Makgadikgadi National Park

The largest salt pans in the world, covering an area almost the size of Portugal, this otherworldly landscape has to be seen to be believed.

The breathtaking and dazzling white pans are lined with strings of towering palm trees that mark the ancient elephant migration routes. Waterholes are precious oasis for the large number of animals that traverse this desert like landscape.

Nighttime brings another dimension, the quiet; there are few trees or grasses to rustle, and the dome of stars that stretch from horizon to horizon is absolutely magical.

Explore on foot, accompanied by the San people, in a traditional 4×4 safari vehicle, on horseback or on a quadbike.

Spend time with habituated meerkat and look out for the incredible desert adapted brown hyaena and aardwolf.