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Visiting Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana


The world's second largest game reserve, the 20,000-plus square mile Central Kalahari is bigger than Denmark or Switzerland. Teeming with wildlife, the park's terrain ranges from sand dunes in the north to bushy plains in the middle to more heavily wooded areas in the south. Home to the people known widely as Bushmen (but more accurately called Basarwa or San) for thousands of years, the reserve was actually opened in 1961 to protect them, but forced migration has left only about 250 here.
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Haina Safari Lodge

4 of 5 stars
Rome, Italy
Sep 13, 2009

Very nice place, the Owners are very kind and are careful to guests's needs. The luxury safari tents are well furnished, and the meals are fantastic!!! The idea to have meals all together it's good...more

Haina Safari Lodge

Jun 10, 2009

Haina Lodge is in the Kalahari Desert so the experience here is much different than the other game parks. There aren't any elephants here but there are plenty of lions, antelope, birds. Our hosts,...more

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