Follow explorers to the little-visited Nxai Pan National Park, an extension of the Makgadikgadi Salt Pan network.
Summer brings spectacular thunderstorms, baby animals, and beautiful wildflowers to the otherwise khaki scenery of Nxai Pan. It's a glorious occasion for photography and the epic zebra migration - the longest mammal migration in Southern Africa.
Zebras migrate by the thousands to this area to drop their young during the rainy season. Still, the pan is also known for its huge springbok population, wildebeest, elephants, lions and large groups of giraffes.
Elephants depend on the permanent waterhole at Nxai Pan Camp (the only permanent camp in the national park) during the dry season, and predators, such as Kalahari Black-maned lions, lurk, waiting for prey to take an unsuspecting sip.
Highlights are always the immersive nature walk with a San tracker and a visit to Baines' Baobabs. Standing beside these massive, scarred ancient trunks is humbling, which have changed little in the 150 years since Thomas Baines immortalized them in his paintings.
7 авг 2023
