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The Makgadikgadi Pans - Safari Information

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 7:48 am
by come-along.nl
"Botswana's great Sua and Ntwetwe Pans collectively comprise the 12,000 sq km Makgadikgadi Pans. The grassy Makgadikgadi Pans National Park includes only a portion of Ntwetwe Pan. These landscapes are like no other on earth; especially in the sizzling heat of late winter, the stark pans take on a disorienting and ethereal austerity. Heat mirages destroy all sense of space or direction, imaginary lakes shimmer and disappear, ostriches fly, and stones turn to mountains and float in mid-air. These are just tricks that the heat waves cause our eyes to imagine"

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