Makgadikgadi Pans

The Scots find this easier to pronounce than the English; kg is pronounced 'ch' as in loch.

More salt pans that can be seen from outer space and best visited early in the day,

as there is no place to hide from the sun.  There are wildebeest grazing quite freely because there are no big cats here as the water is too brackish for them, but there are plenty of birds and jackal.

Little birds like this sitting on a nest.

And big birds like this

who kindly moved off the nest so that we could see what he was up to.

Then there was the spectacular in the form of the Crowned Crane,

and the more compact Bee Eater,

not to mention the crowds of flamingoes.