Solo Travel in Gaborone
Botswana
About Gaborone for Solo Travelers
Botswana's peaceful, modern capital — one of Africa's most stable and prosperous cities, where solo travelers find a safe, English-speaking base before heading to the Okavango Delta.
Solo Travel Tips· Solo Friendly
Gaborone is a safe, quiet, and manageable solo stop — the national museum, Mokolodi Nature Reserve (rhinos!), and the Three Dikgosi Monument are good solo half-day activities. Most solo travelers use it as a transit stop between South Africa and the Okavango. English is widely spoken and Batswana are exceptionally courteous and welcoming.
Safety Score
Hover icon for sources
Cost Level
Language
English
Currency
BWP
Solo Level
Great infrastructure, English-friendly, well-established solo traveler culture.
📋 Resources for your trip
Where to stay in Gaborone
Hotels & stays on Booking.com
Travel Insurance
SafetyWing & World Nomads
eSIM for this trip
Stay connected from $5
Solo-friendly tours
Group tours on GetYourGuide
Some of these are affiliate links — we may earn a commission if you book, at no extra cost to you.
Things to do in Gaborone
Solo-friendly tours & activities, hand-picked
Top Spots in Gaborone for Solo Travelers
Showing 3 spots
Mokolodi Backpackers
Accommodation
A peaceful guesthouse near the Mokolodi reserve — a quiet base for visiting Gaborone and the surrounding bushveld.
📍Gaborone
Sanitas Tea Garden
Cafes
A leafy garden café and nursery — a calm oasis in the capital for breakfast, salads, and coffee among the plants.
📍Gaborone
Three Dikgosi Monument
Culture
A striking monument to the three chiefs who secured Botswana's path to independence — the symbolic heart of the capital.
📍CBD, Gaborone
More Solo Travel Destinations in AFRICA
Kigali
Rwanda
Africa's cleanest and safest capital, built from tragedy into an extraordinary story of transformation — solo travelers find Kigali uniquely welcoming, modern, and genuinely moving.
Toubab Dialaw
Senegal
A quiet Senegalese artist village on the Atlantic — solo creatives and slow travelers come here to step outside Dakar's chaos and find inspiration in a small community by the sea.
Sossusvlei
Namibia
The world's oldest desert at its most dramatic — solo travelers climb 300m blood-red dunes at dawn and stand in the silence of one of earth's most ancient and otherworldly landscapes.
Etosha
Namibia
One of Africa's great self-drive safari parks — solo travelers sit at floodlit waterholes after dark watching elephants, rhinos, and lions come to drink in complete, still silence.