A new world opens for Batswana in Botswana

Many people in Botswana live and die without seeing the natural wonders citizens of other countries spend fortunes to experience. From the World Heritage Sites of Tsodilo Hills and the Okavango Delta, to the hundreds of historical and natural splendours, Batswana are largely unable to access these and not because of a lack of desire.

Tourism in the country is a US-dollar priced affair, targetted largely at US-dollar based source markets in the developed world, including a growing focus on China. The prices of a single night in the pristine wilderness camps of the Okavango can reach far beyond P25,000, in a country where a 2015 survey found that 90% of citizens earn less than P10,000 a month.