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.

Country: Botswana
Area: Central District, near Nata & Gweta
Category: nature · Mid-range
Location: -20.4619, 25.4475 — opens OpenStreetMap (needs signal)

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Makgadikgadi Pans — photograph 2 — Fernando Huelgas, via Pexels

Makgadikgadi Pans — photograph 3 — Mikhail Nilov, via Pexels

Makgadikgadi Pans — photograph 4 — Stephen Leonardi, via Pexels

Makgadikgadi Pans — photograph 5 — Gaetan THURIN, via Pexels

Makgadikgadi Pans — photograph 6 — Dexter Belmont, via Pexels

Makgadikgadi Pans — photograph 7 — Anna Tarazevich, via Pexels

Makgadikgadi Pans — photograph 8 — Anna Tarazevich, via Pexels

Makgadikgadi Pans — photograph 9 — Vero Andrade, via Pexels

Makgadikgadi Pans — photograph 10 — Anna Tarazevich, via Pexels