Day 1: Travel overnight from the UK to Johannesburg, South Africa

• There are no direct flights to Botswana – yet

• See Getting There page for more details
  
  

Day 2: Travel by Air Botswana to Gaborone, the Capital

• Pick up your hire car or use the hotel’s shuttle bus

• Settle in at the recommended hotel: the Cresta President Hotel, Gaborone, see Places to Stay page

Days 3 - 8: Tour Gaborone city and the surrounding area, see Places to Visit page

• Gaborone Museum and Art Gallery

• Government Enclave

• Browse in the market in the Main Mall outside the hotel

• Oodi Weavers’ Workshop

• Three Chiefs Monument

• Manyana Rock Paintings

• Manga Pottery

• BotswanaCraft galleries

• Mokolodi Game Reserve

• Cattle post

Days 9 - 10: Return to the UK

Day 9:       Drive to Serowe (about three hours); very good roads; stop on the way at the Mahalapye Service Station,

• Settle in at the Serowe Hotel, see Places to Stay page

Day 10 - 11: Tour Serowe and the surrounding area, see Places to Visit page

• Visit the Khama Game Reserve for a game drive.

  • Black and white rhinos plus 30 other animal species and 230 bird species).

• Visit the Serowe Khama III Museum

• Learn more about the Khama chiefs, Botswana’s history, crafts, the San people.  

• Ask the guide to take you to see the Khama graves and the Serowe Market where there are stalls selling San woodcarvings.
  
  

Day 12: Further explorations of Serowe

Return to the President Hotel in Gaborone

Days 13 – 14: Return to the UK