Destination BOTSWANA

The landscape is a flat, brown featureless hazy horizon. Looking down vertically, you observe thorny tree scrubs, open grasslands and a wild interior. This is Botswana's Kalahari, one of the most impressive displays of sand anywhere.

Through it all runs a tightly woven fabric of mysterious detective agencies, (No accident the "Ladies Detective Agency" was set there), cattle and game trails, dusty donkey towns, silent San footprints, dramatic veterinary cut lines and happy people. A colourful web of peace, stability, safety and prosperity envelops the whole country. Botswana has emerged, from one of the poorest countries to one of the fastest growing economies in Africa.

From the Captain's Blog:

"When I started exploring Okavango in the early eighties, the drive from Francistown to Victoria Falls via Maun was long dusty, directionless and tedious. Three decades later Maun Airport is one of the busiest small plane runways in Africa.

The biggest diamond in Botswana's shimmering Kalahari mirage is the Okavango Delta; a tropical inland fresh water delta fed by equatorial rain from the central Angolan highlands.

Other vibrant unique tourist outposts lie scattered across the seemingly empty Kalahari bushveld; Makgadigadi Pans, Tuli Limpopo Valley, Central Kalahari Game Reserve and Tsodilo Hills.

I love coming here."