An extraordinarily vast desert in southern Africa, the Kalahari nudges South Africa and Namibia and covers enormous swathes of Botswana. This is a dusty and forbidding landscape, but one that contains some truly fascinating highlights from the burnt orange dunes in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, to the glassy lakes in the Moremi Game Reserve. Arrange your Kalahari Desert holidays to coincide with the rainy season (February to April) when pockets of the savanna are alive with greenery and teeming with life from stalking lions and towering giraffes to mighty elephants and thick-skinned rhinos.