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A herd of impala under acacia trees in the Gaborone Game Reserve

Gaborone Tours & Day Trips

Every real, bookable experience in and around Botswana’s capital — compared, priced and a couple of taps away.

Let us be straight: Gaborone is not a big tour destination, and GetYourGuide lists only about fifteen experiences here. That is actually good news — the choice is manageable, the guides are local people running small businesses, and most tours are private or nearly so.

Below you will find all the Gaborone tours worth considering, grouped by how much time you have, followed by the best Botswana safari day trips from Maun and Kasane for travellers heading north, and two useful options for those arriving through Johannesburg. We have not padded the list with products that do not exist.

Prices are indicative “from” starting points in euros and change with season, group size and exchange rates — tap any card for the live price in your own currency. Several tours are priced for a minimum of two people.

Pick by how much time you have

Half a day in Gaborone

Three to six hours: enough for the city’s story, a literary detour, a game drive inside the city or a climb up Kgale Hill.

The bronze statues of the Three Dikgosi Monument in Gaborone Private city tour from €102
🕒 3 hours 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 4.8 (19)

Gaborone: 3-Hour Historical City Tour

The most-reviewed tour in Gaborone and the best first morning in the city. A local guide drives you between the capital’s landmarks — the Three Dikgosi Monument, Parliament, Main Mall and the older neighbourhoods — explaining how a village by the Notwane River became the “diamond city” in sixty years, with a few traditional snacks to try on the way.

  • Three Dikgosi Monument and the new CBD
  • Parliament, the Government Enclave and Main Mall
  • Tastes of local food along the way
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Tlokweng Road in Gaborone on a clear day Literary tour from €111
🕒 3 hours 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 5.0 (3)

No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Literary Tour: Gaborone

Alexander McCall Smith’s novels have sent more visitors to Gaborone than any advertising campaign. This guided tour follows Mma Ramotswe around town — her house on Zebra Drive, Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, the foot of Kgale Hill — and shows how closely the books follow the real city. Perfect scores so far, from a small number of reviews.

  • Zebra Drive, Tlokweng Road and Kgale Hill
  • The Gaborone of Mma Precious Ramotswe
  • Bush tea and stories from the books
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The arches of Botswana’s Parliament building in Gaborone Private city tour from €76
🕒 6 hours 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 4.7 (6)

Gaborone: Private Historical City Tour

A longer, slower version of the city tour: six hours with a private guide, covering the Government Enclave, the Three Dikgosi Monument and the neighbourhoods in between, with stops to taste traditional food. At the listed starting price it is the cheapest way to have a guide to yourself for most of a day.

  • Government Enclave and Three Dikgosi Monument
  • Traditional food tasting and light snacks
  • Private guide and vehicle
Check price & availability
Impala grazing under acacia trees in the Gaborone Game Reserve Game drive + city tour from €105
🕒 6 hours 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 4.6 (6)

Safari Game Drive and Gaborone City Tour

Gaborone is one of the few capitals with a game reserve inside the city. This tour pairs a guided drive through it — expect zebra, wildebeest, kudu, impala, warthog and plenty of birds — with the main sights of the capital, so you get wildlife and history in a single six-hour outing at a fair price.

  • Guided drive in the Gaborone Game Reserve
  • Zebra, wildebeest, antelope and ostrich inside the city limits
  • City landmarks on the same outing
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A plate of seswaa, pounded beef, with maize meal City tour + food from €178
🕒 6 hours 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 5.0 (1)

Gaborone: City Tour with Game Drive and Tswana Cuisine

Similar ground to the classic game-drive-and-city combination, with one important addition: a proper Tswana meal — typically seswaa (slow-cooked pounded beef) with bogobe or pap and morogo. A newer listing with only a handful of reviews so far, all of them excellent.

  • National Museum area and the Three Chiefs monument
  • Game drive in the Gaborone Game Reserve
  • A traditional Tswana meal
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The rocky trail up Kgale Hill above Gaborone Guided hike from €44
🕒 3 hours 📍 From Kgale Hill trailhead

Gaborone: Kgale Hill Hike and Gourmet Picnic Experience

Kgale Hill is the best viewpoint over Gaborone and its dam, and it is wiser not to climb it alone. This guided hike adds a picnic at the summit, with a choice of sunrise, morning or sunset slots. Only a couple of reviews so far, and they are mixed — read the most recent ones on GetYourGuide before you book.

