Exploring Nxai Pans National Park Botswana

[@irisbreeman1081]

Your account takes me back to beloved Botswana every time! Thank you for taking the time to share this with us, the less priviliged, who don’t live in Maun! ;-)

[@exploringbotswana]

we love making these videos!!

[@DENNISMAKARA]

Epic video guys,thanks for sharing and showing us other camp sites looking forward to the next one.

[@exploringbotswana]

😊😊😊 thanks for watching!! You guys are the best!

[@robmelville9834]

Great to be travelling with you again - many happy memories of Nxai Pan. Videos looking good, new camera or new skills? Skinny tyres 👍, baked beans 👎. Made it to the end, looking forward to October.

[@exploringbotswana]

Hey, thanks for watching.......it was a long one!! skinny tires for the win, looking forward to October too. Camera same, slowly learning to use it better.....sometimes😂

[@Africanbushman]

Awesome video as always. Can't wait for the next one.

[@exploringbotswana]

Thank you, we really had fun making it, and are looking forward to the next one, which is to khwai at the end of April,.........then in may we will have a big trip to Savuti, which we so excited about. thanks for watching

[@sandneurosen]

Nxai, our favorit! 😊

[@exploringbotswana]

It’s quietly becoming ours too. It’s easy and nice! We like it a lot

[@yapluka64]

great video! A mechanic once told me "big tires big troubles". I love the simplicity of your overlanding life. I have to head back there.Thanks for sharing

[@exploringbotswana]

You really need to plan a trip!! So true big tires bigger problems 💯

[@yapluka64]

@@exploringbotswana in the planing, 2026 😉

[@simondejong7097]

I cried laughing when I saw my bright yellow trailer in your video. Had to rewind and watch a few times! Pity that we missed you. Like someone else said, I really enjoy your videos as opposed to the various others - they feel a lot more real! Great work 👊

[@exploringbotswana]

Haha, I had to go back and find the clip! Can’t believe we missed you. How was your trip? Did you have some good sightings? Also thanks for watching 🙏🙏

[@abotsheole7315]

Love it! Nxai is quite special 😊

[@exploringbotswana]

It is an awesome place to explore!!

[@abotsheole7315]

@abotsheole

[@drup2013]

Epic video, narrated in your own unique way. Have to say I admire your bravery for using a ground tent in Nxai Pan, with lions and buffalos in the neighborhood. I have beautiful memories of the Nxai Pan, especially 2015 when we almost witnessed a giraffe hunt, only came towards the end when the giraffe was down.. Beautiful place.. I have learnt to same lesson, the bushes offer nothing rather stay on the plains..

[@exploringbotswana]

Hey, thanks for watching, I love the ground tent, it makes it easier to have an early start, and I kinda like hearing the animals sniffing around at night 😂 sounds like you had an amazing sighting, I have never seen lions make a kill…..one day hopefully 🙏 it is true the open plains are the best.

[@dilipkakkad2260]

Hello Garreth Thank you for the beautiful video on Nxai Pans. Your advice and comments are much appreciated. What grocery store in Maun do you recommend. Any other safety tips on night camping. Thank you.

[@exploringbotswana]

Hey, thanks for your support, so glad you enjoyed the video, Spar in Maun is good, the big spar and the spar by Woolworths. Delta meat deli and beef boys are great for meat. Safety tips, Always keep your tents closed it stops bugs and snakes and other things out, even if you just around camp keep your tent zipped. Get a powerful flashlight. dont leave food out. i think thats it. If you have to use the bush as a loo, while out on a drive, always clap to make sure there are no sleeping lions behind the bushes. To be honest a little common sense goes a long way in the bush, so if you careful you will be ok

[@vinodcl0204]

I and my wife just loved this. We watched till the very end. Looking for more....

[@exploringbotswana]

hey, thats awesome, thanks for the support. new video coming tonight !!!!!

[@pangolinoffroad5784]

@Kalaharicruiser and @pangolinoffroad - love your videos guys, can’t help but smile in all of them. When are we going camping together? Hey hey? Don’t be snobs

[@exploringbotswana]

we will try not to be travel snobs, Haha we must do something some time.

[@bernardchebani7359]

Enjoyable!👏🎊🇧🇼👍

[@exploringbotswana]

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you

[@sonnyserite]

Sonny Serite. Can I have my t-shirt already 😂. On a serious though, you guys are doing a great job and I love your documentaries 👌

[@exploringbotswana]

Well thank you, its a privilege to have the OG here!!! love your posts

[@naluselbs]

Love everything about you guys! Keep up the awesome work with your filming and safari trips!! Thanks for taking us along for the wild ride ♥ @naluselbs - your T-shirts rock!!!!

[@exploringbotswana]

hey, thank you!! thanks for coming along on our adventures.

[@chantellevanheerden994]

Narrow tyres for sure. Great authentic bush videos.

