The Makgadikgadi Pans National Park is located in Northern Botswana. The Makgadikgadi Pans are the residue of a great lake that once covered much of northern Botswana, fed by rivers carrying salts leached from the lake's catchment area. Because the basin had no outlet, the salts were concentrated in low lying areas. Less than 10,000 years ago, climactic changes caused the lake to evaporate, leaving only salt deposits.

Today, Makgadikgadi is not always dry. The pans, which are situated in the south, east and northeastern areas of the park, fill with water during the rains from mid-November and mostly retain their water into April or May. The "thirstlands" are then transformed into great sheets of water, which attract a spectacular array of waterbirds and trigger dramatic migrations of wildebeest and zebra. It is unfortunate that this huge water spectacle becomes practically inaccessible by road at this time, but anyone fortunate enough to fly over the area during the wet season sees a water wonderland of incredible scenic beauty.

Nxai Pan National park is set on the northern fringe of the Makgadikgadi basin and includes Nxai Pan, an ancient lakebed. Nxai Pan National Park consists mainly of a series of fossil pans, all of which are covered in short nutritious grasses. The area is the breeding ground for large herds of zebra, wildebeest, gemsbok, and eland. Unusual game species that can be seen here are the hartebeest, bat-eared fox, brown hyena, and cheetah.

The focal point of Nxai Pan is the water hole. While many parks are not considered to be at their best during the rains, Nxai Pan becomes a veritable Garden of Eden during the rainy season. The pans provide excellent grazing, particularly for the springbok, which is almost always abundant in this area. The game viewing can be rather unpredictable in Nxai Pan during the dry season. However, once the rains have started, gemsbok, elephant and zebra migrate to the area. Zebra flock to the pans in thousands to breed. This combined with the multitude of young springbok being reared in the Pans, lends itself to spectacular game-viewing.

Transfrontier parks, border are protected areas that straddle international boundaries. The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is such a protected area in the southern Kalahari Desert. The park straddles the border between South Africa and Botswana.

The park offers a majestic and infinite desert landscape with migrating herds of wildebeest, gemsbok, springbok and eland. It is especially renowned for predator watching and for the seasonal movement of large herbivores such as blue wildebeest, springbok, eland and red hartebeest. Cunning predators like lion, cheetah and leopard abound. Endless red dunes with unique flora and a divers ecology draws the visitor to this red jewel of the Kalahari Desert.

Moremi Game Reserve was hunted by the Bushman 10,000 years ago and covers 4871 km2. Moremi is known as one of the most beautiful reserves in Africa. It has a combination of mopane Woodlands, forests, floodplains and lagoons. Moremi is well known for its variety of plant and animal life. There you will see elephants, buffalo, giraffe, jackal and red lechwe. The wild dog is seen regularly and wears collars placed by researchers since they are becoming few in number. The Moremi area has thirty percent of all living wild dogs to date.

Peak season for game viewing is in the dry season from July to October. The winter months of May to August are cold at night, but comfortably warm during the day. From October until the rains end in late November early December, it can be extremely hot both day and night.