One of Africa’s greatest wilderness areas, the Okavango Delta is a vast inland river delta which floods seasonally covering an area of up to 15,000 square kilometres. 

 

After rainfall from the Angolan highlands flows into the Okavango River, across the Caprivi Strip and into the Kalahari Desert the delta comes to life with lush grassy plains and verdant river systems creating  an incredibly beautiful, diverse environment for some of the world’s most endangered species.

 

The Okavango Delta is so special that in 2014 UNESCO listed it as the 1,000th world heritage site.

The Central Kalahari Game Reserve is the largest game reserve in southern Africa and the second largest in the world covering an area of 52,000 square kilometres.

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This huge wilderness area is home to some of Botswana's most interesting game including rhino, black-maned lion and desert-adapted elephants.

​​The Makgadikgadi salt pans are situated in north-eastern Botswana and are one of the largest salt flats in the world. The pan is all that remains of the formerly enormous Lake Makgadikgadi, which once covered an area larger than Switzerland. Recent studies suggest that modern Homo sapiens first began to evolve in this region some 200,000 years ago, when it was a vast, exceptionally fertile area of lakes, rivers, marshes, woodlands and grasslands.

 

Nowadays the pans are a vast wilderness area where flocks of flamingos can be observed from the air and game such as springbok, gemsbok, wildebeest and zebras migrate slowly from the pans in the south east of the park, to the Boteti River on the western side of the park.