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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. Robert Benchley

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. Mason Cooley

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." Daniel J. Boorstin

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. Orson Welles

Africa > Botswana

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Botswana is a country predominantly subtropical climate. The summer months beginning in October and ends in late March, with temperatures sometimes exceeding 40 ° C in the middle of the day without rain. The rainy season usually starts with the summer heats up in December and January, to extend until April, the most significant rainfall being recorded in the north-east, and the lowest in South west. The fall occurs in April, and before winter, which lasts until August, with temperatures around 23 ° C day and 5 ° C at night. The month of September is the spring, before the resumption of a new rainy season. Also, the recommended period for a trip to the country are those that avoid both the heat and heavy rainfall. Within one year, they spread out from April to September, ie the beginning of the fall at the end of the spring season.

 
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What to do ?


Mainly focused on luxury tourism, the Botswana particular attracts large budgets.

Gaborone, the capital, has several museums, night clubs and many sporting activities often expensive, but also access to the Mokolodi Nature Reserve, home to many species of African wildlife.

The northeastern region is also teeming national parks and nature reserves, as the Chobe National Park, one of the busiest, and the makG dikgadi Nxai National Park, with magnificent scenery and is also the birthplace of the largest tree of 'Africa, the baobab Chapman, 25 meters in diameter.

Can not push to the Okavango Delta, which stretches into populated expanses of extraordinary wildlife in luxurious surroundings.

The Kalahari Desert in turn provides an unparalleled spectacle: its multitude of animals, the brown hyena, its diamond deposit at Jwaneng, and rare species such as red hartebeest and blue wildebeest of Mabuasehube-Gemsbok National Park, are that some of the great reasons to go there.

As you'll understand that nature is the main wealth of Botswana, who jealously guards and made his major tourist attraction.
 

Botswana : The basics


The airlines serving the Botswana via Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa.

It is not necessary to have a visa, a passport valid enough.

The current currency is the pula.

The budget plan is quite high, that is to say, you pay the same price as in France, unlike tariffs in other African countries. But the benefits, both in terms of accommodation than the kitchen (International type) are equal to the prices.

The basic precautions for health related risks of malaria (provide protection against mosquitoes) and the very important presence of AIDS. Be careful also when you visit the nature reserve where wild animals live.

For travel within the country, the car is the most convenient.

Towns in Botswana


Francistown

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