Southern Africa
Botswana
The top 5 natural landmarks of Botswana — real photos, locations and fascinating facts for every wonder.
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WetlandsOkavango Delta
northern Botswana
The Okavango Delta or Okavango Grassland is a vast inland delta in Botswana formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough at an elevation of 930–1,000 m (3,050–3,280 ft) in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari Desert.
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A river that vanishes into the Kalahari as a vast inland delta.
DesertsMakgadikgadi Pan
north-central Botswana
The Makgadikgadi Pan is a salt pan situated in the middle of the dry savanna of north-eastern 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 tens of thousands of years ago.
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One of the largest salt flats on Earth, a dry ancient lakebed.
GrasslandsChobe
northern Botswana
Chobe National Park is Botswana's first national park, and also its most biologically diverse. The park contains the wetlands of the Chobe River, which flows into Victoria Falls and the Zambezi to the East.
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Riverfront plains holding one of Africa's largest elephant populations.
RocksTsodilo
northwest Botswana
The Tsodilo Hills are a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS), consisting of rock art, rock shelters, depressions, and caves in Botswana, Southern Africa.
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Quartzite hills rising from the Kalahari, the 'Louvre of the Desert'.
DesertsCentral Kalahari
central Botswana
Central Kalahari Game Reserve is an extensive national park in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana. Established in 1961 it covers an area of 52,800 square kilometres (20,400 mi2), making it the second largest game reserve in the world.
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A huge, remote reserve of desert grass and ancient riverbeds.