Central Kalahari
Arid playground for big cats and plains game
Words can barely capture the untamed beauty of the Central Kalahari - Southern Africa’s largest and most remote wildlife reserve. Fossil riverbeds carve through an arid landscape that transforms with each season, revealing hidden life in unexpected ways. For the wild at heart, it’s a playground of rugged 4x4 tracks, remote wilderness camps, and an epic route between Khutse and CKGR.
The southern block of the park is named Khutse Game Reserve. The name means "a place where one kneels to drink" in Sekwena, the local dialect of Setswana. It is a vast area of Kalahari scrub with camps clustered around seasonal pans. For those seeking solitude and quiet, Khutse is a rugged, wild yet tranquil place to set up camp and relax.
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Our Expert Opinion
The CKGR is a place that brings you to an abrupt standstill. It creates the illusion that you are not a tourist looking in on a destination, but that you are immersed in the landscape. The scale of the natural landscape engulfs you to live right in the presence... moment by exciting moment. It is untouched by the heavy controlling hand of humanity, and the natural cycles and ecological webs play out at an ancient pace. The vastness supports large herds of antelope, finding safety in numbers as the healthy population of predators go about their business in bursts of energy.
Nocturnal animals make the nights spent in the remote camps exciting and sound travels very far. Birdlife abounds and the ancient geological foundations provide for a wide variety of fauna and flora. The cloud- and star-scapes remain with you long after your return to "civilization", and your heartbeat slows inevitably as you experience flashbacks of silence, wildness, tranquility and raw beauty.
