Tsodilo Hills: walking among rock art and sacred landscape
A visit to Tsodilo Hills is best enjoyed as a slow day out: choose a trail, arrange a local guide and understand that the paintings are part of a living landscape.
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Shakawe is a practical base for arranging an excursion to Tsodilo Hills, a cultural landscape of hills, rock art and continuing spiritual significance. The visit calls for time to walk calmly and to reconfirm access, guides, trails and overnight options beforehand.
The place
What makes it special
- Arrange a Tsodilo Hills excursion from the Shakawe area.
- Explore the Male, Female and Child hills and their marked routes.
- Learn about the rock art with a San or Hambukushu community guide.
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This profile summarises our destination guides. Their research sources and the geographical reference are listed below.
- whc.unesco.org
- dailynews.gov.bw
- www.botswanaspeaks.gov.bw
- dailynews.gov.bw
- dailynews.gov.bw
- dailynews.gov.bw
- whc.unesco.org
- dailynews.gov.bw
- Botswana · Wikidata
- Botswana · World Countries — mledoze
- Botswana · World Bank Open Data
- Botswana · DBpedia
- Place identification and coordinates
Profile updated: 13/09/2026