Botswana’s capital, Gaborone, has emerged from a dusty administrative town into a bustling and fast growing city. Gaborone attracts both leisure and business travellers and offers all the modern conveniences of contemporary city life as well as access to rural Africa and the accompanying wildlife areas within minutes. If you find yourself in Gaborone and have time to spare we’ve compiled five ways in which to optimize this time.

Gaborone is a sprawling city of about 250,000 people in the south east of Botswana. The capital city was planned after independence in the 1960s and has been one of the fastest growing cities in Africa. It is serviced by the country’s largest airport and is the starting point for most international tourists to Botswana. Here are our tips for getting to and around Gaborone.