Southern Africa - Botswana (Chapter)

This is the Botswana chapter from Lonely Planet's Southern Africa guidebook.

Landlocked Botswana offers a remarkable diversity of landscape and experiences. This chapter takes you on an authentic African odyssey, from the sunbaked salt pans of the Makgadikgadi superlake, to the Okavango Delta's emerald-green waterways and the wildlife-packed savannah.

• spot the Big Five (lions, leopards, buffalo, elephants, rhinos) at Botswana's premier safari park, Chobe National Park
• maps
• follow herds of migrating zebras and wildebeests in the baobab- dotted Makgadikgadi Pans & Nxai Pan National Park
• transport & directory
• glide through the watery expanses of the Okavango Delta in a mokoro, a traditional dugout canoe
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Gaborone & around, Kopong, Odi, Mochudi, Thamaga, Mokolodi Nature Reserve, Eastern Botswana, Serowe, Khama Rhino Sanctuary, Francistown, Tuli Game Reserve, Makgadikgadi Pans, Nata, Sowa (Sua) Pan, Gweta, Ntwetwe Pan, Makgadikgadi & Nxai Pan National Park, Chobe National Park, Kasane & around, Chobe Riverfront, Savuti, Linyanti Marshes, Okavango Delta, Maun, Eastern Delta, Inner Delta, Moremi Game Reserve, The Okavango Panhandle, The Kalahari, Khutse Game Reserve, Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Ghanzi, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.