Makgadikgadi Pans National Park
The Makgadikgadi Pans are the surreal remains of the world's largest super lake. The salt pans are like nowhere else on earth, and once in the middle, there is neither a bush nor tree, nor blade of grass to be seen. With only two permanent camps allowed in the whole area, you might be one of only 28 guests in a region that is bigger than Switzerland.
With the coming of rains (November), the pans fill with water, and the sweet summer grasslands surrounding the pans germinate, attracting the last significant migration to survive in Southern Africa. During these rains, stone age tools and fossils of extinct giant zebra and hippo emerge from the sandy surface. Tens of thousands of zebra and wildebeest arrive to eat the luscious grass, with predators following in their wake. During the dry season, the grasslands turn to gold and only the hardy, rare and fascinating desert adapted species, unique to the Kalahari, such as the brown hyena, meerkat and springbuck remain.