[@exploringbotswana]

Thank you, the more I drive with these narrow tires the more I love them

[@chantellevanheerden994]

Yep they are just so much better especially in the sandy ruts. Wider tyres just pushes the rut wider and lots more rolling resistance. And then all that pushed sands drops back in the rut.

[@nicolehamdan1158]

Hello, thanks again for this nice video full of tips that helps me planning my trip to Nxai next year. I like sunrise and sure will make the same and wake up very early to have so beautiful morning lithts. Greetings from Switzerland.

[@IddoRoscher]

Thanks for sharing. Iam a bit jealous, wish I could be living in Maun. Was in Nxai in july, not much going on predator-wise (1 early morning lioness walking away) Good to see you had nice sightings. I also try to share and ask for sightings, but not everybody is open to that. How is Nxai for leopard and wild dog? I had more sightings in Moremi,Khwai and CKGR, and liked those parks more, what do you think?

[@exploringbotswana]

Yes, Khwai Moremi and Ckgr are much better for sightings, i think Nxai is a bit like Ckgr but tame. Thats why i am hoping to see it a little more wild in October. The dog pack in nxai is small, and altho the Kwando guide said they had not been seen for awhile, a couple at the gate on our way out said they had seen them on the bains road, so they still around. Everyone i have spoken to says the best place to see leopards is the main sand road in to south camp. Btw thanks for watching

[@IddoRoscher]

@@exploringbotswana thanks for the info!

[@exploringbotswana]

also a great source of insight that is uptodate is the kwando blog, they publish a monthly report on their nxai pans sightings. Gives you an idea of whats around when you head there

[@TG_angryphotographer]

Enjoyed your video! Thank you… cannot believe how close the lions were to your vehicle. We will be there in June - so excited!

[@exploringbotswana]

Thanks for watching, yes they are very curious at times, you will love it, and i hope you have some epic sightings. Enjoy

[@ramonavanzyl7908]

I absolutely love baked beans... your breakfast is amazing. You might also want to try some fried tomato next time.

[@exploringbotswana]

Bush breakfasts are always so good, i do like a fried tomato, but my wife not so much :-\ thanks for watch btw. wish we could get some decent pork sausages this side too

[@cathyharris8942]

Love your videos! Binge watching at the moment. We will be in the Nxai pans in October - so looking forward to it. Have acquired your map which will be very helpful when we’re there. We really enjoy your sundowners!!! Have taken note of the biscuits/crackers you use. Will be looking for those in Maun 😁😁

[@mphoyamodimogouldoabilebar9120]

😀The beauty of the Nxai Pan. The magnificence of the flora and fauna. Silent plains of white salt, where echoes of ancient waters whisper to the sky, Nxai Pan dreams under an endless expanse of African stars.❤️

[@exploringbotswana]

nicely put!!! its an amazing place

[@blergjoka3116]

Great video. Cant wait to visit nxai

[@exploringbotswana]

Aye, thanks for watching 😊 you will love Nxai pans

[@JimGreenFootwearOfficial]

Great video and story telling🙌 thanks for putting together

[@exploringbotswana]

Hey 👋, glad you enjoyed it, we had lots of fun making it👍 looking forward to catching up

[@obuilephaladi6348]

Nice one, viewed to the end.

[@exploringbotswana]

Thank you 🙏 🙏

[@francoisnicot5534]

Hello from France. Nice humble video with low tech gear ( not so often to be reported) . This trip is a project for the coming years. I made it to the end. Thanks.

[@exploringbotswana]

Hello, thanks for watching, and all the way to the end!! Hope you make it to Botswana and get to go on a safari, you will love it. we are hoping to visit France sometime to drink wine and eat cheese :-)

[@thomaswillie1431]

It's the Okavango Gin for me 🔥 Kagisowillie

[@exploringbotswana]

it the best gin!!!!!!!!!!! from the Okavango, for the Okavango

[@archiebrown5298]

Those narrow tires are fine. You know the science behind traction because you let the air pressure down. Zimbabwe parks and wildlife have run for the last 40 years on standard landrover 750/16 narrow tires. No problem.

[@exploringbotswana]

yeah really liking the narrow tires

[@ronaldletsholathebe7966]

As I’m waiting for my T shirt😄

[@exploringbotswana]

dont forget to subscribe!

[@ronaldletsholathebe7966]

I did

[@Jeanclimb]

Hello. Great and intersting Video. We will be in Nxai early May so we hope to be as lucky as you were. I intend to puchase the map but I am wondering if it is showing both sides of Nxa NP. Baine's Baobab area and South Camp area? Also, coming from Maun (after Moremi), going to Nxai, then Lekubu is there a vet fence crossing where we cannot carry fresh meat and dairy products? Alternatively, is a frozen curry or similar is ok for the vet fence? Tks!

