Makgadikgadi Pans

The Makgadikgadi Pans form one of the largest salt pans in the world, an ancient lake bed covering more than 12,000 square kilometres of flat, featureless white that extends beyond the horizon. During the brief summer rains the pan surface floods shallowly, drawing tens of thousands of flamingos and drawing vast wildebeest and zebra migrations across the surrounding grasslands. In the dry season the bleached salt surface offers extraordinary photography under vast open skies.