  • Guided climb of the “Sleeping Giant”
  • Picnic with a view at the top
  • Sunrise, morning or sunset departures
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A full day or a weekend

Mokolodi’s rhino country, the villages and rock art beyond the city, or two fully organised days.

An open game-drive vehicle at Mokolodi Nature Reserve near Gaborone Full-day tour from €258
🕒 8 hours 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 4.4 (10)

Around Gaborone Adventure

The full-day sampler: the Three Dikgosi Monument and the city in the morning, a game drive in Mokolodi Nature Reserve — the hilly private reserve south of town known for giraffe, zebra and white rhino — and a cruise to look for crocodiles. It is the most complete single day you can book in Gaborone.

  • Game drive in Mokolodi Nature Reserve
  • Three Dikgosi Monument and city highlights
  • Boat cruise to look for crocodiles
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Ochre rock paintings of a giraffe and antelope at Manyana Half-day trip from €151
🕒 3.5 hours 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 4.8 (5)

Manyana Village Visit from Gaborone + Rock Paintings

A half-day drive to the village of Manyana, home to the only well-known rock paintings in southern Botswana — giraffe, antelope and human figures on a sandstone overhang — and to the huge fig tree under which the missionary David Livingstone is said to have preached and taught in the 1840s. A neat introduction to the country beyond the capital.

  • Rock paintings at Manyana, a national monument
  • The fig tree where David Livingstone taught
  • A look at village life south-west of the city
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A craftswoman making beaded jewellery at an arts centre in Gaborone Day trip from €240
🕒 Full day 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 4.9 (3)

Art & Craft Tour: Villages around Gaborone

A day in the villages that ring Gaborone, where much of the country’s weaving and pottery is actually made. You visit four of them, watch the craftspeople at work, have the chance to buy direct and eat lunch at a local restaurant. It is the easy way to reach places such as Oodi without hiring a car.

  • Four craft villages around the capital
  • Meet weavers and potters and buy direct
  • Lunch at a local restaurant
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Granite boulders on the shore of Gaborone Dam Two-day tour from €184
🕒 2 days 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 5.0 (3)

2-Day City Tour, Safari Game Drive & Boat Cruise

Two guided days that cover nearly everything in this guide: the city, the Gaborone Game Reserve and Old Naledi on day one, then Mokolodi Nature Reserve and a boat cruise on day two. Accommodation is not part of the tour, so you keep your own hotel — and the price per day is the best value among the longer options.

  • Gaborone Game Reserve and the National Museum area
  • Old Naledi, the city’s oldest township
  • Mokolodi Nature Reserve and a boat cruise
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A traditional thatched house in a village compound near Gaborone Two-day tour from €195
🕒 2 days 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 5.0 (2)

Multi-Day Tour from Gaborone: 2-Day City + Village Experience

A two-day programme combining the capital with village Botswana: the city tour first, then Manyana with its rock paintings and Livingstone connections, and — depending on the day — a game drive. A good choice if you prefer culture and history to a second day of wildlife.

  • City tour on the first day
  • Manyana village and its rock paintings
  • A game drive where time allows
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View across the new central business district of Gaborone Two-day tour from €385
🕒 2 days 📍 From Gaborone

2-Day City Tour, Safari Drive, Diamond Tour & Boat Cruise

Botswana’s wealth was built on diamonds, and Gaborone is where they are sorted and sold. This new two-day tour adds a visit to see diamond sorting and processing to the city, game-drive and cruise programme. It had no reviews when we checked, so treat it as promising rather than proven.

  • A look at diamond sorting and processing
  • Gaborone Game Reserve and city landmarks
  • Boat cruise
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Onward to the Okavango and Chobe

Flying north after Gaborone? These are the best-rated day experiences from Maun and Kasane.

Polers steering mokoro canoes across open water in the Okavango Delta Day trip from €152
🕒 1 day 📍 From Maun ⭐ 4.7 (117)

Okavango Delta: Full-Day Mokoro/Canoe Tour All-Inclusive

The classic Okavango day and the most-reviewed delta experience on GetYourGuide. Maun is a flight of roughly an hour from Gaborone; from there, local polers take you out through the reed-lined channels by mokoro, with a bush walk and lunch on an island.

  • Poled through the channels in a traditional mokoro
  • Guided nature walk on an island
  • Lunch and transfers from Maun included
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A herd of elephants on the green floodplain of the Chobe River Boat cruise + game drive from €108
🕒 8 hours 📍 From Kasane ⭐ 4.6 (123)

From Kasane: Chobe National Park Full-Day Wildlife Safari

The Chobe riverfront by boat and by 4x4 in one day, at a very fair price and with more than a hundred reviews. Kasane has flights from Gaborone; from there this is the easiest way to see the elephant herds Botswana is known for.

