{"id":2427,"date":"2020-09-23T21:25:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T21:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrtravel.com\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2020-12-16T18:56:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T18:56:41","slug":"botswana-the-hidden-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrtravel.com\/?p=2427","title":{"rendered":"Botswana &#8211; the hidden gem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Botswana is well known for having some of the best wilderness and wildlife areas on the African continent. With a full 38 percent of its total land area devoted to national parks, reserves and wildlife management areas \u2013 for the most part unfenced, allowing animals to roam wild and free \u2013 travel through many parts of the country has the feeling of moving through an immense Nature wonderland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Botswana is a rarity in our overpopulated, over-developed world. Untamed and untameable, it is one of the last great refuges for Nature\u2019s magnificent pageantry of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experience here the stunning beauty of the World\u2019s largest intact inland Delta \u2013 the Okavango; the unimaginable vastness of the world\u2019s second largest game reserve \u2013 the Central Kalahari Game Reserve; the isolation and other-worldliness of the Makgadikgadi \u2013 uninhabited pans the size of Portugal; and the astoundingly prolific wildlife of the Chobe National Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Botswana is the last stronghold for a number of endangered bird and mammal species, including Wild Dog, Cheetah, Brown Hyena, Cape Vulture, Wattled Crane, Kori Bustard, and Pel\u2019s Fishing Owl. This makes your safari experience even more memorable, and at times you will feel simply surrounded by wild animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first \u2013 and most lasting impressions \u2013 will be of vast expanses of uninhabited wilderness stretching from horizon to horizon, the sensation of limitless space, astoundingly rich wildlife and bird viewing, night skies littered with stars and heavenly bodies of an unimaginable brilliance, and stunning sunsets of unearthly beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana is well known for having some of the best wilderness and wildlife areas on the African continent. With a full 38 percent of its total land area devoted to national parks, reserves and wildlife management areas \u2013 for the most part unfenced, allowing animals to roam wild and free \u2013 travel through many parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103,319,96],"tags":[],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}