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Pan View Tours promotes stargazing tourism

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SUA SALT PANS: Botswana is one of the countries that are blessed with immense traditions, culture and natural resources. Those include the beautiful skies that are always filled with beautiful stars.

Like many people across the globe, Africans including Batswana have for many generations been awed by the night skies. Using their natural astronomic instrument, the eye, they observed, commented on and named celestial objects of interest to them. For the sky and stars, the Setswana astronomical terminology has a deep meaning.

That is why Pan View Tours has seem it vital to close the local astronomy gap and teach tourists including Batswana about stars and what they meant to Batswana in the past. In an interview with the 'Stargazing' Moeteledi Chabaya from Pan View Tours, said they chose to specialise in astronomy where they describe stars both in Setswana or African point of view.

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