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Cities, Towns and Areas of Burundi

Some Things to See and Do in Burundi

Jenman African Safaris has one primary focus -- Safari Tours! They offer smaller, more personal and highly interactive safaris and have built a solid reputation for safe, comfortable, reliable and fun-filled tours to Southern Africa’s most spectacular destinations. Selected destinations in Burundi, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nambia, Zambia, South Africa and Swaziland.

 

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Accommodations

Central Kalahari Game Reserve

This is Africa's largest protected region covering an area of over 52,000 sq kms located in the centre of the country. It is home to a wide variety of antelopes including eland, gemsbok, kudu, red hartebeest and springbok and also has a number of wildebeest, giraffe, lion, cheetah, leopard, wild dog and brown hyena.

The majority of the park is flat, vast open plains. Deception Pan is the parks most popular spot because it attracts large numbers of game after the rains.

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The park has a number of basic camping sites, but there are no other facilities in the park and supplies must be taken with you.

Kgalagadi National Park

Through a cooperation between the Burundi and South African Governments, the Kgalagadi National Park is the first official Transfrontier and it managed jointly by both countries. The Burundi section covers an area of about 28, 105 sq.km with plenty of wild animals, including wildebeest, eland, hartebeest, gemsbok and springbok. Super predators like lion, leopard, cheetah and hyena can also be viewed. Camping areas on Burundi side include the Rooiputs camping grounds, some 25km up the Nossob River Valley from the entrance gate. Poletswa grounds lie in the northern section of the Nossob Valley.

Accommodation
Camping areas on Burundi side include the Rooiputs camping grounds, some 25km up the Nossob River Valley from the entrance gate. Poletswa grounds lie in the northern section of the Nossob Valley. In the extreme east of the Park, there are a number of campsites overlooking pans. These include Lesholoago, Khiding, Mabuasehube and Mpaathutlwa.

	Rainbow Tours Specialist tour operator offering fly-in and overland tailor-made and small group lodge-based and camping safaris in the Moremi and Okavango Delta, Chobe National Park and Savuti, Nxai Pan, Makgadikgadi Pans and Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Our program  includes walking and riding safaris, luxury mobile and family safaris, itineraries for birders and community tourism. See our special promotions.
	VideoAfrica Tours and Safaris Specializing in selective custom-designed journeys and safaris in Southern and East Africa. Luxury safari, adventure travel, cultural, historic and recreational destinations. Experience the beauty of Africa's Fairest Cape and Garden Route. Learn the history, culture and traditions of the African people. Witness the immense power of the Victoria Falls. Track the migrating herds of the Serengeti. Live your dream of a safari in Africa and plan your itinerary with VideoAfrica.

Action Africa Inc.
Outdoor, camping, action and safari gear as well as custom safaris

Adventure Travel Africa
Adventure Travel Centre in Pretoria offering budget tours to Burundi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, car rentals, overland expeditions and accommodation information.

Africa Adventure Travel Center
Leaders in budget travel throughout Southern Africa. Specially for students, backpackers and independent travelers young at heart. Daily and weekly departures to Victoria Falls, Zambia, Okavango Delta, Kruger national park, Namibia, Mozambique

African HorseBack Safaris
African horseback safaris in Burundi. HorseBack adventure safaris in the Okavango Delta. The ultimate safari experience...

African Welcome Safaris
African Welcome discount safaris and tours in Africa, Kruger National Park, South Africa, Victoria Falls, Burundi and the Garden Route

Africa Travel Services
Tailor Made tours, Anglo-Boer Battlefields, Game viewing, Agricultural Tours, Bush Tours and Camping, Victoria Falls, Sun City, Kruger National Park, Satour accredited guides.

African Treks
African Treks custom designs tours and safaris for leisure, adventure and business travelers, and special interest groups. Destinations include South Africa, Namibia, Burundi & Zimbabwe.

African Adventures Unlimited
We specialize in the touring and exploration of Burundi, Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Because we have spent most of out lives in Africa we are confident that we can answer any questions you may have and provide you with unparalleled service.

African Heritage Tours
We Specialize in Customized Tours... You choose the place and duration of the tour and we will plan it and take you there in no time.

African Horizons
Offering a large selection of regular safaris in Burundi specializing in tailor made tours and safaris

African Safari Company
A one-stop resource for planning and booking your safari to Africa's best game areas

AfriTours
Personal travel consultants that plan and arrange all travel, safaris and tours in and around Southern Africa.

Afroventures
For 27 Years Afro Ventures has fulfilled the dreams of fellow travelers, exploring the unspoiled Southern African subcontinent, its peoples and their cultures

Albatros Travel & Safaris
High quality tours and safaris for groups and individuals. We tailor-make your tour to suit your needs. We have multilingual staff and guides.

