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attractive simply because they’re so remote, and you can camp wherever you like once you asked permission from the chief of the nearest village. Clambering around is not much fun because the Aha Hills are made of endless jagged little blocks. You need good walking shoes with strong soles to climb these hills.
like waterfalls of rock. The main cavern is called Drotsky’s cavern, named after the Ghanzi farmer Martinus Drotsky, who was the first European to be shown the caves by the !Kung San in 1934. The caves also hold important clues to the way prehistoric peoples related to their environment. Gcwihaba is a designated National Monument and a proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site. Straddling the Botswana/Namibia
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Within the Aha Hills there are two Graveyard dolomite Elephant sinkholes known by the local people as Waxhu, Linyanti Nogatsaa A3 Shakawe which means ‘house of ! ! Tsodilo Gudingwa god’. These can only Sepopa ! Hills ! ! Seronga ! be climbed down to by using specialist climbing/caving equipment. Aha Hills
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Nxai Pan NP The caves and sinkholes fall into an area run by the Cgae Cgae Tlhabolongo Trust, which is Orapa a community trust. Park
While in Ghanzi, pop in to visit the cheetah, lion and wild dog enclosures just outside of town. About 24 km north of Ghanzi the Dqae Qare
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border, the Aha Hills lie about 50 km northwest of Gcwihaba, and are visible from it. This is one of the most remote and little-visited destinations in Botswana. The range covers about 245 km², most of which is in Botswana, and very little of which has been properly mapped or documented. In some ways the hills are
is a community based tourism project of the San (Bushmen) from D’Kar Kopong Rockpeople Engravings Jwana Game Park Village. Kgosi Sechele Museum Khutse Game Reserve
Here you can experience the Bushmen culture and through your support help to preserve it.
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