The Makgadikgadi Pan is the world’s largest salt pan, formed on the bed of an ancient lake that began evaporating aeons ago. Visiting Makgadikgadi is a unique desert experience: in the dry season, this vast expanse of sun-baked salt glistens in the light and when the rains come, the pan is home to a cornucopia of flamingos and other waterbirds, as well as one of Africa's biggest zebra populations, whose annual migration is a wonder to behold.
The Okavango Delta is one of Africa’s most amazing destinations. This vast inland delta, the largest in the world, is nearly 6000 sq. miles of wonderful wetlands – lagoons, sinuous channels, lakes, flooded grasslands, and thousands of islands. This incredible oasis, which lies in the middle of an enormous desert, is appropriately nicknamed the ‘jewel’ of the Kalahari.
This wetland paradise supports a staggering amount and diversity of animals, including 122 species of mammals, 71 species of fish, 444 species of birds, 64 species of reptiles and 1300 species of flowering plants. Visitors can explore the Delta on land and water – by land rover, on foot, and in “mokoros”, small traditional boats used to travel in the shallow waters. It is a very memorable, iconic activity that the Okavango is famous for – a “must do” for any visitor.
Kwando, Selinda and Linyanti are private concessions in the northern region of Botswana, some of the most beautiful and remote destinations in the country, offering exceptional wildlife viewing, perhaps the best in the country. The area is also extremely diverse, with serpentine channels, lagoons, grass floodplains, papyrus stands, marshes, reed beds, savannah, riparian forest, mopane woodland, scrubland, palm groves and magnificent, towering trees Baobab trees.
These private concessions offer a very exclusive, authentic and remote safari experience. The camps here are small and private, isolated in the wild, with very few guests. The wildlife viewing is wonderful, but what stands out is that this is “the bush”, similar perhaps to what the early explorers may have found, the Africa one dreams of experiencing. With little connection to the outside world, visitors have the untamed wilderness, the incredible star-filled sky, and the sounds of the animals at night.
