Botswana Horse Riding Travel Guide
Botswana
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Horse Riding
As with the surrounding natural environment, there is great variety on offer for equine enthusiasts. You will also be spoilt for choice when it comes to selecting your horse.
There are thoroughbreds, Namibian hanoverians, arabs and kalahari-arab crosses, all ready to be saddles up and taken out on an adventure. You’ll need a little experience and should be able to spend between four and six hours in the saddle (English or Western style), and gallop when needed. The reason is that with so much game around, you have to be confident in controlling your horse. A week-long safari takes you where four-wheel drives can’t go. Riding here you can splash through pools of lilies and gallop through high palm lands. At night you will camp out in the open and with this enjoy a new intimacy with nature; you’ll be swimming in pools that are also favourite watering holes for elephants! And at night, you can even pitch in to take on a watch shift.
