Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Fossil river valleys, grasslands, pans, and scrub extend across a vast protected reach of Botswana's Kalahari interior.
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Maun
Maun, North-West District, Botswana
Maun is a north-western Botswana town where the Thamalakane River, cattle country, regional transport, and the Okavango landscape meet.
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Makgadikgadi Pans National Park
Salt pans, the Boteti River, and seasonal grasslands create a landscape that changes dramatically between wet and dry periods.
Explore Place →Moremi Game Reserve
Floodplain, lagoons, mopane woodland, and dry islands form a protected landscape on the eastern side of the Okavango Delta.
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Seasonal floodwater spreads through channels, islands, and floodplains across an inland delta in the Kalahari Basin.
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Northern Botswana Safari Circuit
A route from Maun through Moremi, Khwai and Mababe to Savuti, then across northern Chobe to the riverfront and Kasane—linking delta, community, sand-track, marsh, and river geographies.
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The principal air-and-road gateway where Kalahari drylands meet the Okavango Delta.
Light aircraft, 4x4 roads, boats and mokoro transfers converge in Maun, making it a practical gateway to areas beyond a continuous road itinerary.
Maun serves the Okavango, Moremi, Makgadikgadi and Central Kalahari. Keep road, water and air transfers as distinct route modes.