Safari gateway · OriginUpington
Explore this stop →Prepare for the long Kalahari approach where fuel, water, food, and road information are readily available.
Safari Circuit
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Safari Circuit
5 ordered stops4 route legsSouth Africa & Botswana
Travel from Upington to the shared Twee Rivieren/Two Rivers entrance, follow the dry Nossob valley north, and use the documented four-wheel-drive route through Bosobogolo to Mabuasehube before exiting toward Tsabong.
Wildlife highlights
Lion
Signature
Cheetah
Signature
Gemsbok
Signature
Springbok
Signature
Brown Hyena
Signature
Leopard
Common
Hyena
Common
Wildebeest
Common
Seasonal
Wildebeest — seasonal: Distribution and concentrations are seasonal.
Follow the Circuit on the mapThe map keeps road and track stages distinct, with gateway towns and Safari Places clearly marked.
Road / trackSafari PlaceGateway Home Base
The Circuit, stop by stop
Open each park or gateway for its wildlife, seasonality, access, and nearby Safari geography.
Safari Place · TransferTwee Rivieren / Two Rivers Gate
Explore this stop →Enter the park and complete any passport procedures required for the planned Botswana exit.
Safari Place · Place / visitKgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Explore this stop →Follow the dry Nossob valley at park speeds, allowing most of a day for this internal move.
Safari Place · Place / visitMabuasehube Area
Explore this stop →Use the remote Nossob-Bosobogolo four-wheel-drive access and continue into the Mabuasehube pan country.
Safari gateway · DestinationTsabong
Explore this stop →Leave through Mabuasehube Gate and return to a Botswana-side service town.
How the route joins up
Travel times and access inside protected areas vary with weather, water, park rules, and track conditions. Confirm current guidance locally.
Upington → Twee Rivieren / Two Rivers Gate
Follow the surfaced northern approach to the park and arrive before reception and border facilities close.
Twee Rivieren / Two Rivers Gate → Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Use the Nossob river road and official park travel times; wildlife stops and sand can extend the day.
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park → Mabuasehube Area
This is a remote four-wheel-drive wilderness stage with controlled capacity, scarce services, and no ordinary-road shortcut.
Mabuasehube Area → Tsabong
Leave the pan area through Mabuasehube Gate, then continue on the remote district road to Tsabong.
Related Safari Circuits
Compare this compact route with connected Safari geographies across the region.
Addo & Eastern Cape Safari Circuit
Travel from Gqeberha through Paterson to Addo Main Camp, cross the main game area on the park's visitor road, and finish at Matyholweni beside Colchester and the lower Sundays River.
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Travel north from Durban into the Elephant Coast, moving from St Lucia's estuary and iSimangaliso wetlands to Hluhluwe-iMfolozi's rhino country, Sodwana Bay's coral coast, Tembe's sand forest, and the linked lakes of Kosi Bay.
Follow this Safari Circuit →Great Limpopo Transfrontier Safari Circuit
Follow the real Great Limpopo geography from Phalaborwa and Kruger's Letaba region through Giriyondo to Limpopo National Park and Massingir, then make the long external-road transfer through Mozambique to Sango and Gonarezhou's Mabalauta sector.
Follow this Safari Circuit →Kruger & Lowveld Safari Circuit
Travel east from the Highveld into Mpumalanga's Lowveld, climb the western escarpment to Blyde River Canyon, descend through Graskop and Hazyview, and enter Kruger at Skukuza. A visit to Sabi Sand can be added as a nearby extension.
Follow this Safari Circuit →Safari landscape and people
Conservation, communities, land use, and history matter here when they directly explain the wildlife landscape and the journey through it.
Kgalagadi and Khoe-speaking histories, former borehole farms, and the later transfrontier agreement belong to the same landscape as the riverbeds and wildlife movements.
Explore this Safari Place →The place name, regional settlement history, and dryland livelihoods connect the protected pans with the wider Kgalagadi District.
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