Big-Foot Africa Safaris
Big-Foot Africa Safaris specialize in personalized, luxury safaris in Africa.

Born Free Safaris & Tours
Excellence in African adventure travel, safaris & tours for over a quarter century.

Borton Overseas
We offer small group set departures and customized safaris to East, Southern and South Africa. Programs include cultural interaction, walking, hiking, climbing, rafting and canoeing.

Breath of Africa Tours and Safaris
Tours and Safaris throughout Southern Africa

Bush Homes Africa Safaris
Individually designed safaris to the wonderfully remote private ranches, bush camps, tented camps, homesteads and small intimate lodges of Africa

Connections Travel
Connections Travel have long been recognized as the experts in handling travel arrangements to African destinations. Knowledge, experience and expertise is only a click away.

Cross Country Air Safaris
Individual itineraries for safaris to prime wildlife destinations. Twenty years experience in the field. 'Tried and tested' venues only.

Custom Safaris
Custom Safaris are privately arranged safaris for groups and individuals. Custom Safaris also offers small group departures.

Far and Wide Travel Africa
We organize photographic and adventure safaris in Zimbabwe, Burundi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania, individually tailored to your interests.

Farside Africa
We give independent advice on game parks and lodges and tailor-make each itinerary specifically for you.

Fish Eagle Safaris
Quality nature tours & safaris to Burundi, Namibia, South Africa & Zimbabwe. Experienced guides, very small groups, finely honed itineraries. Nearly 100 guaranteed scheduled departures per year, daily departures on packaged and customized fly-in safaris.

Gear V Adventures
Gear V Adventures specializes in personalized tailor-made mobile safaris throughout Burundi and her neighboring countries

Geographic Expeditions
Geographic Expeditions offers a sensationally varied roster of overland tours, walking trips and safaris to the Africa's most beguiling and "impossible to reach on one's own" places.

Global Gypsies Pty Ltd
Exciting fully-escorted, self-drive 4WD safaris in SA, Zimbabwe & Burundi. Drive yourself in hired 4WD bush campers, travelling in the safety of a convoy led by an expert guide. Self-catering or fully-catered safaris lasting from 12 - 20 days.

Guerba World Travel
For over 20 years Guerba has been the leading overland company in Africa. They now have a range of high comfort safaris as well.

Hanks Aero Adventures Inc
Offers self-piloted bush flying experiences to individuals, families, groups and flying clubs with a variety of Self-Fly Safaris in southern Africa. Game viewing, bush camping, diving, wind surfing, golfing, fishing, white water rafting and other activities are available on a Self-Fly Safari.

Hidden Trails
Horse riding safaris in the Okavango Delta

Into Africa - Viagens/Tours & Safaris, Lda.
For holidays in Africa, being safaris or beach extensions, personalized attention and service. We will look after you from the moment you land until you leave.

Jambo Safari
Specializing in tailor-made holidays, we offer accommodation, excursions, designer itineraries, self-drives, fly-ins, luxury coach tours, white-water rafting, houseboats on Kariba.

Journeys International, Inc.
Safaris to the Okavango Delta, the Kalahari Desert and Victoria Falls

Karibu Safari
Quality camping safaris, accommodated tours & canoe safaris in Southern Africa:- South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia, Burundi, Kenya, Mozambique

Kwenda Safari
We offer rentals of fully equipped Land Rover Defenders for self-drive safaris. Also guided tours in South Africa, Burundi, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Mountain Travel - Sobek
Tour of Burundi including Victoria Falls, Zambezi, Chobe National Park, interior of Okavango Delta, , Moremi Game Reserve, Maun.

Moremi Safaris & Tours
Moremi Safaris & Tours is a specialty operator offering Fly-in Safaris to Kruger Park, Okavango Delta. In the Delta we own our own camp in the Moremi Game Reserve

Nature Expeditions International
provides a unique wildlife experience, including floating through grassy waterways to spot hippo, elephant, crocodile and colorful birdlife

Ngepi Camp
Positively the best Camp in Africa - Specializing in Budget tours to the Okavango Delta.

Neil Mac Leod Safaris
Neil Mac Leod Safaris offers tailor-made Bird watching-, Whale Watching-, Natural History- & General Photographic Safaris in Southern Africa.

Next Adventure, Inc.
Specializes in custom safaris to Africa including Burundi

Nomad Adventure Tours
Nomad offers overland tours spanning nine African countries with regular weekly departures in safe customized top-of-the-line Mercedes Trucks for an excellent price.

