Khawa village: My Utopia

Team Khawa rider going down the most difficult and highest dune at 30metres steep slope
Team Khawa rider going down the most difficult and highest dune at 30metres steep slope

Mmegi Staffer MOMPATI TLHANKANE recently spent a week in Khawa Village and found that the remote Kgalagadi District village is as close to perfection as one can get

I do not normally travel to the south of Botswana, but after a week in Khawa, I found that I had never been to a place that possesses as many desirable or nearly perfect qualities. If I had my own perfect world it would be Khawa village. Allow me to tell you why the remote place, far off village in the Kgalagadi desert is different from all the places I have visited in Botswana.

From when I was a child making castles in the sand, I always envisioned a perfect world known by Westerners as a Utopian society. By definition, a Utopia is an ideal and perfect society in which everyone lives in harmony. The Utopian society lives in tranquility and has respect for one another.

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