Straddling the Tropic of Capricorn, Botswana is the world's third largest producer of diamonds and one of the wealthiest countries in Africa. Bolunded on the south and southeast by South Africa, on the north-east by Zimbabwe, and on the north and west by Namibia, Botswana covers a total area of 582.000 square kilometers and has an average height of 1.000 meters above sea level. This is a country for the intrepid traveler, much of it a road less wilderness of savannah, desert, wetness and saltpans - a series of vast landscapes under a vast sk, the country's more than 79.000 elephants alone make up the largest free-roaming herd in the world. 
Teeming across the country is an enormous variety of wildlife. The huge sweep of the Kalahari Desert; the swamps and flood-plains of the Chobe River; the islands and channels in the 1.5 million hectares of the Okavango Delta ( where the Okavango River flows in from Angola and Namibia to lose itself in the sands) , collectively provide a series of eco-systems that support an abundance of animal, bird and plant life. The Okavango alone, one of the wildest and most starkly beautiful reserves in the whole of southern Africa, is home to 550 bird and 1.000 plant species, as well as crocodile, hippo, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, lion. Giraffe, elephant and kudu. Choke is famous for hugr herds of elephant and a wide variety so wildlife. The Chobe River offers excellent fishing - there are 91 known species of fish of which 24 are commonly sought after by. Game fishermen. Moremi Game Reserve, situated in the north-east of the delta, with its giant acacia and dense woodlands is home to a great variety of dry and wetland animals. Because of Botswana's economic success, the government has decided to attract only low impact tourism that mini-misses disturbance to the environment. Consequently, there are only small numbers of visitors - but they are looked after in grand style.