Botswana
Makgadikgadi Pans
Central District, near Nata & Gweta
- Mid-range
- nature
A baked-white superlake the size of Portugal: ride quad bikes across the Sowa and Ntwetwe pans to nothing, sleep out under the Milky Way, meet habituated meerkats at sunrise, and — in the wet months — witness Africa’s second-largest zebra migration thunder onto the fresh grass.
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