Botswana Safaris, Travel Botswana Tours
BOTSWANA
If an image of Africa springs to mind it is often set in a landscape of tawny bushveld stretching deep into the hazy distance. Under burning blue sky herds of antelope move languidly through the sunlit spaces while elephant wallow in the mud around a reed-fringed waterhole. The cry of the fish eagle echoes across the water as a herd of waterbuck crash through the shallows at the sight of a wondering lioness.
In a lot of places in Africa this is indeed part of the backdrop, but in most it is canned, fighting for space and fenced in to protect diminishing stocks of wildlife against increasing human pressure. This is manifestly not the case in Botswana. Here you will find one of last great wilderness retreats of Africa, and here too both a cerebral approach to conservation and a highly principled attitude to tourism. Botswana is a model for the rest of Africa to follow, and you will find wild Africa in similar abundance nowhere else.
Situated on the fringe of the Kalahari Desert, Botswana is a country more or less the size of France with a population of under 1.6 million. It is one of the wealthiest per capita and best administered countries in sub-Saharan Africa, with almost non-existent corruption and a progressive and pragmatic style of government. Vast spaces of quintessential African bushveld are open to the outfield traveler, with neither war, political unrest nor social agitation of any kind to blight the landscape. It is the last great bastion of the African elephant, with open migration routes stretching huge distances. It enjoys a core of wildlife refuges, national parks and conservancies that are model for any region grappling with the conservation of vital habitat and species.
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