"Makgadikgadi Pans Planet Baobab"
Makgadikgadi Pans Planet Baobab Botswana.
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In the wet season, this vast area of salt pans interspersed with low-lying grass islands is the destination of herds of migrating zebra. It has an unspoilt beauty unlike any other part of Africa.
At PB, you can sleep in traditionally styled Bakalanga huts with en suite showers, curl up in a Bushmen hut complete in every detail, pitch your tent, or park your 4 x 4. You can light your 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.
Base yourself here and you can take guided walks and quad bike trips into the bush and the Pans with our 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 were the region’s first inhabitants.
Meals are taken in the adjacent dining area under the spreading branches of a morula tree.
Activities from Planet Baobab are by 4x4 Game viewing vehicles, 4x4 Quad motorcycles - the only way to explore the vast nothingness of the Makgadikgadi in an ecologically sensitive way and walking safaris accompanied by a guide who will explain the environment and the traditional uses of the plants and animals
The Makgadikgadi is an
ever changing spectacle happening before your eyes. From the
life giving rain thundering from the heavens in summer, bringing life
to the countless species of animal and plant life upon the plains, to
the contrast of the winter with its dancing clouds and crystal night
skies.
PLANET BAOBAB SPECIAL.
2 Nights / 3 days - Total cost per person: US$566.00
Valid 15 April until 31 October 2008
Included:
· Road transfer from Maun to Planet Baobab
· 2 Night at Planet Baobab (one night in a Bakalanga Mud Hut and one night camping out under the stars)
· Baobab Bush walk and sundowner drinks
· Village visit, cattle-post visit with traditional lunch
· Quad bike activity and overnight trip to Ntwetwe Pan
· Visit to see the meerkats
· All meals and park fees
· Road transfer from Planet Baobab to Maun
Excluded:
· Drinks
· Additional activities
· Visas and travel insurance
· Gratuities and items of a personal nature.
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3 Nights / 4 days - Total cost per person: US$752.00
Valid 15 April until 31 October 2008
Included:
· Road transfer from Gweta to Planet Baobab
· 3 Night at Planet Baobab (first and last nights in a Bakalanga Mud Hut, middle night camping out under the stars)
· Baobab Bush walk and sundowner drinks
· Village visit, cattle-post visit with traditional lunch
· Quad bike activity and overnight trip to Ntwetwe Pan
· Visit to see the meerkats
· Nxai Xini Pan visit with picnic lunch
· All meals and park fees
· Road transfer from Planet Baobab to Gweta
Excluded:
· Drinks
· Additional activities
· Visas and travel insurance
· Gratuities and items of a personal nature.
“Planet Baobab” the Baobab capital of the world and home
of the Kalahari Surf Club!
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 your
pleasure, a well known watering hole for travellers of every
description and the more colourful 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 travellers 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.
Base yourself here and you can take guided walks and quad
bike trips into the bush and the Pans with our 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 were the region’s first
inhabitants.
Experience the world of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency:
Learn the African handshake from the Batswana in the cattle posts and
villages near to Planet Baobab and discover how Botswana continues to
be one of the most successful and interesting societies in Southern
Africa.
Enjoy a cuppa of Mma Ramotse’s famous red bush tea with the grande
dames of Gweta and, if you are really adventurous... sample some
sizzling 100% organic traditional sorghum beer... mmmmmmm!
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.
In a continent that is full of surprises, and a place that is full of nothing, Planet Baobab is really something
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Uplift
your soul in the Makgadikgadi Pans. To be able to sleep under
the stars and open sky in the Makgadikgadi Pans is a treat
for the soul. The seemingly endless space in every direction
makes one feel that this is the center of the universe. The
silence is significant. The stars are awesome, and at full moon
one gets the feeling of actually visiting on the moon.
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