Botswana | Kalahari Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Route #1)

Today our magical adventure through the Kalahari begins.  We all settle in at our first campsite at Twee Rivieren in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.  A later afternoon game drive is options.  There is a swimming pool at Twee Rivieren for those who wish to cool off after a long drive.

Our bush chef will be preparing your first delicious meal and your evening is spent socializing around the fire and getting to know one another.

Today we all pack up and leave for Nossob Camp where we will stay for the next two nights.  On our way, we visit the Auchterlonie Museum with displays of the Park's history, stopping en route for lunch.  When we arrive at camp, our tents will be ready and waiting for us, with tea and coffee ready.  

After a delicious dinner, we will relax and chat around the fire.

After early morning coffee and rusks, and a light breakfast, you may either explore the camp environs or go further afield and do a game drive to enjoy what the park has to offer.  The waterhole at the campsite provides some entertaining moments for those who wish to remain around the camp.  Brunch will be served later in the morning.

Again, we spend the evening sharing our days adventures around the fire.

After an early rise and light breakfast, we head north, crossing the Nossob River into the Botswana section of the Transfrontier Park, heading towards the Kaa gate.  It is a beautiful day's drive through some of the most amazing dune fields and we will stop for lunch en route.  Later in the afternoon we will leave through Kaa gate, entering the community concession areas.

We will spend the next two days travelling through one of the wildest and most remote places in Southern Africa.  The roads will consist of two-spoor tracks, cutlines, and bush driving through the red Kalahari sand and savannah.  The area is renowned for its low lying pans, where giant eland, springbok, gemsbok and the famous Kalahari lions come to quench their thirst.  We will be in an area where the game has free access to wilderness more than twice the size of the Kruger National Park.  Except for the rustic vehicle tracks, there is nothing else man-made and, without light pollution, the heavenly night skies and solitude will take your breath away.

For these two nights we will be camping wild, listening to the silence and sounds of the night time wilds.

After breakfast we pack up and head for Mabuasehube and Khiding Camp, where we spend three nights on the edge of Mabua Pan where we will spend our days game viewing in an area known for lion, leopard, cheetah, honey badger and brown hyaena sightings.

Khiding the only site in all of Mabua with two toilets but there is no water at Khiding sites so our crew will provide water for use in the Mabua Shower Facilities.

After a lavish breakfast, we must sadly pack up and head for home.  We will all travel together on sandy cutlines to the little town of Tshabong where we will bid our travelling companions farewell.  From here, it is approximately 20km on a tarred road to the border post and a further 215km to Kuruman.