Flooded channels and islands from above

Country guide

Botswana

4 places across the five collections. Start with what draws you here, then build a journey that gives each place enough time.

PhotographDiego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0

Find your way through Botswana.

The country guide gathers The Original 100 and every alternative included elsewhere on the site. A shared regional wonder may appear in more than one country.

Country orientation

Find the shape of your journey.

See how the 4 entries are distributed, then choose a cluster that suits the journey you want. Numbers on this map refer to the list alongside it.

Representative points, including broad regions and shared-border entries. A pin is not a visitor entrance or evidence of a direct travel connection.

  1. Okavango Delta

    The Original 100 · Floodwater brings a moving mosaic of life to the Kalahari.

  2. Tsodilo Hills

    Extraordinary Discoveries · Rock paintings within an isolated group of desert hills.

  3. Chobe National Park

    The Wider World · A great river landscape provides a distinctive setting for understanding wildlife movement and seasonal concentrations.

  4. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

    The Wider World · Dry riverbeds, red dunes and desert-adapted wildlife create an expansive landscape whose apparent emptiness rewards attention.

The Original 100

1–100 · 1 place in this country

Flooded channels and islands from above

63 · Botswana

Okavango Delta

Floodwater brings a moving mosaic of life to the Kalahari.

Extraordinary Discoveries

201–300 · 1 place in this country

Rock paintings in the Tsodilo Hills

251 · Botswana

Tsodilo Hills

Rock paintings within an isolated group of desert hills.

The Wider World

401–500 · 2 places in this country

Wildebeest and zebras in Chobe National Park

408 · Botswana

Chobe National Park

A great river landscape provides a distinctive setting for understanding wildlife movement and seasonal concentrations.

Turn the collection into a journey.

Begin with an anchor place and its suggested base. Compare the guides’ seasonal notes and allow separately for time spent travelling. A collection of places in one country is not automatically a sensible route, particularly where islands, mountains or remote regions are involved.

Use the travel workbench to record your chosen overnight stops and the transport information you have checked. It keeps unresearched connections visible and produces a day-by-day outline you can print or export.

For international travel, check current entry requirements, regional advice and the operating details of the actual transport and visitor authorities. Country and territory labels here organise the guides; broad shared landscapes do not imply unrestricted border crossings.