Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR)

The Central Kalahari Game Reserve is located exactly in the centre of Botswana and covers an area of 52,800 km2. It is the second largest protected game reserve in the world with irregular and light rainfall varying from 170 to 700 mm per year. The Reserve was set up in 1961 and rather than to protect endangered wildlife, its aim was to protect the nomadic San people (commonly referred to as Bushmen) by providing them with a home in their natural surroundings to preserve their way or life and survival.

This remote part of Africa is mainly made up of vast open plains, golden grasslands, saltpans, sand dunes and fossil rivers meandering through the barren reserve. A variety of trees and shrubs that have adapted to the dry climate are found with the Central Kalahari Game Reserve primarily the Kalahari apple, camel thorn and a few solitary mopane trees dotted in the open grasslands.

Majority of the wildlife is concentrated in the northern half of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and provides for wondrous game watching. The vastness, wide open spaces and wilderness make it an excellent destination for the avid traveller, providing intense isolation in this vast reserve.