Along the cracked and crop-less landscape on the road between Maun and Francistown , a side road demarcated by a large anteater leads to the intriguingly named “Planet Baobab”.
The funkiest bar in the Kalahari awaits your pleasure, a well known watering hole for travellers of every description At Planet Baobab, you can sleep in traditionally styled Bakalanga huts with en suite showers, curl up in a Bushmen hut complete in every detail, pitch your tent or park your 4 x 4.
Guided walks and quad bike trips into the bush and the Pans with expert guides discovering the geological origins of what was once the world's largest ever super lake.
Nxai Xini : Follow the palm trail created by elephant droppings as these ancient creatures trekked across the arid waste when the super lake dried up. Pick up, (and replace!), thousand year old flint spear heads left by the Stone Age hunters who were the region’s first inhabitants.
Village tour Gweta (population 2000, anonymous source 1967) to experience modern African rural culture. Visit the local primary school and the outdoor village 'courthouse', the kgotla, the hub of traditional village life. If you are lucky, witness the mixing of aphrodisiac droppings and roots at the Traditional Healer's joint. Round this off with a traditional lunch of mealie meal and ground beef and wash that down with a warm bowl of traditional sorghum beer.
Meerkat Manor : observie the captivating antics of the meerkat gangs resident in the area
Best of all, if you are very lucky, you can overnight on the Pans under the most spectacular night skies in the world, enjoying a barbecue of a lifetime
