Botswana Visa is not required for Ugandans
Stay Duration: 90 days
Entry Requirements
- Ugandans are can travel to Botswana for a period of 90 days of stay without applying for a visa.
- Passports of citizens of Botswana are required to have a validity of 6 months from the date of arrival into the country.
- A Yellow Fever certificate of vaccination will be requested from Ugandans at the port of entry.
- There are no restrictions on local and foreign currencies taken in and out of the country.
- Passport of citizens must have at least three or more unused pages for entry stamps upon entry into the country.
- About 38% of the country is set aside for national parks, reserves, and wildlife management areas.
- Travellers must provide proof of sufficient funds to support stay in Botswana as well as return or onward tickets.
- All kinds of pets are allowed to enter the country but cats and dogs must be accompanied by an import permit from the Director of Veterinary Services in Botswana.
- Travellers are not required to pay any airport tax upon their departure from the airport.
- Trophy hunting in which large animals are targeted for their horns, size, skin to be displayed as “trophies” is illegal in Botswana and has been since January 2014.
- Botswana has the highest concentration of wild elephants in Africa, with most of them living in Chobe National Park and the Linyanti region.
- Botswana is home to the Kalahari Desert, which takes up about 80% of the entire country and the desert is home to many animals ranging from Meerkats, Flamingos, and Leopards to African wild dogs.
- Botswana is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world having lands bursting with thriving African animal species.
- The Chobe National Park and Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana are major tourist destinations. Other reserves include the Central Kalahari Game Reserve located in the Kalahari desert in Ghazni District: Makgadikgadi Pans National Park and Nxai Pan National Park are in the Central District of Makgadikgadi Pans.
- The official language of Botswana is English although Setswana is widely spoken across the country.
- An estimate of 77% of the country’s citizens identifies as Christians followed by a minority of Muslims mainly from South Asia, Hindus and Baha’is.
- The estimated flight time from Uganda to Botswana is 3 hours, 50 minutes.
- Botswana uses the Central Africa Time zone (GMT+2) which means Uganda is 1 hour ahead of Botswana.
- In Botswana, the power plugs and sockets are of type D, G and M. The standard voltage is 230 V and the standard frequency is 50 Hz.