Nxai Pan National Park owes its name to the hook-shaped metal rod Nxai, used for digging springhares out of their underground burrows. Established in 1970, initially covering about 1,680 km² around Nxai Pan as a game reserve, the park expanded in 1992 to nearly 2,580 km², incorporating the areas around Kudiakam Pan in the south and Kgama Pan in the northeast, eventually earning its status as a national park.
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It consists of various fossil pans covered with short, nutritious grass. Isolated "acacia island" provides animals with good shade during the heat of the day, creating a unique scenery.
The area is home to both impalas and springboks — an extraordinary circumstance as both species usually inhabit different regions. They come together with gemsboks, zebras, and wildebeests in herds to the main pan to quench their thirst under the watchful eyes of the resident lions. With some luck, leopards, cheetahs, and wild dogs can also be encountered. Black-backed jackals and bat-eared foxes are plentiful, as well as various birds, including kori bustards and secretary birds.
Highlights of Nxai Pan National Park:
A true water oasis during the rainy season
Part of the longest zebra migration route in Africa
The area that houses both Impalas and Springboks
Good observation opportunities at waterholes
Home to the "Baines’ Baobab" group
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Additionally, the park lies on the migration route of thousands of zebras, moving before and after the rainy season between the Okavango Delta and Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, as well as the southern grasslands in and around the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park.
Noteworthy alongside the umbrella trees growing here are the baobab trees. The most famous collection is the Baines' Baobabs, named after the British painter and explorer Thomas Baines, who visited and painted the group of trees in December 1861.
