From the book Insiders Guide to Botswana by Ian Michler. Photographer and author.

Botswana Culture and Routes

Roads and Routes Info

A guide to the main routes between major centres and smaller settlements.



Local Art

From bushman rock art to contemporary local artists of Botswana
Learn to Speak Setswana

Some handy words and phrases for the traveller
Religious Traditions

Marriage, birth, life and death and myth
Old and New

Photo essay of the juxtaposition of modern technology to rural settlements

The History of Botswana

A History of Peace

From 2000BC to the present day
Modern-day Botswana

Life, politics and aspirations of the people
From Dung to Diamonds

The economic rise from just rural, to an African diamond mining giant