{"id":21902,"date":"2024-05-10T10:41:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T08:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/central-kalahari-game-reserve\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T10:41:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T08:41:50","slug":"central-kalahari-game-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onwheels.travel\/en\/central-kalahari-game-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Kalahari Game Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excursion with expedition character<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The CKGR – Central Kalahari Game Reserve – covers 52,000 km2 and is therefore 1 1\/4 times the size of Switzerland. As the name suggests, it is located in the Kalahari Basin and is one of the few remaining large retreat areas. The Kalahari is not a desert but belongs to the semi-arid zones with about 200mm of rain per year.<\/p>\n

In our travel guide to Botswana from Reise Know How Verlag, it says that a trip to the Central Kalahari has an “expedition character”. This is certainly correct and one should not travel to the Central Kalahari unprepared. However, anyone expecting to be completely alone could be disappointed.<\/strong> In the Deception and Passarge Valley areas in particular, you can expect to encounter not only animals but also “humans”.<\/p>\n

One more thing: if you’re afraid your vehicle might get scratched, you’d better not drive into the Central Kalahari<\/strong>. Since our visit to the CKGR, we know what it means when someone says “he’s going into the bush”. It’s hard to imagine such a thicket of bushes in Europe. Not enough, many bushes are equipped with strong thorns and when you drive through them, it scratches and squeaks so violently and unpleasantly that you soon don’t want to hear it at all. Since then, our Sprinter – especially the painted body – has had a thorny bush-savannah patina, i.e. it is completely scratched.<\/p>\n

Further information in the article “Info-Central Kalahari Game Reserve”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

With great respect<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

On 17 April 2016, we drive the 45 km from Rakops, the “last outpost of civilization”, to the Matswere entrance gate of the game reserve. We have great respect for this stage of the journey. On the one hand, because we imagine the condition of the roads to be catastrophic, on the other hand because we are still not familiar enough with the performance of the 4×4 Sprinter. We have not yet filled up our service water reserves, but there should be good water from a borehole at the Matswere entrance gate.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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