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Nxai Pan National Park

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Nxai Pan National Park
Nxai Pan National Park. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Nxai Pan National Park is a national park in north-eastern Botswana, consisting of Nxai Pan, which is one of the Makgadikgadi Pan salt flats. Nxai Pan National Park lies just north of the Maun-Nata main road and adjoins Makgadikgadi Pans National Park on its northern border. The pan itself is a fossil lake bed of approximately 40 km2 in size.

It is home to the cluster of millennia-old baobab trees, which owe their name to Thomas Baines, who first described them for Western botany. Baines’ Baobabs, as they are known today, are a sight sought by many travelers venturing into this untamed terrain of Botswana.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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