http://www.odyssei.com Botswana, - lately on the site en-us Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:25:07 +0100 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:25:07 +0100 pet@odyssei.com (Piotr Jaworski) pjm@odyssei.com (Pawel Jaworski) http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24618.html Required travel documents for Botswana: passport [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24618.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24264.html Electric power: 231V / 50 Hz [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24264.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13162.html Nxai Pan National Park is located north of Makgadikgadi Pans, 136 km from Maun and only 35 km off the main Maun-Nata Road. The land is flat with vast open plains. Nxai Pan is covered by short sweet grass, dotted with large baobabs and islands of shady umb [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13162.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13161.html The Moremi Game Reserve takes up the eastern corner of the Okavango Delta in the north west of Botswana. This area is very flat and comprises a network of waterways, lagoons and pans amongst floodplains, islands and reedbanks. Dense mopane woodlands and r [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13161.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13160.html Makgadikgadi Pans National Park is situated in northern central Botswana, almost midway between Maun and Nata. It includes parts of western Ntwetwe Pan, extending to its western border, the Boteti River and north to the Maun-Nata Road. This area of the Na [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13160.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13159.html Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is situated in the remote south-western corner of Botswana. Semi-desert savannah and denuded grasslands amongst sand dunes whose crests are covered with grey camelthorn bushes and Kalahari couch grass. The dry riverbeds of the [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13159.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13158.html Chobe National Park is located in the north east of Botswana. Chobe's close proximity to Zimbabwe also makes it an ideal base from which to visit the magnificent Victoria Falls. It is a great, untamed wilderness area, with four distinct eco-systems. Most [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13158.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13157.html Central Kalahari Game Reserve is located in central Botswana. It is the second largest protected area in the world and Africa's largest. The central Kalahari has a mostly flat surface except for one rocky outcrop named Tsau Hill situated on the north-west [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13157.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13156.html Tuli Block is located along Botswana's south-eastern border with South Africa. The habitat of the Tuli Block is very diverse, ranging from sub-tropical river valleys and Kalahari sandveld to open grass plains and mopane woodland. Solomon's Wall is most u [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13156.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13155.html The word Tsodilo means "sheer". The hills are four rocky outcrops of micaceous quartzite. The tallest of which, known to the San people as the male, rises 420 metres above the horizon, the female, next in size, is approximately 250 metres high, further aw [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13155.html