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Makgadikgadi Pans Landscape

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  • Csaba Nováczky
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The flat, white Makgadikgadi Salt Pans are among the largest salt pans in the world. On the fringes grow baobabs. The area covers Nata Bird Sanctuary too which is one of the world’s largest breeding sites of Lesser and Greater flamingo. The landscape also has produced evidence of early human habitation from the Stone Age onwards.

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First published: 25/02/21.

Randi Thomsen

Makgadikgadi Pans Landscape

Makgadikgadi Pans Landscape (On tentative list)

Makgadikgadi Pans Landscape by Randi Thomsen

The proposed Makgadikgadi Pans Landscape consist of three different locations the Makgadikgadi National Parks, Nxai Pan National Park and Nata Bird Sanctuary.

We managed to visit all three of them on our Namibia-Botswana roadtrip in April 2019.

From Kasane to Maun we did a stop-over close to Gweta. We stayed at Planet Baobab. As the name indicates, they had 17 great baobab trees on the hotel premises. The lodges were in traditional style, a great place to stay and convenient for a visit Makgadikgadi Pans Landscape. Enroute we made a visit to Nata Bird Sanctuary, truly a great place. It is one of the largest breeding sites of Lesser and Greater flamingo in the world and there were thousands of them on the shores of the pans along with other birds like pelicans, eagle, storks, and several different waders. We almost had the whole sanctuary to ourselves, really a beautiful place. A 4x4 car is recommended.

We arrived at the hotel early afternoon and decided to pay a visit to the eastern end of the Makgadikgadi National Park. A 4x4 is a must here. We spotted a great number of zebras along the way. The park is a feeding place to one of the most spectacular zebra-wildebeest migration on earth as they move from Boteti River to Chobe during dry season. Thinking back we recalled seeing none in Chobe. We were heading to the rim of the pans, but had to turn in order to exit the …

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