  • Morning boat cruise on the Chobe River
  • Buffet lunch at a riverside lodge
  • Afternoon open-vehicle game drive
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A male lion roaring in the green grass of northern Botswana Game drive from €280
🕒 11 hours 📍 From Maun ⭐ 4.8 (4)

Okavango: Moremi Game Reserve Guided Safari Adventure

The best-rated way to see Moremi Game Reserve without a camping safari: a long, early day from Maun on the tracks around the floodplains and mopane woodland, with lunch in the bush. This is the big-cat country that the reserves around Gaborone cannot offer.

  • Full day of game driving in Moremi
  • Open 4x4 with a local guide
  • Chance of lion, leopard, elephant and wild dog
Check price & availability
Aerial view of channels and islands in the Okavango Delta Helicopter flight from €298
🕒 45 minutes 📍 From Maun Airport ⭐ 5.0 (2)

Maun: 45-Minute Doors-Off Scenic Flight

The delta only makes sense from the air. This doors-off helicopter flight leaves from Maun Airport, so it fits neatly around a flight connection from Gaborone, and gives photographers an unobstructed view of the herds below.

  • Helicopter flight with the doors off
  • The delta’s channels and islands from above
  • Elephant, buffalo and hippo seen from the air
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An open safari vehicle on a sandy track in the bush Camping safari from €1066
🕒 3 days 📍 From Maun ⭐ 5.0 (1)

From Maun: 3-Day Moremi Game Reserve Safari Tour

Three days and two nights camping in Moremi with a guide and crew — enough time to be out at first and last light, when the predators move. If you have come all the way to Botswana and can spare the days after Gaborone, this is the kind of safari the country is famous for.

  • Two nights camping inside Moremi
  • Morning and afternoon game drives
  • Guide, camp crew and meals included
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Arriving via Johannesburg — and at the airport

A safari day on a Johannesburg stopover, private road journeys across the border, and lounge access at Gaborone airport.

An elephant by the water in Pilanesberg National Park Day safari from €159
🕒 12 hours 📍 From Johannesburg ⭐ 4.8 (1,599)

From Johannesburg: Pilanesberg Nature Reserve Game Safari

If you are flying to Gaborone through Johannesburg and have a spare day there, this is the region’s most-booked safari day trip, with well over a thousand reviews. Pilanesberg is malaria-free and lies on the road towards Botswana — but note that it departs from Johannesburg, not from Gaborone.

  • Big Five reserve in an ancient volcanic crater
  • Open-vehicle game drives with a guide
  • Hotel pickup in Johannesburg
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The skyline of Gaborone seen across the bushveld Private road journey from €469 per group
🕒 7 hours 📍 From Johannesburg

From Johannesburg: Botswana Cross-Border Road Experience

A private road journey from Johannesburg to Gaborone with a bushveld stop, assistance at the border post and refreshments. It costs more than the flight, but it turns the transfer into part of the trip and is priced per vehicle rather than per person. A new listing without reviews yet.

  • Door-to-door from Johannesburg to Gaborone
  • Bushveld stop and help at the border
  • Price is per group of up to three
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The Abjaterskop Gate sign at Madikwe Game Reserve Private road journey from €407 per group
🕒 5 hours 📍 From Johannesburg

From Johannesburg: Madikwe Game Reserve Scenic Journey

Madikwe, the Big Five reserve that touches the Botswana border about an hour from Gaborone, admits lodge guests only. This is a private road transfer to the reserve from Johannesburg — the game drives themselves are run by your lodge. A new listing without reviews yet.

  • Private transfer from Johannesburg to Madikwe
  • Scenic route through North West Province
  • Price is per group of up to three
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An Air Botswana turboprop on the runway at Gaborone airport Airport lounge from €37
🕒 2 hours 📍 From Sir Seretse Khama International Airport

Gaborone Sir Seretse Khama International Airport: Nthula Lounge

Not a tour, but useful: pre-booked access to the lounge at Gaborone’s airport, for a quiet seat and refreshments before a flight to Johannesburg, Maun or Kasane. Check the lounge’s current opening hours against your departure time.

  • Lounge access before your flight
  • Seating, snacks and drinks away from the gate
  • Free cancellation
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Every tour we list

Twenty-two experiences: fourteen in and around Gaborone, six safari days in northern Botswana and two for a Johannesburg stopover.

