The deep Kalahari calls
The clouds above the Shell filling station in Ghanzi form white spots in the pale blue sky. Through the frame of the bakkie’s windscreen, it looks like a Windows screensaver on a home computer. It’s late afternoon and the mercury is still touching 40 ºC. But in these regions, such scorching heat is nothing unusual, because you are on the edge of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. You’re expecting it.
As is quite often the case, today’s rallying point for a drive through one of Africa’s most secluded regions is a petrol station’s parking lot. We meet Phil van Wyk and Moagi Rain Robson, our tour guides from Bhejane 4x4 Adventures. First, they offer handshakes and then distribute radios to the eight-vehicle tour group. Having stocked up on fuel and snacks, the convoy hits the road. After all, we didn’t come to waste time in a parking lot, because the entire 52 800 km2 of the world’s second largest nature reserve (a territory larger than the Netherlands) is waiting for us to explore it.
Deeper and deeper into the Kalahari
We leave and take the A3
