Makgadikgadi. The largest salt-flats on Earth. Mike Main and Andrew St Pierre White
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- The Makgadikgadi Pans is a series of salt pans situated in the middle of the dry savanna of north-eastern Botswana, is one of the largest salt flats in the world. The pan is all that remains of the formerly enormous Lake Makgadikgadi, which once covered an area larger than Switzerland, but dried up several thousand years ago.
Lying southeast of the Okavango Delta in Botswana, and surrounded by the Kalahari Desert, Makgadikgadi is technically not a single pan but many pans with sandy desert in between, the largest being Sua (Sowa), Nwetwe and Nxai Pans. The largest individual pan is about 1,900 sq mi (4,921.0 km2). In comparison, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is a single salt flat of 4,100 sq mi (10,619.0 km2), rarely has much water, and is generally claimed to be the world's largest salt pan. A dry salty clay crust most of the year, the pans are seasonally covered with water and grass, and are then a refuge for birds and animals in this very arid part of the world. The climate is hot and dry but with regular annual rains.
Kalahari expert Mike Main explores the area with overland explorer, Andrew St Pierre White. This film was made in 2006.
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I am loving watching these old ones with Mike.
This is easily amongst your best work, the use of antiquated cameras by 2017 standards notwithstanding! Please bring back Mike Main in your current or future work Andrew.
Gosh, this is interesting Andrew. Really enjoyed it.
Lovely
Mike thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks to Andrew. Lovely.
What a fantastic video.
Fascinating journey and archaeological information!
Mark Main is a gem
Thank you. Tremendous knowledge and learning everyday.
Beautiful video and narration! Thanks. 🖐👏🇧🇼
This was made for television in South Africa in 2006.
Really great landscapes, and a very good video.
I thoroughly enjoyed this vid thanks...
Hi Andrew, good work, do not stop, amazing. As a motswana in South Africa , it would have been interesting to hear what
The older generation would say about the Island. I guarantee you, you will get more. Well done 👏👏
What a wonderful insight into an amazing area, thank you for your efforts, cheers.
25 minutes of incredible-ness.
simply stunning
i enjoyed this much but wish you had shown the camping and cooking every evening you were out there.
Lovely video, hugely entertaining. Very good to see an NP registration from my old home town too.. Don't see any in the Cotswold's :(
still one of my favorite vids
Dont' know if this is new or old, but I enjoyed it and I hope you make more
Great insights Andrew, lost count of how many times I have watched this video. Where can Mr Main be found?
thank you
Oh. "Makgadikgadi". Whenever you've previously talked about "the muckcaddycaddy" I've imagined the name to be spelled quite differently :D
Yeah nobody should google that.
My Country...awesome
The days when it was more of the adventure and less of the gear
Amazing. Loved this video. Are you allowed to drive across the pans. Sorry I don't know hence the question
Very cool.
Was this drive from Kubu Island to Gweta?
Hello Andrew, another great video! Can you tell me what those tree are with the fat bases and approximately how old they are?
Some are as old a 2000 years.They are called Africa Baobab (Adansonia digitata)
Clarkson!
Fabulous. Id like to see you do an archeological expedition in Australia like this. There seems such a link between us and Africa
good video - apart from the obvious typo in the description "gkadi" pressed twice :)
+NoChallenge its spelt makgadikgadi , its in my country
Beautiful. Almost enough evidence to make one think the Earth might be flat. ;-)
Top Gear were the first to drive across it
I first explored the area almost 20 years before Top Gear did their trip. They used a map I published!
@@4xoverland that actually makes a lot more sense
@@4xoverland please visit Salt Desert of Rann of Kutch in Gujrat , India 🙏
I wonder about the quality of this salt? Does this salt have 84 good quality minerals?
This salt is not extracted. There is a mine on the northern part of Sowa Pan that extracts soda ash for glass making.
@@4xoverland thank you for your response. 🙏