Africa-Press – Botswana. We welcome you, USA-Africa 2023 Summit delegates to Botswana and hope you will find our country, its people, culture and natural resources as fascinating as they truly are.
While you are here for business, you may wish nonetheless, to visit around the city. And you will find a variety of places to visit and to eat . Below we have listed only a few Gaborone’s best places to eat or explore. We hope you have a truly memorable experience here.
PLACES TO EAT
The Courtyard Restaurant @Botswana craft
If you want to try a taste of Botswana’s traditional yummies, The Courtyard Restaurant at Botswana Craft is the place to go to. Perhaps try Botswana speciality once there: pounded meat (called seswaa or loswao in Setswana) and dumplings or one of the local dishes. The restaurant also offers conventional menus. You will find it at Plot 20716 Magochanyama Road, off Western Bypass, Block 3, Gaborone.
Sanitas Tea Garden Restaurant
A delicious meal “made with love and care” so far away from home is what Sanitas Tea Garden Restaurant offers. Located close to Gaborone Dam the restaurant offers a variety of breakfasts, lunches, light meals, desserts, cakes, milkshakes, teas, truly great cappuccinos and coffees. You may even get a taste of some of their home-grown fruit, vegetables and herbs as part of your meal!
Beef Baron grill and rib room
Need some quiet me-eating time? The Beef Baron grill and rib room at the Grand Palm Hotel Casino Convention Resort may just offer you that. It is a cosy wooden construction which allows you to sample delicious pieces of meat with verified national origin. This ‘Grill House’ serves some of the tastiest cuts of Botswana beef. But you will also find various foods from Africa – salads, fish, vegetarian dishes and many others – all orderable à la carte.
Mmamidi
Known as Gaborone’s Setswana cuisine Queen, Mmamidi is a female-owned youth street vendor that provides mouth-watering Setswana Traditional foods such as seswaa pounded meat, dikgobe (beans), bogobe jwa lerotse – a delicious porridge-melon mix and lethodi (cowpeas). The vendor is located in Phase 2, less than a west kilometre of the Central Business District, which itself boasts several restaurants offering mainly conventional and exotic menus.
Agang’s Dessert Corner
Location: Main Mall, Diamond Square
Craving that delicious sweet dessert? Agang’s Dessert Corner, located at Diamond Square, Main Mall, is the plug. Here you will find a variety of local and exotic desserts to choose from and enjoy.
PLACES TO VISIT
A truly memorable experience of Botswana, is one in which you experience the beauty of its natural resources and art. Mmokolodi Nature Reserve offers the serenity that is synonymous with the wild. It lies 17 kilometers south of Gaborone and offers the tourist a rare opportunity to see such animals as the rhino, giraffe, zebra and impala and kudu. The reserve also has a reptile park and bird sanctuary where you will find vultures and other birds. Guides provide valuable information as they take you around the expansive reserve.
Matsieng’s foot Prints
Batswana people are said to have come out of a big hole in the ground at the time, the rocks were still soft. Their leader, it is said, was called Matsieng. Today, hundreds of people visit one of Botswana’s protected sites, where you will find a set of human footprints date 10 000 years back, believed to be Matsieng’s footprints. The site is located 35 km north east of Gaborone off the A1 Highway in Rasesa village.
Lions’ Park
Yes, Africa’s largest cat roars at Lions’ Park – situated only 19 kilometers south of Gaborone. Visit the place and watch the big cats from the safety of an enclosure. Other large cats that you will find here are the Cheetah and leopard, but you will also get a chance to see the laughing hyena, its nemesis the wild dog and their favourite prey the antelope and Kudu. The bonus is that this is also an amusement park. If your stay in Botswana is a few days longer, you really should consider visiting some of Botswana’s major sites such as “the Jewel of Africa”, the Okavango Delta, Chobe Game Reserve, Mabuasehube Game reserve or Kalahari Transfrontier Park. Art If you are a lover of art, Thapong Visual Arts Centre at the Village is where you want to go. See our young people’s creativity. From pencil drawings to paint to wood to metal sculptures, this arts centre can rightly be called Botswana’s visual arts hub.
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