Makgadikgadi Pans
One of the world’s great super-lakes is now the largest salt pan in the world offering guests a surreal luxury desert safari experience in complete solitude. Makgadikgadi Pans safaris provide a good complement to safaris in the lush Okavango Delta and Chobe National Park areas. This is an opportunity to experience true remoteness in a vast and silent environment like no other on earth.
What Will I See?
- The annual zebra and wildebeest migration (January – March)
- Meerkats — not your average mongoose
- Brown hyenas — desert cousins of the meerkat
- Flamingos and thousands of other waterbirds during the wet season
- Incredible starry nights
- Archeological sites and fossils of ancient humans and animals
- Chapman’s Baobab, said to be the largest tree in Africa
- Luxury desert safari camps
What Can I Do?
- Walks with San Bushmen learning about the little details of the environment
- Quad biking
- Meerkat interactions
- Learn the history of the area from fascinating guides
- Eat delicious cuisine under those brilliant starry African skies
- Small aircraft flights over thousands of flamingoes, zebra and wildebeest during the green season
When Should I Go?
Green Season: November – March
- Pans fill with water and the region explodes with wildlife
- Lush grasses around the pans support large herds of animals
- Flamingoes and other waterbirds gather by the thousands in the pans
- Huge herds of zebra and wildebeest migrate into the region followed by large numbers of predators
Dry season: April – September
- San Bushmen walks
- Quad biking across the pans
- Nature drives in open vehicles
- Explore fossil and archeological sites
- Meerkats
- Rare brown hyena sightings
- Warm sunny days and cool desert nights
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