General Botswana Info

[BMC]

Just returned from a trip through Botswana, Namibia & Zambia.

Botswana - Diesel - Kasane - P 8.88; Sherwood - P 8.82
Namibia - Diesel - N$ 10.78
Zambia - Diesel - ZKwacha 7566

[botswanamaun]

A great source of information is from a friends website here in Maun. Lee Ouzman.
A full gps list and phone book.
http://www.jacanaent.com/PDFs/GPSList.pdf

http://www.jacanaent.com/PDFs/PhoneBook.pdf

For Maun day trips to Makgadikgadi, Nxai Pan Moremi and the Okavango Delta

[Wendel]

Privatised Camps

For camping at Ihaha, South Gate (Maqwee) and Xakanaxa
Contact: Tel/fax (00267) 6861448
E-mail: [email protected]

Camping at Savuti, Linyanti (Chobe National Park) and Khwai/ North Gate (Moremi Game Reserve) and Khumaga in Makgadikgadi
Contact: (00267) 6865365 or 6250113
Fax: (00267) 686 5367
E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]


Camping at Third Bridge (Moremi Game Reserve), South Camp and Baines Baobab (Nxai Park)
Contact: Tel/fax (00267) 686 2221
E-mail: [email protected]


Camping at Khutse Game Reserve camps and Passarge, Piper, Sunday Pan, Lekhubu and Letiahau Pans (Central Kalahari Game Reserve)
Contact: (00267) 395 3360
E-mail: [email protected]

CAMPS THAT CAN BE RESERVED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE & NATIONAL PARKS ARE:

CENTRAL KALAHARI GAME RESERVE - Deception, Kori, Leopard, Phokoje, Xade, Bape and Xaka camps.

KGALAGADI TRANSFRONTIER PARK- All the camps on the Botswana side

MAKGADIKGADI PANS NATIONAL PARK- Tree Island

NOTE: ALL PARK ENTRY FEES SHOULD BE PAID TO DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND NATIONAL PARKS

PLEASE ATTACH THE INVOICES FROM THE PRIVATE COMPANIES AND E-MAIL TO [email protected] TO BE ALLOCATED THE PARK ENTRANCES

[Marchenero]

I plan on entering Bots at Middelputs, drive the new highway to Gemsbok, what would the situation be with SA bought meat on exiting at Gemsbok.

[chappiesjeep]

Hi there Guys

I am leaving JHB on my first cross border self drive, any advise on the best border post to cross at, we will be staying over in Francistown on the first night. I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on the least busiest border that is not far off our route.

Any advise will be appreciated.

Thanks!!!

[PeetS]

Chappies, if you want to stay on tar, then Groblers Bridge is the obvious choice. It is one of the larger border crossings, but I have used it before and it is not too bad.

Your other choice is to head west and cross at Stockpoort. This is normally very quiet, but will leave you with some 50 km's on dirt road before joining back onto the B147. I did this route in 2009 and the dirt road was fine then.

Your third choice is to head east and cross at the Zanzibar border post. From T4Africa, it looks like this is a tar route all the way. In the rain season you have to check if the Limpopo is in flood, in which case you cannot use this crossing. Conditions permitting, this is the route that I will take myself in September - purely because I have never driven on those roads before and it is another line I can draw in on my map!

Have fun.

Chappies, also look at the different times that the border posts are open.

[Nanie]

Some advice please.

Planning trip from Lobatse, Khutse, Xade and last night sleep at khalahari rest at Kang then back to Lobatse border.

[James S]

Nanie, I did the Khutse - Xade leg in June and wil not do it again.

It is a very slow 270Km and although we knew that we'd have to push hard to make Xade the same day, still ended up 60Km short of Xade 30min before sunset. From Xade was another 70Km to Piper for us before we really started experiencing some wildlife.

We saw NO animals in this stretch and I got really boring apart from the millions of bumps in the road that really slows you down. We lost some valuable tinned beverages in the fridges due to this!

Also prepare yourself for endless Km's of scratching of your vehicle. I still haven't managed to get rid of mine but I quite like the character now!!

You can spend a lot more time in the Khutse reserve as it does have a lot to offer.

Use it, don't use it :-)

[Derick]

Latest Diesel en Petrol price for bots?

[Sniper]

Off hand I can remember paying P 8.87 at Lobatse and P 8.94 at Kang two weeks ago.

[KobusDJ]

Fuel up by P0-50/L

New price.
Petrol BWP9-10
Diesel BWP9-26

[James MacKay]

Fuel up by P0-50/L

New price.
Petrol BWP9-10
Diesel BWP9-26

Ouch thats becoming painful

[Puma 130 ADJ]

Just returned from Kasane today,no good meat there at present,Mario's or Rons had nothing I would eat anyway.

[lekhubu943]

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[cvanvollenstee]

Hello,

What is the current regelation on taking Frozen Meat and Wood over the border to botswana is it still 25kg per couple on the meat?

and what is the fuel availability in letlhakane?

Regrads
Christiaan

[W3771M]

Hi Christaan,
Currently you can take NO red meat or fruit over the border.
Depending on where you are crossing the border, there are a few nice places to buy meat in Botswana.

[andyrag]

Also, there are some restrictions within the country on fruit and veg due to fruit fly control. For example, friends of mine had their tomatoes confiscated at the vet fence near Selebi Phikwe 2 weeks ago.

[cvanvollenstee]

What about wood, I have stacks and stacks of nice wood at my house and I heard you cannot gather wood in the reserve.

[Puma 130 ADJ]

Never had a problem with meat going in right up to Mankwe and beyond,just nothing coming out,so make sure you eat all 25kg

[andyrag]

What about wood, I have stacks and stacks of nice wood at my house and I heard you cannot gather wood in the reserve.

Wood should be targeted even more than meat as can surely carry disease, but I've never heard of firewood being confiscated