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Field notes
The things worth saying about Botswana that do not fit neatly into a planning guide. Written by us, from the ground, and updated as things change.
Our travel guides answer the practical questions. This is the other half: why the Delta floods in the dry season, what a mobile camp is actually like to live in, which trips suit which sort of traveller. We would rather publish something once it is genuinely worth your time than fill a page for the sake of it, so this section grows slowly and on purpose.
Canvas rather than concrete, a camp that moves ahead of you, and the closest most people will ever get to having the bush to themselves. What the tents are actually like, the difference between participatory and fully serviced, who it suits and who it does not, and the one thing nobody tells you about the cold.
Read the note →While this section fills out, these are the pages travellers tell us actually helped them plan.
If there is a Botswana question you cannot find a decent answer to anywhere, tell us. The ones people ask most are the ones that end up here.
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