Makgadikgadi Pans National Park

Makgadikgadi Pans National Park together with the adjoining Nxai Pans National Park are the only true pan ecologies in Botswana found outside the Kalahari Desert.  They were once part of the single massive lake which covered central Botswana and which today has shrunken into the Okavango Delta.  The name can mean “driest of the dry” or “big nothing” in San dialects and at certain times of the year that is exactly what it looks like.  But now, shortly after the long rainy season, it is still verdant and with abundant game.