The Best Botswana Travel Guide eBooks of All Time

Whether you want to follow the Great Migration in Kenya and Tanzania, explore Botswana’s Okavango Delta, or experience Victoria Falls, the local Fodor’s travel experts in Africa are here to help! Fodor’s The Complete Guide to Africa Safaris guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully redesigned with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos. Fodor’s The Complete Guide to Africa Safaris travel guide includes:.

AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and doMULTIPLE ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your timeMORE THAN 35 DETAILED MAPS to help you navigate confidentlyCOLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust!HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LOCALS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, activities, beach destinations, and morePHOTO-FILLED “BEST OF” FEATURES on “Wildlife,” “Plants and Trees,” and moreTRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, getting around, beating the crowds, and saving time and moneyHISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the local people, art, cuisine, music, geography, and moreSPECIAL FEATURES on “The Big Five,” “The Great Migration, “The Namibia Dunes,” and more LOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gemsUP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia, Rwanda, Uganda, and Victoria FallsPlanning on visiting South Africa? Check out Fodor’s Essential South Africa, 2nd edition. *Important note for digital editions: The digital edition of this guide does not contain all the images or text included in the physical edition. ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor’s has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years. For more travel inspiration, you can sign up for our travel newsletter at fodors.com/newsletter/signup, or follow us @FodorsTravel on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We invite you to join our friendly community of travel experts at fodors.com/community to ask any other questions and share your experience with us!

This new edition of Bradt's Botswana remains the only full-blown, standalone guide to one of Africa's most popular and rewarding safari destinations. Acclaimed by tour operators and travel writers alike, this is the only guide to focus on the most popular tourist areas of Botswana: the Okavango Delta, Chobe National Park and the Northern Kalahari, and this new edition includes a new full-colour wildlife guide, backed up by detailed flora and fauna information for each safari area.

Fully updated accommodation options, from top lodges in the Okavango Delta to small guesthouses (including many new to this edition) are also included, as are detailed maps, comprehensive GPS coordinates (invaluable to self-drivers) and coverage of Livingstone and the Victoria Falls – ideal as an add-on trip to a safari in Botswana. With this guide, explore one of the world's most stunning wildlife destinations, read up on superb safari lodges, from traditional tented camps to those offering five-star luxury and top-class cuisine, and make the most of the excellent birding (with almost 600 species identified). Also included are details of how to arrange mobile safaris around the national parks and reserves with your own guide, often staying in private campsites; boat cruises on the Chobe River, where herds of elephant cross every evening; and when and how to view one of the great gatherings of zebra on the Makgadikgadi Pans. Botswana's wilderness is pristine. The permanent waters of the Okavango Delta attract year-round wildlife, now including all the ‘big five' – the rhinos are back thanks to a successful re-introduction programme. Spreading out from the Delta, Botswana has tremendous variety, from the arid Kalahari to lush, well-watered forest glades and the broad Chobe River. And then there's Botswana's rich history, from the ancient rock paintings at the Tsodilo Hills, to Stone Age arrowheads on the Makgadikgadi Pans. Written and updated by experts, Bradt's Botswana is the definitive companion to discovering this enchanting destination.

Lying between the perennial waterways of the Okavango Delta to the northwest and the arid Kalahari to the south are the legendary Makgadikgadi Pans, one of the largest salt complexes in the world. Some 12,000 square kilometres in extent, these salt flats – consisting of two large pans, Sowa and Ntwetwe, and a myriad smaller ones – are Botswana’s best-kept secret and one of its fastest-growing tourist destinations. In this first, fully illustrated guidebook on the pans, Grahame McLeod explores this fascinating region, revealing its varied landscapes, geology, wildlife, vegetation and climate.

Along the way he uncovers its diverse attractions: Nata Bird Sanctuary, Lekhubu Island, the Boteti River, Mosu Escarpment, Makgadikgadi and Nxai Pans National Park, and the small towns and villages along the pans’ fringes. An inspiring read and packed with more than 200 photographs, this guide also includes:. • detailed full-color maps. • advice on where to stay. • activities and events throughout the year. • travel details, including contact information. Informative, practical and user-friendly, this is an invaluable on-the-spot guide for all visitors to Botswana and the alluring salt sea of the Makgadikgadi Pans. Table of Contents. Preface 4. Chapter 1 6. Introduction – The Makgadikgadi Pans. Chapter 2 8. Geology – Landscape of salt, sand and sea. Chapter 3 20. Climate – Seasons of extremes. Chapter 4 26. Vegetation and wildlife – A system of mutual dependence. Chapter 5 44. The local economy – Living o the land. Chapter 6 52. Towns and villages around the pans – From Gweta to Khumaga. Chapter 7 70. Mosu/Kaitshe Escarpment – A window on the past. Chapter 8 78. Nata Sanctuary – A haven for waterbirds. Chapter 9 90. Lekhubu Island – Refuge of granite in a sea of salt. Chapter 10 112. Makgadikgadi and Nxai Pan National Park – A wilderness of hidden treasures. Travel advisory 124. Contact information 134. Further reading 140.