Penn Alumni Travel & Penn Medicine present
Botswana & Victoria Falls
August 2 - 20, 2008
Pricing $11,795 per person
Faculty Host: Penn Med Professor Dr. Stephen Gluckman
Explore, Inc.
1-888-596-6377
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Botswana is where the white-hot Kalahari Desert meets the wild Okavango Delta in an explosion of green that shelters and feeds some of the continent's most prolific wildlife. It is also where the Penn-Botswana program has been a leader in the effort to control the AIDS epidemic there. We invite you to join us on this unique journey that will show you the work being done in Gabarone by Penn Medicine, and also the natural beauty of Botswana. Our faculty host will be Dr. Stephen Gluckman, clinical director of the Penn-Botswana program, Professor of Medicine and a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

The most stable and fully democratic country in Africa, Botswana is an African gem, full of wonders, surprises and contrasts. In the North, the floodwaters from Angola spread like a giant hand to form the biggest inland delta in the world - often referred to as "Earth's Last Eden"...the Okavango. The Kalahari covers over two-thirds of Botswana and contains a multitude of eco-systems subject to tremendous variation. Botswana's indigenous people, the "San" (Bushmen), say that 'you can hear song in the stars on a Kalahari night.' It is a magnificent wilderness filled with a wide array of wildlife and ancient stone-age sites. Between the arid vastness of the desert and the lush green wetland of the Delta, Botswana remains a sparsely populated and relatively little visited country. Here one finds the Africa of the imagination - pure, wild, and spectacularly beautiful.

To read about the Penn-Botswana program, see the March/April 2007 issue of The Pennsylvania Gazette.

See more about the Penn-Botswana program at www.uphs.upenn.edu/medicine/about/internat and www.uphs.upenn.edu/idd/bots.html

The Penn Compact in action: www.upenn.edu/compact/botswana.html