The bronze statues of the Three Dikgosi Monument in Gaborone Private city tour from €102
🕒 3 hours 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 4.8 (19)

Gaborone: 3-Hour Historical City Tour

The most-reviewed tour in Gaborone and the best first morning in the city. A local guide drives you between the capital’s landmarks — the Three Dikgosi Monument, Parliament, Main Mall and the older neighbourhoods — explaining how a village by the Notwane River became the “diamond city” in sixty years, with a few traditional snacks to try on the way.

  • Three Dikgosi Monument and the new CBD
  • Parliament, the Government Enclave and Main Mall
  • Tastes of local food along the way
Check price & availability
Impala grazing under acacia trees in the Gaborone Game Reserve Game drive + city tour from €105
🕒 6 hours 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 4.6 (6)

Safari Game Drive and Gaborone City Tour

Gaborone is one of the few capitals with a game reserve inside the city. This tour pairs a guided drive through it — expect zebra, wildebeest, kudu, impala, warthog and plenty of birds — with the main sights of the capital, so you get wildlife and history in a single six-hour outing at a fair price.

  • Guided drive in the Gaborone Game Reserve
  • Zebra, wildebeest, antelope and ostrich inside the city limits
  • City landmarks on the same outing
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An open game-drive vehicle at Mokolodi Nature Reserve near Gaborone Full-day tour from €258
🕒 8 hours 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 4.4 (10)

Around Gaborone Adventure

The full-day sampler: the Three Dikgosi Monument and the city in the morning, a game drive in Mokolodi Nature Reserve — the hilly private reserve south of town known for giraffe, zebra and white rhino — and a cruise to look for crocodiles. It is the most complete single day you can book in Gaborone.

  • Game drive in Mokolodi Nature Reserve
  • Three Dikgosi Monument and city highlights
  • Boat cruise to look for crocodiles
Check price & availability
Tlokweng Road in Gaborone on a clear day Literary tour from €111
🕒 3 hours 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 5.0 (3)

No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Literary Tour: Gaborone

Alexander McCall Smith’s novels have sent more visitors to Gaborone than any advertising campaign. This guided tour follows Mma Ramotswe around town — her house on Zebra Drive, Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, the foot of Kgale Hill — and shows how closely the books follow the real city. Perfect scores so far, from a small number of reviews.

  • Zebra Drive, Tlokweng Road and Kgale Hill
  • The Gaborone of Mma Precious Ramotswe
  • Bush tea and stories from the books
Check price & availability
Ochre rock paintings of a giraffe and antelope at Manyana Half-day trip from €151
🕒 3.5 hours 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 4.8 (5)

Manyana Village Visit from Gaborone + Rock Paintings

A half-day drive to the village of Manyana, home to the only well-known rock paintings in southern Botswana — giraffe, antelope and human figures on a sandstone overhang — and to the huge fig tree under which the missionary David Livingstone is said to have preached and taught in the 1840s. A neat introduction to the country beyond the capital.

  • Rock paintings at Manyana, a national monument
  • The fig tree where David Livingstone taught
  • A look at village life south-west of the city
Check price & availability
The arches of Botswana’s Parliament building in Gaborone Private city tour from €76
🕒 6 hours 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 4.7 (6)

Gaborone: Private Historical City Tour

A longer, slower version of the city tour: six hours with a private guide, covering the Government Enclave, the Three Dikgosi Monument and the neighbourhoods in between, with stops to taste traditional food. At the listed starting price it is the cheapest way to have a guide to yourself for most of a day.

  • Government Enclave and Three Dikgosi Monument
  • Traditional food tasting and light snacks
  • Private guide and vehicle
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Granite boulders on the shore of Gaborone Dam Two-day tour from €184
🕒 2 days 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 5.0 (3)

2-Day City Tour, Safari Game Drive & Boat Cruise

Two guided days that cover nearly everything in this guide: the city, the Gaborone Game Reserve and Old Naledi on day one, then Mokolodi Nature Reserve and a boat cruise on day two. Accommodation is not part of the tour, so you keep your own hotel — and the price per day is the best value among the longer options.

  • Gaborone Game Reserve and the National Museum area
  • Old Naledi, the city’s oldest township
  • Mokolodi Nature Reserve and a boat cruise
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A craftswoman making beaded jewellery at an arts centre in Gaborone Day trip from €240
🕒 Full day 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 4.9 (3)

Art & Craft Tour: Villages around Gaborone

A day in the villages that ring Gaborone, where much of the country’s weaving and pottery is actually made. You visit four of them, watch the craftspeople at work, have the chance to buy direct and eat lunch at a local restaurant. It is the easy way to reach places such as Oodi without hiring a car.

