Botswana Safari

Botswana Safari

Botswana is predominantly flat, tending toward gently rolling tableland. The Kalahari Desert is located in the southwest of the country. The Limpopo River Basin is the major landform of all of southern Africa, including Botswana.

otswana is dominated by the Kalahari Desert, which covers up to 70% of the land surface of the country. The Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, is in the northwest. The Makgadikgadi Pan, a large salt pan lies in the north.

Tourism plays a large role in the Botswana economy. A number of national parks and game reserves, with their abundant wildlife and wetlands, are major tourist attractions. The wildlife, including lions, brown hyenas, cheetahs, leopards, wild dogs and antelope, were described in great detail in the best-selling book "Cry of the Kalahari" by Mark and Delia Owens.

The main safari destinations for tourism are Moremi Game Reserve in the Okavango Delta, and Chobe National Park. Botswana is also participating in community based natural resource management projects by trying to involve villagers in tourism. One example is the village of Khwai and its Khwai Development Trust.

Botswana is divided into nine districts:

Central, Ghanzi, Kgalagadi, Kgatleng, Kweneng, North-East, North-West, South-East, Southern

These districts are subdivided into a total twenty-eight subdistricts.

Main population centres (in descending order)

Cities

Gaborone, Francistown

Towns and villages

Molepolole, Selebi-Phikwe, Maun, Gumare, Serowe, Kanye, Mahalapye, Mochudi, Mogoditshane, Gabane, Lobatse, Palapye, Tlokweng, Ramotswa, Thamaga, Moshupa, Tonota, , Bobonong, Orapa, Jwaneng

Botswana has diverse areas of wildlife habitat, including the Okavango Delta, the Kalahari Desert, grasslands and savannas, the latter where Blue Wildebeest and many antelopes as well as other mammals and birds are found. Northern Botswana has one of the few remaining large populations of the endangered African Wild Dog.

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