Botswana holidays

This land-locked country is one of Africa’s greatest game reserves, and home to thousands of rare and endangered animals, including the ‘Big Five’ that all safari tourists want to see. It’s a fascinating combination of ancient tribal cultures, astonishing natural beauty, and thriving cities that show off the multiple sides of this complex country. Whether you’re heading out on the safari of a lifetime, or want to spend time exploring the busy city of Gaborone, a package holiday to Botswana with Qatar Airways Holidays is the chance to go on your very own African Odyssey. Home to the vast wilderness of the Kalahari Desert, as well as huge game reserves that cover much of the country’s land-mass, Botswana welcomes tourists all year round. It is famous for its warm and friendly people, who are happy to teach you all about their history and culture, as well as the wildlife that is such an important part of the country. If you want to see elephants, lions, giraffe, zebra and all those other amazing creatures you see on wildlife television programmes, a holiday to Botswana will let you get up close and personal to all this and much, much more.

• Visit the game reserves of Chobe National Park or Moremi National Park to see wildlife in its natural habitat.
• Head to the most impressive of all Botswana’s regions, the Okavango Delta, home to the world’s largest inland river delta. Here you’ll see water buffalo, crocodiles and wildebeest, as the water channels attract animals from thousands of miles around.
• From the desert of the Kalahari to the desolate salt flats of Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, Botswana’s landscape is varied and complex, with rare, region-specific wildlife everywhere.
• Visit the native tribal villages of D’Kar and Xai-Xai and find out more about the native people who have lived in this part of Africa for hundreds of thousands of years.
• Head up into the Tsodilo Hills to see some of the oldest rock art in the world.