  • Four craft villages around the capital
  • Meet weavers and potters and buy direct
  • Lunch at a local restaurant
Check price & availability
A plate of seswaa, pounded beef, with maize meal City tour + food from €178
🕒 6 hours 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 5.0 (1)

Gaborone: City Tour with Game Drive and Tswana Cuisine

Similar ground to the classic game-drive-and-city combination, with one important addition: a proper Tswana meal — typically seswaa (slow-cooked pounded beef) with bogobe or pap and morogo. A newer listing with only a handful of reviews so far, all of them excellent.

  • National Museum area and the Three Chiefs monument
  • Game drive in the Gaborone Game Reserve
  • A traditional Tswana meal
Check price & availability
A traditional thatched house in a village compound near Gaborone Two-day tour from €195
🕒 2 days 📍 From Gaborone ⭐ 5.0 (2)

Multi-Day Tour from Gaborone: 2-Day City + Village Experience

A two-day programme combining the capital with village Botswana: the city tour first, then Manyana with its rock paintings and Livingstone connections, and — depending on the day — a game drive. A good choice if you prefer culture and history to a second day of wildlife.

  • City tour on the first day
  • Manyana village and its rock paintings
  • A game drive where time allows
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The rocky trail up Kgale Hill above Gaborone Guided hike from €44
🕒 3 hours 📍 From Kgale Hill trailhead

Gaborone: Kgale Hill Hike and Gourmet Picnic Experience

Kgale Hill is the best viewpoint over Gaborone and its dam, and it is wiser not to climb it alone. This guided hike adds a picnic at the summit, with a choice of sunrise, morning or sunset slots. Only a couple of reviews so far, and they are mixed — read the most recent ones on GetYourGuide before you book.

  • Guided climb of the “Sleeping Giant”
  • Picnic with a view at the top
  • Sunrise, morning or sunset departures
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View across the new central business district of Gaborone Two-day tour from €385
🕒 2 days 📍 From Gaborone

2-Day City Tour, Safari Drive, Diamond Tour & Boat Cruise

Botswana’s wealth was built on diamonds, and Gaborone is where they are sorted and sold. This new two-day tour adds a visit to see diamond sorting and processing to the city, game-drive and cruise programme. It had no reviews when we checked, so treat it as promising rather than proven.

  • A look at diamond sorting and processing
  • Gaborone Game Reserve and city landmarks
  • Boat cruise
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A herd of elephants on the green floodplain of the Chobe River Boat cruise + game drive from €108
🕒 8 hours 📍 From Kasane ⭐ 4.6 (123)

From Kasane: Chobe National Park Full-Day Wildlife Safari

The Chobe riverfront by boat and by 4x4 in one day, at a very fair price and with more than a hundred reviews. Kasane has flights from Gaborone; from there this is the easiest way to see the elephant herds Botswana is known for.

  • Morning boat cruise on the Chobe River
  • Buffet lunch at a riverside lodge
  • Afternoon open-vehicle game drive
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Polers steering mokoro canoes across open water in the Okavango Delta Day trip from €152
🕒 1 day 📍 From Maun ⭐ 4.7 (117)

Okavango Delta: Full-Day Mokoro/Canoe Tour All-Inclusive

The classic Okavango day and the most-reviewed delta experience on GetYourGuide. Maun is a flight of roughly an hour from Gaborone; from there, local polers take you out through the reed-lined channels by mokoro, with a bush walk and lunch on an island.

  • Poled through the channels in a traditional mokoro
  • Guided nature walk on an island
  • Lunch and transfers from Maun included
Check price & availability
A male lion roaring in the green grass of northern Botswana Game drive from €280
🕒 11 hours 📍 From Maun ⭐ 4.8 (4)

Okavango: Moremi Game Reserve Guided Safari Adventure

The best-rated way to see Moremi Game Reserve without a camping safari: a long, early day from Maun on the tracks around the floodplains and mopane woodland, with lunch in the bush. This is the big-cat country that the reserves around Gaborone cannot offer.

  • Full day of game driving in Moremi
  • Open 4x4 with a local guide
  • Chance of lion, leopard, elephant and wild dog
Check price & availability
Aerial view of channels and islands in the Okavango Delta Helicopter flight from €298
🕒 45 minutes 📍 From Maun Airport ⭐ 5.0 (2)

Maun: 45-Minute Doors-Off Scenic Flight

The delta only makes sense from the air. This doors-off helicopter flight leaves from Maun Airport, so it fits neatly around a flight connection from Gaborone, and gives photographers an unobstructed view of the herds below.

