The reputation of Botswana as an African Wildlife safari destination is well justified by three spectacular tourist and magnificent attractions, the Okavango delta, the Tsodilo Hills and Makgadigkadi salt pans. Okavango Delta is one of the most spectacular inland deltas in the world with a thriving cross between a great rambling oasis and a swamp, swarming with wildlife and birds.

In distinction the Makgadikgadi is the biggest salt pans Africa containing a large prospect of vast unbroken disc of pewter coloured sand, ostensibly barren and undistinguished, shimmering with atmospheric tension. The isolated Tsodilo Hills guards are the greatest concentrations of rockart in the world, some huge and obvious, others tiny, delicate and almost secretive.

Much of the country is covered with ancient windblown Kalahari sands and the fossilised remains of a former desert. Landlocked, and roughly central to the southern African sub-continent, Botswana extends through nine degrees of latitude. A very flat country with hilly areas along the Limpopo valley in the east, Botswana is semi-arid with rainfall figures of between 600 mm in the north to 200 mm in the south-west.