Nxai Pan National Park
Nxai Pan National Park, a 2,578 km² extension of the ancient Makgadikgadi super-lake, is where the Kalahari whispers secrets beneath upside-down trees. Famous for **Baines’ Baobabs** – seven colossal giants painted by Thomas Baines in 1862 and looking exactly the same today – this is Botswana’s surreal salt-pan paradise. With Serene Tours, Nxai Pan isn’t a detour. It’s a soul-stirring revelation.
Why Nxai Pan with Serene Tours?
- Ultra-Exclusive Mobile Camps: We pitch luxury tents right on the pans’ edge or under the baobabs themselves (special permit only we hold). Wake to springbok pronking across endless white horizons.
- Zebra & Wildebeest Migration: From December–April, witness Africa’s second-largest migration – 30,000 zebras thundering in with newborns, followed by cheetahs and lions.
- Fossil Pans & Star Beds: Sleep on raised platforms under the Milky Way so bright you’ll read by it. No light pollution – just you and the Southern Cross.
- Desert-Adapted Masters: Our guides are Kalahari Bushmen descendants who track bat-eared foxes through fossil dunes like their ancestors did 40,000 years ago.
Serene Tours’ Secret Nxai Pan Wonders
- Baines’ Baobabs – Private sunrise picnic among the seven sisters; watch the pans turn pink while cheetahs stretch on termite mounds.
- Kudiakam Pan – Mirror-like salt flat after summer rains; photograph reflections that make baobabs float upside-down.
- Big Pan Loop – Oryx with 1.5 m horns silhouetted against infinity; brown hyena dens at dusk.
- Fossil Dune Ridge – Walk ancient lake shores where 200,000-year-old stone tools still lie scattered.