The Makgadikgadi Pan is a large salt pan in the middle of the dry savanna of northeastern Botswana. It 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. Makgadikgadi is technically not a single pan but many pans with sandy desert in between, the largest being the Sua, Nwetwe and Nxai Pans.The prominent baobab trees found in the area function as local landmarks. In Nxai Pan you can still see the baobabs painted by 19th century British artist Thomas Baines.
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