Your guide will pick you from Maun and transfer you for about 136km on the tar road before turning off and driving 32km to Nxai Pan, on a very sandy road to Nxai National park where you will be staying for 2 nights. Part of the great Makgadikgadi complex, Nxai Pan National Park covers an area of 2,100 km2, and comprises several larger pans which were once ancient salt lakes. These larger pans are now grassed, and are scattered with islands of acacia trees, and smaller pans that fill with water during the rainy season - thus providing rich resources for wildlife such as Zebras, elephants, Wildebeest not forgetting large predators such as lions, brown hyenas and cheetahs. We spend a night, in an exclusive BOGA (Botswana Guides Association) site, away from other people.

The day begins with a wakeup call and then breakfast served and then head on for a game drive to experience the natural habitat, beautiful landscape as well as the wildlife. When we come back from the morning drive lunch will be served at the camping area. Later in the day we will sit at the Waterhole, the only one for miles around and very busy, if the rains haven't started. Sunsets at the Waterhole can be spectacular, with animals silhouetted against the setting sun. We return to our camp after sunset, and enjoy great food and drinks around a fire.

A 4 hours’ drive from Nxai Pan through Baines Baobabs to Khumaga in Makgadikgadi. Baines Baobabs have their name for the artist and explorer Thomas Baines who first painted them in 1962 while travelling with the explorer James Chapman in this deserted Botswana area. We will stop here for lunch before proceeding with our journey. Makgadikgadi Pans National Park covers an area of 3,900square km, where we spend 2nights in the Public Campsite, across the river from the village of Khumaga but separated by the Boteti River. Hundreds of Zebra congregate here to drink and provide great photographic opportunities. There are numerous birds of prey in this area, vultures, owls and eagles. We will concentrate on game drives along the river which should be flowing still although it has a history of drying up. Hippos and Crocodiles occur here, and survived 17 years when the river was dry, until early 2009. White Rhino were released here several years ago, but are seldom seen.

We will do our morning drive along the Boteti River, to experience the diversity of fauna and flora species of this area, Herds of zebras and wilderness concentrate along the Boteti River. Lunch will be served after our morning drive and siesta then followed by our afternoon excursion until sundown. The other option we can have on this day is packing our picnic lunch and take a whole day drive which can give us enough time to cover more area and even spending more time in sightings.

After our continental breakfast we will start with our morning drive around the Boteti River and we will have a bush lunch in a picnic site. Then our drive will lead us to Ntwetwe pan for the sleep out under the amazing African sky for one night. The Ntwetwe is one of the three large pans within the Makgadikgadi, the other two being Nxai Pan and Sua pan. Ntwetwe pan is now a seasonal lake with filling occurring in the rainy season. Ntwetwe was first described to the European world by David Livingstone, pursuit to his exploration in this region. Significant archaeological recoveries have occurred within the Ntwetwe Pan, including Stone Age tools from people who lived in this area, in an earlier time of prehistory when a large year round lake occupied the Ntwetwe Pan area within the Makgadikgadi.

After breakfast we will be starting to drive back to Maun where your guide will drop you to where you will be staying or dropping you at the airport if you are flying out that day.

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