Category: Culture

San cultural experiences are offered across Botswana and vary enormously in who owns them and where the money goes, which is the question that matters most. Only two lodges in southern Africa are San-owned or San-managed, and one of them…

Cultural village tours in Botswana range from community-run visits where residents lead the day and keep the revenue, to staged arrangements where a village is used as a backdrop. The difference is entirely in who owns it, and it is…

Botswana's heritage sites sit almost entirely outside the safari circuit, along the eastern corridor and in the far northwest, which means seeing them is a routing decision rather than an addition. Tsodilo Hills holds over 4,500 rock paintings and UNESCO…

Botswana's basketry is among the finest in southern Africa, woven by Wayeyi and Mbukushu women in the northwest and tight enough that some baskets were historically used to hold beer. San art from the D'Kar cooperative is the other thing…