The Makgadikgadi Pans National Park is a salt pan with an area of 3,900 kilometres. It is one of the largest salt flats in the world and for most of the year it is desolate and extremely arid where you can see so far that it feels like the curvature of the earth can be perceived. However, during the rains these pans come to life with not only elephants, zebra, wildebeest and other large mammals but hundreds of thousands of flamingos too – an incredibly awe-inspiring experience to be missed when visiting Botswana.
