| Awesome Kgalagadi. I do recommend you visit the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, but you need time. We took our time and we saw so much! Our advice to you is to stay as long as you can! When we go back we plan to stay for at least a week, but let me tell you in the two nights we were there we had 10 different sightings of Africa Wild cat, saw loads of springbok, gemsbok, steenbok, two herds of Eland, had awesome sightings of birds especially the Korri Bustard and another - my memory loss - oops, many birds of prey especially the pale chanting goshawk, we saw 4 honey badgers, "Vluit rotte", many many jackal, leopard, the remains of a lion kill - we apparently missed them by 10 minutes, zebra, the list goes on…When the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa (proclaimed in 1931) and the Gemsbok National Park in Botswana joined to form the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park a huge conservations area of more than 3,6 million hectares was created making it one of the very few conservation areas of this magnitude left in the world. It may be hot and dry, but it is also spectacular – each visitor seeing something in it that is special to them. It may be the frieze of a bateleur emblazoned against a magenta sunset; a family of meerkats scoping the landscape from their burrow; the broiling cloud of dust enveloping a pronking springbok; or simply being part of something wonderfully elemental – a place to recharge tired nerves. Red sand dunes, sparse vegetation and the dry riverbeds of the Nossob and Auob show antelope and predator species off to spectacular advantage and provide excellent photographic opportunities. Kgalagadi is also a haven for birders, especially those interested in birds of prey The roads in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park are not sedan friendly, although the roads are maintained on a monthly basis, sedan vehicles find it difficult to cope with the conditions, we ravelled in a 2X4 bakkie and missed out on some for the less frequented 4X4 routes, so if you would like to make the most of your visit you should join a guided tour or have your own 4X4 vehicle. This is one of my favourites sites in the Northern Cape. |
