My main 6 areas that should be discovered when visiting Botswana are:

Kalahari Desert – the vast area receives too much water to be regarded as a ‘classic’ arid zone. However desert areas exist and are inhabited by the San people.

Okavango Delta – The Okavango River rises in Angola and empties in the Kalahari Desert and produces a wonderful delta where birds and animals enjoy abundance.

Chobe National Park – provides an ideal opportunity to do some bird watching as it encompasses the Chobe River (personally not as great as Etosha NP in Namibia) but there are a myriad of animals to be seen.

Makagadikgadi & Nxai Pans National Park – These cover over 80,000 sq km and the landscape is like no other. The pans sizzle in the heat of the day creating mirages.

Kgalakgadi Trans-Frontier Park – the Mabuasehube-Gemsbok NP and South Africa ‘s Kalahari-Gemsbok NP have combined to form a wilderness of over 28,00sq km. Mixing red dunes and salt pans.

Ghanzi – The San People who were formally know as the bushmen are indigenous to Botswana (and Namibia) and have lived here for over 30,000 years. It was truly an incredible experience to get an understanding of what Africa was like so many years ago and how the people survived in these desert conditions when their very existence was based on the land.