Vast and pure semi-desert
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is almost twice the size of Kruger Park and stretches over a whopping 38,000 km2. The park is located in the southern Kalahari Desert on the border of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. The biggest attraction of the park is its vastness and purity, with a wealth of wildlife and birds. For example, here you will see the Kalahari lion with its wild black mane, cheetahs, brown hyenas, wild cats, springbok, wildebeest, hartebeest and honey badgers. Birdwatchers can marvel at the many species of raptors here, such as the martial eagle, mountain rooster and the singing hawk. In many cases you can get very close to the animals, that makes the game drive experience in Kgalagadi extra special!
Challenging 'Place of thirst'
The semi-desert consists of red sand dunes, dry river beds and sparse vegetation with the occasional tree. It is said that the two "rivers" contain flowing water only once a century, and that water then quickly disappears underground. Plants and trees survive on that groundwater; animals have to make do with the little surface water and moisture from plants and prey. Kgalagadi is a challenging Place of thirst.... The Bushmen who live here bury ostrich eggs filled with water at the base of trees to survive when they pass through here again. For visitors, however, it is above all a place of unparalleled beauty, especially in the early morning and toward sunset. Then the changing sunlight conjures endless hues, the sand dunes turning from yellow to red, from bright to pastel. Meanwhile, the sky fades with it to gigantic orange and intense pink. Where the world can't find you...
