Khawa Dune Challenge

Botswana Tourism Organisation (BTO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture (MYSC) and Botswana Motor Sport (BMS) annually host the Khawa Dune Challenge & Cultural Festival in Khawa, a village approximately 167 km southwest of Tsabong in the Kgalagadi District. The event features quad and motor bike challenges, fun Camel rides, Cultural performances and exhibitions and sale of arts and crafts from the Kgalagadi area. Other activities to be found at the event include the following sporting activities; soccer, dodge-ball, netball and sand dune racing and sand dunes monster trucks.

As a cultural tourism event, the Khawa cultural festival is part of an effort to diversify the tourism product offered during the Dune challenge in terms of providing entertainment and running exhibitions alongside the other activities. The cultural festival objectives among others is to provide full community participation through their music and dance, enhance cultural exchange and provide commercial space for the Khawa community to sell their cultural goods, products and services. Travellers seeking to immense themselves in the culture and tradition of the Kgalagadi area should request an inclusion of this event in their itinerary to Botswana.