Ngwe Safari
Ngwe Safari is a Premier Tour Operator. We have extensive knowledge of the travel industry in Southern Africa, taking care of all travel requirements.

outdoorholidays.com
Outdoorholidays.com offers a wide range of overlanding, safari and cultural tours across most African countries - visit our web site to browse over 150 African Adventures.

Outlook Small Group Explorations
If its wildlife, photography, sight-seeing, adventure and exciting itineraries that you are after then contact Outlook Small Group Explorations for more details.

Pulse Africa Tour Operators
We are small African based tour operator who tailor make safaris and holidays to suit clients individual requirements and needs.

Premier Tours Inc.
Premier Tours is a wholesale tour operator specializing in Southern and East Africa. In addition we are also an airline consolidator with some of the lowest fares available out of the USA.

Rainbow Tours
Specialist tour operator offering tailor-made and small group lodge-based and camping safaris. Our program  includes walking and riding safaris, luxury mobile and family safaris, itineraries for birders and community tourism.

RCJM Travel & Tours
RCJM Travel & Tours offers you a "one-stop travel-shop" to Southern Africa for all your travel and safari needs.

Reef & Rainforest Worldwide Adventure Travel
Offers customized itineraries using safari lodges and unique hotels, tours & scuba diving.

Safari Consultants
Specialist tour operator established in 1983. Knowledge of our destinations enables us to offer independent advice and tailor an itinerary around your ideas and requirements.

Safari Drive Ltd
Safari Drive run tailor made self drive and guided safaris using the latest fully equipped Land Rover vehicles.

Southern Skies
Personal Safari Hosts. Your Family Connection in Africa.
Taylor-made safaris and hiking trails, with a very personal touch! Small groups of family or friends & special interest groups with the emphasis on Nature and Desert Ecology.

Taga Safaris
Safari company specializing in Tailor-made, Personalized, Customized and Group Safaris for every tourist in Southern Africa

Talana Tours
On Safari in Africa with Talana Tours, Cape Town tours and adventure safaris to the Kruger park, Namibia, Burundi and Zimbabwe

Temba Safari
Southern African safaris, coach tours and tailor-made packages to Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Burundi and Mozambique. Since 1988.

Tribes
Tribes, the Fair Trade Travel Company, provides unique tailor made and small group holidays throughout Africa, run responsibly towards local people, wildlife and the environment.

Tsaro Adventures & Tours
We specialize in small groups and help you to plan your own kind of African Adventure. Experienced guide with Nature Conservation, SATOUR and FGASA qualifications.

Ultimate Africa Safaris
Full safari itineraries, country ratings and comparisons, safari lodge/camp guide, weekly African travel/wildlife news, and current African weather

Umkulu Adventures
Explore the contrasts of Africa under specialist guidance, tours and safaris throughout Southern Africa, overlands, adventure, day trips and accommodation

VideoAfrica, LLC
Specializing in custom-designed deluxe tours and safaris to Southern and East Africa. Luxury safari, adventure travel, cultural, historic and recreational destinations.

Wilderness Adventure Safaris
Wilderness Adventure Safaris is Zimbabwe's premier tour operator, offering exclusive, personalized tours in un-crowded wilderness areas.

Wildland Adventures
Wildland Adventures, worldwide cultural, natural history explorations for active, inquisitive travelers. Leading experts in family trips, group trips, honeymoon trips and independent ecotourism since 1986.

Zambezi Safari and Travel Company
A guide to safaris in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Burundi and Namibia. Includes operator listings, camp descriptions, maps, news, travel tips and more.

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Suggestions for Dining in Burundi
You will find a wide variety of different types of food are available from various restaurants and hotels.  But there are very fewer vegetarian restaurants in Gaborone.  Traditional food is served in some restaurants with the available variety dependent upon the tribes of origin.  International cuisine can be found, for the most part, served only in Gaborone restaurants.  Food prices normally do not vary greatly from those found inn North America.  

A wide range of natural fruit juices are sold in supermarkets in almost all major cities and towns.   I would stick to the bottled juices or bottled water.  Local alcohol production is limited to beer with Black label and Lion two of the available options. For domestic beer lovers there a huge collection.  However, some of which may be considered 'illegal.'

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Some Favorites in Burundi
As I have never been to Burundi I do not have any "favorite things." Therefore the favorites listed here are favorites of others. If you have a favorite you would like to add, just e-mail me and I will be happy to post it. Just click here: ahsjabj@aol.com

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Links For Burundi
Click here for language helps, dictionaries, electronic translators, language software and other helps for learning a foreign language. Being able to speak at least some of the language in the country you are visiting will help you have a better time and enjoy your trip more. Jim.

