Makgadikgadi Pans National Park is a surreal, otherworldly expanse of ancient salt flats covering 4,900 km² in northeastern Botswana – remnants of a super-lake that once spanned 80,000 km² and dried up 10,000 years ago. Part of the larger Makgadikgadi ecosystem (including Nxai Pan NP), it transforms dramatically: bone-dry white pans in winter, lush green grasslands in summer, and shimmering mirror lakes during floods.Famous for the second-largest zebra migration in Africa (~25,000 animals), meerkat colonies, and Kubu Island – a sacred baobab-dotted granite outcrop – it's a UNESCO tentative site blending desert, savanna, and archaeology.