Kalahari - Gemsbok
Botswana, Kgalagadi Transfrontier ParkKgalagadi 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 ParkThe 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.