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Central Kalahari Game Reserve

Photo: Benjamin Hollis from Seattle, WA, USA, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Botswana

Central Kalahari Game Reserve

Ghanzi District, central Botswana

Mid-range
nature

The second-largest game reserve on Earth and its most otherworldly: fossil riverbeds (Deception Valley’s ancient pans), golden grass seas after rain, and black-maned Kalahari lions stalking springbok across nothing. Remote, empty, self-drive-friendly in the dry season — the anti-commercial safari.

Right now: Shoulder season — typically driest Jul.
Country: Botswana
District: Ghanzi District, central Botswana
Category: nature · Mid-range
Location: Ghanzi District, central Botswana, Botswana — open in maps ↗ (needs signal)

Photos

Every image is license-verified for commercial reuse; photographers are credited where the license requires it.

Central Kalahari Game Reserve — photograph 2 — Benjamin Hollis from Seattle, WA, USA, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Central Kalahari Game Reserve — photograph 3 — Louis Blythe louisjblythe, via Wikimedia Commons

Central Kalahari Game Reserve — photograph 4 — Benjamin Hollis from Seattle, WA, USA, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Central Kalahari Game Reserve — photograph 5 — Benjamin Hollis, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Central Kalahari Game Reserve — photograph 6 — Benjamin Hollis from Seattle, WA, USA, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Central Kalahari Game Reserve — photograph 7 — Ryan Lansdown, via Pexels

Central Kalahari Game Reserve — photograph 8 — Francesco Ungaro, via Pexels

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