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Travel to Botswana with Heritage Tours Private Travel
Characterized by pristine natural beauty and untouched wilderness, Botswana boasts not only spectacular landscapes, but some of Africa’s most remarkable and diverse ecosystems and the plentiful bounty of animal species that thrive within them.
With nearly 40% of the entire country (a piece of land the size of France) protected as designated conservation areas, and a well-considered emphasis on a light-touch, low-impact tourism, Botswana offers you a unique (and responsible) entree into the wilds of Africa.
The heartland of Southern Africa is home to one of the world’s most remarkable natural phenomenon, the Okavango Delta – born anew each year as the world’s largest inland delta, a place of inestimable beauty. The Kalahari desert is said to be the world’s largest continuous area of sand in the world. The enormous salt pans of Makgadikgadi are visible from outer space. This land so sparsely populated by human beings is home to Africa’s largest elephant - about one elephant for every ten people.
While the undisputed draw of Botswana is its phenomenal wildlife, Heritage Tours Private Travel offers you not only our safari-planning knowledge and judgment, but also our own special twists…Arrange a special fly-in to a remote area home to the world’s greatest collection of Stone Age rock paintings. Visit working diamond mines. View animals from the luxury of a private houseboat along the Chobe. And experience the joy of the Botswanan people in our up-close and personal look at the quirky world of the best-selling novel series (and HBO hit) The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency; your private tour includes a one-on-one lunch with a real-life person on whom a character in the book was based.
Botswana is one of the great success stories of Africa. It is a prosperous country (all those diamonds help), a successful democracy that was never colonized (no one knew it had diamonds) and a land that is welcoming to all. Its government has been exemplary in its environmental and wildlife protection efforts.
Botswana’s call will resonate profoundly with star-gazers and amateur photographers, bird lovers and the seekers of big game. It will resonate with those who seek her vast landscapes and those intrigued by the indigenous San (Bushmen) people, Yet Botswana’s call is loudest perhaps for those who seek an untamed and untouched Africa.
Yet for travelers, Botswana is an extremely complex destination. Getting around is challenging (many camps are accessible only by air) and understanding how to best choose among the various regions and wealth of properties at specific times of year is a tricky matter.
Allow the experience, judgment and connections of Heritage Tours Private Travel to serve you in designing the most diverse and fulfilling experience possible. Allow us to help you create your own Botswana.
