The Kalahari, the Land of Thirst, is one of Africa’s most epic places. This is the largest unbroken stretch of sand on the planet (sand covers only one-ninth of the Sahara), and its arid veld, salt pans and fossilised river valleys cover Botswana as well as large swathes of Namibia and South Africa: the broader Kalahari Basin extends into Zimbabwe and Zambia. But it is Botswana that is the Kalahari’s true heartland with the desert consuming up to 85% of the country. Here are 10 corners of the Kalahari that prove there is far more life and diversity to the area than is normally associated with the word “desert.”

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