Planet Baobab Expeditions

This accessibly priced and family friendly safari takes you into the magnificent Kalahari Desert and Makgadikgadi Pans. Shaded by enormous and ancient baobab trees is a traditionally styled Kalanga village. Planet Baobab boasts tradtional huts, a funky bar and restaurant, Kalahari's largest swimming pool and access to the boundless salt pans of the Makgadikgadi and an incredible array of wildlife.

At PB, you can sleep in traditionally styled Bakalanga huts with en-suite showers, curl up in a Bushmen hut complete in every detail, pitch your tent, or park your 4 x 4. You can light your own campfire, or gather round the communal blaze in the lelwapa and enjoy a cool drink, then sling your own boerewors onto the fire or enjoy PB's unique Pan-African cuisine.

Thankfully, the funkiest bar in the Kalahari awaits your pleasure, a well known watering hole for travellers of every description and the more colorful characters from Maun. At any one time, locals jostle the cross-continentals who have slogged it through the bush, and worse, to get here. Just a stone's throw from all this beer and bustle is the elephant's paddling pool.

When it comes to ablutions, this oasis comes to its own. In addition to sluicing off the dust of the Kalahari highways with enough hot water for Africa, these are the most original shower blocks and bathrooms on the continent.

Base yourself here and you can take guided walks and quad bike trips into the bush and the Pans with our expert Guides discovering the geological origins of what was once the world's largest ever super lake.