Essential Botswana Camping Safari15 Days from £2950 per personThis excellent-value camping safari takes in the iconic highlights of Botswana: the Okavango Delta, Chobe, the Savuti plains and the lunar...•Adventure•Responsible•Safari•Scenic Journeys•Small Group Tours•Wildlife•Small Group ToursExperience Botswana Kalahari, Linyanti & Okavango10 Days from £4780 per personOur 9-night Experience Botswana trip includes 3 nights at Grasslands Lodge on the edge of the Kalahari Desert where you learn traditional...•Responsible

Starter: write 3 reasons why you might want to go on safari

Activity

Central Kalahari Game Reserve with Sunway Safaris http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FStVEvrAMss

Kalahari Safari - NAMIBIA!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttKbeDpeP58

The Kalahari Bushmen – Botswanahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztzDHDiOSUY

Activity: Why might you want to go to the Kalahari? Write down a list of reasons/ activities...

1. How long have they survived there?

2. Why do you think the water was removed?

3. What reasons could there be for the government to evict the Bushmen?

4. Why do the Bushmen want to stay?

5. How do they survive?

6. Why do you think the government are denying there are many people in the village?

1. How long have they survived there? 30,000 years

2. Why do you think the water was removed? It is crucial for their survival in the desert

3. What reasons could there be for the government to evict the Bushmen? Development, diamonds and tourism

4. Why do the Bushmen want to stay? They have lived there since their ancestors were there

5. How do they survive? Digging for roots, women traditionally gather and men hunt

6. Why do you think the government are denying there are many people in the village?

Questions

a. Do you think the Bushmen are poachers? Explain your answer

b. What seems to be Botswana’s Governments motivation for acting against the Bushmen?

c. What do you think of tourism in the Kalahari? Does it ruin the

Bushmen’s rights?