Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The Tswana call this the Kgalagadi: Land of Thirst. And this is indeed dry, parched
country. By some accounts, the Kalahari has the largest volume of sand of any desert on
earth. Such statistics can be misleading - this is no desert of rolling sand dunes. But this is
undoubtedly a land painted by a sand palette: blood and mud reds and bleached bone yel-
low; dust that bites you back as you taste it in the morning. But come the nights, this hard
end of the colour wheel shifts into its cooler, sometimes white-cold shades: indigo nights
