If South Africa seems a little too familiar and maybe a bit too dangerous, then head over to neighbouring Botswana, where big games and Precious Ramotswe, founder of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency and literary creation of McCall Smith, await.
LEAVE aside the luxury safari camps of the Okavango Delta, with their promise of “Big Five” game sightings and sybaritic indulgence under star-lit African skies, and you are not left with too many compelling reasons to visit the sprawling, semi-desert republic of Botswana.
