Gaborone Game Reserve | Botswana Game
Reserves: Although small, at just under 600 hectares, the Gaborone Game Reserve
is one of the busiest reserves in Botswana, providing a very popular venue for city
residents to unwind in.
Established in 1988, the Gaborone Game Reserve has a good network of game viewing roads, a
visitors education centre, a couple of picnic sites, a game hide and a remote bird hide
overlooking a reeded expanse of wetland. A detailed route map is supplied at the entrance
gate, a short distance off Limpopo Drive on the western side of the city.
A section of the reserve has been enclosed to protect the park's couple of rhino, which
can be viewed along certain roads, in addition to which visitors can expect to see impala,
kudu, ostriches, wildebeest, zebra, gemsbok, bushbuck, springbok, Duiker and Africa's
largest antelope, the eland.
As with much of Botswana, the Gaborone Game Reserve is very popular with bird watchers.
The wide variety of habitats that the park covers from thorn scrub and woodland to
riverine forest and marshland has lead to a wide variety of birds being commonly seen
there, including raptors like the snake eagle, the unbelievably bright and prolific
crimson boubou and the luminescent purple gallinule which inhabits the wetlands. |
