Botswana

Botswana provides a good sense of the adventure of safari. Its expansive game parks and preserves, while offering wildlife as diverse and abundant as that found anywhere else, are still largely undeveloped and untamed.

Botswana lies immediately to the north of South Africa. It is bordered on the north and west by Namibia, on the north and east by Zimbabwe, and is connected by a narrow strip of land on the northern border to Zambia.

In the northwest, the Okavango River empties into the Kalahari sands, creating the largest inland river delta in the world. While the Okavango Delta is home to relatively few large game animals in comparison to other areas of Botswana, its clear waters and myriad small islands are home to an astounding variety of birds, plants, and smaller species of animals.

Nearby is Chobe National Park, a beautiful grassland reserve that has gained international fame for its abundant elephant population. Southeast of Chobe are Botswana's enormous Makgadikgadi salt pans, home to large herds of blue wildebeest, several antelope species, and those international lovers of salt pans, flamingos.

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Winter (late May-Aug) the days are normally clear, warm and sunny, and nights are cool to bitterly cold but is the best time to view the wildlife as they stay close to the waterholes.

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I've just returned from amazing Namibia. A highlight of this region are the Sossusvlei sand dunes.

These monumental dunes (the highest of which is 325m) were formed by multi directional winds blowing sand from the Kalahari Desert and the colours and forms are simply breathtaking.

Exhilarated we raced to the bottom of the dunes to a salt pan and back to our vehicle where we enjoyed a picnic breakfast, before heading back to our lodge for a relaxing afternoon.

Roslyn Johnson, Adventure World

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