[@exploringbotswana]

hey, thanks for watching, My map only covers the south camp area, we have not really explored the Bains area enough altho there is not many game drive loops at bains. The Bains area never used to be very good for game sightings but in the last few years, it seems that a Bains pride is starting to take shape. Meat from maun to Nxai is a problem unless its chicken or precooked. on your way to lekubu you drive through Gweta, you could buy local meat, but its often of uncertain origin and quality. the gate in question is the Makalamabedi gate

[@summerhan2877]

This was beautiful…looks like you’ve had a wonderful time out there, loved the lion sightings & Ellie’s & if it’s ok I’d recommend kubu Island next on one of your trips which is part of the makgadikgadi & another camp up in the Chobe enclave if you’re keen to travel up north called the @vanthuyne ridge research center/ hyenas howl camp & they offer bush walks as one of their excursions P.s happy 2nd anniversary to you two, love & light 🤌🏽❤️🥂 @piepieridgehan

[@MTshifularo]

Awesome video

[@exploringbotswana]

Hey, thank you, and thank you for watching. Nxai pans is amazing

[@pierremalherbe8651]

Thanks for the video and your efforts!

[@exploringbotswana]

Hey thank you for watching, we have so much fun making them, so glad you enjoyed it

[@rexrroyer]

WE will be touring Botswana and will be at Nxai Pans on May 5th. Looking forward to it. Made it to the end.

[@exploringbotswana]

You will love it, Dont forget to check the Lion triangle carefully, and try get early starts in the morning. Hope you have an amazing trip! and thank you for watching

[@mavisgerman5514]

german_may Love to see it!

[@exploringbotswana]

Thank you,

[@beautifulafrica5318]

Am a guide by profession work in safari camp full time but I still like you content ❤

[@exploringbotswana]

You have the dream job!!! It must be so special getting to know an area over a period of time! So cool, thanks for watching 🙂

[@beautifulafrica5318]

Thank you very much, is so special to know area and animal , also to see changes when season changes

[@Jeanclimb]

Hello Garreth, I am about to purchase you Nxai map but I am wondering if it will be a digital map I can download then print if I want. Or one sent to my postal address. Asking because we depart tomorrow pm from Europe to Botswana. Tks for your info.

[@exploringbotswana]

Hi 👋 it’s a digital download that you can print 👍 or just use on your device, have an amazing trip and I hope you have some great sightings! And thanks for the support 🙏

[@eugenetaljaard1675]

hi nice plunger what product 24.27 min and where can I buy in Pretoria

[@richardtustin]

Our favourite park in Botswana. Could spend a couple of weeks there parked at that waterhole. Have to wonder if that pride of lions is the same one we say there in 2019 with grown up subadults now. We spent 4 hrs with the full pride at the main waterhole with not a single other car. Magic.

[@exploringbotswana]

Honestly, it’s so beautiful just to park off at the waterhole and watch the comings and going’s. Sounds like an awesome sighting!! It likely that they some of the same or at least related to the ones you saw. It would be so cool to spend like a month in the park, really getting to know them

[@richardtustin]

@@exploringbotswana things happen so quickly at the waterhole. Also experienced an elephant calf falling into waterhole and mother and matriarch going crazy pushing her out. Amazing spectacle.

[@exploringbotswana]

elephants are so amazing to watch, we were talking about how if we had to just watch one animal it would prob be elephants because they always interact with each other and their environment, its never boring.

[@saulphiri7127]

Nice video, got to t he end, bye!

[@exploringbotswana]

Hey, thanks, and well done getting to the end, it was a long one. Byyyye

[@danievniekerk]

We like Naxi Pan

[@exploringbotswana]

we too now, at first we thought it was going to be a bit boring, but actually it was amazing, and we are now so excited to be heading back in October

[@danievniekerk]

@@exploringbotswana also go to Komaga one knight is enough but worth it

[@Mbatshi]

@mbatshis I just need a capable 4x4 then I can quit my job and do this overlanding business.

[@exploringbotswana]

Even an old one can work 👊

[@hayleycarter4049]

I think we need to come camping with you here! 😁😁 Also @cherryhayz

[@misomafoko]

Ooow wow the beauty of my country Botswana @ miso_yah

[@exploringbotswana]

It has many lovely places and hidden gems

[@YvonneDavidson-w6w]

Great commentary and video! @vonpon1

[@exploringbotswana]

Thank you!!! one day we will go together!

[@momakepe946]

@Mo Makepe

[@exploringbotswana]

Thank you

[@theomangadi3555]

Brings back memories of when I went there in 2021 😊 @nissymangdeep

[@exploringbotswana]

its an amazing place, thanks for watching

[@khelzothusitse1753]

👏🏻👏🏻 @theherdgirl.

[@micaelabrown1395]

Super cool 😎😎🚙 @jbmicky

[@irisbreeman1081]

And @irisbreeman for the give away!

[@exploringbotswana]

Seen!!!

[@eddiesunday2246]

Reallly cool @mr_e_sunday

[@exploringbotswana]

Thank you!

[@irisbreeman1081]

Your account takes me back to beloved Botswana every time! Thank you for taking the time to share this with us, the less priviliged, who don’t live in Maun! ;-)

[@exploringbotswana]

we are very fortunate, thank you