . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
National Parks & The Kaokoveld . . . . . . . . . 280
Reserves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 The Skeleton Coast . . . . . 284
Survival Guide . . . . . . . . 165 Central Namibia . . . . . . 288
Swakopmund . . . . . . . . . . 289
VICTORIA FALLS . . 183 Walvis Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Seventh Natural Namib-Naukluft Park . . . . 308
Wonder of the World . . . 184 Southern Namibia . . . . 320
Zambia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 The Central Plateau . . . . . 320
Livingstone . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 The South Coast . . . . . . . 326
Zimbabwe . . . . . . . . . . .193 The Far South &
Victoria Falls . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Fish River Canyon . . . . . . 335
Understand Namibia . .340
Namibia Today . . . . . . . . . 340
NAMIBIA . . . . . . . . . 215
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Windhoek . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
The Namibian People . . . 346
North-Central
Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 The Namibian
Way of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
East to Botswana . . . . . . . 232
Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
North to Etosha . . . . . . . . 233
Namibian Cuisine . . . . . . . 355
Etosha National Park . . . . 250
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Northern Namibia . . . .255
Survival Guide . . . . . . . .364
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AGES © FEATURES
Planning a Safari . . . . . . 29
Wildlife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Language chapter
covering 5 languages . . . 386
SAFARI IN BOTSWANA P29
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Welcome to
Botswana & Namibia
Ever wanted to experience the raw, wild
heart of Africa? Teeming with wildlife
and lush with extraordinary landscapes,
Botswana and Namibia unfurl so many
African dreams.
Wildlife Watching Ancient Culture
Botswana is one of Africa’s great safari The ancestors of the San, an ancient people
destinations. There are more elephants here who have direct links back to the Stone
than in any other country on the planet. Age, left behind extraordinary records in
But whether it’s elephants, lions, leopards, the form of rock paintings throughout the
hyenas, rhinos, buffaloes, antelope or myriad region. The Tsodilo Hills, Botswana’s only
other species, their numbers and variety in Unesco World Heritage Site, showcase the
Botswana will quickly overwhelm your digi- pictorial record of this prehistoric culture, as
tal camera. In Namibia the series of water- do extensive galleries of rock art in Namibia.
holes around Etosha Pan attract astounding Also in Namibia, opportunities to interact
numbers of animals (especially in the dry with local cultures in the north include meet-
season), making wildlife watching as simple ing the Himba of the Kaokoveld (a Herero
as parking your car and letting the animals subgroup who were a part of the early Bantu
come to you. And if that’s not up-close-and- migrations). Himba women are famous for
personal enough, what about tracking highly smearing themselves with a fragrant mixture
endangered black rhinos…on foot? of ochre, butter and bush herbs, which dyes
their skin a burnt-orange hue.
Landscape
Adventure Activities
The landscapes of Namibia and Botswana
will sometimes leave you wondering if you Namibia is Southern Africa’s headquarters
have arrived on another planet. That mighty for adrenaline-pumping fun. Fling yourself
gash hacked out of the earth’s surface at out of a plane and float back to earth, hurl
Fish River Canyon is one of the great natural yourself down a sand dune, surf the breakers
sights on the continent. Lonely desert roads on the Atlantic coast or head off into a desert
expose you to a wilderness that will clear sunset atop a camel. There are many ways
your mind and work its way into your soul. to ensure that a visit to this region lives with
Humongous slabs of flat-topped granite rise you long after the desert sands recede into
out of mists of windblown sand and swirl- the distance. Swakopmund is where most of
ing dust – the effect is ethereal. As the road adventure activities happen, and it’s worth
snakes into the distant horizon you may spending a few days here if they have even
just feel as though you’re driving through a the remotest appeal.
coffee-table book of landscapes.
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Why I Love Botswana & Namibia
By Anthony Ham, Writer
I long ago lost my heart in the waterways of the Okavango Delta, in the sands of the Central
Kalahari Game Reserve, upon the hot stones of Damaraland, atop a sand dune at Deadvlei
and by a waterhole in Etosha… Fabulous wildlife, soul-stirring landscapes, a true feeling of
immersion in wild lands and wilderness – Botswana and Namibia have all these in abun-
dance, and the sense of beautiful, wild places animated by just about every species of char-
ismatic African megafauna calls me back time and again.
For more about our writers, see p408
Above: Namib Desert, Namibia
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Okavango Delta Etosha National Park
1 Botswana’s Okavango (p8) is an astonishing, 2 There are few places in Southern Africa
beautiful, wild place. Home to wildlife specta- that can compete with the wildlife pros-
cles of rare power and drama, the delta changes pects in extraordinary Etosha National Park
with the seasons as flood waters ebb and flow, (p250). A network of waterholes dispersed
creating islands, river channels and pathways among the bush and grasslands surrounding
for animals that move this way and that at the the pan – a blindingly white, flat, saline desert
waters’ behest. Exclusive and remote lodges are that stretches into the horizon – attracts
an Okavango speciality but self-drivers can find enormous congregations of animals. A single
outstanding campsites in the heart of Okavan- waterhole can render thousands of sightings
go’s Moremi Game Reserve. No visit to the delta over the course of a day, with lions and rhinos
is complete without drifting through the waters the highlights. Etosha is simply one of the best
in a traditional mokoro (dugout canoe). places on the planet for watching wildlife.