A JOURNEY into the wonder of nowhere
Stood upon one of the largest salt flats in the world, what is life like here? Our Travel Editor Dan Carter finds out in Botswana.
words and photos: Dan Carter
I wouldn’t survive 24 hours alone in the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans. An arid expanse of cracked, parched earth, broken up by long dense straw-like grasses, the perfect camouf lage for a hungry lioness. A vast nothingness, stripped of its colour millions of years ago when Lake Makgadikgadi was cut off from the river and slowly dried up, leaving nothing but a harsh sprawl of brown and beige with little to no sign of water from east to west. This is Makgadikgadi, one of the largest salt pans in the world.
Camp Kalahari