PLANET BAOBAB
Magadikgadi Pans
Botswana

Introduction

Along the cracked and crop-less landscape on the road bettheyen Maun and Francistown, where elephants tear up any tree that dares to raise its head, a large grey hulk looms into sight at the edge of the road. If this is an elephant it is a very peculiar one! As the eyes recognise a giant anteater, the brain begins to wonder what might have been in that last beer? But, follow the side road pointed out by that anteater snout and you will discover the intriguingly named “Planet Baobab”. they welcome you to the Baobab capital of the world and home of the Kalahari Surf Club!

Camp Description

The average age of each tree; 4000 years and beyond, the boundless salt pans of the Makgadikgadi, a lunar landscape the size of Switzerland.
Thankfully, the funkiest bar in the Kalahari awaits their pleasure, a they will known watering hole for travelers of every description and the more colorfull characters from Maun. At any one
time, locals jostle the cross-continentals who have slogged it through the bush, and worse, to get here. Just a stone's throw from all this beer and bustle is the elephant's paddling pool.
Oblivious to Guests crouching in the nearby trees, the elephants and travelers mostly ignore each other.
At Planet Baobab, you can sleep in traditionally styled Bakalanga huts with en suite showers, curl up in a Bushmen hut complete in every detail.
You can light they own camp fire, or gather round the communal blaze in the lelwapa and enjoy a cool drink, then sling your own boerewors onto the fire or enjoy Planet Baobab's unique Pan-African
cuisine.
When it comes to ablutions, this oasis comes to its own. In addition to sluicing off the dust of the Kalahari highways with enough hot water for Africa, these are the most original shower blocks and bathrooms on the continent.

Game Viewing

Base yourself here and you can take guided walks and quad bike trips into the bush and the Pans with they expert Guides discovering the geological origins of what was once the world's largest ever super lake. Follow the palm trail created by elephant droppings as these ancient creatures trekked across the arid waste when the super lake dried up. Pick up, (and replace!), thousand year old flint spear heads left by the Stone Age hunters who there the region' s first inhabitants. and villages near to Planet Baobab and discover how Botswana continues to be one of the most successful and interesting societies in Southern Africa. At every stage and at every turn of this voyage you will hear traveller' s tales from guides and companions who know and love this place. Best of all, if you are very lucky, you can overnight on the Pans under the most spectacular night skies in the world, enjoying a barbecue of a lifetime. Curl up under a canopy of stars.