Kalahari - Gemsbok

Botswana, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

Botswana National Parks Kgalagadi is a new reserve, opened in May 2000 by mutual agreement between South Africa and Botswana. The main inhabitants of the reserve are hundreds of antelopes, birds of prey, lions, leopards and cheetahs. Here almost the whole fauna of Africa is represented except for elephants, giraffes and zebras.

National parks of Makhadikhadi and Nksai-Pan

Bostwana, Nxai Pan National Park

Botswana National Parks The national parks of Makhadikhadi and Nksai-Pan are midway between the cities of Maun and Nata in the northern part of the country and represent a huge plateau-hollow, which was once the largest lake in Africa.

After the hustle and bustle of big cities, the fatigue of flying cars and hurrying people want a quiet and secluded holiday. Then a trip to Botswana is something you can only dream about. Botswana is an unexplored, distant country, where visitors enjoy the pristine nature of this Africa, amazing natural riches and a diverse fauna.

Here you can always find entertainment to your liking: trips to the remote villages of Bushmen (the ancient African tribe), safaris for lovers of wildlife, trips to national parks. This is the only way to understand the true essence of Botswana and see its true face before the arrival of civilization. On the territory of the country there are such famous national parks as Makhadikhadi, Chobe, Nksai-Pan and others.

Here you can always find entertainment to your liking: trips to the remote villages of Bushmen (the ancient African tribe), safaris for lovers of wildlife, trips to national parks. This is the only way to understand the true essence of Botswana and see its true face before the arrival of civilization.
The idea of ​​creating a national park on Botswana's grounds, motivated by the attraction of tourists and the protection of wildlife, appeared in 1931. And immediately around the Chobe River hunting was banned. Then the territory was enlarged, but it was not until 1960 that the Chobe officially became a reserve, and seven years later the national park. Industrial enterprises and settlements were withdrawn from the territory, and in 1975 the Chobe National Park, spread over 11 thousand square meters. km, 90 km from the city of Victoria Falls, finally got rid of people.

In the Chobe National Park, which hosts the largest elephant population in Africa, and because of this is called the world's elephant capital, is a huge variety of wildlife that makes Botswana a magnet for eco-tourism.

During cruises or trips by jeeps along the river coasts you can get acquainted with most of the animals of the park: zebras, lions (about 40 in pride), leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, jackals, foxes and a lot of rare birds. In the Chobe Park, in addition, many historically remarkable places, where the primitive rock carvings, caves of Gchwihab with rare natural African formations (colored walls and rainbow vaults), stalagmites and stalactites up to 10 m in height are preserved.

Legends say that in these places, local dynasties hid their treasures from the European colonizers. And today there are many people who want to find them.

In the northern part of Botswana, on the territory of a huge plateau-hollow, once the largest African lake, between the cities of Nata and Maun there are national parks of Makhadikhadi and Nksai-Pan, effectively working as one large national park. There are many rare drying lakes that were in the old days a full-flowing river Boteti River, originating in the Okavango River. In these places now there is practically no drinking water, therefore, when coming here, travelers bring water with them.

In the local village of Njusa Hills, you can observe the annual migration of wildebeest and zebras during the rainy season, and also for the water birds.

After visiting the park Makhadikhadi, you can move to the park Nksai-Pan, located in the neighborhood, to get more powerful and diverse impressions and sensations from these places. In the park Nksai-Pan is located Baobab Baines district, in which grows a huge group of large baobabs, in 1862 immortalized in their paintings by the painter and member of the expedition of Livingstone Thomas Baines.

Tourists are happy to go to the national parks of Botswana, where animal and nature conservation is organized at a very high level to look at their wild inhabitants in natural habitats.