Fellow travel foodie Hugh Fraser and I recently drove to Rwanda and back. It was an epic 10,000km, 40-day trip in which we ate, drank, foraged and cooked our way through Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi and Mozambique.
Botswana is famous for wild encounters, and the Okavango Delta and Chobe National Park are just the beginning. Here are the top things to do in Botswana.
The build-up to our first trip to Botswana in December 2021 was a draining mix of anticipation and anxiety: Covid-19 and the fluctuating travel ramifications that are but one side-shows of the pandemic; there were three of us, my wife Nicolene, Adele du Toit (friend and wife of the late Duif du.