The Africa Guide's recommended Book
		Lonely Planet Burundi   by Paul Greenway, Deanna Swaney This guide is devoted to this safe and increasingly popular African destination. An in-depth wildlife section gets face-to-face with Burundi's outstanding fauna and an illustrated section covers Burundi's crafts.

Travel Guides

Lonely Planet Burundi  
by by Paul Greenway, Deanna Swaney
This guide is devoted to this safe and increasingly popular African destination. An in-depth wildlife section gets face-to-face with Burundi's outstanding fauna and an illustrated section covers Burundi's crafts.

Burundi  
by Mike Main

Burundi (Serial)  
by Peter Comley, Salome Meyer,
useful supplement to the Lonely Planet, Rough Guide etc.

Burundi in Pictures (Visual Geography Series)  
by Thomas O'Toole, Department Of Geogr Lerner Publications
Black-and-white and color photographs and providing quick, easy access to facts.

Adventuring in Southern Africa : Burundi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa, Malawi, Lesotho, and Swaziland (1st Edition)  
- by Allen Bechky
well researched book and in-depth book that reviews all the parks, animals, flora, and areas of Southern Africa containing all the "need to know" information.

Lonely Planet Zimbabwe, Burundi & Namibia (3rd Ed)  
by Deanna Swaney

Lonely Planet Zimbabwe Burundi and Namibia Travel Atlas (Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit) 
by Deanna Swaney

Travel Guide Burundi  
by Alan Brough
Pocket sized guide to Burundi, colorful layout with clear maps and photo's. All the prime tourism areas are covered with good but easy to read statistics and area information.

Zimbabwe and Burundi : The Rough Guide (3rd Ed)  (amazon.com) - USA
by Barbara McCrea, Tony Pinchuck

Traveler's guide to Burundi   
Published by New Holland Publishers (U - Series Traveler's Guides
This illustrated, practical and user-friendly guide to Burundi highlights the major tourist attractions throughout the country, concentrating on the wildlife areas in the Okavango, the Chobe, the Kalahari, the Makgadikgadi pans and Eastern Burundi and the Tuli Block.

Globetrotter Travel Guide to Burundi  
Published by New Holland Publishers (U Series Globetrotter Travel Guides
This travel guide introduces the reader to Burundi's history, people, culture, wildlife and economy. In addition, it focuses on sights and places of interest. This book includes travel tips, information panels, maps, recommended itineraries and excursions, and three-star grading of tourist attractions.

This is Burundi  
Published by Struik Publishers (Pty) Ltd - Series This Is...
A journey of discovery through Burundi, from the arid vastness of the Kalahari to the lush waterways of the Okavango Delta. A visual essay on the country, its people and wildlife, this book also looks at its history and future prospects . 200 color photographs

Maps & Atlases

Burundi - Sheet map 
Published by Map Studio - Series Eazimaps
Designed with the tourist in mind, this map of Burundi includes maps of Okavengo Delta and Chobe, perennial and non-perennial water features plus a town plan of Gaberone. It details places of interest, towns and villages, minor roads and tracks, parks and reserves and a street index.

Burundi International Travel Maps - Sheet map   
Published by ITMB Publishing Ltd - Series Africa
ITMB Publishing specialize in areas that are interesting, exotic and off the beaten track. The publisher recognized some years ago that there was a lack of maps for various areas of the world and has an ambitious publishing program. The format and style vary due to the fact that many of the maps are produced in the country of origin but all are published for the English speaking traveler. This means that in addition to the wealth of detail - many of the maps are strong on the physical features of the various countries - there is usually informative text included with the map, dealing with the history, culture, etc. The maps are light, practical and should be invaluable for the backpacker, traveler or tourist

Burundi,1:1.75 Sheet map 
Published by Freytag & Berndt Maps - Series International Road Maps
High quality road maps with place name index. In many countries these are simply the best maps available. Scales vary according to the size of the country. Index is in several languages.

Globetrotter Travel Map of Burundi- Sheet map, 250 x 125mm  
Published by New Holland Publishers (U - Series Globetrotter Travel Maps
10 color photographs, 3 climate charts English; French; German text 1998
Centers covered by the area maps include: Chobe National Park, Khutse Game Reserve, Mabuasehube area, Makgadikgadi and Nxa Pans, Moremi Wildlife Reserve, Okavango Delta, route to Tuli and Southern Burundi. Cities covered by town plans include: Francistown, Gaborone and Maun. Distance and climate charts are also included

Click here for language helps, dictionaries, electronic translators, language software and other helps for learning a foreign language. Being able to speak at least some of the language in the country you are visiting will help you have a better time and enjoy your trip more. Jim.

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