Category: Historic Sites

Domboshaba is a dry stone-walled hilltop site in northeastern Botswana, built during the Great Zimbabwe period and occupied as the residence and court of a regional ruler of the Kalanga state known as Butua. Its walls stand up to 1.8…

The Manyana Rock Paintings are the most visited rock art site near Gaborone and the only substantial one in southern Botswana, spread across five separate cliff faces at the base of the Kolobeng hills. Images include giraffe, antelope, rhino, human…

The Matsieng Footprints are a slab of sandstone north of Gaborone pierced by deep natural holes and carved with over a hundred engravings of human and animal feet, dating between roughly 3,000 and 10,000 years old. In Tswana tradition this…

Old Palapye, known as Phalatswe, was the capital of the Bangwato people under Kgosi Khama III for thirteen years in the late nineteenth century, before water shortages forced another move to Serowe. Its most striking survival is the roofless red-brick…