The Makgadikgadi pan is a salt pan situated in the middle of the dry savanna of north-eastern (on the south of the Maun-Nata road and it is bordered by Nxai Pan) Botswana, is one of the largest salt flats in the world. The pan is all that remains of the formerly enormous Lake Makgadikgadi, which once covered an area larger than Switzerland, but dried up several thousand years ago. The Makgadikgadi is approximately 12000 km2. Hundreds of herds of blue wildebeest, Zebras, Springbok, Gemsbok and thousands of flamingos can be seen here.

NXAI PAN

Nxai Pan National Park is a national park in north-eastern Botswana, consisting of Nxai Pan, which is one of the Makgadikgadi Pan salt flats. Nxai Pan National Park lies just north of the Maun-Nata main road and adjoins the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park on its northern border.

The pan itself is a fossil lakebed about 40 square km in size. Sometimes the Nxai is covered by grass by grass during the raining season. Lions, Southern Giraffe, Elephants and many other wildlife including birds can be seen here and also the Thomas Baines is in the Nxai Pan.