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    • How to secure electrical power on a trip
    • Rooftop tents vs ground tents
    • Solar panels are essential for bush campers
    • Roof-racks
    • Pros and cons of equipment
    • Packing systems
    • Tents: Canvas or nylon?
    • Shelter while overlanding
  • Preparing for a trip
    • Border crossings
      • What you need to get through a border post
      • Border crossings in Southern and East Africa
      • Visa-free overlanding with African Union passport
    • Health
      • Deadly snakes and scorpions of southern Africa
      • What Ebola entails for travellers
      • What you must have in your first aid box
      • Beware of Bilharzia when you travel in Africa
      • All you need to know about Malaria
      • Get your vaccinations
      • Tick-bite fever and sleeping sickness
      • Be careful of the big star!
    • Preparing your vehicle
      • Choosing the right vehicle
      • Motorhomes
      • Preparing your sedan or SUV
      • Preparing your bike for overland travel
      • Vehicle prep for seriously remote areas
      • Basic vehicle prep for remote areas
      • Packing your vehicle
      • How to dustproof your canopy
    • The ins and outs of a Carnet de Passage
    • Camping checklist
    • Trip planning checklist
    • To tow or not to tow
    • Providing sufficient water while you overland
  • Travel tips
    • How to start travelling Africa
    • Veterinary fences in Namibia and Botswana
    • Cell phone comms while you travel SA
    • The cheapest way to communicate while travelling Africa
    • The bush offers a lot during the wet season
    • Is now a good time to travel Zimbabwe?
    • The law of the waterhole
    • Keep protected areas special
    • Camping
      • How to book campsites in Botswana National Parks
      • Etiquette for wild camping in Africa
      • Bathroom trivialities when you camp
      • Cooking in the bush
      • How to travel with eggs
      • Be informed if you venture off the beaten track
      • The 10 Commandments of camping
    • Driving
      • Advice on travelling Africa’s difficult roads
      • How to handle water crossings
      • The danger of long grass
      • Don’t let those punctures leave you stranded
    • Overlanding
      • Money matters while you overland
      • Ten commandments of overlanding
      • You can overland solo off the beaten track
      • Ten myths about overlanding Africa
      • Bush mechanic notes for solo overlanders
      • 8 essential add-ons for overlanding
      • Do you really need T4A?
      • How to survive group overlanding
    • Safety
      • Can you travel Africa with small children?
      • General safety tips
      • How to act around wild animals
      • How to be safe around elephants
      • How a little knowledge can help you survive
  • Destinations
    • Angola
      • An acquired taste
      • Through a photographer’s eyes
    • Botswana
      • Camping at Baines’ Baobabs
      • Central Kalahari Game Reserve
      • How to self-drive Botswana in 10 days
      • Out of the ordinary Botswana activities
      • The Kalahari is not for sissies!
    • Malawi
      • 15 Things you want to know about Malawi
      • The magic of Cape Maclear
    • Mozambique
      • From the coast to the forest
      • Northern Mozambique: beautiful but inhospitable
      • On the road from Maputo to Nampula
    • Namibia
      • About travelling Koakoland
      • A must-stop near the Fish River Canyon
      • Jewel of a camp near Sossusvlei
      • 10 Adventurous things to do in Swakopmund
      • The best of the Kavango
      • The Caprivi (Zambezi region) is still wild
      • Top Trek: Fish River Canyon
      • 10 Things to do in Southern Namibia
      • Are they really fairy circles?
    • South Africa
      • 10 Interesting facts about the Otter Hiking Trail
      • All you need to know about the Otter Trail
      • Anysberg: Back to nature close to Cape Town
      • Stories of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
      • Cederberg: the best kept secret of SA
      • Spice up your trip to the Cape Winelands
      • Kruger NP south to north and beyond
      • Celebrating a baby rhino
      • Detour via Nieu-Bethesda
      • Steinkopf, jewel of the Northern Cape
    • Swaziland
    • Zambia
      • 10 Reasons to visit Zambia
      • Kafue NP offers a wild Africa experience
