Botswana Kalahari
Botswana’s Central Kalahari is a vast expanse of endless skies and diverse wildlife. Following summer rains hundreds and thousands of gemsbok, springbok and wildebeest come to feed. This in turn attracts the predators such as the Black Maned Lion.
The Central Kalahari is the world’s second largest wildlife sanctuary and the largest in southern Africa. It is also home to the San Bushmen, one of the oldest cultures in Africa.
Animal species in the reserve include eland, giraffe and hartebeest.
Botswana Kalahari region
Did you know that the name “Kalahari” comes from the Tswana word “Kgala” (Kgalagadi). Meaning great thirst or a waterless place, the Kalahari is very aptly named.
The San people of southern Africa are among Africa’s most intriguing people.
Genetic evidence suggests that they are some of the earth’s most ancient people, having been around for the past 22,000 years.
These itinerant hunter-gatherer people have for ages resided in and around the Kalahari Desert.
They have amazingly defied the Kalahari’s harshness, and can even claim to have mastered it
BEST TIME TO VISIT
between November and April
MAMMALS FOUND IN THE CENTRAL KALAHARI GAME RESERVE
black maned lion, eland, giraffe, springbok, gemsbok, wildebeest. hyena
BIRD SPECIES
more than 250 species recorded
bustards, sandgrouse, cuckoos, turacos, spurfowl, nightjars, plovers, vultures, eagles
HABITATS
grassland, scrubland, savanna
