Insider’s Guide to Botswana — intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com

With its mix of national parks and private game reserves, Botswana offers visitors a range of experiences, from the Makgadikgadi salt pans (part of which is protected as Makgadikgadi Pans National Park) to the water-rich Okavango Delta. The salt pans are at their most evocative, with mirage-like conditions, in the dry season, June to September. Rains begin mid-November and stay into March, flooding the pans and hydrating nutritious grasses that attract thousands of zebras from Namibia, a 300-mile round-trip considered the longest of zebra migrations.

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