    • Discover the best of Madagascar
    • Ten reasons to visit Ethiopia
    • Top African destinations
  • Navigation
    • Smartphone vs GPS for navigation
    • The right GPS for navigating with T4A maps
    • What is overland navigation?
    • Why the T4A Overland Navigator app works offline
    • How to plan a route
    • Don’t forget the good old paper map
    • More uses for your GPS
    • 10 Questions most frequently posed to T4A
    • The GPSMap 276 legend is back
    • T4A now on Ford’s nav system
  • Overland trip reports
    • How to submit your trip data to T4A
    • Discover Baviaanskloof and 20 passes on a motorbike
    • Exciting self-drive trip through Namibia
    • Cape to the Carmine C
      • About Cape to the Carmine C
      • Choice and preparation of the vehicle
      • Canopy and add-ons
      • Looking back on our trip
      • Vehicle and after-market fitment problems on our overland trip
      • South Africa
        • Setting off for the Transkei
        • From the Transkei to KwaZulu-Natal
        • Exploring the beauty of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park
      • Mozambique
        • Southern Mozambique – first impressions
        • A surprise stop-over en-route to Zavora
        • Mozambique – from the coast to the forest
        • Northern Mozambique
      • Zimbabwe
        • Exploring the east of Zimbabwe
        • Enjoying the splendour of Gonarezhou
        • Minor gems of Zimbabwe
        • Exploring the southern shores of Lake Kariba
        • The magic of Mana Pools
        • From the Zambezi to the north of Mozambique
      • Tanzania
        • Tanzania: Karibu!
        • Some of the best Tanzania has to offer
        • Western Tanzania
      • Kenya
        • Out of Africa
        • Exploring the less travelled roads of Western Kenya
        • Lake Turkana
        • West of Lake Turkana
      • Ethiopia
        • Beautiful, amazing Ethiopia
        • Ethiopia’s spectacular caves and an ancient city
        • Discovering the Ethiopian Highlands
        • The Danakil Depression Part One
        • Danakil Depression Part Two
        • The historical Tigray region
        • In search of the origin of coffee
        • Heading for south west Ethiopia
      • Uganda
        • Discovering fertile Uganda
        • Southern Uganda
      • Rwanda
        • Small but beautiful Rwanda
      • Zambia
        • Traversing Zambia
      • Namibia
        • Namibia and back home
    • An epic adventure in the Okavango
  • T4A product news
    • Tracks4Africa Guide App
    • Our new guide app offers a rich content
    • The mapping beauty of our new guide app
    • T4A GPS Maps 14.10 grew 4%
    • Get Africa at your fingertips on your GPS
    • T4A GPS Maps – Traveller’s Africa 14.05 released
    • Namibia and Botswana Self-drive Guide Books
    • Guide app testing in the Southern Cape
    • The perfect Christmas gift
    • Tracks4Africa Guide App now on Android
    • How to plan a route on the T4A Navigator App
    • More than 1m kilometres of roads covered!
    • Celebrating 10 years of mapping!
  • About us
    • How is that for a challenge!
    • Are you a Tracks4Africa traveller?
    • Cycling from Cape Town to Livingstone for trees
    • Finding the roots of T4A
    • How we make maps

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Two Botswana bucket-list destinations

25/02/2025 Tracks4Africa Leave a comment

I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to visit two bucket-list destinations in Botswana: the Makgadikgadi Pans and Elephant Sands. But the trip with the Landcruiser Club Botswana was about more than just breathtaking scenes. By Aslam Mxolisi Tawana of Black Boy Adventures

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Discover Eretsha, Botswana’s untapped corner

15/01/2025 Tracks4Africa Leave a comment

In Botswana, the northern floodplains of the Okavango Delta remain little explored. That deserves to change, according to Anton Poplett, who recently visited Eretsha.

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Rafiki on Tour: Trip report from Botswana

22/10/2024 Tracks4Africa Leave a comment

Wildlife encounters, wide open spaces and welcoming people make Botswana a top destination for overlanding. Manon Verijdt and Tobias van Krieken of Rafiki on Tour share their pictures and answer questions after visiting the country.

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