In August and September 2007, my wife and I spent three weeks in Botswana and South Africa.  Our main interest -- indeed, our only interest for the Botswana part -- was wildlife-viewing and photography.  In these pages I’ll discuss the photo gear that I took: what I liked, what I didn’t like, what I wished I had.  I’ll also give a few tips for photographing on safari.

Botswana

Botswana is a terrific country for wildlife-watching.  It’s a landlocked country just north of South Africa.  The government is not corrupt, and since independence in the late 1960s the country has gone from one of the 10 poorest in the world to the richest in Africa.  Tourism is one of their three major industries (the others are diamonds, and beef for the European market).  They go for low-volume, high-price tourism: lodges in or near the Okavango Delta are stunningly expensive but very small, and there are not very many of them.  The standard of guiding is very high; thesee guys really know what they are about.

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