  • Helicopter flight with the doors off
  • The delta’s channels and islands from above
  • Elephant, buffalo and hippo seen from the air
Check price & availability
An open safari vehicle on a sandy track in the bush Camping safari from €1066
🕒 3 days 📍 From Maun ⭐ 5.0 (1)

From Maun: 3-Day Moremi Game Reserve Safari Tour

Three days and two nights camping in Moremi with a guide and crew — enough time to be out at first and last light, when the predators move. If you have come all the way to Botswana and can spare the days after Gaborone, this is the kind of safari the country is famous for.

  • Two nights camping inside Moremi
  • Morning and afternoon game drives
  • Guide, camp crew and meals included
Check price & availability
An elephant by the water in Pilanesberg National Park Day safari from €159
🕒 12 hours 📍 From Johannesburg ⭐ 4.8 (1,599)

From Johannesburg: Pilanesberg Nature Reserve Game Safari

If you are flying to Gaborone through Johannesburg and have a spare day there, this is the region’s most-booked safari day trip, with well over a thousand reviews. Pilanesberg is malaria-free and lies on the road towards Botswana — but note that it departs from Johannesburg, not from Gaborone.

  • Big Five reserve in an ancient volcanic crater
  • Open-vehicle game drives with a guide
  • Hotel pickup in Johannesburg
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The Abjaterskop Gate sign at Madikwe Game Reserve Private road journey from €407 per group
🕒 5 hours 📍 From Johannesburg

From Johannesburg: Madikwe Game Reserve Scenic Journey

Madikwe, the Big Five reserve that touches the Botswana border about an hour from Gaborone, admits lodge guests only. This is a private road transfer to the reserve from Johannesburg — the game drives themselves are run by your lodge. A new listing without reviews yet.

  • Private transfer from Johannesburg to Madikwe
  • Scenic route through North West Province
  • Price is per group of up to three
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The skyline of Gaborone seen across the bushveld Private road journey from €469 per group
🕒 7 hours 📍 From Johannesburg

From Johannesburg: Botswana Cross-Border Road Experience

A private road journey from Johannesburg to Gaborone with a bushveld stop, assistance at the border post and refreshments. It costs more than the flight, but it turns the transfer into part of the trip and is priced per vehicle rather than per person. A new listing without reviews yet.

  • Door-to-door from Johannesburg to Gaborone
  • Bushveld stop and help at the border
  • Price is per group of up to three
Check price & availability
An Air Botswana turboprop on the runway at Gaborone airport Airport lounge from €37
🕒 2 hours 📍 From Sir Seretse Khama International Airport

Gaborone Sir Seretse Khama International Airport: Nthula Lounge

Not a tour, but useful: pre-booked access to the lounge at Gaborone’s airport, for a quiet seat and refreshments before a flight to Johannesburg, Maun or Kasane. Check the lounge’s current opening hours against your departure time.

  • Lounge access before your flight
  • Seating, snacks and drinks away from the gate
  • Free cancellation
Check price & availability
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Stand beneath the Three Dikgosi, track rhino on foot at Mokolodi and follow Mma Ramotswe down Zebra Drive. Compare city tours, game drives and village day trips — and book in a couple of taps.

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Gaborone tours: FAQs

Frequently asked questions

What is the best tour in Gaborone?

For a first visit, the 3-hour historical city tour — it has the most reviews and gives you the story of the country. With a full day, the Around Gaborone Adventure adds Mokolodi Nature Reserve. Our full ranking is on the best tours page.

Do tours include hotel pickup?

Most Gaborone tours are private or small-group and include pickup from hotels in the city. The Kgale Hill hike usually meets at the trailhead. Always check the “meeting point” section on GetYourGuide.

Why are some tours expensive for what they are?

Because they are private. With few visitors, operators cannot fill a minibus, so prices are often quoted per person for a minimum of two. The cost per head drops noticeably for groups of three or four.

Can I book a safari from Gaborone?

For a taste, yes: the Gaborone Game Reserve and Mokolodi are both covered by day tours. Botswana’s famous big-game areas are in the north, reached by flying to Maun or Kasane, where day safaris are easy to book.

Can I cancel if my plans change?

Most experiences listed here offer free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start, and many let you reserve now and pay later. The exact policy is shown on each GetYourGuide product page.