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What to see in Botswana
Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Tourist attractions Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Stretching 52,000 square kilometers across the Kalahari Desert in central Botswana, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve is the second largest game reserve on earth and is a key destination for safaris and game viewing in Africa. Swathes of bushland and long grass cover the sand dunes and following the summer rains the area is teeming with wildlife including giraffes, elephants, rhinos, buffalo, wild dogs, zebras as well as big cats such as leopards and lions.
Fossilized rivers are dotted around the reserve, many of which have dried out into other-worldly looking salt pans such as the impressive ‘Deception Valley’. Within the grassy plain, a surprising sight in the midsts of the desert, this dried up riverbed gets its name from the blue-grey colored salt deposits that, particularly from above, give the illusion of a lake full of water, when in fact it is bone dry.
Visitors to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve are advised to spend at least a few full days exploring the vast landscape as, although sightings of wildlife are not as frequent as some of Botswana’s other parks and reserves, the changing terrains and contrasts between the dusty sand dunes and lush grasslands is wonderful to see. The region used to be home to a large population of San Bushmen, who hunted and gathered in the sometimes inhospitable land, although today there are only approximately 250 of these nomadic people continuing to live as their ancestors always have. A nationwide ban on hunting makes their traditional lifestyle almost impossible.
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Points of interests
- Trips to Central Kalahari Game Reserve
- Trips to Chobe National Park
- Trips to Gaborone
- Trips to Ghanzi
- Trips to Kasane
- Trips to Makgadikgadi Pans
- Trips to Maun
- Trips to Moremi Game Reserve
- Trips to Okavango Delta
Other Points of interests
- Trips to Addo National Park
- Trips to Aquila Private Game Reserve
- Trips to Blyde River Canyon
- Trips to Boulder's Beach
- Trips to Cape of Good Hope
- Trips to Cape Peninsula
- Trips to Cape Town
- Trips to Deadvlei
- Trips to Dune 45
- Trips to Durban
- Trips to Etosha National Park
- Trips to Fish River Canyon
- Trips to Johannesburg
- Trips to Kalahari Desert
- Trips to Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden
- Trips to Knysna
- Trips to Kruger National Park
- Trips to Lake Kariba
- Trips to Namib Desert
- Trips to Namib Naukluft
- Trips to Oudtshoorn
- Trips to Population of the Himba & Herero
- Trips to Port Elizabeth
- Trips to Pretoria
- Trips to Rovos Rail
- Trips to Sesriem Canyon
- Trips to Skeleton Coast & Cape Cross
- Trips to Sossusvlei
- Trips to Swakopmund
- Trips to Twyfelfontein
- Trips to Victoria Falls
- Trips to Walvis Bay
- Trips to Wilderness
- Trips to Windhoek
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